Welcome to Shengxiang Yang's Funding Page

I gratefully acknowledge the following for research support and funding.

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• External funding:
1. Source of funds: Royal Society International Exchanges 2025 Cost Share (NSFC)
   Project Title: Data and Mechanism Modelling Dual-driven Evolutionary Optimisation for Multi-objective Scheduling in Dynamic Production Environments
   Grant No.: IEC\NSFC\252114
   Duration: two years (01/01/2026 - 31/12/2027)
   Grant Holder: Shengxiang Yang (PI)
   Co-Applicant: Prof. Quanke Pan, Shanghai University, China.
   Value: £12,000
   
2. Source of funds: Royal Society International Exchanges 2020 Cost Share (NSFC)
   Project Title: Knowledge-driven Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Multi-objective Optimization with Constraints and Its Application
   Grant No.: IEC\NSFC\201085
   Duration: four years (30/03/2021 - 29/03/2025)
   Grant Holder: Shengxiang Yang (PI)
   Co-Applicant: Prof. Yinan Guo, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China.
   Value: £12,000
   
3. Source of funds: EU Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (call: H2020-MSCA-IF-2018)
   Project Title: Optimized Point Cloud Compression (OPT-PCC)
   Grant No.: 836192
   Duration: one year (11/2020 - 11/2021)
   Grant Holder: Prof. Raouf Hamzaoui (PI), Shengxiang Yang (Co-I)
   Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow: Prof. Hui Yuan, Shandong University, China.
   Value: €112,466
   
4. Source of funds: EU Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (call: H2020-MSCA-IF-2014)
   Project Title: Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Constrained Optimization Problems (ECDCOP)
   Grant No.: 661327
   Duration: two years (10/02/2016 - 09/02/2018)
   Grant Holder: Shengxiang Yang (PI)
   Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow: Dr Yong Wang, Central South University, China.
   Value: €195,455 (equivalent to £144,781)
   
5. Source of funds: EPSRC Standard Research Project
   Project Title: Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimisation in Network Environments
   Grant No.: EP/K001310/1
   Duration: 4.5 years (18/02/2013 - 17/08/2017)
   Grant Holder: Shengxiang Yang (PI)
   Postdoctoral Research Associates: Dr Darren Chitty (07/2016-09/2016, 03/2017-08/2017), Dr Michalis Mavrovouniotis (02/2013-09/2016), and Dr Changhe Li (03/2013-08/2013), funded by the EPSRC project.
   PhD Students: Jayne Eaton and Shouyong Jiang, both are funded by De Montfort University scholarships and work with the EPSRC project.
   Value: This is part of a linked project with the University of Birmingham, Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) and Network Rail Ltd. The total funding for the linked project is £957,394 (£445,069 to De Montfort University under Grant EP/K001310/1, and £512,325 to Birmingham under Grant EP/K001523/1).
   Partners: Prof Xin Yao (University of Birmingham), Ms Louise Webb and Mr James Hardy (Rail Safety and Standards Board), and Dr Meena Dasigi (Network Rail).
   Details: The details of this EPSRC project can be found from the Research Councils UK (RCUK)'s Gateway to Research (GtR) website from the link given here.
   
6. Source of funds: Transport iNet, European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
   Project Title: Evolutionary Computation for Optimised Rail Travel (EsCORT)
   Grant No.: xxxx
   Duration: 16 months (11/11/2013 - 28/02/2015)
   Grant Holders: Eric Goodyer (PI) and Shengxiang Yang (Co-I)
   Research Fellow: Dr Sarah Greenfield (11/2013-12/2014), 0.6 FTE funded by the project.
   Project Manager: Mrs Clare Edwards (11/2013-12/2014), 0.1 FTE funded by the project.
   Value: £62,134. This is a linked project between De Montfort University and Go Travel Solutions, a Leicester based SME specialising in assisting businesses to develop sustainable travel solutions, covering people and goods.
   Partners: Mr Robin Pointon (Go Travel Solutions).
   
