Visitors to the school

Below is a list of all current and expected visitors. If you would like more information about a visitor, please talk to the Local Contact. If any details are incorrect, inform the School Office.

• Lindsay Groves
  21/02/2020 to 20/12/2026
  Research Field: Formal Software Development, Computational Logic, Programming Language Theory, Concurrency
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

• Will Browne
  30/04/2021 to 30/06/2024
  Research Field: Applied Cognitive Systems: Cognitive Robotics, Learning Classifier Systems (evolutionary computation) and Modern Heuristics.
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

• Robert Biddle
  02/08/2021 to 01/08/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

• John Lewis
  01/11/2021 to 16/09/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

• James Noble
  22/02/2022 to 31/07/2027
  Research Field: Object-Oriented Software Design
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

• Bryan Ng
  15/03/2022 to 28/03/2025
  Research Field: Software Defined Networking, Analytics, Big Data, Stochastic process, 802.11, SDN
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: A/Prof Ian Welch

• Rita Garcia
  18/07/2022 to 30/06/2025
  Research Field: Engineering Education.
  Home Institution: Unity/WETA in NZ
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

• Nik Bielski
  25/07/2022 to 31/12/2024
  Research Field: AI, ML, PL
  Home Institution: University of Canterbury
  Local Contact: A/Prof Alex Potanin

• Alex Potanin
  16/08/2022 to 30/06/2025
  Research Field: Cyber Security, Programming Languages
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Tony McLoughlin

• David Pearce
  01/10/2022 to 30/06/2025
  Research Field: Programming Languages, Compilers, Program Analysis, Software Verification
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

• Frank-Peter Schilling
  01/11/2022 to 31/10/2025
  Research Field: Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
  Home Institution: Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW
  Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

• Shanshan Tang - CO322
  02/11/2022 to 01/10/2024
  Research Field: Machine Learning, Multi-task learning, Sparse learning, and Regularised regression.
  Home Institution: Northeastern University
  Local Contact: Dr Qi Chen

• Nan Li - CO322
  14/11/2022 to 30/11/2024
  Research Field: Evolutionary Deep Learning, Neural Architecture Search
  Home Institution: North University of China
  Local Contact: Prof Bing Xue

• Joaquim Jorge
  15/12/2022 to 31/12/2025
  Research Field: Computer graphics
  Home Institution: Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa (IST/UL)
  Local Contact: Prof Dale Carnegie

• Zaixing Sun - CO322
  11/01/2023 to 23/04/2024
  Research Field: Every Scheduling and resource allocation
  Home Institution: Harbin Institute of Technology in Shenzhen
  Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

• Ken Anjyo - Overseas
  18/01/2023 to 31/12/2025
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

• Edwin Singh - CO228
  26/01/2023 to 30/09/2027
  Research Field:
  Home Institution: ANU
  Local Contact: Dr Jennifer Ferreira

• Wan-Duo Ma
  01/02/2023 to 28/02/2025
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Prof Bastiaan Kleijn

• Mansoor Shafi
  10/03/2023 to 09/03/2025
  Research Field: Wireless Communication Systems
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Prof Dale Carnegie

• Peter Andreae
  15/04/2023 to 31/12/2026
  Research Field: Artificial Intelligence
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

• Tong Guo - CO348
  01/05/2023 to 30/04/2024
  Research Field: Large-Scale Global Optimization for 4D Trajectory-based Air Traffic Flow Control
  Home Institution: Beihang University, China
  Local Contact: A/Prof Yi Mei

• Sara Gonzalez
  01/07/2023 to 30/06/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Andrew Lensen

• Peter Lai
  03/07/2023 to 30/06/2026
  Research Field: Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

• Harisu Abdullahi Shehu
  26/07/2023 to 24/06/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Georgia Dix

• Fei Ming - CO348
  01/09/2023 to 31/12/2024
  Research Field: Evolutionary computation
  Home Institution: China University of Geosciences
  Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

• Qinglan Fan
  25/09/2023 to 31/08/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Prof Bing Xue

• Tao Shi
  25/09/2023 to 31/12/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution: Qingdao Agricultural University, China
  Local Contact: A/Prof Hui Ma

