Welcome to Shengxiang Yang's Research Page

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Research Interests:

• Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms
• Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE)
• You can browse the website of the IEEE CIS Task Force on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE) for more information here.
• You can download the XOR Dynamic OPtimization Problem (DOP) Generator in C here.
• You can download the Benchmark Problems and Technical Report for the Competition on ECiDUE for the 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'09) here.
• Statistics-based Adaptive Genetic Algorithms
• Genetic Algorithms for Scheduling
  
• Memetic Computing
• Swarm Intelligence (Particle Swarm optimization and Ant Colony Optimization)
• Estimation of Distributions Algorithms
• Meta-heuristics and Hyper-heuristics
• Artificial Neural Networks for Scheduling
• Combinatorial Optimization, Multi-objective Optimization, and Dynamic Optimization
• Intelligent Network Systems
• Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology
• Data Mining and Intelligent Data Analysis
• Network Flow Problems and Algorithms

Editorships:

1. Advisory Editor (2023-now), International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. ISSN: 1758-0366 (Print) 1758-0374 (Online).
2. Associate Editor (2019-now), IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Press. ISSN: 1089-778X.
3. Associate Editor (2015-now), Information Sciences, Elsevier. ISSN: 0020-0255.
4. Associate Editor (2015-now), Enterprise Information Systems, Taylor and Francis Group. ISSN: 1751-7575 (Print), 1751-7583 (Online).
5. Associate Editor (2014-now), IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Press. ISSN: 2168-2267.
6. Section Board Member (2020-now), Electronics, MDPI. ISSN: 2079-9292.
7. Member of Editorial Board (2019-now), CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), ISSN: 2468-2322 (Online).
8. Member of Editorial Board (2014-now), Soft Computing, Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISSN: 1432-7643 (Print) 1433-7479 (Online).
9. Area Editor (2006-now), Journal of Information and Computing Science (JIC), World Academic Press, World Academic Union, UK. ISSN: 1746-7659, Quarterly.
10. Member of Editorial Board (2019-2022), International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. ISSN: 1758-0366 (Print) 1758-0374 (Online).
11. Member of Editorial Board (2012-2019), Evolutionary Computation, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 02142-1315, USA. ISSN: 1063-6560, E-ISSN: 1530-9304.
12. Associate Editor (2016-2017), Neurocomputing, Elsevier. ISSN: 0925-2312.
13. Member of Editorial Board (2007-2010), International Journal of Computational Science (IJCS), Global Information Publisher (GIP), Hong Kong. ISSN: 1992-6669, E-ISSN: 1992-6677.
14. Member of Editorial Board (2009-2010), International Journal of Engineering Business Management (IJEBM), IN-TECH Education and Publishing, Austria.
15. Associate Editor (2006-2008), Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications (JAEA), Hindawi Publishing Corporation, New York, NY 10022, USA. ISSN: 1687-6229, E-ISSN: 1687-6237, DOI:10.1155/JAEA.
16. Cheng, H., Yang, S., Yao X., and Zhang, M. (guest-editors), Computational Intelligence for Cloud Computing, Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI), Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1-50, February 2018, IEEE Press, ISSN: 2471-285X (Online).
17. Neri, F. and Yang, S. (guest-editors), Memetic Computing in the Presence of Uncertainties, Thematic Issue of Memetic Computing, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 85-162, June 2010, Springer, ISSN: 1865-9284 (Print), ISSN: 1865-9292 (Online).
18. Yang, S., Ong, Y.-S., and Jin, Y. (guest editors), Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, Special Issue of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 293-404, December 2006, Springer Netherlands, ISSN: 1389-2576 (Print), 1573-7632 (Online).
19. Yang, S. and Yao, X. (Eds.), Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimization Problems, in the series Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 490. Springer, Heidelberg, ISSN: 1860-949X (Print) 1860-9503 (Online), ISBN: 978-3-642-38415-8 (Print) 978-3-642-38416-5 (eBook), May 2013 (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38416-5).
20. Yang, S., Ong, Y.-S., and Jin, Y. (Eds.), Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, in the series Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 51, Springer, Heidelberg, ISSN: 1860-949X (Print) 1860-9503 (Online), ISBN: 978-3-540-49772-1, March 2007 (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-49774-5).
21. Jin, Y.; Polikar, R; Yang, S. (eds.), Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, IEEE Press, ISBN: 978-1-4799-4516-0, December 2014 (DOI: 10.1109/CIDUE.2014.7007856.).
22. Jin, Y.; Polikar, R; Yang, S. (eds.), Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, IEEE Press, ISBN: 978-1-4673-5849-1, April 2013 (DOI: 10.1109/CIDUE.2013.6595764).
23. Jin, Y.; Yang, S.; Polikar, R (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, IEEE Press, ISBN: 978-1-4244-9930-4, April 2011 (DOI: 10.1109/CIDUE.2011.5948495).
24. Giacobini, M.; Brabazon, A.; Cagnoni, S.; Di Caro, G.A.; Ekart, A.; Esparcia-Alcazar, A.I.; Farooq, M.; Fink, A.; Machado, P.; McCormack, J.; O'Neill, M.; Neri, F.; Preuss, M.; Rothlauf, F.; Tarantino, E.; Yang, S. (Eds.), EvoWorkshops 2009: Applications of Evolutionary Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5484, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-01128-3, April 2009 (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01129-0).
25. Giacobini, M.; Brabazon, A.; Cagnoni, S.; Di Caro, G.A.; Drechsler, R.; Ekart, A.; Esparcia-Alcazar, A.I.; Farooq, M.; Fink, A.; McCormack, J.; O'Neill, M.; Romero, J.; Rothlauf, F.; Squillero, G.; Uyar, S.; Yang, S. (Eds.), EvoWorkshops 2008: Applications of Evolutionary Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4974, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-540-78760-0, May 2008 (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78760-0).
26. Giacobini, M.; Brabazon, A.; Cagoni, S.; Di Caro, G.A.; Drechsler, R.; Farooq, M.; Fink, A.; Lutton, E.; Machado, P.; Minner, S.; O'Neill, M.; Romero, J.; Rothlauf, F.; Squillero, G.; Takagi, H.; Uyar, A.S.; Yang, S. (Eds.), EvoWorkshops 2007: Applications of Evolutionary Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4448, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-540-71804-8, June 2007 (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71805-5).
27. F. Rothlauf et al (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2005 Workshops on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, ACM Press, New York, USA, 2005 (DOI: 10.1145/1102256).

Professional Memberships:

• Vice President, Asia Computational Intelligence Society (ACIS), 2023-now.
• Vice Chair, Task Force on Intelligent Network Systems (TF-INS), Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee (ISATC), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS), 2018-now.
• Vice Chair, Task Force on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE), Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee (ECTC), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS), 2018-now.
• Founding Chair, Task Force on Intelligent Network Systems (TF-INS), Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee (ISATC), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS), 2012-2017.
• Chair, Task Force on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE), Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee (ECTC), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS), 2011-2017.
• Senior Member, IEEE, since 2014.
• Member, IEEE, 2000-2013.
• Member, Task Force on Many-Objective Optimisation (MaOP), Emergent Technologies Technical Committee (ETTC), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS), since 2017.
• Member, Task Force on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE), Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee (ECTC), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS), since 2003.
• Member, Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee (ISATC), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS), since 2013.
• Member, Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee (ECTC), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS), since 2011.
• Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS), since 2005.
• Member, ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO), whose predecessor organization is the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC), since 2006.
• Member, IASTED Technical Committee on Soft Computing, since 2003.

Awards and Distinctions:

• Nominatee to the Best Paper Award for EvoApplications 2016: Applications of Evolutionary Computation, for the paper "Direct memory schemes for population-based incremental learning in cyclically changing environments" by Michalis Mavrovouniotis and Shengxiang Yang, published in EvoApplications 2016: Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9598, pp. 233-247, 2016.
• Nominatee for the Best-Paper Award of the ACO-SI Track at the 2015 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, for the paper "An ant colony optimization based memetic algorithm for the dynamic travelling salesman problem" by Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Felipe Martins Muller and Shengxiang Yang, published in the Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, pp. 49-56, 2015.
• Winner of the 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Best Student Paper Award, for the paper entitled "A test problem for visual investigation of high-dimensional multi-objective search" by Miqing Li, Shengxiang Yang and Xiaohui Liu, published in the Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pp. 2140-2147, 2014.
• Nominatee for the 2005 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Best Paper Award, for the paper "Memory-based immigrants for genetic algorithms in dynamic environments" by Shengxiang Yang, published in the Proceedings of the 2005 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Vol. 2, pp. 1115-1122, 2005.


