Cheng Ran’s collaborative paper “Xingyi Zhang, Ye Tian, Ran Cheng*, Yaochu Jin. A decision variable clustering based evolutionary algorithm for large-scale many-objective optimization. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2018, 22(1): 97 -112.” won the only “IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award” in 2021. Among them, Mr. Cheng Ran is the corresponding author of the paper. As of July 2020, the paper has been cited 152 times by Google Scholar.

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE TEVC) is the top international journal in the field of computational intelligence. This is Mr. Cheng Ran who won the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award in 2018 (the only one in the world at that time), the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award in 2019 (the only one in the world that year), and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine in 2020 After the Outstanding Paper Award (the only one in the world that year), he won the IEEE International Academic Award for the fourth consecutive year.