Kay Chen Tan is currently the Head and Chair Professor (Computational Intelligence) of the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has co-authored eight books and published over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles.

Prof. Tan currently serves as the Vice-President (Publications) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, USA, from 2021 to 2024. He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation from 2015-2020 and IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine from 2010-2013.

Prof. Tan has been invited as a Plenary/Keynote speaker for over 80 international conferences, such as the 2020 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. He has served as an organizing committee Chair/Co-Chair for over 50 international conferences, including the General Co-Chair of 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, and the General Co-Chair of 2016 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, etc.

Prof. Tan has received several research awards, such as the 2024 IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine Outstanding Paper Awards, the 2020 IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics Outstanding Paper Awards, the 2019 IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine Outstanding Paper Awards, the 2016 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Outstanding Paper Awards, and the 2012 Outstanding Early Career Award presented by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.