Yaochu Jin received the BSc, MSc and PhD degrees from the Electrical Engineering Department, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China in 1988, 1991 and 1996, respectively. He received the Dr.-Ing. from the Institute of Neuroinformatics, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany in 2001.

He is presently Chair Professor of AI with the Trustworthy and General AI Lab, School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China.  Prior to that, he was Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Artificial Intelligence endowed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, with the Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany from 2021 to 2023, and Surrey Distinguished Chair, Professor in Computational Intelligence, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K. from 2010 to 2021.  He was also “Finland Distinguished Professor” with University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and “Changjiang Distinguished Visiting Professor” with the Northeastern University, China from 2015 to 2017. His main research interests include AI theory, algorithms and applications in a wide range of scientific, technological and industrial problems.

Prof Jin is the President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and the Editor-in-Chief of Complex & Intelligent Systems. He is the recipient of the 2025 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award. He was named by the Web of Science as “a Highly Cited Researcher” from 2019 consecutively. He is a Member of Academia Europaea and Fellow of IEEE.