Ran Cheng
Associate Professor, HK Poly U
Founding chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Shenzhen Chapter
Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dr Ran Cheng received his BSc degree from Northeastern University, China, in 2010, and his PhD degree from the University of Surrey, U.K., in 2016. Before joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, he was an Associate Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology, China.
His research focuses on advancing Computational Intelligence to tackle modeling and optimization challenges in complex systems. His primary research interests include evolutionary computation and representation learning, with an emphasis on developing efficient and scalable computational methods.
Dr Cheng is the recipient of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award (2019), the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award (2018, 2020), the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine Outstanding Paper Award (2021), and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding Early Career Award (2025).