Research Team

Staff

• A/Prof Yi Mei (Associate Professor, Group Coordinator): Artificial Intelligence, Evolutionary Computation, Combinatorial Optimisation, Explainable AI, Transfer/Multitask Learning
• A/Prof Hui Ma (Associate Professor, Group Co-coordinator): Artificial Intelligence, Evolutionary Computation, Service Computing, Distributed Databases
• Dr Aaron Chen (Associate Professor, Group Co-coordinator): Reinforcement Learning, NeuroEvolution, Distributed Databases, Social Network Analysis
• Dr Fangfang Zhang (Lecturer): Machine Learning, Genetic Programming, Job Shop Scheduling
• Dr Mohammad Nekooei (Lecturer): Fuzzy Logic, Network Scheduling
• Kirita-Rose Escott (Assistant Lecturer): Genetic Programming, Workflow Scheduling
• Vipul Jain (Associate Professor): Supply Chain Management, Logistics Management, Operations Research
• Dr. Su Nguyen (Senior Lecturer, RMIT University, Australia): Evolutionary Computation, Simulation Optimisation, Automated Algorithm Design, Human-Centric Computing
• Prof Mengjie Zhang (Professor, ECRG Group Leader): Genetic Programming, Evolutionary Deep Learning, Computer Vision and Image Analysis, Modelling and symbolic regression, Multi-Objective Optimisation, Data Mining and Machine Learning, Transfer Learning, Bioinformatics
• Longfei Yan (Postdoctoral Fellow): Machine Learning, Cloud Computing

Current Thesis and Research Project Students

• Jiyuan Pei: Adaptive operator selection. 1 April 2024, Self-funded. (with A/Prof Yi Mei and Prof Mengjie Zhang)
• Ya Shen: TBD. 1 February 2024, CSC-VUW joint Scholarship. (with Dr Aaron Chen and A/Prof Hui Ma)
• Xiaocheng Liao: Genetic programming for traffic control. 1 November 2023, Wellington Doctoral Scholarship. (with A/Prof Yi Mei and Prof Mengjie Zhang)
• Bocheng Lin: TBD. 1 November 2023, CSC-VUW joint Scholarship. (with A/Prof Yi Mei and Prof Mengjie Zhang)
• Ruiqi Chen: Genetic programming and reinforcement learning for job shop scheduling. PhD Thesis. 1 Sep 2023, CSC-VUW joint Scholarship. (with A/Prof Yi Mei, Prof Mengjie Zhang, and Dr Fangfang Zhang)
• Saining Liu: Automated design of algorithms for large scale vehicle routing, PhD Thesis. 1 April 2023. Marsden Funded Scholarship. (with A/Prof Yi Mei and Prof Mengjie Zhang)
• Junwei Pang: Explainable AI with genetic programming for dynamic scheduling, PhD Thesis. 1 April 2023. CSC-VUW joint Scholarship. (with A/Prof Yi Mei and Prof Mengjie Zhang)
• Yuan Tian: Genetic programming hyper-heuristics for resource constrained project scheduling, PhD Thesis. 1 March 2023, CSC-VUW joint scholarship. (With A/Prof Yi Mei and Prof Mengjie Zhang)
• Zhengxin Fang: Workflow scheduling in container-based cloud computing, PhD Thesis. 1st February 2023, CSC-VUW joint scholarship. (with A/Prof Hui Ma and Dr Aaron Chen)
• Fengyang Sun: Estimation of Distribution Algorithm for IoT service composition, PhD Thesis, 1st March 2022, Wellington Doctoral Scholarship (A/Prof Hui Ma and Dr Aaron Chen)
• Amer Saeed: Evolutionary Computation Approaches for IoT Workflow Scheduling, PhD Thesis, 1st Oct 2021, Wellington Doctoral Scholarship (A/Prof Hui Ma and Dr Aaron Chen)
• Jordan MacLachlan: Evolutionary Computation for Emergency Medical Services Routing, PhD Thesis. 1 Oct 2021, Wellington Doctoral Scholarship.(with A/Prof Yi Mei, Dr Fangfang Zhang and Prof Mengjie Zhang)
• Anjali de Silva: Community Detection in Complex Social Networks, PhD Thesis. 1st July 2021, Wellington Doctoral scholarship. (with Dr Aaron Chen, A/Prof Hui Ma and Dr Mohammad Nekooei)
• Meng Xu: Genetic Programming for Dynamic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling, PhD Thesis. 1 Nov 2020, Wellington Doctoral Scholarship.(with A/Prof Yi Mei, Dr Fangfang Zhang and Prof Mengjie Zhang)
• Yifang Yang: Genetic Programming for Dynamic Multi-workflow in Network-aware Cloud, PhD Thesis. 1 Nov 2020, China Scholarship Council. (with Dr Aaron Chen, A/Prof Hui Ma and Prof Mengjie Zhang)
• Zhixing Huang: Linear Genetic Programming for Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling, PhD Thesis. 1 Nov 2020, China Scholarship Council. (with A/Prof Yi Mei, Prof Mengjie Zhang, and Dr Fangfang Zhang)
• Kirita-Rose Escott: Genetic Programming for Dynamic Workflow Scheduling in Cloud Computing, PhD Thesis. 1 June 2019 (with A/Prof Hui Ma and Dr Aaron Chen)

Visitors

• Prof. Guenther Raidl, TU Wien, Austria, 10-26 Mar 2024
• Prof. Hisao Ishibuchi, SUSTech, China, 3-8 Feb 2024
• Prof. Thomas Bensky, Cal Poly Physics Department, USA, Jan to Mar 2024
• Shaojin Geng, Tongji University, China, CSC Visiting Scholar, Nov 2023-Oct 2025
• Xinxin Xu, Ocean University of China, China, CSC Visiting Scholar, Oct 2023-Sep 2025
• Long Chen, Beijing Jiaotong University, China, CSC Visiting Scholar, Sep 2023-Aug 2024
• Tong Guo, Beihang University, China, Visiting Scholar, May 2023-Apr 2024
• Zaixing Sun, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, CSC Visiting Scholar, Apr. 2023-Mar. 2024
• Prof. Sven Hartmann, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany, March - April 2023
• Prof Jinyan Li, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, 6-9th Sep 2022
• Guanqiang Gao, Beijing Institute of Technology, CSC Visiting Scholar, Nov 2019 to Oct 2020
• Prof. Sven Hartmann, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany, September 2019
• Prof. Juergen.Branke, The University of Warwick, UK, 27 April - 12 May 2018

Alumni

• Dr. Shaolin Wang: PhD completed in 2023
• Dr. Joao Costa: PhD completed in 2023
• Dr. Ya-Hui Jia: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2019-2021
• Dr. John Park: PhD completed in 2019
• Dr. Alexandre Sawczuk da Silva: PhD completed in 2019
• Deepak Karunakaran: PhD completed in 2019
• Dr. Atiya Masood: PhD completed in 2020
• Dr. Boxiong Tan: PhD completed in 2020
• Dr. Chen Wang: PhD completed in 2020
• Dr. Victoria Huang: PhD completed in 2020
• Dr. Mazhar Ansari Ardeh: PhD completed in 2021
• Dr. Soheila Sadeghiram: PhD completed in 2021
• Dr. Xingsi Xue: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2022-2023