I have been awarded the following research grants:
Cyber-physical seafood systems: Intelligent and optimised
green manufacturing for marine co-products (PFR, VUW, CI, Otago,
Deakin). MBIE Endeavour Research Program Oct 2020-Sep
2025. Grant: $16,280,000. (RA/Theme Leader, Key Researcher)
AI and Machine Learning for Medical Applications. Huayin
Medical (Industry). Oct 2020-Sep 2023. Grant: $234,000. (PI)
Bridging the gap between remote sensing and tree modelling
with data science (Landcare, Scion, UoC, VUW). NZ-Singapore
MBIE SSIF/Catalyst Fund on Data Science. Oct 2020-Sep
2023. Grant: $3,000,000. (AI, with Jan Schindler at Landcare)
A data-science driven evolution of aquaculture for building
the blue economy (AI/ML Advanced Research and Applications to
Aquaculture). MBIE SSIF Fund on Data
Science . 2020-2027. Grant: $13,000,000. (PI)
Genetic Programming for Symbolic Regression. Marsden
Fund of New Zealand, 2020-2023. Grant: $707,000. (PI)
Evolutionary Automated Design of Deep Convolutional Neural
Networks for Image Classification. Marsden Fund of New
Zealand, 2020-2023. Grant: $707,000. (AI, with Bing Xue)
Deep Learning Architecture with Context Adaptive Features
for Image Parsing (DP200102252). Australia ARC Discover
Project. 2020-2022. Grant: $480,000 AUD. (Partner
Investigator, with Brijesh Verma at CQU).
Distributed and Automated Evolutionary Deep Architecture
Learning with Unprecedented Scalability. Dutch Research
Council (NWO) & industry partners Elekta and Ortec
Logiqcare. 2020-2024. Grant: 1,086,368 Euro. (International
Collaborator, with Peter Bosman at Delft)
Precision Farming National Science Challenge SfTI
Spearhead. 2017-2019. Grant:$2,000,000 (Trench 1). (Chris
Cornelisen is the Overall PI, and I am in charge of Artificial
Intelligence and Machine Learning aspects)
Large-scale Evolutionary Feature Selection for
Classification. Marsden Fund of New Zealand,
2016-2019. Grant: $300,000. (AI, with Bing Xue)
Automatic Design of Heuristics for Dynamic Arc Routing
Problem with Genetic Programming. Marsden Fund of New
Zealand, 2016-2019. Grant: $300,000. (Mentor, with Yi Mei).
Genetic programming for dynamic flexible job shop
scheduling. Marsden Fund of New Zealand,
2016-2019. Grant: $550,000. (PI)
A Novel Framework for Optimised Ensemble
Classifier. Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project
(DP160102639). 2016-2018. Grant: $270,000. (AI, with Brijesh Verma)
Distributed data-intensive service composition. Marsden
Fund of New Zealand, 2016-2019. Grant: $300,000. (Mentor,
with Hui Ma)
Genetic Programming for Job Shop Scheduling. Marsden
Fund of New Zealand, 2013-2016. Grant: $520,000. (PI)
Anomaly Detection in Crowded Scenes using Particle Swarm
Optimization and Genetic Programming. Overseas Collaboration
Funding with State Key Lab in Software Engineering at Nanjing
University. 2014-2016. Grant: $30,000 RMB. (Overseas PI)
Study on Bacterial Colony Optimisation Based on Quorum
Sensing Mechanism. National Natural Science Foundation of
China (International Collaboration). 2012-2013. Grants:
$15,000 RMB. (Overseas PI).
Conditional outlier detection in Massive Data (using rough
sets, granular computing, evolutionary computation
techniques). National Natural Science Foundation of China.
2012-2015. Grant: $550,000 RMB. (Co-PI).
Feature Manipulation Based on Evolutionary Computation and
Rough Sets Methods. Overseas Collaboration in State Key Lab in
Software Engineering at Nanjing University. . 2011-2013. Grant:
$40,000 RMB. (Co-PI)
Toward Optimal Offspring Selection in Genetic
Programming. BuildIT Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, New Zealand.
2009-2011. Grant: $138,435. (PI)
Genetic Programming for Classification Tasks. Marsden
Fund of New Zealand, 2009-2012. Grant: $465,000. (PI)
Predictive Difficulty Measures in Genetic Programming based
on Complex Networks. International Mobility Fund, New
Zealand., 2011. Grant: $8050. (NZPI. Overseas PI: Jing Liu)
Novel Program Structures and Search Algorithms in Genetic
Programming, Marsden Fund of New Zealand,
2006-2008. Grant: $140,000. (PI)
Identification of Authors in Chinese Email,
Natural Science Fundation of Hebei Province, China,
2006-2008. Grant: $50,000. (with Guifa Teng)
Machine Learning for Speech Recognition, New Economy
Research Fund, 2001-2004. (with David Crabbe, etc.) Grant:
$330,000.
Novel Transfer Learning Techniques in Genetic Programming for
Big Data Mining. University Research Fund, Victoria
University of Wellington, 2017-2018. Grant: $43,552.63. (PI).
