Xin YaoXin Yao received the BSc degree in computer science from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, the MSc degree in computer science from the North China Institute of Computing Technologies (NCI), Beijing, and the PhD degree i computer science from the USTC, Hefei, in 1982, 1985, and 1990, respectively. He is currently a professor of computer science at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England. Xin Yao is an associate editor or a member of the editorial board of six international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, and an editor/co-editor of nine journal special issues. His major research interests include combinations between neural and evolutionary computation techniques, evolutionary learning, co-evolution, evolutionary design and evolvable hardware, neural network ensembles, global optimization, simulated annealing, computational time complexity and data mining. Read More Read Less