Tan Ying is a professor in the Department of Machine Intelligence, School of EECS, Peking University, and has served as a Ph.D. advisor and the Director of the Computational Intelligence Laboratory. He is the inventor of Fireworks Algorithm (FWA). He obtained his B.Eng. from the Electronic Engineering Institute in 1985, and M.Eng. from Xidian University in 1988, and Ph.D. from Southeast University in 1997, respectively.
His research interests include computational intelligence, swarm intelligence, machine learning and data mining, and information security applications. Dr. Tan has published 6 monographs by Morgan Kaufmann (Elsevier), Springer, Wiley & IEEE, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, IGI Global, and Science Press, respectively, and published more than 260 research papers. Most of them are in top-tier journals and conferences such as IEEE TEC, TNN, TKDE, TCyb, TIFS, TITS, CVPR, and AAAI.
In addition, he authored/co-authored more than 10 books and 12 book chapters. He has served as a Leading Editor for more than twenty volumes of Springer LNCS books. He holds four patented inventions in China. He was awarded the National 2nd-Class Natural Science Prize of China in 2009. Dr. Tan is the founder and General Chair of ICSI conferences since 2010 and was General Chair of DMBD2016-2017, ICMBE2017, and ICMBE2017. He has held positions such as Program Chair of IEEE WCCI'2014, ISNN2008, ICACI2012, and Publicity Chair of IEEE SSCI'2016.
