On April 14, Elsevier officially released the 2021 “Highly Cited Chinese Researchers” list. The 2021 Elsevier “Highly Cited Scholars in China” list is based on Scopus, the world’s most authoritative citation and index database, as the statistical source of scientific research achievements of Chinese scholars. This list Adopts the selection method designed by Ranke (Shanghai Ranke Education Information Consulting Co., Ltd.), and finally got 4,701 Chinese scholars with the most global influence in various disciplines.
Professor Tan Ying is selected as the 2021 Chinese Highly Cited Scholar.
Tan, Ying is a professor in the School of Artificial Intelligence, Peking University and has served as a PhD advisor and the Director of the Computational Intelligence Laboratory. He is the inventor of Fireworks Algorithm (FWA). He obtained his B.Eng. from Electronic Engineering Institute in 1985, and M.Eng. from Xidian University in 1988, and Ph.D. from Southeast University in 1997, respectively. His research interests include computational intelligence, swarm intelligence, machine learning and data mining, and information security application. Dr. Tan has published 6 monographs by Morgan Kaufmann (Elsevier), Springer, Wiley & IEEE, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, IGI Global and Science Press, respectively, and published more than 260 research papers, and most of them are published in top-tier journals and conferences, such as IEEE TEC, TNN, TKDE, TCyb, TIFS, TITS, and CVPR and AAAI. In addition, he authored/co-authored more than 10 books and 12 chapters in the book. He has served as a Leading Editor to coordinate and edit more than twenty volumes of Springer LNCS books. He got four invented patents of China. He was awarded a National 2nd-Class Natural Science Prize of China in 2009. He is/was the founder and general chairs of ICSI conferences since 2010. He is a general chair of DMBD2016-2017, ICMEB2017 and ICMEB2017. He was the program chair of IEEE WCCI’2014, ISNN2008 and ICACI2012, and publicity chair of IEEE SSCI’2016, etc.