Prof. Yew-Soon Ong
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. Yew-Soon Ong
President’s Chair Professor in Computer Science
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Current Positions
President’s Chair Professor
Computer Science, Nanyang Technological University
Chief Artificial Intelligence Scientist
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
Co-Director
Singtel-NTU Cognitive & Artificial Intelligence Joint Lab
Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence
Statistical Machine Learning
Optimization
Computational Intelligence
Neural Networks
Statistical Machine Learning
Optimization
Computational Intelligence
Neural Networks
Education
Ph.D.
Artificial Intelligence for Complex Design
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
2003
Previous Position
Chair of the School of Computer Science and Engineering
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Leadership Roles in AI
Academic Leadership
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General Co-Chair of the 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence - •
Chair of the 2024 and 2025 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Fellow Evaluation Committee
Speaker & Panelist
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Invited keynote speaker at numerous international AI conferences - •
Panelist at major AI-related events worldwide
Editorial Positions
Founding Editor-in-Chief
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
Senior Associate Editor
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks & Learning Systems
Associate Editor
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
Associate Editor
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
Awards & Recognition
IEEE Outstanding Paper Awards
Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
Fellow of the IEEE
Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore
Recognized among the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds