Published nearly 200 journal and conference papers. Served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Special Session Chair of 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Program Chair of 2009, 2011, 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation, and an elected member of the EPSRC College.
Research Experience
With the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester since 2002, currently a Professor of Machine Learning and Optimization. From 1996 to 2002, worked at Knowledge Support Systems, Ltd. (KSS), Manchester, as a Scientific Developer, Senior Scientific Developer, and Head of Research, developing intelligent decision support systems which won the European Information Society Technologies (IST) Award in 1999 and Microsoft European Retail Application Developer (RAD) Awards in 2001 and 2003. Participated in several funded research projects including the UK EPSRC project “Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems: Method and Its Application to Strategic Pricing Decision Support for Retails”.
Education
B.Sc. in Mathematics from Xiamen University; M.Sc. in Control Theory and Operation Research from Xiamen University; Ph.D. in Computation from the University of Manchester, UK.
Background
Research interests include computational intelligence, machine learning, decision support systems, computational finance and game theory, energy demand side management, health informatics, and data mining. Currently a Professor of Machine Learning and Optimisation at the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester.
Miscellany
Involved in the EU Project: IoTrain ERASMUS+, aimed at capacity building in higher education through internet technologies.