Xin Yao received the BSc degree in computer science from the University of
Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, the MSc degree in computer
science from the North China Institute of Computing Technologies (NCI), Beijing,
and the PhD degree in computer science from the USTC, Hefei, in 1982, 1985, and
1990, respectively. He is currently a professor of computer science at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England. Xin Yao is an associate editor or a member
of the editorial board of six international journals, including IEEE Transactions on
Evolutionary Computation, and an editor/co-editor of nine journal special issues.
His major research interests include combinations between neural and evolutionary
computation techniques, evolutionary learning, co-evolution, evolutionary design
and evolvable hardware, neural network ensembles, global optimization, simulated
annealing, computational time complexity and data mining.