Xin-She Yang
{{Short description|British mathematician}}
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Xin-She Yang is Reader at the Middlesex University{{Cite web |title=Dr Xin-She Yang {{!}} Middlesex University London |url=https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/yang-xin-she |access-date=2023-07-16 |website=www.mdx.ac.uk}} and was a senior research scientist at National Physical Laboratory, best known as a developer of various heuristic algorithms for engineering optimization. He obtained a DPhil in applied mathematics from Oxford University.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1997-8/weekly/050298/exam.htm |title=Oxford University Gazette |access-date=2011-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928071146/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1997-8/weekly/050298/exam.htm |archive-date=2012-09-28 |url-status=dead }} He has given invited keynote talks at SEA2011,{{cite web|url=http://www.rebennack.net/SEA2011/ |title=SEA 2011 - 10th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms |publisher=Rebennack.net |access-date=2013-05-14}} SCET2012, BIOMA2012{{cite web|url=http://bioma.ijs.si/conference/2012/ |title=BIOMA 2012 |publisher=Bioma.ijs.si |access-date=2013-05-14}} and Mendel Conference on Soft Computing (Mendel 2012). He has been elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Application in 2021. He has been on the prestigious list of Highly Cited Researchers since 2016 by Clarivate Analyatics/Web of Science.{{Cite web|url=https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2019/|title = Highly Cited Researchers}}
Algorithms
He created the firefly algorithm (2008), cuckoo search (2009),{{cite web|url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100527213816.htm |title=Novel 'cuckoo search algorithm' beats particle swarm optimization in engineering design |publisher=Sciencedaily.com |date=2010-05-28 |access-date=2013-05-14}}{{cite web |author=Tue, 06/01/2010 - 12:07pm |url=http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news-DA-Novel-Cuckoo-Search-Algorithm-Beats-Particle-Swarm-Optimization-060110.aspx |title=Novel 'Cuckoo Search Algorithm' Beats Particle Swarm Optimization |publisher=Scientificcomputing.com |access-date=2013-05-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311231333/http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news-DA-Novel-Cuckoo-Search-Algorithm-Beats-Particle-Swarm-Optimization-060110.aspx |archive-date=2012-03-11 |url-status=dead }} bat algorithm (2010),Yang X.-S., A New Metaheuristic Bat-Inspired Algorithm, in: Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NISCO 2010) (Eds. J. R. Gonzalez et al.), Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Berlin, 284, Springer, 65–74 (2010) and flower pollination algorithm (2012).
Since 2009, more than 1000 peer-reviewed research papers cited the firefly algorithm and/or cuckoo search.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}}
References
{{reflist|2|refs=
{{cite book
|title=Nature-Inspired Metaheuristic Algorithms
|last1=Yang
|first1=X.-S.
|year=2008
|publisher=Luniver Press
}}
{{cite book
|title=Cuckoo search via Lévy flights, in: World Congress on Nature & Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2009).
|last1=Yang
|first1=X.-S.
|last2=Deb
|first2=S.
|year=2009
|publisher=IEEE Publication, USA
|pages=210–214
}}
}}
Further reading
- Yang, X.-S. (2014), Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms, Elsevier.
- [https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0bdc6c43-4534-4f08-97e2-8a33d6b13e61 Full text of Yang's doctoral thesis, "Mathematical modelling of compaction and diagenesis in sedimentary basins"], Oxford Research Archive
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Category:21st-century British mathematicians
Category:Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
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Category:Fellows of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
Category:Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)