- June 2025, Qianrong's work on applying Bayesian optimisation to complex formulated products received the Best Poster Award at TriboUK 2025.
- Several papers accepted by FOGA'25, IJCAI'25, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, GECCO'25, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, etc.
- Received the Outstanding Student Paper Award at EMO'25.
Research Experience
Involved in various basic and applied research projects, including but not limited to: solving multi-objective problems, bi-criterion evolution, adapting weights for MOEA/D, solving many-objective problems, making Pareto-based algorithms workable in many-objective optimization, grid-based evolutionary search, quality evaluation, multi-objective archiving, visualized test problems, software product line, test suite generation for SPL, software configuration tuning, multi-objectivisation, general SBSE, etc.
Education
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Background
Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, UK. His research sits at the intersection between AI and optimization, where he is interested in developing computational intelligence techniques (e.g., evolutionary algorithms) to solve both fundamental and practical optimization problems. Current research interests include: multi-objective combinatorial optimization, expensive and robust optimization, general multi-objective optimization issues, many-objective optimization, and practical applications in software engineering, mechanical engineering, and chemical engineering.
Miscellany
He welcomes contacts from those interested in pursuing a PhD on any of the relevant topics mentioned above.