7. Source of funds: EPSRC Standard Research Project
   Project Title: Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimisation Problems: Design, Analysis and Applications
   Grant No.: EP/E060722/1 and EP/E060722/2
   Duration: 3.5 years (01/01/2008 - 04/07/2011)
   Grant Holder: Shengxiang Yang (PI)
   Postdoctoral Research Associates: Dr Hui Cheng (01/2008 - 06/2010) and Dr Crina Grosan (10/2010 - 02/2011), funded by the EPSRC project
   PhD Student: Mr Changhe Li, funded by the EPSRC project
   Value: This is part of a linked project with the University of Birmingham, British Telecommunications plc (BT), and Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH. The total funding for the linked project is £571,438 (£307,469 to Leicester under Grant EP/E060722/1 and Brunel under Grant EP/E060722/2, and £263,969 to Birmingham under Grant EP/E058884/1).
   Partners: Prof Xin Yao (University of Birmingham), Prof Yaochu Jin (University of Surrey), Dr Fang Wang (Brunel University), Dr Bernhard Sendhoff (Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH), Dr Richard Tateson and Mr Alex Healing (BT).
   Details: The details of this EPSRC project can be found from the Research Councils UK (RCUK)'s Gateway to Research (GtR) website from the link given for EP/E060722/1 and EP/E060722/2.
   
8. Source of funds: State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation of Process Industry, Northeastern University, China
   Project Title: Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Scheduling Problems in Process Industries
   Duration: 2 years (01/01/2012 - 31/12/2013)
   Grant Holder: Shengxiang Yang (PI)
   Value: CNY300,000 (approximately £30,000)
   Partners: Prof Tianyou Chai (Northeastern University, China)
   
9. Source of funds: Key Laboratory of Integrated Automation of Process Industry (Northeastern University), Ministry of Education, China
   Project Title: Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimization and Scheduling Problems
   Duration: 2 years (01/01/2010 - 31/12/2011)
   Grant Holder: Shengxiang Yang (PI)
   Value: CNY150,000 (approximately £15,000)
   Partners: Prof Tianyou Chai (Northeastern University, China)
   
10. Source of funds: Hong Kong Polytechnic University Research Grants
    Project Title: Improved Evolutionary Algorithms with Primal-Dual Population for Dynamic Variation in Production Systems
    Grant No.: G-YH60
    Duration: 12 months (07/2009 - 07/2010)
    Grant Holders: Dr W.H. Ip (PI, Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and Shengxiang Yang (Co-I)
    Value: HKD120,000 (approximately £10,000)
    
11. Source of funds: Key Laboratory of Integrated Automation of Process Industry (Northeastern University), Ministry of Education, China
    Project Title: Computational Intelligence for Dynamic Optimization and Scheduling Problems
    Duration: 2 years (01/01/2007 - 31/12/2008)
    Grant Holder: Shengxiang Yang (PI)
    Value: CNY50,000 (approximately £4,000)
    Partners: Prof Dingwei Wang and Prof Tianyou Chai (Northeastern University, China)
    
12. Source of funds: Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Project Title: Research visit to the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
    Duration: 10 days (28/08/2007 - 06/09/2007)
    Grant Holder: Shengxiang Yang (PI)
    Value: HKD13,000
    Partners: Dr W.H. Ip (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
    
13. Source of funds: Royal Academy of Engineering International Travel Grants Scheme
    Project Title: The 2nd International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications (ISICA 2007), Wuhan, China, September 21-23, 2007, and the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC'07), Singapore, 25-28 September, 2007
    Duration: 8 days (21/09/2007 - 28/09/2007)
    Grant Holder: Shengxiang Yang (PI)
    Value: £800
    
14. Source of funds: Royal Society Conference Grants Scheme
    Project Title: The 2007 European Joint Events on Evolutionary Computing (Evo*2007), Valencia, Spain, 11-13 April, 2007
    Duration: 4 days (11/04/2007 - 14/04/2007)
    Grant Holder: Shengxiang Yang (PI)
    Value: £700
    
15. Source of funds: Royal Academy of Engineering International Travel Grants Scheme
    Grant No.: ITG 06-393
    Project Title: The 2006 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2006), Seattle, USA, 8-12 July, 2006, and the 2006 World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI'06), Vancouver, Canada, 16-21 July, 2006
    Duration: 14 days (08/07/2006 - 21/07/2006)
    Grant Holder: Shengxiang Yang (PI)
    Value: £1,200
    
