Xin Yao's Professional and Administrative Activities

External to the University

Chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Fellows Evaluation Committee (2008)
Member of the Universities UK ORS (Overseas Research Students) Award Committee (2003-04). Chair of Panel D in 2005
Director of the Nature Inspired Computation and Applications Laboratory (NICAL), University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
Chief Professor of the School of Software Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
Editors of 12 international journals
Invited keynote/plenary speeches at international conferences
Positions in some professional organisations.
Conference chairs
Conference committee memberships
Refereeing for many journals, funding organisations and PhD theses
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for SolveIT Software

Director of the Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence and Applications (CERCIA) (2003 - )
Member of the University Internationalisation Strategy Group (2005)
Member of the University CTA Management Committee (2005 - )
Dean's Consultative Panel for Promotion to Senior Lecturers and Senior Research Fellows, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering (2004-2006)
Research Director of School of Computer Science (2006 - )
Deputy Head of School of Computer Science (2000-04, 2004-07)
Member of School's Management Committee, Strategic Committee, Research Committee, Staffing Committee, Research Students Monitoring Group, and Industrial Liaison Panel