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Brief CV

Dr. Maoguo Gong received the B. Eng degree and Ph.D. degree from Xidian University. Since 2006, he has been a teacher of Xidian University. He was promoted to associate professor and full professor in 2008 and 2010, respectively, both with exceptive admission.

Gong’s research interests are broadly in the area of computational intelligence, with applications to optimization, learning, data mining and image understanding. He has published over one hundred papers in journals and conferences, and holds over twenty granted patents as the first inventor. He is leading or has completed over twenty projects as the Principle Investigator, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key Research and Development Program of China, and others. He was the recipient of the prestigious National Program for Support of the Leading Innovative Talents from the Central Organization Department of China, the Leading Innovative Talent in the Science and Technology from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the Excellent Young Scientist Foundation from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the New Century Excellent Talent from the Ministry of Education of China, and the National Natural Science Award of China.

He is the Director of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence-Youth Branch, Senior Member of IEEE and Chinese Computer Federation, Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member for over five journals including the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, and the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence.

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Professional Activity

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence

• Editorial Board Member, Memetic Computing, Springer

• Associate Editor, Machine Intelligence Research, Springer

• Associate Editor, CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, IET

• Chief editor, Book Series on Studies in Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization, Springer

• Executive Committee Member, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence

• Chair, IEEE CIS Task Force on Collaborative Learning and Optimization

• Vice Chair, IEEE CIS Task Force on Memetic Computing

• Program Committee Chair, 2019 The 14th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications

• Program Committee Chair, 2016 The 11th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications

• Program Committee Chair, 2015 The 10th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications

• Co-Chair, 2013 IEEE Workshop on Memetic Computing

• Co-Chair, 2011 IEEE Workshop on Memetic Computing

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Award & Honor

• 2019, National Program for Support of the Leading Innovative Talents (selected by the Central Organization Department of China)

• 2018, The Leading Innovative Talent in the Science and Technology (selected by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China)

• 2018, Most Cited Chinese Researchers

• 2017, Most Cited Chinese Researchers

• 2016, Natural Science Award of Ministry of Education of China

• 2016, Most Cited Chinese Researchers

• 2015, Most Cited Chinese Researchers

• 2014, Most Cited Chinese Researchers

• 2014, Excellent Young Scientist Foundation (selected by the National Natural Science Foundation of China)

• 2014, Young Teacher Award by the Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation

• 2013, National Natural Science Award of China

• 2012, National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals (selected by the Central Organization Department of China)

• 2012, Chief Scientist of the Key Innovative Research Team of Shaanxi Province, China

• 2008, New Century Excellent Talent in University (selected by the Ministry of Education of China)

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Last Modified: June 11, 2019