Professional Activities

Editorship

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. [2009–present]

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. [2006–present]

• Editorial Board Member, Memetic Computing [2007–present]

• Associate Editor, International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research, [2009–present]

• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Applied Metaheuristic Computing. 2009

• Guest Editor, Neurocomputing, Special Issue on Bridging Machine Learning and Evolutionary Computation, 2013/2014

• Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Special Issue on Probabilistic Model Based EA, 2007/2008

• Guest Editor, Neural Computing, 2007/2008.

• Guest Editor, International Journal of Automation and Computing, Special Issue on Theory and Applications of Computational Intelligence, 2007.

PhD External Advisor

• Dr. Alexander Brownlee, the School of Computing, Robert Gordon University, UK, 2005–2009

Guest Professorship

• Jiangsu University, [2003–present]

• Xian Jiaotong University, [2007–present]

• Xidian University, [2009–present]

• Xiangtan University, [2010–present]

• Central South University, [2010–present]

Industrial Visiting Fellowship

2007/2008, BT Short-Term Visiting Fellow

Foreign Investigator/Consultant

• DAMADSO, Italy, 2011

• Mining Data with Probabilistic Graphic Models, Spain, [2011–present]

Scientific Advisory Board Member

• Reactive Search s.r.l., Italy

External Examiner for MSc Computing Programme

• The Robert Gordon University, UK, 2007–2010

External Examiner/Reviewer of PhD/Mphil Theses

• University of Extremadura, Spain

• The Robert Gordon University, UK

• University of Leicester, UK

• Birkbeck, University of London, UK

• Malaga University, Spain

• Technical University of Denmark, Demark

• Liverpool University, UK

• Birmingham University, UK.

• Nottingham University, UK,

• Manchester University, UK (Three PhDs and one Mphil)

• Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics (ICIMAF), Cuba

• University of the Basque Country, Spain (Two PhDs)

• University of Cranfield, UK (Two PhDs and one Mphil)

• University of Mauritius, Mauritius.

• Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Keynote Speaker

• International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, China, 2013

• 2013 Digital Life Technology Conference, Yunlin, Taiwan, 2013

• Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference, LION 7, Catania, Italy, Jan 7-11, 2013

• 2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security, 12/2008, Suzhou, China.

Invited Speaker

• Cheng Shiu University, 2014

• Yuan Ze University, 2014

• Shanghai Jiaotong University 2014.

• TW-UK 2013 Forum at NUTN, Taiwan, 2013.

• National Chung Cheng University, 2013

• Graduate Student Summer School, Zhongshan University, China 2012.

• Graduate Student Summer School, National University of Defense Tech., China 2012.

• Xidian University, 2012.

• Trento University, Italy, 2011

• Workshop on Optimization and Scheduling in Healthcare, Portsmouth, 2011.

• National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, 2011

• Malaga University, 2011

• Greenwich University, 2010

• Aberystwyth University, 2010

• University of Bradford, 2009

• Wuhan University, 2009.

• Liverpool University, UK, 2009

• University of Cranfield, UK, 2009

• The University of Basque Country, Spain, 2008.

• Guangdong University of Technology, 2008.

• China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 2008.

• Institute of Intelligent Machines Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. 2008

• The 2008 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Applications, Hefei, China

• Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan, 2008

• Tunghai University, Taiwan, 2008

• University of Bredfordshire, UK, 2008

• University of Trento, Italy, 2008.

• Central South University, China, 2007

• Xiamen University, China, 2007

• National University of Defence Science and Technology, China, 2007

• Nottingham University, UK, 2007

• Aberdeen University, UK, 2006

• Robert Gordon University, UK, 2005

• Leicester University, UK, 2005

• Xidian University, China, 2003, 2005, 2007

• Shanxi University, China, 2005.

• Xian Jiantong University, China, 2003, 2007

• Jiangsu University, China, 2003.

Chair, Organiser/Co-Chair, Co-Organiser

• Special Session on MOEA Competition, 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’09).

• Special Session on Probabilistic Model Based EA, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.

• 2007 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS’07), 15-19/Dec./2007, Harbin, China.

• The 3nd International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC’07), Haikou, China, August 2007.

• Special Session on Theoretical Foundations of Evolutionary Computation. Program Committee Member. 2004 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’04), Portland, USA.

• Special Session on Time Complexity of Evolutionary Algorithms. Program Committee Member. 2003 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC’03), Canberra, Australia.

Reviewer/Referee/External Assessor

• A number of international journals and conferences in my research areas.

• New book proposals for Wiley Publisher and IEEE Publisher.

• EPSRC grant proposals, UK.

• Research Proposals, Royal Society, UK.

• China National Science Awards, China

• Research Proposals, Academy of Finland.

• Research Proposals, NWO, Netherlands.

• Application for promotion to readership, UK

• Applications for full, associate and assistant professorships, Singapore, USA.

Membership

• IEEE senior Member [2006-present]

• Founding member of IEEE CIS Working Group in Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Probabilistic Models.

• Member of IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence

• Member of The IEEE Computational Intelligence, Subcommittee for Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award [20010-present]

Program Committee

• A number of international conferences in my research areas