Jin Yi received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, in 2012 and 2017, respectively. He was a Research Fellow with the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering at the National University of Singapore from 2017 to 2020. Since 2020, he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Chongqing University, Chongqing, China.
His research interests include intelligent design optimization of advanced equipment, machine learning, and intelligent optimization. Dr. Jin has led multiple research projects, including a Youth Fund project from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, as well as independent research topics funded by the National Key Laboratory of Mechanical Transmission for High-End Equipment.
Dr. Jin has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers in leading international journals such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Knowledge-Based Systems, Applied Soft Computing, and Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. His research achievements have earned him several prestigious awards, including the First Prize of Science and Technology Progress in Chongqing, the First Prize of Science and Technology Progress from the Chinese Association of Automation, and he holds 22 patents for invention applications/authorizations. Additionally, he serves as a Youth Editorial Board Member for the journal Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation (English edition).