Yaochu Jin / 金耀初

Birthplace
Jiangsu, China
Nationality
German
Position
Professor Dr.-Ing.
Address
Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University
Inspiration 1, 33619 Bielefeld, Germany
Telephone
0049-521 106 6998
Email
yaochu.jin@uni-bielefeld.de
Homepage
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/yaochu-jin

1988
BSc, Department of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
1991
MSc, Department of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
1996
PhD, Department of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
2001
Dr.-Ing., Institute of Neuroinformatics, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

1991 – 1996
Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer (1993), Associate Professor (1996), Department of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University
1998 – 1999
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Industrial Engineering, Rutgers University, USA
1999 – 2002
Scientist, Senior Scientist (2002), Honda R&D Europe, Offenbach/Main, Germany
2003 – 2010
Principal Scientist, Honda Research Institute Europe, Offenbach/Main, Germany
2010 – 2021
Chair, Distinguished Chair (2019) in Computational Intelligence, Honda Research Institute Europe, Offenbach/Main, Germany
2015 – 2017
"Changjiang Distinguished Visiting Professor", Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
"Finland Distinguished Professor", University of Jyväskylä, Finland
2016
IEEE Fellow
2018
“Distinguished Visiting Scholar”, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
2021
Member of Academia Europaea
Since 10.2021
Alexander von Humboldt Professor for AI, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany

Multi-objective optimization, data-driven optimization, robust optimization, dynamic optimization, federated optimization
Evolutionary learning, multi-objective learning, automated machine learning
Secure and privacy-preserving machine learning, trustworthy machine learning
Evolutionary developmental systems, neural plasticity, morphogenetic robotics