• My PhD student (Saul Calderon Ramirez) won the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Media Doctoral Thesis Prize (2023) and De Montfort University Doctoral Thesis Prize (2023).
• My PhD student (Shouyong Jiang) won the IEEE CIS Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award (2021), Doctoral Thesis Prize at De Montfort University (2017), and Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad (2016).
• My PhD student (Miqing Li) won the Vice Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Research, Brunel University London (2016) and the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad (2014).


• Visiting Professor, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China (2010-now).
• Visiting Professor, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China (2017-2019).
• Visiting Professor, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China (2017-2019).
• Visiting Professor, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, China (2012-2018).
• Visiting Professor, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China (2011-2017).

Invited Conference Keynote Speeches, Planary Speeches, Distinguished Lectures, Tutorials, Workshop Talks, and Seminar Talks:

1. Distinguished lecture, at the 5th International Forum on Frontiers of Automation and Artificial Intelligence (FAAI 2023), Shenyang, China, 21-24 August, 2023.
2. Keynote speech, at the 7th International Workshop on "Internet-Plus" Logistics Supply Chain Management and Operations, Shenyang, China, 5-6 August, 2023.
3. Keynote speech, at the 3rd International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Mechatronics Technology (ICEEMT 2023), Nanjing, China, 21-23 July, 2023.
4. Keynote speech, at the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Metaheuristics & Swarm Intelligence (ISMSI 2023), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 23-24 April, 2023.
5. Plenary speech, at the 2022 International Symposium on New Trends in Computational Intelligence (NTCI 2022), Qingdao, China, 15-17 December, 2022.
6. Distinguished lecture, at the 2022 Symposium on Machine Learning, Dynamic Optimization and Data Modelling Technologies for Industrial Intelligence (MOM 2022), Xuzhou, China, 4-5 December, 2022.
7. Distinguished lecture, at the 4th International Forum on Frontiers of Data-driven Optimization of Complex Systems (FDOCS 2022), Chengdu, China, 28 October, 2022.
8. Distinguished lecture, at the 4th International Forum on Frontiers of Automation and Artificial Intelligence (FAAI 2022), Shenyang, China, 24-27 August, 2022.
9. Keynote speech, at the 10th IEEE Joint International Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence Conference (ITAIC 2022), Chongqing, China, 17-19 June, 2022.
10. Keynote speech, Swarm Intelligence for Dynamic Optimization Problems, at the 2022 International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence Control and Application Technology (AICAT 2022), Hangzhou, China, 6-8 May, 2022.
11. Keynote speech, Data Stream Mining Based on Ant Colony Behaviour, at the 2nd International Conference on Information Technology (InCITe 2022), Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India, 3-4 March, 2022.
12. Distinguished lecture, at the 3rd International Forum on Frontiers of Automation and Artificial Intelligence (FAAI 2021), Shenyang, China, 8-9 November, 2021.
13. Keynote speech, Data Stream Mining Based on Ant Colony Behaviour, at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on BioInspired Processing (BIP 2021), Costa Rica, 4-5 November, 2021.
14. Keynote Speech, Swarm Intelligence for Dynamic Optimization Problems, at the 4th International Conference on Industrial Informatics - Computing Technology, Intelligent Technology, Industrial Information Integration (ICIICII 2020), Shantou, China, 18-19 December, 2020.
15. Distinguished lecture, at the 2nd International Forum on Frontiers of Automation and Artificial Intelligence (FAAI 2020), Shenyang, China, 22-23 October, 2020.
16. Keynote speech, Swarm Intelligence for Dynamic Optimization Problems, at the 2020 Latin America High Performance Computing Conference (CARLA 2020), Cuenca, Ecuador, 2-4 September, 2020.
17. Keynote speech, Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Multi-objective Optimization, at the 3rd Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms for Problems with Uncertainty, held at the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2020), Cancun, Mexico, 8-12 July, 2020.
18. Keynote speech, at the 2019 International Academic Forum on Dynamic Evolutionary Optimization Theory and Applications (DEOTA 2019), Shenzhen, China, 2-3 August, 2019.
19. Keynote speech, at the 3rd Asian Conference on Artificial Intelligence Technology (ACAIT 2019), Chongqing, China, 5-7 July, 2019.
20. Keynote speech, the 2018 International Academic Forum on Dynamic Evolutionary Optimization Theory and Applications (DEOTA 2018), Xuzhou and Qingdao, China, 17-21 October, 2018.
21. Keynote speech, Swarm Intelligence in Dynamic Environments, at the 9th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI'2018), Shanghai, China, 17-22 June, 2018.
22. Keynote speech, Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Multiobjective Optimization Problems, at the 2017 International Academic Forum on Dynamic Evolutionary Optimization Problems (DEOP 2017), Henyang, China, 11-13 July, 2017.
23. Keynote speech, Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimization Problems, at the 23rd International Conference on Soft Computing -- MENDEL 2017, Brno, Czech Republic, 20-22 June, 2017.
24. Keynote speech, Computational Intelligence for Creative Design and Optimisation, at the 2015 UK-China Forum on the Design and Creative Industry in Big Data Era, Beijing, China, 06 November, 2015 (see the video here).
25. Keynote speech, at the 10th Symposium on Logistics Systems Engineering, Shenyang and Panjin, China, 25-27 July, 2014.
26. Keynote speech, at the 5th International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2011), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 20-22 October, 2011.
27. Keynote speech, Metaheuristics for Dynamic Combinatorial Optimization Problems, at the Metaheuristics stream in the OR53 Conference, Nottingham, UK, 6-8 September, 2011.
28. Keynote speech, Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimization Problems, at the 2008 International Symposium on Applied Computing and Computational Sciences (ACCS 2008), Hong Kong, China, August 1-3, 2008.
29. Keynote speech, Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic Environments: Taking the Challenges, at the 2nd Int. Symp. on Intelligence Computation and Applications (ISICA 2007), Wuhan, China, September 21-23, 2007.


30. Tutorial, Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Multi-objective Optimization Problems, at the 2020 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI2020), Glasgow, UK, 19-24 July, 2020.
31. Tutorial, Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimization Problems, at the 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC2018), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 8-13 July, 2018.
32. Tutorial, Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Multiobjective Optimization Problems, at the 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI2017), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 27 November-1 December, 2017.
33. Tutorial, Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimization Problems, at the 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC2017), Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, 5-8 June, 2017.
34. Tutorial, Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimization Problems, at the 2015 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2015), Madrid, Spain, 11-15 July, 2015.
35. Tutorial, Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimization Problems, at the 2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC2015), Sendai, Japan, 25-28 May, 2015.
36. Tutorial, Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimization Problems, at the 2013 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2013), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 06-10 July, 2013.


37. Workshop Talk, Evolutionary Many-objective Optimmization: Taking the Challenges, at the Workshop on Advances in Multi-objective Optimisation and its Applications, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China, 20-21 August 2018.
38. Workshop Talk, Multi-Population Methods with Clustering in Dynamic Environments, at the BTG Workshop 7: Dynamic Optimisation in an Uncertain World: Challenges and State-of-the-Art, University of Birmingham, UK, 24 February 2011.
39. Workshop Talk, Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimisation Problems, at the BTG Application Workshop 1: Real World Routing and Scheduling, University of Birmingham, UK, 9th June 2009.