16. Source of funds: Royal Society Conference Grants Scheme
    Project Title: The 2005 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005), Washington DC, USA, 25-29 June, 2005
    Duration: 5 days (25/06/2005 - 29/06/2005)
    Grant Holder: Shengxiang Yang (PI)
    Value: £716
    
17. Source of funds: EPSRC Overseas Travel Grants
    Project Title: Adaptive and Hybrid Genetic Algorithms for Production Scheduling Problems in Manufacturing
    Grant No.: GR/S79718/01
    Duration: 3 months (01/11/2003 - 31/01/2004)
    Grant Holder: Shengxiang Yang (PI)
    Value: £6,700 from EPSRC plus JPY140,000 (approximately £800) from Waseda University, Japan
    Partners: Prof Mitsuo Gen (Waseda University, Japan)
    

• Internal funding:
1. Source of funds: De Montfort University Doctoral College Scholarship Awards 2022-23
   Duration: 3 years (01/01/2024 - 30/12/2026)
   Grant Holder: Dr Conor Fahy (PI), Shengxiang Yang (Co-I)
   PhD Student: Bahareh Daneshvar
   Value: Approximately £80,000. This scholarship provides funding to cover both stipend equivalent to the RCUK standard rate for 2022-23 (£17,668 pa for 2022-23) and university tuition fees to support one home PhD research student.
   
2. Source of funds: De Montfort University PhD Scholarships 2018-19
   Duration: 3 years (01/10/2019 - 30/09/2022)
   Grant Holder: Dr Armaghan Moemeni (PI), Shengxiang Yang (Co-I)
   PhD Student: Saul Calderon Ramirez
   Value: Approximately £80,000. This scholarship provides funding to cover both stipend equivalent to the RCUK standard rate for 2019-20 (£15,009 pa for 2019-20) and university tuition fees to support one overseas PhD research student.
   
3. Source of funds: De Montfort University Graduate School Full Bursary PhD Scholarships 2017-18
   Duration: 3 years (01/10/2017 - 30/09/2020)
   Grant Holders: Shengxiang Yang (PI), Paul Fleming (Co-I) and Fabio Caraffini (Co-I)
   PhD Student: Matthew Fox
   Value: Approximately £60,000. This scholarship provides funding to cover both stipend equivalent to the RCUK standard rate for 2017-18 (£14,296 pa for 2017-18) and university tuition fees to support one PhD research student from UK or EU.
   
4. Source of funds: De Montfort University Graduate School Fee Waiver PhD Scholarships 2017-18
   Duration: 3 years (01/10/2017 - 30/09/2020)
   Grant Holders: Paul Fleming (PI) and Shengxiang Yang (Co-I)
   PhD Student: Ahad Arshad
   Value: Approximately £13,000. This scholarship provides funding to cover university tuition fees to support one UK PhD research student.
   
5. Source of funds: De Montfort University Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) 2017-18
   Project Title: Brian-Computer-Interface Prototyping System: Data-based Filtering and Dynamic Characterisation
   Duration: 8 months (01/12/2017 - 31/07/2018)
   Grant Holders: Qichun Zhang (PI) and Shengxiang Yang (Co-I)
   Value: £14,000. This project investigates the development of a brian-computer interface (BCI) prototyping system using optimised EEG.
   
6. Source of funds: De Montfort University Graduate School Fee Waiver PhD Scholarships 2016-17
   Duration: 3 years (01/10/2016 - 30/09/2019)
   Grant Holders: Shengxiang Yang (PI), Paul Fleming (Co-I) and Fabio Caraffini (Co-I)
   PhD Student: Zedong Zheng
   Value: Approximately £40,000. This scholarship provides funding to cover university tuition fees to support one overseas PhD research student.
   
