Dr. Chong Siang Yew, winner of the 2011 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award
Dr. Siang Yew Chong, an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus has been awarded the 2011 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award. The award was jointly presented to Siang Yew and his co-authors, Dr. Peter Tino and Prof. Xin Yao from the University of Birmingham, UK, for their paper:
S. Y. Chong, P. Tino, and X. Yao, ``Measuring Generalization Performance in Co-evolutionary Learning,'' IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 479-505, Aug. 2008.
The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society represents an international community of contributors in all computational and theoretical aspects of mimicking nature for problem-solving. The society publishes a number of highly-rated, flagship journals. These include the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, which consistently has been one of the top-ranked Computer Science journals according to Journal Citation Reports (JCR).
The society sponsors a number of awards annually in recognition of outstanding contributions. The IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award recognises outstanding technical contributions for the advancement in the theory, design, and applications of Evolutionary Computation.
Siang Yew's paper was cited for its theoretical contributions in co-evolutionary learning. His research aims to understand and explore the potential of co-evolutionary systems to solve complex problems involving situations of strategic decision-making such as in economics, political, and biological systems that elude classical approaches.
The theoretical framework from his paper has been applied to construct various computational tools for rigorous quantitative analysis in any co-evolutionary system. Furthermore, they have led to new insights in the design of high performance co-evolutionary algorithms for learning problems such as games, and significant applications of co-evolutionary systems as simulation and modelling tools to understand complex strategic interactions in a variety of real-world settings.
The awards ceremony was held recently at the 2011 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2011), New Orleans, USA. This is the second time that Siang Yew is awarded by the society. In 2009, he was awarded the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award.
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Dr. Siang Yew Chong: siang-yew.chong@nottingham.edu.my
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More than 90 per cent of research at The University of Nottingham is of international quality, according to the most recent Research Assessment Exercise, with almost 60 per cent of all research defined as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’. Research Fortnight analysis of RAE 2008 ranked the University 7th in the UK by research power.
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Posted on 22nd June 2011