Ying Tan is a professor at Peking University. He has made significant research contributions in areas such as neural network information processing, evolutionary computation and swarm intelligence, artificial immune systems, and their applications in computer security. He has been awarded the National Natural Science Second Prize in 2009, as well as five Military Science and Technology Progress Awards and multiple Outstanding Paper Awards. He has published over 200 academic papers and authored five books, including "Introduction to Fireworks Algorithm" and "Fireworks Algorithm: A Novel Swarm Intelligence Optimization Method". He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Pattern Recognition, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.
