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Dr Xin-She Yang

Associate Professor in Simulation & Modelling

Xin-She Yang

  • School Faculty of Science and Technology

  • Department Design Engineering & Mathematics

  • Location London

Research activities

Nature-inspired computing, mathematical modelling, engineering simulation, artificial intelligence, algorithms and optimization in engineering applications.

Book Series Editor for Springer Tracts on Nature-Inspired Computing

Advisor for International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation (IJBIC, Web of Science)

Editorial Board Member of Elsevier's Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier)

Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Algorithms & Computational Technology聽聽(Sage Publication)

IEEE CIS Task Force Chair of BIKM (2015-2020), also part of the Technical Committee of Computational Finance and Economics of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

Other Journals

Editor-in-Chief of Int. J. Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Optimisation (Scopus) [2009-2022]

Editorial Board Member of聽Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence聽(Web of Science) [2022-2024]

Editorial Board Member of聽International Journal of Computer Mathematics聽(Web of Science) [2018-2023]

Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (Web of Science) [2015-2025]


Current Teaching

PDE4905 Engineering Simulation (Master Level)

PDE1821 Practical Applications of Mathematics for Engineers

MSO3550 Mathematical Techniques for Optimization聽

MSO3200 Partial Differential Equations

MSO1155 Mathematical Models聽

Research projects for PhD students (Parameter tuning, nature-inspired computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, optimization, and engineering simulation, mathematical modelling, etc.)


Biography

Xin-She Yang is in Modelling and Simulation as well as Optimization at 果冻传媒 University London, with more than 25 years' experience in teaching and research. He was a Senior Research Scientist at Mathematics and Scientific Computing Division of UK's National Physical Laboratory. He got his DPhil in Applied Mathematics from Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford in 1998. He is also an elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (2021) , Fellow of Asian Computational Intelligence Society (2023) and Fellow of Soft Computing Research Society (2025).聽He was the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) chair for the Task Force on Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management (2015 to 2020).聽聽 He has been on the prestigious list of most influential researchers or highly cited researchers聽(i.e., top 0.1% Scientists, Web of Science) for ten consecutive years since 2016.

He is a co-Editor for Springer's book series: and has been on editorial boards of multiple international journals, such as Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier) and Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier). He won the Leader Awards in Computer Science (2023, 2024, 2025), according to Research.com

His research interests include algorithms, artificial intelligence, mathematical modelling, engineering simulation, engineering optimization, metaheuristics, nature-inspired computing, numerical methods, data mining, and simulation tools. A full list of his more than 400 publications with more than 100k citations are available at and at .

Potential PhD candidates are always welcome, especially those with their own funding.聽

External activities

  • Panel Member for UKRI Doctoral Training Centres for AI Research, UKRI,
  • External Reviewer for Research Councils in Iceland, Ireland, Austria, Brazil, Czech, European Science Foundation, and Switzerland, Multiple National Research Councils,
  • Book Series Editor for Springer Tracts on Nature-Inspired Computing, Springer Nature,

    • Publications