40. Seminar talk (online), School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, 22 November, 2023.
41. Seminar talk, Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China, 11 September, 2023.
42. Seminar talk, School of Computer Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China, 7 September, 2023.
43. Seminar talk, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, China, 7 September, 2023.
44. Seminar talk, College of Engineering, Shantou University, Shantou, China, 28 August, 2023.
45. Seminar talk, Hunan Normal University, Xiangtan, China, 13 May, 2023.
46. Seminar talk, School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, China, 12 May, 2023.
47. Seminar talk, School of Mechanical Electronic and Information Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), China, 8 May, 2023.
48. Seminar talk (online), College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, 22 July, 2022.
49. Seminar talk (online), China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), China, 19 May, 2022.
50. Seminar talk (online), China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, China, 28 February, 2022.
51. Seminar talk (online), School of Mechanical Electronic and Information Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), China, 5 July, 2021.
52. Seminar talk (online), School of Automation, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, 21 December, 2021.
53. Seminar talk (online), School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University, Changchun, China, 21 September, 2020.
54. Seminar talk, School of Computing Science and Digital Media, Robert Gordon University, UK, 17th September, 2019.
55. Seminar talk, School of Information and Control Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China, 30 July, 2019.
56. Seminar talk, School of Computer Science, Zhongyuan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, China, 27 July, 2019.
57. Seminar talk, Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China, 23 June, 2019.
58. Seminar talk, College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, 30 May, 2019.
59. Seminar talk, School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China, 30 April, 2019.
60. Seminar talk, School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, 29 April, 2019.
61. Seminar talk, School of Computer, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, 23 April, 2019.
62. Seminar talk, School of Computing, University of Kent, UK, 25th February, 2019.
63. Seminar talk, School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, 17 August, 2018.
64. Seminar talk, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, China, 15 August, 2018.
65. Seminar talk, College of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China, 10 August, 2018.
66. Seminar talk, School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China, 3 August, 2018.
67. Seminar talk, College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, 30 July, 2018.
68. Seminar talk, College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, China, 20 June, 2018.
69. Seminar talk, School of Information and Control Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China, 19 April, 2018.
70. Seminar talk, College of Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, 18 April, 2018.
71. Seminar talk, School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China, 10 April, 2018.
72. Seminar talk, School of Automation, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, 9 April, 2018.
73. Seminar talk, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, UK, 28 September, 2017.
74. Seminar talk, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 31 August, 2017.
75. Seminar talk, School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China, 24 August, 2017.
76. Seminar talk, School of Automation, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, 11 April, 2017.
77. Seminar talk, College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China, 10 April, 2017.
78. Seminar talk, School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China, 7 April, 2017.
79. Seminar talk, Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China, 05 April, 2017.
80. Seminar talk, School of Computer Science, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng, China, 27 June, 2016.
81. Seminar talk, School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China, 24 June, 2016.
82. Seminar talk, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, UK, 20 May, 2016.
83. Seminar talk, College of Electronic Information and Control Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China, 06 April, 2016.
84. Seminar talk, College of Computer Science and Technology, Hengyang Normal University, Hengyang, China, 31 March, 2016.
85. Seminar talk, College of Information Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, China, 29 March, 2016.
86. Seminar talk, School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, China, 10 August, 2015.
87. Seminar talk, School of Control Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, 23 July, 2014.
88. Seminar talk, School of Internet of Things Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China, 22 July, 2014.
89. Seminar talk, College of Science, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, 21 July, 2014.
90. Seminar talk, College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, 14 July, 2014.
91. Seminar talk, Department of Computer Science, Loughborough University, UK, 4th December, 2013.
92. Seminar talk, School of Creative Technologies, University of Portsmouth, UK, 27th November, 2013.
93. Seminar talk, Faculty of Technology Research Seminar Series (FoT-RSS), De Montfort University, UK, 26th June, 2013.
94. Seminar talk, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK, 23rd May, 2013.
95. Seminar talk, College of Information Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, China, 29th July, 2012.
96. Seminar talk, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Essex, UK, 15th March, 2012.
97. Seminar talk, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, UK, 25th January, 2012.
98. Seminar talk, Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB), London, 23rd November, 2011.
99. Seminar talk, College of Math and Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, 30th June, 2011.
100. Seminar talk, College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, 30 December, 2010.
101. Seminar talk, School of Computing, University of Kent, UK, 15th March, 2010.
102. Seminar talk, School of Information Management and Engineering, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China, 13 August, 2009.
103. Seminar talk, College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, 16 July, 2009.
104. Seminar talk, College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, 30 December, 2008.
105. Seminar talk, Immigrants Schemes for Evolutionary Algorithms in Dynamic Environments, Centre for Computational Intelligence, School of Computing, De Montfort University, UK, 22nd November, 2007.
106. Seminar talk, Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic Environments, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 5th October, 2007.
107. Seminar talk, Key Laboratory of Integrated Automation of Process Industry (Northeastern University), Ministry of Education, Shenyang, China, 4th September, 2007.
108. Seminar talk, Memory Enhanced Estimation of Distribution Algorithms for Dynamic Optimisation Problems, School of Computing, Robert Gordon University, UK, 15th September, 2006.
109. Seminar talk, Evolutionary Optimisation in Dynamic Environments — Some Recent Results, Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, UK, 18th November, 2005.
110. Seminar talk, Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimization Problems, Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems, Waseda University, Japan, 9th January, 2004.
111. Seminar talk, Introducing Dualism into Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimization Problems, School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Nottingham, UK, 29th September, 2003.
112. Seminar talk, SAGA -- Statistics-based Adaptive Genetic Algorithms, Centre for Mathematical Modelling, University of Leicester, UK, 29th November, 2002.

Post-doctoral Research Associates/Research Fellows Hosted:

1. Dr Yong Wang (February 2016 - February 2018, full-time): Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow, working for the project "Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Constrained Optimization Problems (ECDCOP)", funded by EU Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (Project ID: 661327).
2. Dr Michalis Mavrovouniotis (February 2013 - September 2016, full-time): Post-doctoral Research Associate, worked for the project "Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimisation in Network Environments", funded by EPSRC under Grant EP/K001310/1.
3. Dr Darren Chitty (April 2016 - September 2016 and March 2017 - August 2017, full-time): Post-doctoral Research Associate, worked for the project "Development of a Dynamic Resource Scheduling Prototype System for Airports", funded by De Montfort University Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) 2015-16, and worked for the project "Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimisation in Network Environments", funded by EPSRC under Grant EP/K001310/1.
4. Dr Sarah Greenfield (November 2013 - February 2015, part-time 0.6 FTE): Post-doctoral Research Fellow, co-hosted with Prof. Eric Goodyer and worked for the project "Evolutionary Computation for Optimised Rail Travel (EsCORT)", funded by Transport iNet, European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
5. Dr Changhe Li (March 2013 - August 2013, full-time): Post-doctoral Research Associate, worked for the project "Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimization in Network Environments", funded by EPSRC under Grant EP/K001310/1.
6. Dr Rui Cai (April 2011 - June 2011, part-time 0.5 FTE): Post-doctoral Research Associate, worked for the project "Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimisation Problems: Design, Analysis and Applications", funded by EPSRC under Grant EP/E060722/2.
7. Dr Crina Grosan (October 2010 - February 2011, full-time): Post-doctoral Research Associate, worked for the project "Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimisation Problems: Design, Analysis and Applications", funded by EPSRC under Grant EP/E060722/2.
8. Dr Hui Cheng (January 2008 - June 2010, full-time): Post-doctoral Research Associate, worked for the project "Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimisation Problems: Design, Analysis and Applications", funded by EPSRC under Grant EP/E060722/1.

PhD Student Supervision:

• Completed PhD Students:
  1. Zedong Zheng: supervised PhD student, funded by De Montfort University Fee Waiver Scholarships 2016-17, started in October 2016, graduated in July 2023 (viva date: 21 March 17, 2023). Thesis: Evolutionary Algorithms for Resource Allocation in Smart Grid (PhD Thesis in the PDF File).
  2. Saul Calderon Ramirez: supervised PhD student, funded by De Montfort University Scholarship Awards 2018-19, started in October 2019, graduated in July 2022 (viva date: 21 April, 2022). Thesis: Improving Semi-supervised Deep Learning under Distribution Mismatch for Medical Image Analysis Applications. (PhD Thesis in the PDF File). The thesis won the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Media Doctoral Thesis Prize (2023) and De Montfort University Doctoral Thesis Prize (2023).
  3. Conor Fahy: supervised PhD student, funded by De Montfort University Scholarship Awards 2015-16, started in October 2015, graduated in 2019 (viva date: 15 July, 2019). Thesis: Learning in Dynamic Data Streams with a Scarcity of Labels (PhD Thesis in the PDF File).
  4. Mohanad Tahrir Younis: supervised PhD student, funded by Iraqi Government Special Scholarship Initiative, started in October 2014, graduated in January 2019 (viva date: 5 October, 2018). Thesis: Hybrid Meta-heuristic Algorithms for Static and Dynamic Job Scheduling in Grid Computing (PhD Thesis in the PDF File).
  5. Jayne Eaton: supervised PhD student, funded by De Montfort University Scholarship Awards 2013-14, started in October 2013, graduated in January 2018 (viva date: 25 September, 2017). Thesis: Ant Colony Optimisation for Dynamic and Dynamic Multi-objective Railway Rescheduling Problems (PhD Thesis in the PDF File).
  6. Shouyong Jiang: supervised PhD student, funded by De Montfort University Scholarship Awards 2012-13, started in October 2013, graduated in July 2017 (viva date: 13 March, 2017). Thesis: Evolutionary Algorithms for Static and Dynamic Multiobjective Optimization (PhD Thesis in the PDF File). The thesis won the Doctoral Thesis Prize at De Montfort University (2017) and IEEE CIS Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award (2021).
  7. Miqing Li: supervised PhD student, funded by Brunel University PhD Studentships 2011-12, started in October 2011, graduated in January 2016 (viva date: 23 November, 2015). Thesis: Evolutionary Many-Objective Optimization: Pushing the Boundaries (PhD Thesis in the PDF File). The thesis won the Vice Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Research, Brunel University London (2016).
  8. Michalis Mavrovouniotis: supervised PhD student, funded by University of Leicester Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTAs), started in September 2009, graduated in July 2013 (viva date: 21 January, 2013). Thesis: Ant Colony Optimization in Stationary and Dynamic Environments (PhD Thesis in the PDF File).
  9. Shakeel Arshad: supervised PhD student, funded by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, started in September 2007, graduated in July 2012 (viva date: 31 January, 2012). Thesis: Sequence Based Memetic Algorithms for Static and Dynamic Travelling Salesman Problems (PhD Thesis in the PDF File).
  10. Imtiaz Ali Korejo: supervised PhD student, funded by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, started in November 2007, graduated in July 2012 (viva date: 20 December, 2011). Thesis: Adaptive Mutation Operators for Evolutionary Algorithms (PhD Thesis in the PDF File).
  11. Sadaf Naseem Jat: supervised PhD student, funded by Pakistan Government, started in July 2007, graduated in July 2012 (viva date: 20 June, 2011). Thesis: Genetic Algorithms for University Course Timetabling Problems (PhD Thesis in the PDF File).
  12. Changhe Li: supervised PhD student, funded by EPSRC under Grant EP/E060722/1, started in January 2008, graduated in July 2011 (viva date: 25 February, 2011). Thesis: Particle Swarm Optimisation in Stationary and Dynamic Environments (PhD Thesis in the PDF File).
  
