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Dr. Yew Soon Ong

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Comprehensive overview of education, positions, honors, and achievements

Education

Ph.D. in Computational Engineering Design

Computational Engineering Design Center, School of Engineering Science

University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Completed in 2002

M.Eng. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

1999

B.Eng. (1st Class Honours) in Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

1998 Positions Chief Artificial Intelligence (CAS) Scientist A*StarSince 2019 President's Chair Professor in Computer Science Nanyang Technological UniversitySince 2019 Director, Singtel-NTU Cognitive & Artificial Intelligence Joint Lab Since 2018 Director, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center 2016-2021 Member of the BP plc Technology Advisory Council London UK2019-2022 Visiting Professor Imperial College London, UK2019-2022 Visiting Professorial Fellow University of New South Wales, Australia2017-2020 Director, A*Star SIMTECH-NTU Joint Lab on Complex Systems 2013-2024 Chair, School of Computer Science and Engineering Nanyang Technological University2016 - 2019 Programme Principal Investigator, Rolls-Royce@NTU Corporate Lab on Data Analytics & Complex Systems August 2013-2016 Director, Centre for Computational Intelligence 2008 - 2015 Professor Nanyang Technological UniversitySince 2015 Visiting Professor CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.2007 Visiting Professorship School of Computer Sciences Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom2006 Visiting Professor/Scientist Honda Research Institute Europe, Offenbach, Germany2005, 2016, 2024 Visiting Professor CERCIA, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom2003-2004 Research Scholar School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton, Sponsored by the British Aerospace Engineering-Rolls Royce University Technology Partnership, United Kingdom1999-2002 Honors & Awards Fellow of The Academy of Engineering, Singapore 2024 Stanford Elsevier World's Top 2% Scientists 2020-2024 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Fellow Evaluation Committee Chair 2023-2025 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Distinguished Lecturer 2024-2026 Four IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Awards 2012, 2015, 2023, 2025 Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance Awards (GMAA) co-organized by UNESCO 2023 AI fellow, A*Star 2022 National Day Honours, The Public Administration Medal (Silver) 2019 Fellow of IEEE 2018 Founding Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence 2017-Present Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher 2016 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher 2016 World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher 2015 Nanyang Education Excellence Award (University) 2016 IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine Outstanding Paper Award 2015 Research Commercialization Award, NTUitive 2015 Nanyang Education Excellence Award (College of Engineering) 2015 Featured in Nanyang Chronicle Issue: Vol. 20 No. 8 Feb 2014 - New wave of pedagogical teaching and innovative use of technology Fellow of Renaissance Engineering Programme, College of Engineering, NTU 2011-, 2017- Nanyang Award for Service (Team Work) 2010 International Conference on Computational Problem-Solving Best Student Paper Award 2010 Most Popular Lecturer Award, Year 4 2009 Featured in Bright Minds Magazine: 'Turning Stones into Diamonds' 2009 Nanyang Award for Teaching Excellence 2008 Tan Chin Tuan Exchange Fellowship in Engineering, MIT Visiting Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2007 Collaboration Development Award - Grid Computing/e-Science British High Commission, 2006 Visiting Professorship, Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany 2005 Grid Innovation Award & Applications Competition, Grid Application Kit (GAD Kit) Singapore 2004 Outbound Attachment Award Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, 2003 University Technology Partnership Scholarship, EPSRC, British Aerospace Engineering & Rolls-Royce United Kingdom, 2000-2003 National Science and Technology Board PTI Scheme Award Singapore, 1998 Philip's Prize Award for Outstanding Academic Performance Singapore, 1992 Student Awards & Achievements

NTU Kumar Sustainability & Innovation Prize 2023

2nd runner up - Team: Lokeshh Sampath, Amelia Choong Rui Lin, Param Srinivasan, Tong Ying and Ashish Chugh

Graduate College Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award 2023-2024

