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Yang Yu is a Professor in the School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University, China. His research interest is in machine learning, mainly on reinforcement learning and derivative-free optimization for learning. His work has been published in Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI, AAAI, NIPS, KDD, etc. He has been granted several conference best paper awards including IDEAL'16, GECCO'11 (theory track), PAKDD'08, etc. He was in the Champion Team of 2018 OpenAI RetroContest, and the Grand Champion Team of PAKDD 2006 Data Mining Competition. He was recognized as one of the “AI’s 10 to Watch” by IEEE Intelligent Systems in 2018, and received the PAKDD Early Career Award in 2018. He was invited to give an Early Career Spotlight Talk in IJCAI'18. He has served as an Area Chair of AAAI'19 and IJCAI’18; a Senior PC member of IJCAI'15/17; a Publicity Co-chair of IJCAI'16/17 and IEEE ICDM'16; a Workshop Co-chair of ACML'16 and PRICAI’18.

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Professional Organization Membership: Member of IEEE CIS Technical Committee on Data Mining and Big Data Analytics
Member of IEEE CIS Task Force on Theoretical Foundations of Bio-inspired Computation
AAAI Member, ACM Member, IEEE Member (and IEEE Computation Intelligence Society, Computer Society), CCF Member
Conference Executive Committee: ECOLE (Chinese Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Learning)
Conference Co-Chair: AAAI'19 Student Track (Student Track of 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Jan. 2019, Honolulu, HA)
ECOLE'15 (2nd Chinese Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Learning, June 2015, Nanjing, China)
ECOLE'14 (1st Chinese Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Learning, July 2014, Hefei, China)
Fundraising Chair: DAI'19(1st International Conference Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Oct. 2019, Beijing, China)
Conference Area Chair/Senior PC Member: AAAI'19(33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Jan. 2019, Honolulu, HA )
IJCAI'18(27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2018, Stockholm, Sweden )
ACML'16(9th Asian Conference on Machine Learning, Nov. 2017, Seoul, Korea)
IJCAI'17(26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aug. 2016, Melbourne, Australia )
IJCAI'15(24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Organization Chair: SSMLA (national student symposium) 2010 2009 2007 2006
Workshop Chair: ACML'16(8th Asian Conference on Machine Learning, Nov. 2016, Hamilton, New Zealand)
Publicity Chair: IJCAI'17(26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aug. 2016, Melbourne, Australia )
IJCAI'16(25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Jul. 2016, New York, NY)
ICDM'16(17th International Conference on Data Mining, Dec. 2016, Barcelona, Spain)
MCS'13 (11th International Conference on Multiple Classifier Systems, May 2013, Nanjing, China)
PSL'13 (2nd International Workshop on Partially Supervised Learning, May 2013, Nanjing, China)
Registration Chair: ACML'09 (1th Asian Conference on Machine Learning, Nov. 2009, Nanjing, China)
Associate Editor: Frontiers of Computer Science (Junior AE)
Journal Reviewer: Artificial Intelligence
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Theoretical Computer Science
Knowledge and Information Systems
Information Sciences
Neurocomputing
Frontiers of Computer Science in China
Conference PC Member: AAAI'17, FOGA'17
IJCAI'16, AAAI'16, NIPS'16, KDD'16, CVPR'16, GECCO'16, WCCI'16, PPSN'16
KDD'15 (21st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Aug. 2015, Sydney, Australia)
PAKDD'15 (19th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, May. 2015, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
FOGA'15 (13th ACM SIGEVO Conference on Foundation of Genetic Algorithms, Jan. 2015, Aberystwyth, UK)
KDD'14 (20th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Aug. 2014, New York, NY)
ICML'14 (31st International Conference on Machine Learning, June 2014, Beijing, China)
ICTAI'14 (26th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Nov. 2014, Limassol, Cyprus)
PPSN'14(13th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Sept. 2014, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
GECCO'14(23rd International Conference on Genetic Algorithms, July 2014, Vancouver, Canada)
WCCI/CEC'14(2014 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, July 2014, Beijing, China)
IJCAI'13(23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 2013, Beijing, China)
KDD'13(19th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 2013, Chicago, IL)
SDM'13 (13th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, May 2013, Austin, TX)
ICTAI'13 (25th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Nov. 2013, Washington DC)
GECCO'13(22nd International Conference on Genetic Algorithms, July 2013, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
CEC'13(2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, June 2013, Cancun, Mexico)
ICTAI'12 (24th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Nov. 2012, Athens, Greece)
ACML'12 (4th Asian Conference on Machine Learning, Nov. 2012, Singapore)
AAAI'12 (26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Jul. 2012, Toronto, Canada)
PPSN'12 (12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Sept. 2012, Taormina, Italy)
CEC'11 (2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, June 2011, New Orleans, LA)
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