PhD

1. Jern Tat Chin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021): "AI and ML for Finance Prediction" (with Prof Hai Lin)
2. Jordan MacLachlan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021): "Evolutionary Computation for Ambulance Routing" (with Prof Mengjie Zhang)
3. Zhixing Huang (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020): "Genetic Programming for Dynamic Scheduling" (with Prof Mengjie Zhang)
4. Meng Xu (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020): "Genetic Programming for Dynamic Scheduling" (with Dr Mengjie Zhang)
5. Taiwo Akindele (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020): "Resource Allocation problem in Cloud" (with Dr Hui Ma)
6. Shaolin Wang (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019): "Genetic Programming for Uncertain Arc Routing Problem" (with Prof Mengjie Zhang)
7. Joao Costa (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019): "Hyper-heuristic for Vehicle Routing" (with Prof Mengjie Zhang)
8. Amirhossein Mostofi (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019): "Optimisation in Pharmecautical Supply Chain Management" (with Dr Vipul Jain)
9. Shubhangi Patel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019): "Operations research in medical scheduling" (with Dr Vipul Jain)
10. Mazhar Anzari Ardeh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018): "Genetic Programming and Transfer Learning for Uncertain Arc Routing" (with Prof Mengjie Zhang)
11. Mahdi Abdollahi (Victoria University of Wellington, graduated in 2021): "Improving Medical Document Classification via Feature Engineering" (with Dr Sharon Gao, Prof Jinyan Li (UTS), and Dr Shameek Ghosh)
12. Fangfang Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington, graduated in 2021): "Genetic Programming Hyper-heuristics for Dynamic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling" [PhD thesis] (with Prof Mengjie Zhang)
13. Guanqiang Gao (Beijing Institute of Technology): "Evolutionary Computation for Robot Pathfinding and Resource Allocation" (with A/Prof Will Browne and Prof Bin Xin)
14. Harry He (Victoria University of Wellington, graduated in 2020): "Wind Environment Study of High-rise Residential Building by using Multiple Computational Tools" [PhD thesis] (with Prof Marc Aurel Schnabel)
15. Atiya Masood (Victoria University of Wellington, graduated in 2020): "Many-Objective Genetic Programming for Job-Shop Scheduling" [PhD thesis] (with Dr Aaron Chen, and Prof Mengjie Zhang)
16. Boxiong Tan (Victoria University of Wellington, graduated in 2020): "An Evolutionary Computation Approach to Resource Allocation in Container-based Clouds" [PhD thesis] (with Dr Hui Ma)
17. Binzi Xu (Jiangnan University, China): "Intelligent Optimisation Methods for Production Scheduling" [PhD thesis (in Chinese)] (with Prof Yan Wang)
18. John Park (Victoria University of Wellington, graduated in 2019): "Evolving Dispatching Rules for Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling Problems using Genetic Programming" [PhD thesis] (with Dr Aaron Chen, Dr Su Nguyen, and Prof Mengjie Zhang)
19. Deepak Karunakaran (Victoria University of Wellington, graduated in 2019): "Active Learning Methods for Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling using Genetic Programming under Uncertain Environment" [PhD thesis] (with Dr Aaron Chen, and Prof Mengjie Zhang)
20. Alexandre Sawczuk Da Silva (Victoria University of Wellington, graduated in 2019): "Evolutionary Computation for Multifaceted Web Service Composition" [PhD thesis] (with Dr Hui Ma, and Prof Mengjie Zhang)
21. Md. Jakirul Islam (RMIT University, Australia, graduated in 2018): "Structural Optimization Using Evolutionary Multimodal and Bilevel Optimization Techniques" [PhD thesis] (with Prof Xiaodong Li)
22. Yuxin Liu (Southwestern University, China, graduated in 2018): "Bio-inspired Route Optimization and Source Identification" [PhD thesis (in Chinese)] (with Prof Mengjie Zhang, and Prof Zili Zhang)
23. Jing Xie (RMIT University, Australia, graduated in 2017): "On the Investigation of the Large-Scale Grouping Constrained Storage Location Assignment Problem" [PhD thesis] (with Dr Andy Song, Prof Andreas Ernst, and Prof Xiaodong Li)

