Socio-cultural Inspired Metaheuristics / Studies in Computational Intelligence Bd.828 (PDF)

research experience. His research interests include machine learning, data mining, swarm intelligence and applications. He has published more than 98 papers in respected journals and conferences and has edited numerous volumes for Springer AISC and LNCS. In addition to serving on the editorial board of several journals, he is a senior member of the IEEE and a life member of the Computer Society of India, where he is the National Chairman of Division-V (Education and Research).

Ali Husseinzadeh Kashan completed his Ph.D. and postdoc in Industrial Engineering at Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Department of ISE, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran. He received an 'Outstanding Young Scientist of Industrial Engineering' award from the Academy of Sciences of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2016, and has been awarded honors for his research by various academic associations in Iran. His research interests include mathematical modelling and algorithms, computational intelligence and engineering design with nature-inspired optimization and simulation-based optimization. Dr. Kashan has published over 70 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and has served as a reviewer for several outstanding journals such as: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computations, Omega, Computers & Operations Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Computers & Industrial Engineering, and International Journal of Production Research.

Kang Tai obtained his B.Eng. (1st Class Honors) in Mechanical Engineering from the NUS in 1990. In 1992 he was awarded the NTU Singapore Overseas Scholarship to pursue his Ph.D. at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine London, after which he returned to NTU in 1995 and he is currently an Associate Professor there. From 2001 to 2004 he was also concurrently appointed as a Faculty Fellow of the Singapore-MIT Alliance. He teaches various UG and PG courses. His research interests include design automation, optimization, evolutionary algorithms, computational geometry, system identification and mathematical modeling of industrial processes. He has also published more than 70 research papers.