Prof. Gary G. Yen

IEEE/IET/IAPR Fellow

Sichuan University, China

Experience: Gary G. Yen joined the School of Computer Science at Sichuan University as a full-time faculty member in 2025. Prior to this appointment, he served as a Regents Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University (OSU), USA. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1992.

In terms of academic service, Prof. Yen served as Vice President for Technical Activities of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) from 2004 to 2005, Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine from 2006 to 2009, and President of the IEEE CIS from 2010 to 2011. He has recently been elected as a Distinguished Lecturer for the 2026–2028 term. He was the recipient of the Regents Distinguished Research Award from OSU in 2009 and the Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society in 2011. Furthermore, he served as Chair of the IEEE CIS Awards Committee during the 2008–2009, 2014–2015, and 2018–2019 terms, and as Chair of the IEEE CIS Fellow Evaluation Committee in 2016–2017, 2020–2021, and 2023. Prof. Yen is currently a Fellow of the IEEE, IET, and IAPR.