Xin-She Yang


Xin-She Yang is 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. He has given invited keynote talks at SEA2011, SCET2012, BIOMA2012 and Mendel Conference on Soft Computing.

Algorithms

He created the firefly algorithm, cuckoo search, bat algorithm, and flower pollination algorithm.
Since 2009, more than 1,000 peer-reviewed research papers cited the firefly algorithm and/or cuckoo search.