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For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? -- Matthew 16:26

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I am a Research Fellow at the School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand. My research interests include evolutionary algorithms, memetic algorithms and other meta-heuristics, hyper-heuristics, with various real-world applications in scheduling and routing, such as arc routing problems, vehicle routing problems, job-shop scheduling, traveling salesman problems, warehouse layout optimization, and personalized journey planning and tourist trip design.

I received my B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China. During my undergraduate study from 2001 to 2005, I was selected to be studying in the Special Class for the Gifted Young (introduction in Wikipedia), which is a special program of USTC that gives a special education for the gifted young undergraduate students from all parts of China, and only accept about 50 talented students no older than 15 in age from high school each year. From 2005 to 2010, I studied and worked at the Nature Inspired Computation and Applications Laboratory, School of Computer Science and Technology of USTC, and obtained my Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Professor Xin Yao and Professor Ke Tang.

During 2010-2012, I was a Provost's Research Associate at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, researching on portfolio optimization.

During 2012-2015, I worked as a ARC Discovery Research Fellow with A/Prof. Xiaodong Li at the School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. My research topic was large-scale independent optimization.

My CV can be found here.