7. Source of funds: De Montfort University Full Bursary PhD Scholarships 2015-16
   Duration: 3 years (01/10/2015 - 30/09/2018)
   Grant Holders: Shengxiang Yang (PI) and Mario Gongora (Co-I)
   PhD Student: Conor Fahy
   Value: Approximately £60,000. This scholarship provides funding to cover both stipend equivalent to the RCUK standard rate for 2015-16 (£14,057 pa for 2015-16) and university tuition fees to support one PhD research student from UK or EU.
   
8. Source of funds: De Montfort University Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) 2015-16
   Project Title: Development of a Dynamic Resource Scheduling Prototype System for Airports
   Duration: 10 months (01/01/2016 - 31/10/2016)
   Grant Holders: Shengxiang Yang (PI) and Mario Gongora (Co-I)
   Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA): Dr Darren Chitty
   Value: £15,900 for supporting one PDRA at 0.7 FTE. The other 0.3 FTE of the PDRA is supported by the EPSRC project (EP/K001310/1).
9. Source of funds: De Montfort University Research Capital Investment Funding (RCIF) 2014-15
   Duration: 10 months (01/10/2014 - 31/07/2015)
   Grant Holders: Ferrante Neri (PI), Bret Battey (Co-I), Shengxiang Yang (Co-I) and Fionn Murtagh (Co-I)
   Value: £10,704. This fund provides a Computational Facility for Research in Optimisation for researchers in various research groups at the Faculty of Technology, such as the Centre for Computational Intelligence (CCI), De Montfort University's Interdisciplinary Group in Intelligent Transport Systems (DIGITS), CTS, and Interactive and Media Technologies Research Group (IMT).
   
10. Source of funds: De Montfort University PhD Scholarships 2013-14
    Duration: 3 years (01/10/2013 - 30/09/2016)
    Grant Holders: Shengxiang Yang (PI) and Mario Gongora (Co-I)
    PhD Student: Jayne Eaton
    Value: Approximately £60,000. This scholarship provides funding to cover both stipend equivalent to the RCUK standard rate for 2013-14 (£13,770 pa for 2013-14) and university tuition fees to support one PhD research student from UK or EU.
    
11. Source of funds: De Montfort University PhD Scholarships 2013-14
    Duration: 3 years (01/10/2014 - 30/09/2017)
    Grant Holders: Ferrante Neri (PI) and Shengxiang Yang (Co-I)
    PhD Student: Joshua Ashdown
    Value: Approximately £60,000. This scholarship provides funding to cover both stipend equivalent to the RCUK standard rate for 2014-15 (£13,770 pa for 2014-15) and university tuition fees to support one PhD research student from UK or EU.
    
12. Source of funds: De Montfort University PhD Scholarships 2012-13
    Duration: 3 years (01/10/2013 - 30/09/2016)
    Grant Holder: Shengxiang Yang (PI)
    PhD Student: Shouyong Jiang
    Value: Approximately £80,000. This scholarship provides funding to cover both stipend equivalent to the RCUK standard rate for 2012-13 (£13,770 pa for 2012-13) and university tuition fees to support one overseas PhD research student.
    
13. Source of funds: Brunel University PhD Studentships 2011-12
    Duration: 3 years (01/10/2011 - 30/09/2014)
    Grant Holder: Shengxiang Yang (PI)
    PhD Student: Miqing Li
    Value: Approximately £80,000. This studentship provides funding to cover both stipend equivalent to the RCUK standard rate for 2011-12 (£13,590 pa for 2011-12) and university tuition fees to support one overseas PhD research student.
    
14. Source of funds: University of Leicester Graduate School Research Scholarships 2008-09
    Duration: 3 years (01/10/2008 - 30/09/2011)
    Grant Holder: Shengxiang Yang (PI)
    PhD Student: Kyriacos Souroullas
    Value: Approximately £50,000. This scholarship provides funding to cover both stipend equivalent to the RCUK standard rate for 2008-09 (£12,940 pa for 2008-09) and university tuition fees to support one PhD research student from UK or EU.
    
15. Source of funds: University of Leicester Research Fund 2001
    Project Title: Using Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm Methods for Job-Shop Scheduling Problems
    Duration: 12 months (01/01/2001 - 31/12/2001)
    Grant Holder: Shengxiang Yang (PI)
    Value: £3,200
    

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