Recently, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Awards Committee announced the 2018 IEEE CIS Outstanding Early Career Award, Professor Tang Ke from the Department of Computer and Engineering, SUSTech received this award. The award will be presented in July 2018 at the 2018 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

 The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) was formally established in 2003 as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) specializing in the field of computational intelligence, dedicated to "the theory, design and application of algorithms inspired by biological and Linguistics”, in recognition of the outstanding scholars in the field of computational intelligence. The IEEE Outstanding Early Career Award was established in 2010 to recognize outstanding young scholars in the field of computational intelligence worldwide under the age of 40. Previous winners are IEEE Fellow Kay Chen Tan, Zhi-Hua Zhou and so on.

 Prof. Tang Ke

Tang Ke is a Professor of computer science at The Southern University of Science and Technology. He has been engaged in the field of evolutionary computation and machine learning for many years. Professor Tang Ke has published 48 papers of SCI journals (including 22 IEEE papers). He has more than 900 citations on SCI, more than 4200 citations on Google Scholar and H-factor of 29. In recent years, has hosted and participated in the National Natural Science Foundation two key projects, three surface projects, one Ministry of Science and Technology 973 plan, and has won the Ministry of Education Natural Science Award Second Prize (2011, ranked No. 1), Institute of Electronics First Prize (2011), Anhui Province Outstanding Young Scientist Fund (2011), Ministry of Education New Century Talent Program (2012), Royal Society " Newton Advanced Fellowship " fund (only two CS scholars in the world in 2015). Professor Tang Ke is currently the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.