General Co-chairs
Ying Tan, Peking University, China
Russell C. Eberhart, IUPUI, USA
Program Committee
Chair
Yuhui Shi, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Advisory Committee Co-chairs
Xingui He, Peking University, China
Gary G. Yen, Oklahoma State University, USA
Benjamin W. Wah, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Technical Committee
Co-chairs
Haibo He, University of Rhode Island Kingston, USA
Kay Chen Tan, City University of Hong Kong, China
Nikola Kasabov, Aukland University of Technology, New Zealand
Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Xiaodong Li, RMIT University, Australia
Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan
M.Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany
Mengjie Zhang, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Qirong Tang, Tongji University, China
Plenary Session Co-chairs
A.Engelbrecht, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Chaoming Luo, Mississippi State University, USA
Invited Session Co-chairs
Andres Iglesias, University of Cantabria, Spain
Haibin Duan, Beihang University, China
Junfeng Chen, Hohai University, China
Special Session Co-chairs
Ben Niu, Shenzhen University, China
Yan Pei, University of Aizu, Japan
Yinan Guo, China University of Mining and Technology, China
Tutorial Co-chairs
Milan Tuba, Singidunum University, Serbia
Junqi Zhang, Tongji University, China
Shi Cheng, Shanxi Normal University, China
Publication Co-chairs
Swagatam Das, Indian Statistical
Institute, India
Radu-Emil Precup, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Finance and
Registration Co-chairs
Andreas Janecek, University of Vienna, Austria
Suicheng Gu, Google Corporation,
USA
Publicity Co-chairs
Yew-Soon Ong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Carlos Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN,
Mexico
Yaochu Jin, University
of Surrey, UK
Rossi Kamal, GERIOT, Bangladesh
Dongbin Zhao, Institute of Automation, CAS, China
Local Arrangement
Co-chair
Tossapon Boongoen, Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand
Sponsors and Co-Sponsors
Peking University
Southern University of Science and Technology
Mae Fah Luang University
XingHui Hi-Tech Co.
Technical Co-sponsors
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
IEEE Beijing Chapter
World Federation of Soft Computing
International Society of Neural Net
Springer-Nature
De Gruyter Open
International Program Committee
| First Name | Last Name | Affiliate |
| Rafael | Alcala | University of Granada |
| Esther | Andrés | INTA |
| Sabri | Arik | Istanbul University |
| Carmelo J. A. | Bastos Filho | University of Pernambuco |
| Sujin | Bureerat | Khon Kaen University |
| David | Camacho | Universidad Autonoma de Madrid |
| Bin | Cao | Tsinghua University |
| Walter | Chen | National Taipei University of Technology |
| Mu-Song | Chen | Da-Yeh University |
| Shi | Cheng | Shaanxi Normal University |
| Prithviraj | Dasgupta | U. S. Naval Research Laboratory |
| Mingcong | Deng | Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| Haibin | Duan | Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| Andries | Engelbrecht | University of Stellenbosch |
| Zhun | Fan | Technical University of Denmark |
| Hongyuan | Gao | Harbin Engineering University |
| Shangce | Gao | University of Toyama |
| Shenshen | Gu | Shanghai University |
| Ping | Guo | Beijing Normal University |
| Ahmed | Hafaifa | University of Djelfa |
| Mo | Hongwei | Harbin Engineering University |
| Weiwei | Hu | Peking University |
| Xiaohui | Hu | GE Digital, Inc. |
| Changan | Jiang | Ritsumeikan University |
| Mingyan | Jiang | Shandong University |
| Colin | Johnson | University of Kent |
| Dhou | Khaldoon | University of Missouri - St. Louis |
| Arun | Khosla | National Institute of Tech.Jalandhar, Punjab |
| Vivek | Kumar | NUST-MISIS |
| Germano | Lambert-Torres | PS Solutions |
| Xiujuan | Lei | Shaanxi Normal University |
| Yangmin | Li | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| Bin | Li | University of Science and Technology of China |
| Xiaodong | Li | RMIT University |
| Jing | Liang | Zhengzhou University |
| Fernando B. De | Lima Neto | University of Pernambuco |
| Ju | Liu | Shandong University |
| Wenlian | Lu | Fudan University |
| Wenjian | Luo | University of Science and Technology of China |
| Jinwen | Ma | Peking University |
| Chengying | Mao | Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics |
| Bernd | Meyer | Monash University |
| Carsten | Mueller | Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) |
| Bijaya Ketan | Panigrahi | IIT Delhi |
| Yan | Pei | University of Aizu |
| Thomas | Potok | ORNL |
| Radu-Emil | Precup | Politehnica University of Timisoara |
| Kai | Qin | Swinburne University of Technology |
| Boyang | Qu | Zhongyuan University of Technology |
| Guangchen | Ruan | Indiana University Bloomington |
| Kevin | Seppi | Brigham Young University |
| Ponnuthurai | Suganthan | Nanyang Technological University |
| Jianyong | Sun | University of Nottingham |
| Ying | Tan | Peking University |
| Mario | Ventresca | Purdue University |
| Yan | Wang | The Ohio State University |
| Guoyin | Wang | Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications |
| Ning | Xiong | Mälardalen University |
| Benlian | Xu | Changshu Institute of Technology |
| Yingjie | Yang | De Montfort University |
| Peng-Yeng | Yin | National Chi Nan University |
| Zhi-Hui | Zhan | South China University of Technology |
| Jie | Zhang | Newcastle University |
| Zili | Zhang | Deakin University |
| Xingyi | Zhang | Anhui University |
| Qieshi | Zhang | Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Junqi | Zhang | Tongji University |
| Chenggang | Zhang | Tsinghua University |
| Xinchao | Zhao | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications |
| Qiangfu | Zhao | The University of Aizu |