Novel Approaches to High-dimensional Symbolic
Regression. University Research Fund, Victoria University
of Wellington, 2017. Grant: $32,187.72. (with Bing Xue)
Novel Genetic Programming Techniques for Object
Recognition. University Research Fund, Victoria
University of Wellington, 2015-2017. Grant: $29,834.14. (PI)
Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection in Large-Scale
Data Mining. University Research Fund, Victoria University
of Wellington, 2016. Grant: $21,413.14. (with Bing Xue)
Evolutionary Dimensionality Reduction. Research
Establishment Grant Victoria University of Wellington,
2016. Grant: $10,000. (with Bing Xue)
Statistical Grouping and Evolutionary Algorithms for Large
Scale Classification. University Research Fund, Victoria
University of Wellington, 2013-2014. Grant: $42,574. (PI)
PSO and Rough Sets for Feature Reduction in
Classification. University Research Fund, Victoria
University of Wellington, 2012-2013. Grant: $31,976. (PI)
Novel Particle Swarm Optimisation Techniques for Image
Analysis. University Research Fund, Victoria University
of Wellington, 2010-2011. Grant: $30,000. (PI)
Learning Classifier Systems for Feature Manipulation and Image
Processing. University Research Fund, Victoria
University of Wellington, 2010-2011. Grant: $25,000. (with Will Browne)
Novel PSO Topologies and Search Algorithms for Pattern
Classification. University Research Fund, Victoria
University of Wellington, 2009-2010. Grant: $25,000. (PI)
Evolutionary Multiple-criterion Optimization for Visual Object
Detection. University Research Fund, Victoria University of
Wellington, 2009-2010. Grant: $20,000. (with Mark Johnston)
Particle Swarm Optimisation for Image Recognition.
University Research Fund, Victoria University of Wellington,
2008-2009. Grant: $38,239. (PI)
Simplification and Class Imbalance in Genetic
Programming. University Research Fund, Victoria University of
Wellington, 2008-2009. Grant: $22,580. (with Mark Johnston)
Genetic Programming for Image
Recognition, University Research Fund, Victoria University
of Wellington, 2007. Grant: $48,000. (PI)
Program Representations in Genetic Programming, University
Research Fund, Victoria University of Wellington,
2005-2006. Grant: $45,500. (PI)
Genetic Programming for Multiclass Classification,
University Research Fund, Victoria University of
Wellington, 2004-2005. Grant: $25,000. (PI)
Novel Genetic Programming Techniques for Image Recognition Tasks,
University Research Fund, Victoria University of
Wellington, 2004. Grant: $12,200. (PI)
PhD Sholarships:
Good students (GPA of A- or above) with publications can apply for the
following scholarships:
VUW and China Scholarship Council PhD
Scholarship: (For Chinese Students
Only). Successful students will get 48 months of stipend from
China Scholarship Council and VUW will cover the tuition fees up to 48
months. An overview and process can be seen
from Program
Overview. (Closing date: 1 Feb, 1 November Every year)
Marsden/Goverment and Industry Funded PhD
Scholarships: We are looking for a PhD student
in Genetic Programming,
Evolutionary Deep Learning, Transfer Learning, Feature
Selection/Construction and Big Dimensionality Reduction,
Clusering/Classification/Big Data, Image Analysis, Symboic Regression,
Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation.
. We have full funding available to cover tuition fees,
living, and travel. Please email me for more information if you have a
Masters or Honours degree (with a first-class Honours or Distinction
or a GPA of 80% or above) and a good background in Evolutionary
Computing, Machine Learning and/or Operations Research!
(Closing dates: 1 March 2018, 1 July 2018, 1 November 2018 )
Contact me if you want to do a PhD in my
research areas and want to get a scholarship.
BSc/BE (COMP/SWEN/AI/DATA) Hons
Projects/Summer Research Sholarships --- For Current VUW students only:
My research grants can support several summer research
scholarships/assistants (from November 2019 to Feburary 2020) and BSc/BE
(COMP/SWEN/AI) Honours projects from March to October 2020.
Applicants are expected to have a A or above for COMP307, and
have strong programming skills in Java/Python/C/C++.
Contact me if you want to do a research project in AI, machine
learning, evolutionary computation (learning and optimisation), big
data/data science/data analytics.
Conflict of Interest Chair, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2017)
Special Session Chair, CEC 2016 at WCCI 2016.
Track Chair, AIS and BioMedical Applications Track, GECCO 2016.
General Chair, the 27th International Conference on Image and
Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ 2013).
General Chair, the 10th International Conference on Simulated
Evolution and Learning (SEAL 2014).
Tutorial Chair, the 17th Pacific Asia International
Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2013).
Track Co-Chair, Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition, European Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoApplications 2014, 2013).
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2010,
ICPR2012, ICPR 2014)
International Conference on Artificial Evolution (EA'09)
International Conference on Advanced Intelligence (ICAI-08, ICAI 2010, ICAI 2012)
International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC 2009)
Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL09, ACAL10)
The 1st Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML'09)
International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2006,
AMT 2009, AMT 2010, AMT 2012.)
European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Image
Analysis and Signal Processing: EvoIASP2004, EvoIASP2005,
EvoIASP2006, EvoIASP2007, EvoIASP2008, EvoIASP 2009, EvoIASP 2010,
EvoIASP 2011, EvoIASP 2012.
European Workshops on Environmental Issues (EvoENVIRONMENT2009,
EvoENVIRONMENT2010)
Asian Pacific Workshop on Genetic Programming: APWGP2004,
APWGP2006
Pacific-Asian International Conference on Knowledge Discovery
in Databases: PAKDD2006, PAKDD2007, PAKDD2008, PAKDD2009, PAKDD2010,
PAKDD2011, PAKDD2012, PAKDD2013, PAKDD 2014, PAKDD 2015, PAKDD 2016, PAKDD 2017.
International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning:
SEAL2006, SEAL2008, SEAL 2012, SEAL 2014, SEAL 2017.
Australian/Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence: AI2005, AI2006, AI2007, AI 2008 (Chair), AI 2009 (SM),
AI2010 (SM), AI 2011 (SM), AI 2012 (SM), AI 2013 (SM), AI 2014 (SM),
AI 2015 (SM) AI 2016 (SM).