Masters

1. Thomson Thomas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2022): "Evolutionary Computation for Cloud Resource Allocation"
2. Fergus Currie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2022): "Multi-criteria decision making for genetics breeding program design" (with Dr Maren Wellenreuther and Dr Linley Jesson, Plant and Food Research)
3. Boon Wan Tan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019): "Neural Network for Combinatorial Optimisation Problems"
4. Shaolin Wang (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018): "Evolutionary Computation for Uncertain Arc Routing" (with Prof Mengjie Zhang)
5. Youhan Xia (University of Melbourne, Australia, graduated in 2017): "Ant Colony System for Itinerary Planning with Restaurants" (with Dr Jeffrey Chan)
6. Boxiong Tan (Victoria University of Wellington, graduated in 2016): "Evolutionary Computation for Service Location Allocation" (with Dr Hui Ma)
7. Haobo Fu (University of Science and Technology of China, graduated in 2010): "Meta-heuristics for Capacitated Arc Routing Problems" (with Prof Ke Tang)

Honours Students

1. Callum Macaskill (Victoria University of Wellington, 2022): "Genetic Programming for Online Delivery Allocation"
2. Mohnish Ramanujam (Victoria University of Wellington, 2022): "Genetic Tourism Trip Recommendation"
3. Ze Chen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2022): "Machine Learning for Fish Growth Prediction"
4. Oliver Badrick (Victoria University of Wellington, 2022): "NLP for Tourist Trip Summarisation"
5. Sai Panda (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021): "Simplifying Scheduling Rules Evolved by Genetic Programming"
6. Jordan MacLachlan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020): "Genetic Programming for Uncertain Arc Routing"
7. Jericho Jackson (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020): "Stochastic Orienteering Problem"
8. Hayden Dyne (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020): "Multi-dimensional bin packing"
9. Rhaz Solomon (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019): "Bloat Control in Genetic Programming"
10. Samuel Meredith (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018): "Genetic Programming for Dynamic Orienteering Problem"
11. Michael Sirvid (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018): "Genetic Programming for Online Bin Packing"
12. Valerie Chan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017): "Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Orienteering Problem"
13. Daniel Yska (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017): "Genetic Programming Hyper-heuristics for Flexible Job Shop Scheduling" (with Prof Mengjie Zhang)

Summer Research Scholarship Students

• Gaofeng Shi (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021): “Genetic Programming for Dynamic Scheduling”
• Sean McGifford (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021): “Transfer Reinforcement learning in Games”
• Fergus Currie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020): “Multi-Criteria Desicion Making for Fish Breeding Program” (NZ Data Science Program in collaboration with Plant and Food)
• Sai Panda (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020): “Interpretable Genetic Programming for Scheduling”
• Jordan MacLachlan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019): “Genetic Programming for Uncertain Arc Routing”
• Jericho Jackson (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019): “Genetic Programming Hyper-heuristics for Stochastic Tourist Trip Design” (with Prof Mengjie Zhang)
• Shaolin Wang (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018): “Evolutionary Computation for Uncertain Arc Routing” (with Prof Mengjie Zhang)
• Jordan MacLachlan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017): “Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Arc Routing”
• Daniel Yska (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017): “Genetic Programming Hyper-heuristics for Flexible Job Shop Scheduling” (with Prof Mengjie Zhang)
• Josiah Jacobsen-Grocott (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016): “Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Vehicle Routing”
• Scott Holdaway (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016): “Feature Extraction in NEAT for Atari Games” (with Dr Aaron Chen)
• Will Hardwick-Smith (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016): “Transfer Learning in NEAT for Atari Games” (with Dr Aaron Chen)
• Michael Riley (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015): “Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling”
• Longfei Yan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015): “Evolutionary Web Service Composition” (with Dr Hui Ma)

• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2019, 2020, 2021
• International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2021, 2022
• ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
• IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
• EMO 2021
• International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL) 2014, 2017
• Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AJCAI) 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021
• International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI) 2018, 2020, 2021
• International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI) 2019
• International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI) 2018, 2022
• International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data (DMBD) 2018, 2019, 2020
• International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS) 2016, 2018, 2022
• International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI) 2018
• International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) 2018, 2019, 2020
• International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security (ICDIS) 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022
• Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence (ACALCI) 2016, 2017
• Asia-Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (IES) 2016, 2017
• International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA) 2015, 2016, 2017
• International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) 2016
• International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR) 2015, 2016
• International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA) 2016
• World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC) 2016
• BRICS Congress on Computational Intelligence (BRCIS-CCI) 2015
• International Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Its Applications (ECIA) 2018
• Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ) 2020

1. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE (ARC/CORE Tier A*, Q1)
2. ACM Computing Surveys, ACM (ARC/CORE Tier A*, Q1)
3. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE (ARC/CORE Tier A*, Q1)
4. Evolutionary Computation Journal, MIT Press (ARC/CORE Tier A, Q1)
5. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE (ARC/CORE Tier A, Q1) (Outstanding Reviewer 2018)
6. European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier (ARC/CORE Tier A, Q1)
7. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE (Q1)
8. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE (Q1)
9. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Elsevier (Q1)
10. Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier (ARC/CORE Tier A, Q1)
11. Information Sciences, Elsevier (ARC/CORE Tier A, Q1)
12. Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE (Q1)
13. Computers and Operations Research (Q1)
14. Transportation Research Part C, Elsevier (Q1)
15. Transportation Research Part D, Elsevier (Q1)
16. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, IEEE (Q1)
17. Journal of the Operational Research Society, Taylor & Francis (Q1)
18. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, IEEE (Q1)
19. IEEE Software, IEEE (Q1)
20. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, IEEE
21. ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization, ACM
22. Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier (Q1)
23. International Journal of Production Research, Taylor & Francis (Q1)
24. Waste Management, Elsevier (Q1)
25. Computers and Industrial Engineering, Elsevier (Q1)
26. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE (Q1)
27. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier (Q1)
28. Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier (Q1) (Outstanding Reviewer 2015, 2017)
29. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier (Q1)
30. Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier (Q1)
31. Knowledge-based Systems, Elsevier (Q1)
32. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Elsevier (Q1)
33. Journal of Computational Science, Elsevier (Q1)
34. NeuroComputing, Elsevier (Q1)
35. Journal of Scheduling, Springer (Q1)
36. Journal of Heuristics, Springer
37. Complexity, Hindawi (Q1)
38. World Wide Web, Springer (Q2)
39. Swarm Intelligence, Springer
40. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Springer
41. IEEE Access, IEEE
42. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, IEEE
43. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi
44. Journal of Information Technology & Software Engineering, Longdom Publishing SL
45. Applied Sciences, MDPI
46. Soft Computing, Springer
47. Complex & Intelligent Systems, Springer
48. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, Hindawi
49. Computational Optimization and Applications, Springer
50. Memetic Computing, Springer
51. Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering, Taylor & Francis
52. Journal of Computer Science and Technology
53. Natural Computing, Springer
54. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Springer
55. PLOS ONE Journal
56. Frontiers in Computer Science, Frontiers
57. Frontier of Engineering Management, Frontiers

• Taillard’s benchmark datasets

• Flexible Job Shop Scheduling datasets

• The gdb dataset: 23 small instances (~30 nodes and ~60 required edges).
• The val dataset: 10 groups of medium to large instances (~50 nodes and ~100 required edges). Each group contains 3 or 4 instances (denoted as A, B, C, D), which are based on the same graph but different vehicle capacity.
• The egl dataset: 8 groups of large instances (~150 nodes and ~200 required edges). The former 4 groups (e1 to e4) and the latter 4 groups (s1 to s4) are based on the same graph, but different subsets of required edges. Each group contains 3 instances (denoted as A, B, C), based on the same graph and required edges, but with different vehicle capacity.
• The EGL-G dataset: 2 groups of large instances (~250 nodes and ~400 required edges). Each group contains 5 instances (denoted as A, B, C, D, E), based on the same graph and required edges, but with different vehicle capacity.
• The Beijing&Hefei dataset: 2 large datasets, one generated from the road network of Bejing, and the other from Hefei, two big cities in China. Each dataset has 10 instances, with thousands of edges.
• Large scale datasets, and the best solutions we found.
• Multi-Depot CARP datasets.

• Benchmark instances for different problem variants can be found from Dr. T. Vidal’s page.
• A very good CVRP library, with the plots of instances and solutions.

• A very comprehensive problem library.

• A comprehensive library from University of Nottingham.
• A University Timetabling benchmark website.