Academic Profile : Faculty

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Prof Ong Yew Soon
Co-Director, Singtel Cognitive and Artificial Intelligence Lab (SCALE@NTU)
President’s Chair in Computer Science
Professor, College of Computing & Data Science
Professor, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences (Courtesy Appointment)
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Yew-Soon Ong is currently a President's Chair Professor of Computer Science at the College of Computing & Data Science and Professor (Cross Appointment) of the School of Physical and Mathematical Science at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. At the same time, he is Chief Artificial Intelligence (CAS) Scientist of the Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). He was Chair of the College of Computing & Data Science, Nanyang Technological University from 2016-2018, Director of the Singtel-NTU Cognitive & Artificial Intelligence Joint Lab (SCALE@NTU) since 2017, Director of Data Science and AI Research Centre from 2017 -2020, Director of the Centre for Computational Intelligence/Computational Intelligence Laboratory from 2008-2015 and Programme Principal Investigator of the Data Analytics & Complex System Programme in the Rolls-Royce@NTU Corporate Lab from 2013-2017. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from Nanyang Technological University and subsequently his PhD on Artificial Intelligence in Complex Engineering Design from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the Singapore national academy of engineering, founding Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, founding Technical Editor-In-Chief of Memetic Computing Journal (Springer), Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Network & Learning Systems, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, and chief co-editor of Book Series on Studies in Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization. He has received five IEEE outstanding paper awards and was listed as a Thomson Reuters highly cited researcher and among the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds. He has published over 200 referred papers at ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, IJCAI, AAAI, CVPR, KDD, WWW, AAMAS and ACM/IEEE Transactions.
His current research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence spanning across Statistical Machine Learning, Evolutionary & Transfer Optimization and Bayesian Optimization. His research grants comprises of external funding from both national and international partners that include Boeing Research & Development (USA), Rolls-Royce (UK) and Honda Research Institute Europe (Germany), the National Research Foundation of Singapore, National Grid Office, A*STAR, MDA-GAMBIT, AISG, NRF, Singapore Technologies, Singtel, NCS and other.
 
  • "Design Beyond What You Know”: Material-Informed Differential : Generative AI (MIDGAI) for Light-Weight High-Entropy Alloys and Multi- functional Composites (Stage 1a)
  • Generative AI for Complex Design Optimization and Cooperative Creativity
  • President's Chair in Computer Science
US-2010-0106714-A1: Method and Apparatus for Automatic Configuration of Meta-Heuristic Algorithms In A Problem Solving Environment (2015)
Abstract: A methodology is presented to address the need for rapid generation and optimization of algorithms that are efficient in solving a given class of problems within the framework of a software environment. The environment incorporates an evolutionary learning methodology which automatically optimizes the configurations of procedural components of the algorithm. In this way, both the efficiency and the quality of algorithm development is enhanced significantly.
Awards
Five IEEE outstanding paper awards
2023 Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance Award co-organized by UNESCO
Nanyang Education Awards at the school, college, and university levels in 2008, 2015, and 2016 respectively,
Passionate Mentor Award from Shell Singapore in 2015
Most Popular Lecturer Award in 2009.
 
Fellowships & Other Recognition
Fellow of IEEE
Fellow of the Singapore national academy of engineering