  
  13. William Lawrence: MPhil student, co-supervised with Dr. Mario Gongora at De Montfort University, graduated in 2020. Thesis: Solving XOR and Pole-balancing problems using a multi-population NEAT (MPhil Thesis in the PDF File).
  14. Arinze Akutekwe: PhD student, co-supervised with Dr. Huseyin Seker at De Montfort University, graduated in 2016.
  15. Yuying Wang: PhD student, co-supervised with Dr. Simon Coupland at De Montfort University, graduated in 2014. Thesis: Type-2 Fuzzy Probabilistic System for Proactive Monitoring of Uncertain Data-intensive Seasonal Time Series (PhD Thesis in the PDF File).
  16. Fabio Caraffini: PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. Ferrante Neri and Dr. Mario Gongora at De Montfort University, graduated in 2014. Thesis: Novel Memetic Computing Structures for Continuous Optimisation (PhD Thesis in the PDF File).
  17. Yang Yan: PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. Dingwei Wang at Northeastern University, China, graduated in 2012.
  18. Yan Cui: PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. Dingwei Wang at Northeastern University, China, graduated in 2012.
  19. Lili Liu: PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. Dingwei Wang at Northeastern University, China, graduated in June 2011.
  20. Hongfeng Wang, PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. Dingwei Wang at Northeastern University, China, graduated in March 2007.


• Current PhD Students:
  1. Matthew Fox: supervised PhD candidate, funded by De Montfort University Scholarship Awards 2017-18, started in October 2017.
  2. Bahareh Daneshvar: PhD candidate, co-supervised with Dr Conor Fahy, funded by De Montfort University Doctoral College Scholarship Awards 2022-23, started in January, 2024.
  3. Ahad Arshad: PhD candidate, co-supervised with Prof. Paul Fleming at De Montfort University, started in October 2017.

PhD Examination:

• External Examiner:
  1. Daniel Herring (PhD Supervisor: Prof. Xin Yao and Prof. Michael Kirley; Thesis: Dynamic Multi-objective Optimization Using Evolutionary Algorithms), School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK and School of Computing and Information Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia, thesis examined in March 2023.
  2. Hajra Masood (PhD Supervisor: Dr. Ghulam Muhammad; Thesis: Vision Base Gait Recognition Robust to Appearance and View Variance), Department of Computer Science, Bahria University, Karachi, Pakistan, thesis examined in October 2022.
  3. Kangjing Li (PhD Supervisor: Prof. Ruhul Sarker; Thesis: Landscape-based Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimization Problems), School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Australia, thesis examined in April 2022.
  4. Ning Shi (PhD Supervisor: Dr. Shan He; Thesis: Boolean Network Inference and Control Using Genetic Algorithms and Simulated Annealing), School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK, viva date: 8 March, 2021.
  5. Naveen Irtiza (PhD Supervisor: Dr. Humera Farooq; Thesis: Assessment of Neural Correlates of Neuroception Using Machine Learning Techniques), Department of Electrical Engineering, Bahria University, Pakistan, thesis examined in February 2021.
  6. Amany Akl (PhD Supervisor: Prof. Ruhul Sarker; Thesis: Simulation Assisted Evolutionary Algorithm for Stochastic Optimization), School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Australia, thesis examined in November 2019.
  7. Duriye Betul Gumus (PhD Supervisor: Dr. Ender Ozcan; Thesis: Parameter Tuning for Cross-Domain Search), School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK, viva date: 6 September, 2019.
  8. Fujia Han (PhD Supervisor: Porf. Maozhen Li; Thesis: Deep learning driven data analytics for smart grids), School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, UK, viva date: 6 March 2019.
  9. Xiaofen Lu (PhD Supervisor: Prof. Xin Yao; Thesis: Multi-species Evolutionary Algorithms for Complex Optimisation Problems), School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK, viva date: 9 November, 2018.
  10. Ran Wang (PhD Supervisor: Dr. Trung Thanh Nguyen; Thesis: Birth Scheduling at Seaports: Meta-heuristics and Simulation), School of Engineering, Technology and Maritime Operations, Liverpool John Moores University, UK, viva date: 31 August, 2018.
  11. Wenwen Li (PhD Supervisor: Dr. Ender Ozcan; Thesis: Multiobjective Selection Hyper-heuristics using Reinforcement Learning), School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK, viva date: 05 July, 2018.
  12. Yasir Mehmood (PhD Supervisor: Prof. Waseem Shahzad; Thesis: Novel Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Multimodal Optimization Problems by Enhancing the Robustness and Diversity), Department of Computer Science, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan, thesis examined in June 2018.
  13. Abdelmonaem Abdallah (PhD Supervisor: Dr. Daryl Essam; Thesis: Genetic Algorithms for Solving Problems with Dynamic Active Variables and Dynamic Boundaries), School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia, thesis examined in June 2017.
  14. Seda Ozdemir (PhD Supervisor: Prof. Robert John; Thesis: An Integrated Model of Supplier Selection and Inventory Planning Using Fuzzy Logic and Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms), School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK, viva date: 12 May, 2017.
  15. Fawaz Alanazi (PhD Supervisor: Dr. Per Kristian Lehre; Thesis: Reinforcement Learning Hyper-heuristics for Optimisations), School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK, viva date: 16 February, 2017.
  16. Guanbo Jia (PhD Supervisor: Dr. Shan He; Thesis: Community Detection in Complex Networks Using Evolutionary Computation), School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK, viva date: 1 December, 2016.
  17. Umar Mujahid Khokhar (PhD Supervisor: Prof. M. Najam-ul-Islam; Thesis: Ultralightweight Cryptography for Low Cost Passive RFID Tags), Department of Electrical Engineering, Bahria University, Pakistan, thesis examined in March 2016.
  18. Intekhab Alam (PhD Supervisor: Prof. Clive Roberts; Thesis: Real Time Tracking Using Nature-Inspired Algorithms), Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK, viva date: 14 March, 2016.
  19. Unekwu Idachaba (PhD Supervisor: Prof. Frank Wang; Thesis: A Bio-Inspired Cache Management Policy for Cloud Computing Environments Using the Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm), School of Computing, University of Kent, UK, viva date: 17 December, 2015.
  20. Christopher Beer (PhD Supervisor: Prof. Tim Hendtlass; Thesis: Dynamic Search Space Characterisation), Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, thesis examined in June 2015.
  21. Shahriar Asta (PhD Supervisor: Dr. Ender Ozcan; Thesis: Machine Learning for Improving Heuristic Optimisation), School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK, viva date: 17 September, 2015.
  22. Shayan Kavakeb (PhD Supervisor: Dr. Trung Thanh Nguyen; Thesis: Evolutionary Algorithms and Simulation for Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles in Container Terminals), School of Engineering, Technology and Maritime Operations, Liverpool John Moores University, UK, viva date: 12 June, 2015.
  23. Anas Elhag (PhD Supervisor: Dr. Ender Ozcan; Thesis: Hyper-heuristics for Grouping Problems), School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK, viva date: 14 January, 2015.
  24. Noura Al Moubayed (PhD Supervisor: Dr. Andrei Petrovski; Thesis: Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimisation: Methods and Applications), School of Computing Science and Digital Media, Robert Gordon University, UK, viva date: 28 November 2013.
  25. Amadeo Ascó (PhD Supervisor: Dr. Jason Atkin; Thesis: Constructive and Evolutionary Algorithms for Airport Baggage Sorting Station and Gate Assignment Problems), School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK, viva date: 21 October 2013.
  26. Zelong Liu (PhD Supervisor: Porf. Maozhen Li; Thesis: High Performance Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Text Mining), School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, UK, viva date: 14 October 2013.
  27. MC du Plessis (PhD Supervisor: Prof. Andries P. Engelbrecht; Thesis: Adaptive Multi-Population Differential Evolution for Dynamic Environments), Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa, viva date: 30 July 2012.
  28. Graham Rollings (PhD Supervisor: Prof. David Corne; Thesis: Using Evolutionary Algorithms to Resolve 3-Dimensional Geometries Using Indeterminate Input Data), Department of Engineering, University of Exeter, UK, viva date: 25 January 2012
  29. Muhammad Asif Jan (PhD Supervisor: Prof. Qingfu Zhang; Thesis: Decomposition Based Evolutionary Methods for Constrained Multi-objective Optimization), Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Essex, UK, viva date: 4 November, 2011.
  30. Anabela Borges Simoes (PhD Supervisor: Prof. Ernesto Costa; Thesis: Improving Memory-based Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Environments), Departamento de Engenharia Informatica, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, viva date: 04 October, 2010.
  
