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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Recipient of the VUW Research Excellence Award 2024; multiple students have won or been nominated for best paper awards at international conferences such as the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference; recognized as an Outstanding Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation in 2024; authored the book 'Genetic Programming for Production Scheduling: An Evolutionary Learning Approach'.
Research Experience
Programme Director (Computer Science), School of Engineering and Computer Science; member of the Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning Research Group; member of the IEEE CIS Taskforce on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation.
Education
No specific educational background information provided such as degrees, schools, advisors, and dates.
Background
Research interests include evolutionary computation for combinatorial optimisation, genetic programming, automated algorithm design/hyper-heuristics, multi-objective optimisation and decision making, AI planning and scheduling, explainable AI. Currently an Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Research) at the Faculty of Engineering, Victoria University of Wellington.
Miscellany
Looking for PhD/MSc/Honours/Summer Research students with similar research interests; supported by the China Scholarship Council.