Yun Li
Professor
Dongguan University of Technology
China
Biography
Yun Li is currently a Professor at Dongguan University of Technology, China. He received his PhD in parallel computing and control from University of Strathclyde, UK, in 1990. During 1989 and 1990, he was with UK National Engineering Laboratory, East Kilbride, and Industrial Systems and Control Ltd, Glasgow. He joined the University of Glasgow as Lecturer in 1991 and served as Founding Director of University of Glasgow Singapore during 2011-2013. He developed one of the world’s first 30 EC course in 1995 and the popular online interactive courseware GA Demo in 1997. In 1998, he established and chaired both the IEEE Computer-Aided Control System Design Evolutionary Computation Working Group and the European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing (EvoNet) Workgroup on Systems, Control, and Drives for Industry. He has over 200 publications, one of which is elected by Thomson Reuters to “Research Front in Computer Scienceâ€, one to “Research Front in Engineeringâ€, four to “Essential Science Indicators†(ESI), and two have been noted the most popular in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and the most cited in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Part B: Cybernetics since their publications in 2005 and 2009, respectively. Professor Li is a Chartered Engineer in the UK and is currently an Associated Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and Guest Editor of Smart Design, Smart Manufacture and Industry 4.0 Special Issue for Energies.
Research Interest
Computer-Aided Design, machine invention, systems of computation akin to the human being