  
• Internal Examiner:
  1. Suleiman Aliyu (Supervisor: Dr. Feng Chen; Thesis: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Strategic Resource Allocation Mechanisms in Edge and Fog Computing), School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University, UK, viva date: 24 January, 2020.
  2. Manal Alghieth (Supervisor: Prof. Yingjie Yang; Thesis: Development of a Genetic Algorithm Based Methodology for Efficient Time-series Financial Forecasting), School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University, UK, viva date: 10 January, 2017.
  3. Sultan Ibrahim Alhusain (Supervisor: Dr. Simon Coupland; Thesis: Intelligent Data-Driven Reverse Engineering of Software Design Patterns), School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University, UK, viva date: 2 December, 2016.
  4. Chigozirim Justice Uzor (Supervisor: Dr. Mario Gongora; Thesis: Compact Dynamic Optimisation Algorithms), School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University, UK, viva date: 22 April, 2016.
  5. Esmond Tresidder (PhD Supervisor: Dr. Yi Zhang; Thesis: Accelerated Optimisation Methods for Low-Carbon Building Design), Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development (IESD), De Montfort University, UK, viva date: 5 June, 2014.
  6. Tor-Morten Gronli (PhD Supervisor: Dr. George Ghinea; Thesis: Cloud Computing and Context-Awareness: A Study of the Adapted User Experience), Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, UK, viva date: 16 May, 2012.
  7. Jian Li (PhD Supervisor: Prof. Xiaohui Liu; Thesis: Ensemble Clustering via Heuristic Optimisation), Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, UK, viva date: 9 July, 2010.

Hosted Research Visits:

1. Dr Lifu Wang, Visiting Scholar, School of Control Engineering, Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao, China, funded by China Scholarship Council (January 2024 - January 2025).
2. Mr Qi Deng, Visiting PhD Student, from the School of Computer Science, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, China, funded by China Scholarship Council (January 2024 - January 2025).
3. Miss Qian Bao, Visiting PhD Student, from the School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, funded by China Scholarship Council (January 2024 - January 2025).
4. Dr Liling Sun, Visiting Academic Researcher, from the School of Computer Science and Technology, Tiangong University, Tianjin, China, funded by China Scholarship Council (August 2023 - August 2024).
5. Mr Qi Yan, Visiting PhD Student, from the College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, funded by China Scholarship Council (December 2022 - December 2023).
6. Ms Suming Wang, Visiting MSc Student, from the School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China (November 2022 - November2023).
7. Mr Xianrui Yu, Visiting PhD Student, from the School of Economics and Management, Behang University, Beijing, China, funded by China Scholarship Council (October 2022 - October 2023).
8. Dr Lei Cai, Visiting Academic Researcher, from the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, China, funded by China Scholarship Council (October 2022 - October 2023).
9. Dr Xinfu Pang, Visiting Academic Researcher, from the School of Automation, Shenyang Institute of Engineering, Shenyang, China, funded by China Scholarship Council (October 2022 - October 2023).
10. Ms Jing Sun, Visiting PhD Student, from the College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, funded by China Scholarship Council (December 2021 - December 2022).
11. Mr Yuanrui Li, Visiting PhD Student, from the School of Economics and Management, Behang University, Beijing, China, funded by China Scholarship Council (November 2021 - November 2022).
12. Mr Yang Chen, Visiting PhD Student, from the College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, funded by China Scholarship Council (October 2021 - October 2022).
13. Dr Liling Sun, Visiting Academic Researcher, from the School of Computer Science and Technology, Tiangong University, Tianjin, China, funded by China Scholarship Council (December 2019 - December 2020).
14. Dr Maowei He, Visiting Academic Researcher, from the School of Computer Science and Technology, Tiangong University, Tianjin, China, funded by China Scholarship Council (November 2019 - November 2020).
15. Ms Yue Xu, Visiting PhD Student, from the College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, funded by China Scholarship Council (December 2019 - March 2020).
16. Ms Yunhe Wang, Visiting PhD Student, from the School of Information Science and Technology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, funded by China Scholarship Council (October 2019 - September 2020).
17. Dr Jie Chen, Visiting Academic Researcher, from the College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, funded by China Scholarship Council (February 2019 - February 2020).
18. Mr Ke Yang, Visiting MSc Student, from the School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China (August 2019 - January 2020).
19. Mr Qingshan Tan, Visiting PhD Student, from the School of Automation, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China (September 2019 - December 2019).
20. Dr Mao Peng, Visiting Researcher, from the School of Mathematics and Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), Nanjing, China (June 2019 - August 2019).
21. Dr Yuan Zhang, Visiting Researcher, from the School of Mathematics and Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), Nanjing, China (June 2019 - August 2019).
22. Mr Qingda Chen, Visiting PhD Student, from the State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China (August 2018 - January 2019).
23. Prof. Xiaoli Li, Visiting Professor, from Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China (16-23 July 2018).
24. Mr Qingyang Zhang, Visiting PhD Student, from the School of Computer and Information, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, funded by China Scholarship Council (December 2017 - December 2018).
25. Dr Min Liu, Visiting Academic Researcher, from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, China, funded by China Scholarship Council (December 2016 - December 2017).
26. Dr Shuzhen Wan, Visiting Academic Researcher, from the School of Computer and Information Technology, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, China (March 2016 - March 2017).
27. Dr Jinglei Guo, Visiting Academic Researcher, from the School of Computer, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, funded by China Scholarship Council (October 2015 - October 2016).
28. Prof. Felipe Martins Muller, Visiting Professor, from Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil (August 2014 - August 2015).
29. Prof. Xiaoli Li, Visiting Professor, from Beijing University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China (24-29 November 2014).
30. Mr Rui Hu, Visiting PhD Student, from the College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, funded by China Scholarship Council (November 2012 - November 2014).
31. Dr Mao Peng, Visiting Researcher, from the School of Mathematics and Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), Nanjing, China (March 2012 - August 2012).
32. Dr Yuan Zhang, Visiting Researcher, from the School of Mathematics and Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), Nanjing, China (March 2012 - August 2012).
33. Mr Nacho Garcia, Visiting PhD Student, from University of Granada, Spain (September 2011 - December 2011).
34. Dr Ferrante Neri, Visiting Researcher, from University of Jyvaskyla, Finland (short term in July, 2009).
35. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hendrik Richter, Visiting Researcher, from HTWK Leipzig, Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Institut Mess- Steuerungs- und Regelungstechnik, Leipzig, Germany (1 - 24 August, 2008).

Conference Activities:

