Main Government Grants
MBIE Funding
- Data Science for Aquaculture (Originally named "A data-science driven evolution of aquaculture for building the blue economy"), MBIE SSIF Fund on Data Science. March 2020- Feb 2027. Grants: $13,000,000. Host is VUW, Cawthron, PFR, Otago and NAII are Collaborators. [Science Leader: Mengjie Zhang. Key Researchers: Ivy Liu, Bing Xue, Yi Mei, Harith Al-Sahaf, Binh Nguyen, Richard Arnold] More information can be seen from the Homepage.
- Cyber-physical seafood systems: Intelligent and optimised green manufacturing for marine co-products. MBIE Endeavour Research Program. Oct 2020-Sep 2025. Grant: $16,280,000. Host is PFR, and Collaborators are VUW, CI, Otago, Deakin. [VUW Co-PI: Mengjie Zhang and Bing Xue. Key Researchers: Ivy Liu, Qi Chen, Sharon Gao, Aaron Chen]
- Bridging the gap between remote sensing and tree modelling with data science . NZ-Singapore MBIE SSIF/Catalyst Fund on Data Science. Oct 2020-Sep 2023. Grant: $3,000,000. Host is Landcare, Scion, UoC, VUW are collaborators. [VUW People: Mengjie Zhang, Bing Xue]
Marsden Fund and RSNZ Funding
- Genetic Programming for Evolving Interpretable Models for Symbolic Regression. Marsden Fund of NZ. Grant: $300,000. 2021-2024. [Qi Chen (PI), Wolfgang Banzhalf (AI), Bing Xue (Mentor), Mengjie Zhang and Ivy Liu (Collaborators)].
- Genetic Programming for Symbolic Regression. Marsden Fund of New Zealand, 2020-2023. Grant: $707,000. [Mengjie Zhang (PI), Bing Xue and Ivy Liu (Collaborators)]
- Evolutionary Automated Design of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification. Marsden Fund of New Zealand, 2020-2023. Grant: $707,000. [Bing Xue (PI), Gary Yen and Mengjie Zhang (AI)]
- Large-scale Evolutionary Feature Selection for Classification. Marsden Fund of New Zealand, 2016-2019. Grant: $300,000. [Bing Xue (PI), Xin Yao and Mengjie Zhang (AI)]
- Automatic Design of Heuristics for Dynamic Arc Routing Problem with Genetic Programming. Marsden Fund of New Zealand, 2016-2019. Grant: $300,000. [Yi Mei (PI), Mengjie Zhang (Mentor)]
- Genetic programming for dynamic flexible job shop scheduling. Marsden Fund of New Zealand, 2016-2019. Grant: $550,000. [Mengjie Zhang (PI), Kay Chen Tan (AI)]
- Distributed data-intensive service composition. Marsden Fund of New Zealand, 2016-2019. Grant: $300,000. [Hui Ma (PI), Mengjie Zhang (Mentor)]
- Genetic Programming for Job Shop Scheduling. Marsden Fund of New Zealand, 2013-2016. Grant: $520,000. [Mengjie Zhang (PI), Key Chen Tan (AI)]
- Genetic Programming for Classification Tasks. Marsden Fund of New Zealand, 2009-2012. Grant: $465,000. [Mengjie Zhang (Sole Investigator)]
- Novel Program Structures and Search Algorithms in Genetic Programming, Marsden Fund of New Zealand, 2006-2008. Grant: $140,000. [Mengjie Zhang (Sole Investigator)]
- Predictive Difficulty Measures in Genetic Programming based on Complex Networks. International Mobility Fund, New Zealand. 2011. Grant: $8050. [Mengjie Zhang (NZPI), Jing Liu (Overseas PI)]
NSC-SfTI Fund
- Precision Farming. National Science Challenge SfTI Spearhead. 2019-2022. Grant:$3,000,000 (Trench 2). (with Cawthron, UoA, UoC). VUW Grant: $512,300. [VUW: Mengjie Zhang, Bing Xue]
- Karetao Hangarau-a-Mahi: Adaptive learning robots to complement the human workforce. National Science Challenge SfTI Spearhead. 2019-2022. Grant:$3,000,000 (Trench 1). [VUW: Will Browne (CO-PI)]
- Precision Farming. National Science Challenge SfTI Spearhead. 2017-2019. Grant:$2,000,000 (Trench 1). (Cawthron is the Host) [VUW: Mengjie Zhang]
- Karetao Hangarau-a-Mahi: Adaptive learning robots to complement the human workforce. National Science Challenge SfTI Spearhead. 2017-2019. Grant:$2,000,000 (Trench 1). [VUW: Will Browne (CO-PI)]
- Rat-based machine learning. National Science Challenge SfTI Seed Fund. 2017-2019. Grant: $200,000. [Will Browne (PI)]