A/Prof Mengjie Zhang
BE, ME (AUH), PhD (RMIT)
Teaching
Teaching in 2010:
COMP 307
COMP 422
Biography
Mengjie Zhang received a BE and an ME in 1989 and 1992 from China and a PhD in Computer Science from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia in 2000. Since 2000, he has been working as a lecturer then senior lecturer and now Associate Professor/Reader at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research is focused on Evolutionary Computation especially Genetic Programming and Particle Swarm Optimisation, Intelligent and Evolutionary Computer Vision, Data Mining and Machine learning, and Web information extraction and Web Intelligent Agents. He has published over 130 academic papers in refereed international journals and conferences in these areas. He has been supervising over 20 research students. He has been serving as an associated editor or editorial board member for five international journals and as a reviewer of over 15 international journals. He has also been serving as a steering committee member and a program committee member for over 40 international conferences in the areas of evolutionary computation and artificial intelligence. Since 2005, he has been awarded two Marsden grants by the Marsden Council administrated by the Royal Society of New Zealand, and also a Postdoctoral Fellowship grant by the BuildIT (a National Organisation for ICT Research) of New Zealand.
He is a member of ACM, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and the International Society of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ACM SIGEVO group). He is a board member of the Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee in IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He is also serving as a committee member of the IEEE New Zealand Central Section.
Research Projects and PhD Scholarships
Mengjie is currently working on a number of
Research Projects. If you would like to discuss any of these projects with him, you can email him at
Mengjie.Zhang@ecs.vuw.ac.nz, or drop in (Cotton Building, room 427). If you want to be a
summer research assistant working on these projects, please contact me.
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