• Co-Chair/Co-Organizer:
  1. Roman Slowinski, Shengxiang Yang, Ran He, and Feiping Nie (Co-Chairs), International Conference on Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Applications (CSAIA 2024), Nanchang, China, 25-27 October 2024.
  2. Zhongzhi Shi, Jim Torresen, and Shengxiang Yang (Program Chairs), 13th IFIP International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing (IIP2024), Shenzhen, China, 3-6 May, 2024.
  3. Tingwen Huang, Beatrice Ombuki-Berman, Lourdes Martinez, and Shengxiang Yang (Publicity Chairs), 2023 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2023), Mexico City, Mexico, 5-8 December, 2023.
  4. Jinliang Ding and Shengxiang Yang (Chairs), 5th Academic Forum on Dynamic Evolutionary Optimization Theory and Applications (DEOTA 2023), Shenyang, China, 14-16 August, 2023.
  5. Shengxiang Yang (Technical Program Committee Chair), 3rd International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Mechatronics Technology (ICEEMT 2023), Nanjing, China, 21-23 July, 2023.
  6. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Changhe Li, and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), 2022 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (IEEE CIDUE 2022), part of the 2022 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2022), Singapore, 4-7 December, 2022.
  7. Yinan Guo, Shengxiang Yang, Cuie Yang, and Botao Jiao (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Data Stream Analysis, for the 4th International Conference on Data-driven Optimization of Complex Systems (DOCS 2022), Chengdu, China, 28-30 October, 2022.
  8. Wenjian Luo, Xin Lin, Changhe Li, Shengxiang Yang, and Yuhui Shi (Co-Chairs), IEEE CEC 2022 Competition on Seeking Multiple Optima in Dynamic Environments, for the 2022 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2022), Padua, Italy, 18-23 July, 2022.
  9. Danial Yazdani,Juergen Branke, Mohammad Nabi Omidvar, Xiaodong Li, Changhe Li, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Trung Thanh Nguyen, Shengxiang Yang, and Xin Yao (Co-Chairs), IEEE CEC 2022 Competition on Dynamic Optimization Problems Generated by Generalized Moving Peaks Benchmark, for the 2022 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2022), Padua, Italy, 18-23 July, 2022.
  10. Changhe Li, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments ( ECiDUE22), for the 2022 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2022), Padova, Italy, 18-23 July, 2022.
  11. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Changhe Li, and S. Yang (Co-Chairs), 2021 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (IEEE CIDUE 2021), part of the 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2021), Orlando, FL, USA, 4-7 December, 2021.
  12. Changhe Li, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE21), for the 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2021), Krakow, Poland, 28 June - 1 July, 2021.
  13. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Changhe Li, and S. Yang (Co-Chairs), 2020 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (IEEE CIDUE 2020), part of the 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2020), Canberra, Australia, 1-4 December, 2020.
  14. C. Li, Z. Juan, and S. Yang (Co-Chairs), Invited Session on Intelligent Optimization in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (IODUE20), for the 2nd International Conference on Industrial Artificial Intelligence (IAI 2020), Shenyang, China, 23-25 October, 2020.
  15. Changhe Li, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Shengxiang Yang, and Yinan Guo (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE20), for the 2020 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2020), Glasgow, UK, 19-24 July, 2020.
  16. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Changhe Li, Shengxiang Yang, and Wenjian Luo (co-chairs), 2019 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (IEEE CIDUE 2019), part of the 2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2019), Xiamen, China, 6-9 December, 2019.
  17. Changhe Li, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE19), for the 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2019), Wellington, New Zealand, 10-13 June, 2019.
  18. Hui Cheng, Chuan-Kang Ting, and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation for Communication Networks, for the 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2019), Wellington, New Zealand, 10-13 June, 2019.
  19. Jialin Liu, Yi Mei, and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Smart Logistics, for the 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2019), Wellington, New Zealand, 10-13 June, 2019.
  20. Shengxiang Yang, Robi Polikar, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, and Yaochu Jin (co-chairs), 2018 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (IEEE CIDUE 2018), part of the 2018 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2018), Bengaluru, India, 18-21 November, 2018.
  21. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Changhe Li, and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE18), for the 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2018), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 8-13 July, 2018.
  22. Hui Cheng, Chuan-Kang Ting, and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation for Communication Networks (ECCN18), for the 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2018), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 8-13 July, 2018.
  23. Chuan-Kang Ting, Hui Cheng, Shengxiang Yang, and Rung-Tzuo Liaw (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Intelligent Transportation and Logistics Networks (ITLN18), for the 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2018), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 8-13 July, 2018.
  24. Shouyong Jiang, Shengxiang Yang, Xin Yao, and Kay Chen Tan (Co-Chairs), IEEE CEC 2018 Competition on Dynamic Multi-objective Optimization (CEC18_Competition_DMOP), for the 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2018), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 8-13 July, 2018.
  25. Ran Cheng, Miqing Li, Ye Tian, Xiaoshu Xiang, Xingyi Zhang, Shengxiang Yang, Yaochu Jin, and Xin Yao (Co-Chairs), IEEE CEC 2018 Competition on Evolutionary Many-objective Optimization (CEC18_Competition_MaOO), for the 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2018), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 8-13 July, 2018.
  26. Juan Zou, Nanjiang Dong, Yaru Hu, and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm), for the 9th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI'2018), Shanghai, China, 17-22 June, 2018.
  27. Shengxiang Yang, Robi Polikar, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, and Yaochu Jin (co-chairs), 2017 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (IEEE CIDUE 2017), part of the 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2017), Hawaii, USA, 27 November-1 December, 2017.
  28. Changhe Li, Trung Thanh Nguyen, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Swarm and Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (SECDUE 2017), for the 11th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL 2017), Shenzhen, China, 10-13 November, 2017.
  29. Ran Cheng, Miqing Li, Ye Tian, Xingyi Zhang, Shengxiang Yang, Yaochu Jin, and Xin Yao (Co-Chairs), IEEE CEC 2017 Competition on Evolutionary Many-objective Optimization (CEC17Competition_EMaO), for the 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2017), Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, 5-8 June, 2017.
  30. Rui Wang, Shengxiang Yang, Sanaz Mostaghim, and Tao Zhang (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Many-objective Optimization (CEC2017-EMaO), for the 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2017), Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, 5-8 June, 2017.
  31. Chuan-Kang Ting, Hui Cheng, and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Intelligent Network Systems (CEC2017-INS), for the 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2017), Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, 5-8 June, 2017.
  32. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Changhe Li, and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE17), for the 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2017), Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, 5-8 June, 2017.
  33. Anastasios Delopoulos, Carlos Coello Coello, Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung, Jie Lu, Ying Tan, and Shengxiang Yang (Publicity Chairs), the 2016 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2016), Athens, Greece, 6-9 December, 2016.
  34. Shengxiang Yang, Robi Polikar, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, and Yaochu Jin (Co-Chairs), 2016 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (IEEE CIDUE 2016), part of the 2016 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2016), Athens, Greece, 6-9 December, 2016.
  35. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Changhe Li, Shengxiang Yang, and Yinan Guo (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE16), for the 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2016), Vancouver, Canada, 25-29 July, 2016.
  36. Xiaodong Li and Shengxiang Yang (Publication Chairs), the 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2015), Cape Town, South Africa, 7-10 December, 2015.
  37. Shengxiang Yang, Yaochu Jin, and Robi Polikar (Co-Chairs), 2015 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (IEEE CIDUE 2015), part of the 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2015), Cape Town, South Africa, 7-10 December, 2015.
  38. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Changhe Li, Shengxiang Yang, and Yinan Guo (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE15), for the 2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2015), Sendai, Japan, 25-28 May, 2015.
  39. Hui Cheng, Shengxiang Yang, and Chuan-Kang Ting (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Intelligent Network Systems (INS15), for the 2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2015), Sendai, Japan, 25-28 May, 2015.
  40. Yaochu Jin, Robi Polikar, and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (IEEE CIDUE 2014), part of 2014 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2014), Orlando, Florida, USA, 9-12 December, 2014.
  41. Jason Gu, Guoxiang Gu, Shengxiang Yang, and Wen Yu (Publicity Committee Co-Chairs), the 11th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA 2014), Shenyang, China, 29 June-4 July, 2014.
  42. Changhe Li, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Shengxiang Yang, and Xin Yao (Co-Chairs), the 2014 IEEE Competition on Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimization Problems, part of the 2014 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence Competitions, Beijing, China, 6-11 July, 2014.
  43. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Changhe Li, Shengxiang Yang, and Xin Yao (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE14), for the 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2014), Beijing, China, 6-11 July, 2014.
  44. Chuan-Kang Ting, Hui Cheng, Shengxiang Yang, Jun Zhang, and Zhun Fan (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Intelligent Network Systems, for the 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2014), Beijing, China, 6-11 July, 2014.
  45. John McCall and Shengxiang Yang (Program Co-Chairs), the 13th Annual UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2013), University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom, 9-11 September, 2013.
  46. David A. Pelta, Shengxiang Yang, Changhe Li, and Renato Tinos (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE13), for the 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2013), Cancun, Mexico, 20-23 June, 2013.
  47. Yaochu Jin, Shengxiang Yang, and Robi Polikar (Co-Chairs), 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (IEEE CIDUE 2013), part of 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2013), Singapore, 16-19 April, 2013.
  48. Shengxiang Yang, Jun Zhang, Franz Rothlauf, and Biliana Alexandrova-Kabadjova (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation for Intelligent Network Systems (INS 2012), for the 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2012), Brisbane, Australia, 11-15 June, 2012.
  49. Changhe Li, Shengxiang Yang, and David A. Pelta (Co-Chairs), the 2012 IEEE IEEE Competition on Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimization Problems, part of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence Competitions, Brisbane, Australia, 10-15 June, 2012.
  50. David A. Pelta, Shengxiang Yang, Yaochu Jin, and Changhe Li (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE12), for the 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2012), Brisbane, Australia, 11-15 June, 2012.
  51. Shengxiang Yang, David A. Pelta, and Yaochu Jin (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE11), for the 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2011), New Orleans, USA, 5-8 June, 2011.
  52. Yaochu Jin, Shengxiang Yang, and Robi Polikar (Co-Chairs), 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (IEEE CIDUE 2011), part of 2011 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2011), Halle aux Farines, Paris, France, 11-15 April, 2011.
  53. Shengxiang Yang, David A. Pelta, and Yaochu Jin (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE10), for the 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2010), Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July, 2010.
  54. Conference Co-Chair, the 2nd International Conference on Information and Computing Science (ICIC2009), Manchester, UK, May 21-22, 2009.
  55. Shengxiang Yang, Hans-Georg Beyer, Yaochu Jin, and Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan (Co-Chairs), the 2009 IEEE Competition on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, , for the 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2009), Trondheim, Norway, 18-21 May, 2009.
  56. Shengxiang Yang, Hans-Georg Beyer, Yaochu Jin, and Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE09), for the 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2009), Trondheim, Norway, 18-21 May, 2009.
  57. Shengxiang Yang and Ferrante Neri (Co-Chairs), the 6th European Workshop on EAs in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC 2009), incooperating Evo* 2009, Tubingen, Germany, 15-17 April, 2009.
  58. C.-K. Goh, A. P. Engelbrecht, S. Yang, and K. C. Tan (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Uncertain Environments for the 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2008), Hong Kong, 1-6 June, 2008.
  59. Sima Uyar and Shengxiang Yang (co-chairs), the 5th European Workshop on EAs in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC2008), incooperating Evo* 2008, Napoli, Italy, 26-28 March, 2008.
  60. Andres P. Engelbrecht, Shengxiang Yang, and Yaochu Jin (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE07), for the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2007), Singapore, 25-28 September, 2007.
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  61. Sima Uyar and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), the 4th European Workshop on EAs in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC2007), incooperating Evo* 2007, Valencia, Spain, 11-13 April, 2007.
  62. Shengxiang Yang and Yaochu Jin (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE06), for the 2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2006), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 16-21 July, 2006.
  63. Internatinal Co-Chair, the 10th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC10), Cranfield University, UK, September 19th - October 7th, 2005.
  64. Shengxiang Yang and Yew-Soon Ong (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE05), for the 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2005), Edinburgh, UK, 2-5 September, 2005.
  65. Shengxiang Yang and Jurgen Branke (Co-Chairs), the 4th Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimization Problems (EvoDOP-2005), held as a part of the GECCO-2005, Washington DC, USA, 25-29 June 2005.
  66. Shengxiang Yang and Jurgen Branke (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Optimization in Dynamic Environments (EODE04), for the 2004 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2004), Portland, Oregon, USA, 19-23 June 2004.


