Organizing Committees

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Honorary Chairs

Qidi Wu, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China

Russell C. Eberhart, Indiana University Purdue Univ., USA

General Chair

Ying Tan, Peking University, Beijing, China

Program Committee Chairs

Yuhui Shi, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool Univ., Suzhou, China

Kay Chen Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Technical Committee Chairs

Gary G. Yen, Oklahoma Univ., USA

Jong-Hwan Kim, KAIST, S.Korea

Xiaodong Li, RMIT University Australia

Xuelong Li, Univ. of London, UK

Frans van den Bergh, South Africa

Advisory Committee Chairs

Zhenya He, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Xingui He, Peking University, Beijing, China

Xin Yao, Birmingham University, U.K

Plenary Sessions Chairs

Robert G. Reynolds, Wayne State University, USA

Qingfu Zhang, University of Essex, U.K.

Special Sessions Chairs

Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany

Jun Zhang, Sun Yat-Sen University,China

Haibo He, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

Tutorial Chairs

Carlos Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico

Publications Chairs

Zhishun Wang, Columbia University, USA

Publicity Chairs

Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan,Singapore

Lei Wang, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Maurice Clerc, France

Finance and Registration Chair

Yuanchun Zhu, Peking University, Beijing, China

Program Committees

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Program Committee Members

Aimin Zhou, Normal University of East China, China

Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, UK

Andries Engelbrecht, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Arindam Das, University of Washington, USA

Arun Khosla, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, India

Ben Niu, Shenzhen University, China

Bernd Meyer, Monash University, Australia

Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi, IIT Delhi, India

Bing Wang, University of Hull, UK

Bruno Apolloni, Univ. Milano, Italy

Carlos A. Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico

Cheng Xiang, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Chris Lokan, University of New South Wales, Australia

Christian Blum, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Christos Tjortjis, University of Ioannina,University of Western Macedonia, Greece

Colin G. Johnson, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

Dingli Yu, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Emilio Corchado, University of Burgos, Spain

Erkki Oja, Helsinki University, FI

Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London, UK

Fernando Lobo, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal

Francesco Mondada, EPFL – STI – LSRO, Switzerland

Frans van den Bergh, CSIR SAC (Pretoria), South Africa

Franziska Klügl, Orebro University, Germany

G K Venayagamoorthy, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

Giovanni Sebastiani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy

Guangbin Huang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Guoping Liu, University of Glamorgan, UK

Guoyin Wang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Haibin Duan, Beihang University, China

Haibo He, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

Hongtao Lu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Hongwei Mo, Harbin Engineering University, China

Huosheng Hu, University of Essex, UK

Jie Zhang, University of New Castle, UK

Jinde Cao, Southeast University, China

Jinhua Zheng, Xiangtan University, China

Jinwen Ma, Peking University, China

Jivesh Govil, Cisco Systems Inc., USA

José Alfredo Ferreira Costa, Federal University, Brazil

Jose C. Principe, University of Florida, USA

Ju Liu, Shandong University, China

Jun Zhang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China

Junqi Zhang, Tongji University, China

Kang Li, Queen's University Belfast, UK

Kay Chen Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Kusum Deep, Indian Institute of Technology, India

Leandro dos Santos Coelho, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil

Lei Wang, Tongji University, China

Liang Chen, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada

Liangpei Zhang, Wuhan University, China

Lifeng Zhang, Renmin University of China, China

Lixiang Li, Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, China

Ling Wang, Tsinghua University, China

Luca Maria Gambardella, Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, Switzerland

Mahamed G. H. Omran, Gulf University for Science & Technology, Kuwait

Mark Embrechts, Rensselaer Inst., USA

Martin Brown, University of Manchester, UK

Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany

Meng Joo Er, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Michael Small, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Mingcong Deng, Okayama University, Japan

Mongguo Gong, Xidian University, China

Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University, New Zealand

Norikazu Takahashi, Kyushu University, Japan

Oscar Cordon, European Centre for Soft Computing, SPAIN

Paul S. Pang, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

Payman Arabshahi, University of Washington, USA

Peter Andras, Newcastle University, UK

Peter Erdi, HU & Kalamazoo College, USA

Peter Tino, Birmingham University, UK

Ping Guo, Beijing Normal University, China

Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Prithviraj (Raj) Dasgupta, University of Nebraska, USA

Qingfu Zhang, University of Essex, UK

Qing-Long Han, Central Queensland University, Australia

Ran Tao, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Ruhul A. Sarker, Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia

Sabri Arik, Istanbul University, Turkey

Salim Bouzerdoum, University of Wollongong, Australia

Shenli Xie, South-China University of Technology, China

Simon X. Yang, University of Guelph, Canada

Suicheng Gu, Temple University, USA

Thomas E. Potok, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Wai Keung Fung, University of Manitoba, Canada

Wenjian Luo, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Wenlian Lu, Fudan University , China

Xiaohui Cui, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Xiaohui Hu, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA

Xiaoli Li, University of Birmingham, UK

Xiujun Ma, Peking University, China

Xuelong Li, London University, UK

Yangmin Li, University of Macau, Macao, China

Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University, USA

Yi Shen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Yi Zhang, Sichuan University, China

Ying Tan, Peking University, China

Yingjie Yang, De Montfort University, UK

Yongsheng Ding, Donghua University, China

Yoshikazu Fukuyama, Honda Inc., Japan

Yuhui Shi, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

Zhen Ji, Shenzhen University, China

Zhengguang Hou, Institute of Automation, CAS, China

Zheru Chi, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Zhifeng Hao, South China University of Technology, China

Zhigang Zeng, Hua Zhong University of Technology, China

Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China