Winner: Lin FanFan

Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition 2022

3rd position in Category D1 - Team: Chan Ming Han, Chan Shawn Keng Kiat, Wong Yu Fei, Lim Sui Kiat and Wayne Tan Jing Heng

2020 Competition on Constrained Multi-objective Optimization Winner

2020 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence - Team: Jiawei Yuan, Hai-Lin Liu, Yew-Soon Ong, Yaqi Pang, Zhaoshui He

IMDA's Youth Innovation Showcase and Awards 2019

Winners of Best of Show Award and Visitors' Choice Award - Team Whizz: Fong Kuo Xin Anthony, Foo Mawqing Melvin, Ho Li Ting Valerie, Victor Gwee De Ming and Vivienne Chong Yu Jing

2015 Shell Ideas360 Competition Winner

Team Renaissance: Alex, May and Nitya officially recognised as some of the brightest young minds in innovation!

MHA SAFE Gold Award 2015

Ng Ang Hui, Joyce Ng Hui Shuen, Yong Wei Siong, May Lim Mei Ling, Ho Jun Yi, Hillary Yap Lok Lee

First Prize Winner of Samsung Mobile Games Challenge

2014, Hou YaQing

An Evolutionary Model for Constructing Robust Trust Networks

Nominated for Best Paper Award in The Twelfth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2013), 2013, Jiang SiWei

Second Prize in ACM-ICPC Asia Hatyai Regional Programming Contest

Proceeding to World Final, Prince of Songkla University (PSU), Hatyai, Songkla, Thailand, 2013, Coach Zhai Yiteng

DragonVenture, Inc., United States Scholarship Award

2013, Zhai Yiteng

ICDM2012 NSF Student Travel Award

ICDM 2012 conference in Brussels, Belgium, Seah Chun Wei

An Improved CUDA-Based Implementation of Differential Evolution on GPU

Nominated for ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computations Best Paper Award in DETA/PES/BIO Track, 2012, Qin kai

IEEE Transaction on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award

2012, Nguyen Quang Huy

International Conference on Machine Learning Student Travel Scholarship Awards

2012, Zhai YiTeng

IEEE computational intelligence society CIS student Travel grants for the IEEE WCCI conference

2012, Feng Liang

IEEE computational intelligence society CIS student Travel grants for the IEEE WCCI conference

2012, Daniel Huang

An Evolutionary Search Paradigm that Learns with Past Experiences

Nominated for IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Best Student Paper Award conference, 2012, Feng Liang

Autonomous Flocks Applied To Non-Photo Realistic Rendering

Nominated for IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Best Student Paper Award conference, 2012, Daniel Huang

International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagents Systems Student Travel Grant

2012, Jiang Siwei

DragonVenture, Inc., United States Scholarship Award

2012, Jiang Siwei

Research-Enabled Game Dark-Dots beat popular apps and games

2011, Ho CHoon Sing. It was the top action game in 48 countries including USA, China and Singapore; downloaded by well over 448,000 players worldwide, with 27% of its players from China and 17% from the USA. Presently covered by Straits Times's Digital Life section on the research technologies used.

Machine Learning Summer School Student Scholarship, NUS, Singapore

2011, Zhai Yiteng

IEEE computational intelligence society Walter Karplus Summer Research Grant

2011, Mostafa Mostafa Hashim Ellabaan, Visiting Boston University

Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Computational Problem-Solving

2010, Doan, V.K.

Singapore Computer Society Information Technology Youth Award

2010, Pan Zhengxiang

Champion at the Youth Research Program's 5th Anniversary Challenge

2009, Pan Zhengxiang

First Youth's innovation (IT) for Singapore Asian Youth Games accepted by SAYGOC committee

2009, Pan Zhengxiang

Best paper Award Nomination, "Adaptation for parallel memetic algorithm based on population entropy"

Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 2006, Tang Jing

Publication Award Student Category, "A hybrid Ant Colony Optimization for Path Planning"

The Institute of Engineers, Singapore, 2004, Lim Kwee Kim