• Programme Committee/International Programme Committee/Technical Committee Member/International Advisory Board Member (Tracked Up to 2019):
  1. International Advisory Board Member, 8th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Metaheuristics and Swarm Intelligence (ISMSI 2024), Singapore, 24-25 April, 2024.
  2. The 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2019), Prague, Czech Republic, 13-17 July, 2019.
  3. The 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2019), Wellington, New Zealand, 10-13 June, 2019.
  4. The 10th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2018), Seville, Spain, 18-20 September, 2018.
  5. The 15th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN XV), Coimbra, Portugal, 8-12 September, 2018.
  6. The 18th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2018), Nottingham Trent University, UK, 5-7 September 2018.
  7. The 2018 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2018), Kyoto, Japan, 15-19 July, 2018
  8. Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms for Problems with Uncertainty, part of the 2018 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2018), Kyoto, Japan, 15-19 July, 2018
  9. The 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2018), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 8-13 July, 2018.
  10. The 9th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI'2018), Shanghai, China, 17-22 June, 2018.
  11. The 8th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications (BIOMA 2018), Paris, France, 16-18 May, 2018.
  12. The 15th European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms and Meta-heuristics in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC 2018), incooperating Evo* 2018, Parma, Italy, 4-6 April 2018.
  13. The 2018 European Workshop on Evolutionary and Bio-Inspired Computational Techniques within Real-World Industrial and Commercial Environments (EvoINDUSTRY 2018), incooperating Evo* 2018, Parma, Italy, 4-6 April 2018.
  14. The 9th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2017), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 1-3 November, 2017.
  15. The 3rd International Workshop on Machine learning, Optimization and big Data (MOD 2017), Volterra, Tuscany, Italy, 14-17 September, 2017.
  16. The 17th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2017), Cardiff University, UK, 6-8 September 2017.
  17. The 2017 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2017), Berlin, Germany, 15-19 July, 2017
  18. The 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2017), Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, 5-8 June, 2017.
  19. The 14th European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms and Meta-heuristics in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC 2017), incooperating Evo* 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherland, 19-21 April, 2017.
  20. The 2017 European Workshop on Evolutionary and Bio-Inspired Computational Techniques within Real-World Industrial and Commercial Environments (EvoINDUSTRY 2017), incooperating Evo* 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherland, 19-21 April, 2017.
  21. The 17th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (EvoCOP 2017), incooperating Evo* 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherland, 19-21 April, 2017.
  22. The 8th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA 2016), Porto, Portugal, 9-11 November, 2016.
  23. The 5th International Conference on Health Information Science (HIS 2016), Shanghai, China, 5-7 November, 2016.
  24. The 11th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2016), Xi'an, China, October 28-30, 2016.
  25. The 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2016), Edinburgh, Scotland, 17-21 September, 2016.
  26. The 2nd International Workshop on Machine learning, Optimization and big Data (MOD 2016), Volterra, Tuscany, Italy, 26-29 August, 2016.
  27. The 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2016), Vancouver, Canada, 25-29 July, 2016.
  28. The 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2016), Denver, Colorado, USA, 20-24 July, 2016
  29. Special Session on Concept Drift, Domain Adaptation and Learning in Dynamic Environments, part of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2016), Vancouver, Canada, 25-29 July, 2016.
  30. The 16th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (EvoCOP 2016), incooperating Evo* 2016, Porto, Portugal, 30 March-1 April 2016.
  31. The 13th European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms and Meta-heuristics in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC 2016), incooperating Evo* 2016, Porto, Portugal, 30 March-1 April 2016.
  32. The 2016 European Workshop on Evolutionary and Bio-Inspired Computational Techniques within Real-World Industrial and Commercial Environments (EvoINDUSTRY 2016), incooperating Evo* 2016, Porto, Portugal, 30 March-1 April 2016.
  33. The 7th International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE 2016), Rome, Italy, 20-24 March, 2016.
  34. The 4th International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing (TPNC 2015), Mieres, Spain, 15-17 December, 2015.
  35. The 10th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2015), Hefei, China, September 25-28, 2015.
  36. The 2015 International Conference on Green Computing and Internet of Things (ICGCIoT 2015), Greater Noida, India, 8-10 October, 2015.
  37. The 2015 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AI-2015), Bangalore, India, 25-26 April, 2015.
  38. The 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI2015), Bayonne/Biarritz, France, 14-17 September, 2015.
  39. The 2015 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2015), Madrid, Spain, 11-15 July, 2015
  40. The 7th International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI2015), Wuyi, Fujian, China, 27-29 March, 2015.
  41. Special Session on Concept Drift, Domain Adaptation and Learning in Dynamic Environments, part of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2015), Killarney, Ireland, 12-17 July, 2015.
  42. Special Session on Dynamic Multi-objective Optimization (DMOO), for the 2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2015), Sendai, Japan, 25-28 May, 2015.
  43. The 4th International Conference on Health Information Science (HIS 2015), Melbourne, Australia, 28-30 May, 2015.
  44. The 15th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (EvoCOP 2015), incooperating Evo* 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, 8-10 April 2015.
  45. The 12th European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms and Meta-heuristics in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC 2015), incooperating Evo* 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, 8-10 April 2015.
  46. The 2015 European Workshop on Evolutionary and Bio-Inspired Computational Techniques within Real-World Industrial and Commercial Environments (EvoINDUSTRY 2015), incooperating Evo* 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, 8-10 April 2015.
  47. The 10th International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL 2014), Dunedin, New Zealand, 15-18 December 2014.
  48. The 13th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2014), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 13-17 September, 2014.
  49. The 2014 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2014), Vancouver, Canada, 12-16 July, 2014.
  50. The 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2014), Beijing, China, 6-11 July, 2014.
  51. The 3rd International Conference on Health Information Science (HIS 2014), Shenzhen, China, 22-24 April, 2014.
  52. The 14th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (EvoCOP 2014), incooperating Evo* 2014, Baeza, Spain, 23-25 April, 2014.
  53. The 11th European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC 2014), incooperating Evo* 2014, Baeza, Spain, 23-25 April, 2014.
  54. The 2014 European Workshop on Evolutionary and Bio-Inspired Computational Techniques within Real-World Industrial and Commercial Environments (EvoINDUSTRY 2014), incooperating Evo* 2014, Baeza, Spain, 23-25 April, 2014.
  55. The 2013 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2013), Amsterdam, The Netherland, 6-10 July, 2013.
  56. The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics (IEEE CYBCONF 2013), Lausanne Switzerland, 13-15 June 2013.
  57. The 7th International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2013), Canterbury, UK, 2-4 September, 2013.
  58. The 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence (AICI'13), Guilin, China, 13-15 August, 2013.
  59. The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environment for Measurement Systems and Applications (IEEE CIVEMSA 2013), Milan, Italy, 15-17 July 2013.
  60. The 13th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (EvoCOP 2013), incooperating Evo* 2013, Vienna, Austria, 3-5 April, 2013.
  61. The 15th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary and Bio-inspired Computation (EvoApplications 2013), incooperating Evo* 2013, Vienna, Austria, 3-5 April, 2013.
  62. The 2nd International Conference on Health Information Science (HIS 2013), London, UK, 25-27 March, 2013.
  63. The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST 2013), Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China, 23-25 March, 2013.
  64. The 2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012), Philadelphia, USA, 7-11 July, 2012.
  65. The 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2012), Brisbane, Australia, 11-15 June, 2012.
  66. The 12th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (EvoCOP 2012), incooperating Evo* 2012, Malaga, Spain, 11-13 April, 2012.
  67. The 14th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoApplications 2012), incooperating Evo* 2012, Malaga, Spain, 11-13 April, 2012.
  68. The 11th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2011), Malacca, Malaysia, 5-8 December, 2011.
  69. The 11th UK Annual Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2011), University of Manchester, UK, 7-9 September, 2011.
  70. The 7th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC 2011) and the 8th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD 2011), Shanghai, China, 26-28 July 2011.
  71. The 8th European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC 2011), incooperating Evo* 2011, Torino, Italy, 27-29 April, 2011.
  72. The 4th International Joint Conference on Computational Sciences and Optimization (CSO 2011), Kunming and Lijiang, Yunnan, China, 15-19 April, 2011.
  73. IEEE Symposium on Differential Evolution (IEEE SDE 2011), part of IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2011), Halle aux Farines, Paris, France, 11-15 April, 2011.
  74. Special session on Fuzzy Rule Discovery using Evolutionary Computing at the 6th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS-2011), Wroclaw, Poland, 23 - 25 May, 2011.
  75. The 2010 International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC 2010), Valencia, Spain, 24-26 October, 2010.
  76. The 2010 IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2010), Istanbul, Turkey, 10-13 October, 2010.
  77. The 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2010), Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July, 2010.
  78. The International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2010), Cergy Pontoise (France), 7-10 December, 2010.
  79. The 10th UK Annual Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2010), University of Essex, UK, 8-10 September, 2010.
  80. The 2010 International Workshop on Intelligent Sensor and Wireless Networks (IntelNet 2010), Bradford, UK, 29 June - 01 July, 2010.
  81. The 7th European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC 2010), incooperating Evo* 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, 7-9 April, 2010.
  82. The World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2009), Coimbatore, India, 9-11 December, 2009.
  83. The International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2009), Melacca, Malaysia, 4-7 December, 2009.
  84. The 2009 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2009), Montr\E9al, Canada, 8-12 July, 2009.
  85. The 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2009), Trondheim, Norway, 18-21 May, 2009.
  86. The Second International Symposium on Applied Computing and Computational Sciences (ACCS2009), Sanya, China, 24-26 April, 2009.
  87. The 2009 IEEE International Workshop on HPC and Grid Applications (IWHGA2009), Sanya, China, 24-26 April, 2009.
  88. The 3rd Int. Symp. on Intelligence Computation and Applications (ISICA 2008), Wuhan, China, December 19-21, 2008.
  89. The 7th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL'08), Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December, 2008.
  90. The 2008 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2008), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 12-16 July, 2008.
  91. The 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2008), Hong Kong, 1-6 June, 2008.
  92. The 8th International Conference on Artificial Evolution (EA'07), Tours, France, 29-31 October, 2007.
  93. The 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2007), Singapore, 25-28 September, 2007.
  94. The 2nd Int. Symp. on Intelligence Computation and Applications (ISICA 2007), Wuhan, China, 21-23 September, 2007.
  95. The 3rd International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'07) and the 4th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'07), jointly held in Haikou, China, 24-27 August, 2007.
  96. The 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2007), London, UK, 7-11 July, 2007.
  97. The 6th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL06), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China, 15-18 October, 2006.
  98. The Joint 3rd Int. Conf. on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 7th Int. Symp. on Advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS&ISIS 2006), Tokyo, Japan, 20-24 September, 2006.
  99. The 9th Int. Conf. on Parallel Problems Solving from Nature (PPSN IX), Reykjavik, Iceland, 9-13 September, 2006.
  100. The 2006 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2006), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 16-21 July, 2006.
  101. The 2006 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2006), Seattle, USA, 8-12 July, 2006.
  102. The 3rd European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC2006), Budapest, Hungary, 10-12 April, 2006
  103. The 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2005), Edinburgh, UK, 2-5 September, 2005.
  104. The 7th International Conference on Artificial Evolution (EA'05), University of Lille, France, 26-28 October, 2005.
  105. The 2nd European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC2005), Lausanne, Switzerland, 31 March - 1 April, 2005
  106. The 8th Int. Conf. on Parallel Problems Solving from Nature (PPSN VIII), Birmingham, UK, 18-22 September, 2004.
  107. The 2004 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2004), Portland, Oregen, USA, 19-23 June, 2004.
  108. The 24th SGAI Int. Conf. on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI-2004)), Cambridge, UK, 13-15 December, 2004.


