Prof. Ong Yew-Soon

Professor Ong Yew-Soon, Fellow of IEEE and the National Academy of Engineering, Singapore, is President’s Chair Professor of Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Chief Artificial Intelligence Scientist at A*STAR. He earned his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Southampton in 2003. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and optimization. A former Chair of NTU’s School of Computer Science and Engineering, he has led major AI conferences, including serving as General Co-Chair of the 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Professor Ong is the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence and serves on the editorial boards of several leading IEEE journals. He has received five IEEE Outstanding Paper Awards and was recognized by Thomson Reuters in 2016 as a Highly Cited Researcher and one of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds. He currently chairs the IEEE CIS Fellow Evaluation Committee.