Editorial/Chair/Membership

• Associate Editor of Swarm and Evolutionary Computation Jan 2024 -
• Area Editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Oct 2022 -
• Area Editor of Journal of Information and Intelligence Jul 2022 -
• Area Editor of Journal of the Operational Research Society Feb 2020 -
• Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Jan 2020 -
• Associate Editor of Computational Intelligence Magazine (CIM) Jan 2016 -
• Editor at PeerJ Computer Science Jan 2015 - Dec 2023
• Section Editor of “Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision & Natural Language Processing” at PeerJ Computer Science Jan 2022 - Dec 2023
• Associate Editor of Journal of Scheduling Jan 2013 - Dec 2015

Committee Chair & Membership

• IEEE Senior member since 2012.
• JSPS Invited Fellow at Computational Intelligence Labo. at Osaka Prefecture University, Dec 2016 - Jan 2017. Seminar cafe, JSPS-Net
• Vice Chair (2019-2022) of Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee (ECTC) at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
• Vice Chair (2019-present) of Task Force on Automated Algorithm Design, Configuration and Selection (AADCS) at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
• Vice Chair (2019-present) of Task Force on Intelligent Systems in Healthcare at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
• Vice Chair (2015-2018) of Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
• Vice Chair (2013-2020), (2022-present)Task Force on Hyper-heuristics at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
• Chair (2007-2012) and Member (2013-present) of Task Force on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation at ECTC at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
• Member of IEEE Women in Computational Subcommittee

Guest Editor of Journal Special Issues

• Call for Papers: Special Issue of Machine Learning Assisted Evolutionary Computation at IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2024.
• Smart Cities: Urban Profiling with Artificial Intelligence and Big Data at PeerJ Computer Science, 2024. Accepted papers
• Multiobjective Evolutionary Optimization in Machine Learning at IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 27(4), 2023.
• Models of Representation in Computational Intelligence, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine 18(1), 2023.
• Information Theory and Swarm Optimization in Decision and Control, Entropy, September 2023.
• Automated Machine Learning at IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 43(9), 2021.
• Automated Design of Machine Learning and Search Algorithms, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 13(2), June, 2018.
• Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling at Journal of Scheduling, 12(3), June, 2009.