• Organizing Committee Member, The 2003 Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems: Technology and Applications (IES2003), Waseda University, Kitakyushu, Japan, 21-22 November, 2003.

Review/Referee Acitivities:

• Referee/Adviser/Assessor for Promotion and Academic Awarding:
  1. External Assessor for Academic Appointment and Promotion for Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Malaya, Malaysia, 2017-2027.
  2. Member of Panel of International Experts of Computer Science, Promotion to Associate Professorship and Professorship, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2014-now.
  3. External Adviser, Promotion to Associate Professorship, University of Nottingham, UK, 2013.
  4. Member (Internal Adviser) of the Higher Doctorate Panel for the award of Doctor in Science (DSc), De Montfort University, UK, 2013.
• Reviewer for Grant Proposals:
  1. Member of the Peer Review College for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK.
  2. External reviewer for THE XPLORER PRIZE, China.
  3. External reviewer for the Research Council of Norway (RCN), Norway.
  4. External reviewer for the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong.
  5. External reviewer for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands.
  6. External reviewer for the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal.
  7. External reviewer for the Research Programme 'Archimedes III', Greece.
  8. External reviewer for the National Council for Development and Innovation, Romania.
  9. External reviewer for the Chilean National Science and Technology Commission (CONICYT - Chile), Chile.
• Reviewer for Book Proposals:
  1. Reviewer for book proposals for the CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, USA.
• Reviewer for Journals:
  1. Elsevier: Applied Soft Computing
  2. Elsevier: Artificial Intelligence
  3. Elsevier: Computer Networks
  4. Elsevier: Computers and Operations Research
  5. Elsevier: Decision Support Systems
  6. Elsevier: Information Sciences
  7. Elsevier: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  8. Elsevier: Journal of Theoretical Biology
  9. Hindawi: Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications
  10. IEEE Press: IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
  11. IEEE Press: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
  12. IEEE Press: IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
  13. IEEE Press: IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
  14. IEEE Press: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems
  15. IEEE Press: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
  16. IEEE Press: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
  17. IEEE Press: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
  18. IEEE Press: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  19. IEEE Press: IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
  20. IOP Publishing: Bioinspiration and Biomimetics
  21. KICS: Journal of Communications and Networks
  22. MIT Press: Evolutionary Computation
  23. Royal Society: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
  24. Springer: Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
  25. Springer: International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
  26. Springer: International Journal of Automation and Computing
  27. Springer: Journal of Heuristics
  28. Springer: Journal of Global Optimization
  29. Springer: Journal of Scheduling
  30. Springer: Soft Computing
  31. Springer: Journal of Computer Science and Technology
  32. Springer: Memetic Computing
  33. Springer: Multimedia Tools and Applications
  34. Springer: Natural Computing
  35. Taylor and Francis Group: Cybernatics and Systems
  36. Taylor and Francis Group: Applied Artificial Intelligence
      
  37. Taylor and Francis Group: International Journal of Systems Science
  38. Versita: Central European Journal of Computer Science
  39. Wiley: Computational Intelligence
  40. Wiley: International Journal of Intelligent Systems
• Reviewer for many conferences, symposia, and workshops.
• Reviewer for a number of book chapters.

Other Mics:

• Listed in Prof Palsberg's list of about 1,000 computer scientists with the highest H-index (widely used index of research impact).
• Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World, 27th Edition, 2010.

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