• Long Chen - CO348
  27/09/2023 to 30/09/2024
  Research Field: Developing multi-objective evolutionary algorithms for electric vehicle routing problems.
  Home Institution: Beijing Jiaotong University
  Local Contact: A/Prof Yi Mei

• Victoria Huang
  01/10/2023 to 30/09/2024
  Research Field: Deep reinforcement learning, evolutionary computation, multi-agent system, machine learning Home Institution: National Institute of Water and Atomospheric Research
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Aaron Chen

• Xinxin Xu - CO322
  20/10/2023 to 18/10/2025
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Fangfang Zhang

• Shaojin Geng - CO335
  30/10/2023 to 29/10/2025
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: A/Prof Yi Mei

• Binh Dang
  13/11/2023 to 13/11/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Bach Nguyen

• Ajay Kapur
  13/11/2023 to 16/11/2026
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Prof Dale Carnegie

• Xin An - CO322
  16/11/2023 to 03/11/2024
  Research Field: Learner analytics, VR, and educational research
  Home Institution: School of Aeronautical Management Engineering, Xi'an Aeronautical Polytechnic Institute
  Local Contact: A/Prof Karsten Lundqvist

• Li Zhang - CO322
  01/12/2023 to 31/07/2024
  Research Field: Application of big data and artificial intelligence for IoT and computer vision
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Fanglue Zhang

• Shaolin Wang
  21/12/2023 to 20/12/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: A/Prof Yi Mei

• Mohammad Mahdi Abdollahpour - CO261
  01/01/2024 to 30/04/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: A/Prof Jens Dietrich

• Wojciech Jarosz - AM422
  08/01/2024 to 31/07/2024
  Research Field: CMIC
  Home Institution: Dartmouth College
  Local Contact: Andrew Chalmers

• Baligh Al-Helali
  09/01/2024 to 08/01/2025
  Research Field: Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computation, Genetic Programming, Symbolic Regression, Data Analysis, and DataOps
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Dr Qi Chen

• Peng Wang
  31/01/2024 to 31/10/2024
  Research Field:
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Prof Mengjie Zhang

• Yoonsang Lee - AM422
  01/02/2024 to 14/02/2025
  Research Field: Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, Generative models for human motion synthesis Home Institution: Hanyang University
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: A/Prof Taehyun Rhee

• Jinjin Xu - CO322
  07/02/2024 to 31/12/2024
  Research Field: OS, Network Security, Machine Learning.
  Home Institution: Chongqing Polytechnic Institute, China
  Local Contact: A/Prof Ian Welch

• Bilian Cheng - AM422
  01/03/2024 to 31/03/2025
  Research Field:
  Home Institution: Jiangnan University
  Local Contact: Dr Fanglue Zhang

• Harith Al-Sahaf
  01/03/2024 to 23/03/2027
  Research Field: Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Evolutionary Algorithms, Artificial Neural Networks
  Home Institution:
  Local Contact: Georgia Dix

• Shuiguang Zeng - CO334
  01/05/2024 to 30/04/2025
  Research Field: Physical Layer Authentication/Identification, Radio Frequency (RF) Fingerprinting, Wireless Device Classification with RF, Software Defined Radio
  Home Institution: Hebei Normal University, PR China
  Local Contact: Prof Winston Seah

• Tianlei Ma - CO322
  01/07/2024 to 30/06/2025
  Research Field: Artificial intelligence, Pattern recognition, Image processing, Target detection
  Home Institution: Zhengzhou University
  Local Contact: Dr Fanglue Zhang

• Guanqun Ai - AM413
  02/09/2024 to 29/08/2025
  Research Field: Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Agent System, Bus Timetable Scheduling, Evolutionary Computation
  Home Institution: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  Local Contact: Dr Aaron Chen

• Ulf Brefeld - CO334
  01/10/2024 to 28/02/2025
  Research Field: Machine Learning
  Home Institution: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
  Local Contact: Dr Heitor Gomes

• Daniele Gambetta - AM221
  01/10/2024 to 01/03/2025
  Research Field: Generative AI models
  Home Institution: University of Pisa
  Local Contact: Prof Ali Knott

• Emily Jin - AM221
  01/10/2024 to 30/09/2025
  Research Field: Information and Telecommunication Engineering
  Home Institution: Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics
  Local Contact: Prof Winston Seah