Conferences / Events Organisation

• Special Session on Automating Computational Intelligence Systems: Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’2024), YOKOHAMA, JAPAN, 30 Jun - 5 July 2024.
• ML4VRP Competition at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’2024), Melbourne, 14-18 July 2024, abstract
• Special Session on Automating Computational Intelligence Systems: Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions at WCCI2024, 30 Jun – 5 Jul 2024, Yokohama, Japan.
• Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Healthcare Industry at WCCI2024, 30 Jun – 5 Jul 2024, Yokohama, Japan.
• ML4VRP Competition at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’2023), Lisbon, Portugal, 15-19 July 2023
• IEEE Symposium on Automated Algorithm Design, Configuration and Selection (IEEE AADCS) at SSCI2022, 4-7 Dec 2022, Singapore.
• Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Healthcare Industry at WCCI2022, 18-23 Jul 2022, Padua, Italy.
• IEEE Symposium on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation at SSCI2021, 4-7 Dec 2021, Florida, USA.
• Special Session on Evolutionary Computation for Automated Algorithm Design at CEC, WCCI'2021, 28.06-1.07.2021 Krakow, Poland.
• Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Healthcare Industry at CEC, WCCI'2021, 28.06-1.07.2021 Krakow, Poland.
• IEEE Symposium on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation (IEEE ESCO) at SSCI2020, 1-4 Dec 2020, Canberra Australia.
• Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Healthcare Industry at CEC, WCCI'2020, 19-24 July, 2020, Glasgow, UK.
• Stream on Hyper-heuristics at INFORS 2020, June 21-26 2020, Seoul/Korea.
• IEEE Symposium on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation (IEEE ESCO) at SSCI2019, 6-9, Dec 2019 Xiamen, China.
• Stream on Hyper-heuristics at EURO2019, June 23-26, 2019 Dublin, Ireland.
• Special Session on Auto Machine Learning, Auto ML at IJCNN 2019, 14-19 July 2019.
• Special Session on Evolutionary Computation for Automated Algorithms Design at CEC'2019, 10-13 June, 2019.
• Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Healthcare Industry at CEC'2019, 10-13 June, 2019.
• Special Session on Hybrid Algorithms in Scheduling and Network Design at CEC'2019, 10-13 June, 2019.
• Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Healthcare Industry at CEC'2018, WCCI'2018, July, 2018, Rio Brazil.
• Stream on Hyper-heuristics at EURO2018, July, 2018, Valencia, Spain.
• Special Session on Computational Intelligence for the Automated Design of Machine Learning and Search (CIAD 2018) WCCI'2018, July, 2018, Rio Brazil.
• 2017 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling and Network Design (IEEE CISND'17) CISched'17 at 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence SSCI'2017, December Hawaii, USA.
• Special Session on Automated Design: Hyper-heuristics and Metaheuristics at CEC'2016, WCCI'2016, 25-29, July, 2016, Vancouver, Canada.
• 2016 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling and Network Design (CISND'16) at SSCI'2016, December 6-9, 2016, Athens, Greece.
• 2015 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling CISched'15 at 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence SSCI'2015, December 7-10, 2015, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Special Session on Hypeheuristics in Scheduling at MISTA'2015, Prague, Czech Republic, 25-28 Aug 2015.
• Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Hyper-heuristics at CEC'2015, 25-28 May, 2015, Sendai, Japan.
• Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization at CEC'2014, WCCI'2014, Beijing, China.
• Chair (with Dario Landa-Silva and Kay Chen Tan) Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimization at 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2013), June 20-23, 2013, Cancun, Mexico. Call for Papers
• Chair (with Kay Chen Tan) Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Scheduling at 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2012), June 10-15, 2012, Brisbane, Australia. Call for Papers
• Chair (with Sima Uyar) Special Session on Evolutionary-Based Hyper-heuristics and Their Applications at 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2012), June 10-15, 2012, Brisbane, Australia. Call for Papers
• Chair (with Ling Wang) 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched2013) at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2013), Singapore 16-19 April, 2013. Call for Papers
• Chair (with Ender Ozcan and Michel Gendreau) of 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched2011) at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2011), Paris, 11-15 April, 2011. Call for Papers
• International Advisory Board member of The Third Conference on Data Mining and Optimization (DMO'11), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 28 & 29 June 2011.
• Co-chair of Special Session of Evolutionary Computation in Scheduling at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2010), Barcelona, 18-23 July, 2010.
• Organiser (with Edward Tsang) of the special session on Computational Intelligence Methods in Finance and Management at The 6th International Conference on Computational Management Science (CMS2009), Geneva, May 1-3 2009.
• International Advisory Board member of The Data Mining and Optimization Seminar (DMO'09), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 27-28 October 2009.
• Chair (with Tan Kay Chen and Michel Gendreau) of 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computatal Intelligence in Scheduling (CI-Sched 2009), Nashville, TN, USA, Mar 30 - Apr 2, 2009. Call For Papers
• Program chair of The 25th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (PlanSIG'06), Nottingham, UK, 14th - 15th December, 2006.
• Publicity chair of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched'07), Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007.
• Special Interest Group on Local Search at The OR Society.
• Organiser team member of The second International Timetabling Competition, sponsored by PATAT and WATT.

Keynotes / Invited Talks / Seminars

• Invited Talk, "A General Model and Framework for Automated Algorithm Design" at GECCO 2023.
• Invited Talk, "Towards a Better Understanding of Search Algorithms: A New Standard on Algorithm Design" at CEC 2019.
• "Recent Developments in Real-world Optimisation - Towards Automated Algorithm Design", 2020 China Artificial Intelligence Summit, 30 Oct, 2020.
• "Recent Developments on Combinatorial Optimisation Problems", Masaryk University, Czech Republic, Oct, 2015.
• "Hybridising Constructive Heuristics within Hyper-heuristic Frameworks"", Xidian University, Xi'an, China, August 2012.
• "Hybridising constructive heuristics in hyper-heuristics", Invited talk at Workshop of "Self-tuning, self-configuring and self-generating search heuristics" at the 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN 2010), 11 - 15, September, 2010. .pdf
• "Recent Research on Nurse Rostering and Other Ongoing Research in Scheduling and Optimisation", Xidian University, Xi'an, China, March, 2008. .pdf.
• "Recent Research on Nurse Rostering at ASAP Group"", Atoss, Munich, Germany, 17th-18th, September, 2007.pdf
• Observations of a Graph-Based Hyper-heuristic to Timetabling Problems". University of Osnabruck, Germany. Nov 2004 .pdf
• "Summer School Course on Hyper-heuristics". Invited summer school course (with Dr G. Ochoa), Istanbul Technology University, Turkey, 31st July - 3rd August 2007. (lecture slides on request). Invited summer school course (with Dr G. Ochoa), Istanbul Technology University, Turkey, 31st July - 3rd August 2007. (lecture slides on request). .pdf
• "Intelligent Decision Support in Scheduling and Optimization". .pdf
• "Graph Based Hyper-heuristic Framework", .pdf

Qualifications

• Fellow of The Higher Education Academy, Nov 2011, UK.
• PGCHE, May, 2011, The University of Nottingham, UK.
• 1998-2002 PhD in Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
  
• 1992-1996 BSc in Computer Science and Its Application, XiDian University, ShaanXi, P. R. China