Industry and International Grants

  • "AI and Machine Learning for Medical Applications". Huayin Medical (Industry) and Academician Workstation. Oct 2020-Sep 2023. Grant: $234,000. [Mengjie Zhang (PI), Bing Xue (Co-PI), Sharon Gao, Qi Chen, Andrew Lensen.]

  • "Deep Learning Architecture with Context Adaptive Features for Image Parsing (DP200102252)". Australia ARC Discover Project. 2020-2022. Grant: $480,000 AUD. [Mengjie Zhang (Partner Investigator), with Brijesh Verma at CQU (CI)].

  • "Distributed and Automated Evolutionary Deep Architecture Learning with Unprecedented Scalability". Dutch Research Council (NWO) & industry partners Elekta and Ortec Logiqcare. 2020-2024. Grant: €1,086,368 Euro. [Mengjie Zhang (International Collaborator), with Peter Bosman at Delft (PI)]

  • “AI/ML techniques for Waste Collection in NZ”, industrial project with Northland Waste, 2019-2020. Grant: $16,000 NZD. [Yi Mei (PI)]

  • “Cooperative Co-evolution for Large Scale Black Box Optimisation”, 61673194, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2017-2020. Grant: ¥610,000 RMB [Yi Mei (Overseas AI)]

  • Evolutionary Ensemble Learning Based on Multimodal Swarm Intelligence. National Natural Science Foundation of China. 2019-2022. 2019-2022. Grant: ¥640,000 RMB. [Bing Xue (Overseas PI), with Jing Liang (PI in China)]

  • "Evolutionary computation for data mining". Zhengzhou University Overseas Strategic Research Collaboration Grant. 2019. ¥100,000RMB. [Bing Xue (Overseas PI), with Prof. Jing Liang (PI)]

  • "Large Scale Manufacturing Planning and Scheduling with Meta-heuristic and Hyper-heuristic Techniques". High-Tech Industry Project. 2018-2019. Grant: $80,950 NZD.

  • "Face/Object Recognition and Feature Construction by New Genetic Programming and Deep Transfer Learning Techniques". High-Tech Industry Project. 2016-2018. Grant: $330,000 NZD [Bing Xue (PI), Mengjie Zhang (Co-PI)]

  • "Sentiment Classification based on Bi-LSTMs and attention". Overseas Collaboration Funding in State Key Lab in Software Engineering at Nanjing University. 2019-2021. Grant: ¥40,000 RMB. [Xiaoying Gao (Overseas PI), with Lin Shang in China (PI)]

  • "A Novel Framework for Optimised Ensemble Classifier". Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project (DP160102639). 2016-2018. Grant: $270,000. [Mengjie Zhang (PI), with Brijesh Verma (CI)]

  • "Conditional outlier detection in Massive Data" (using rough sets, granular computing, evolutionary computation techniques). National Natural Science Foundation of China. 2012-2015. Grant: ¥550,000 RMB. [Mengjie Zhang (Co-PI), Bing Xue (AI), with Lin Shang in China (PI)]

  • "Anomaly Detection in Crowded Scenes using Particle Swarm Optimization and Genetic Programming". Overseas Collaboration Funding in State Key Lab in Software Engineering at Nanjing University. 2014-2016. Grant: ¥30,000 RMB. [Mengjie (Overseas PI), Bing Xue (AI), with Lin Shang in China (PI)]

  • "Feature Manipulation Based on Evolutionary Computation and Rough Sets Methods". Overseas Collaboration Funding in State Key Lab in Software Engineering at Nanjing University. 2011-2013. Grant: ¥40,000 RMB. [Mengjie Zhang (Overseas PI), Bing Xue (AI), Lin Shang in China (PI)]