Refereed Journal Papers
S. He, Q. H. Wu, J. Y. Wen, J. R. Saunders and R. C. Paton, "A particle swarm optimizer with passive congregation", BioSystems, 78 (1-3): 135-147, Dec 2004. (82 SCI Citations)

S. He, E. Prempain, and Q. H. Wu. "An improved particle swarm optimizer for mechanical design optimization problems", Engineering Optimization, 36 (5): 585-605, Oct 2004. (49 SCI Citations)

C. Feng, S. Cong, S. He, W. Shang, Y. Zhang. Self-calibration for kinematic parameters of a redundant planar 2-dof parallel manipulator using evolutionary algorithms.  Engineering Optimization, 41 (4): 385-398, Apr 2009.

S. He, X. Li, M. R. Viant and X. Yao. "Profiling mass spectrometry proteomics data using Smoothed Nonlinear Energy Operator and Bayesian Additive Regression Trees". Proteomics, 9 (17): 4176-4191, Sep 2009. (SCI impact factor 4.4)

S. He, Q. H. Wu, and J. R. Saunders. "Group search optimizer - an optimization algorithm inspired by animal searching behaviour". IEEE Transaction on Evolutionary Computation. 13(5): 973-990, Oct 2009. (SCI impact factor 4.6, 4 SCI Citations)

S. He, Q. H. Wu, and J. R. Saunders. "Breast cancer diagnosis using an artificial neural network trained by group search optimizer". Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 31(6): 517-531, Dec 2009.

S. He. “Training artificial neural networks using Lévy group search optimizer”. Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing. 16(6): 527-545, 2010.

S. He, H. J. Cooper, D. G. Ward, X. Yao and J. K. Heath. “Analysis of premalignant pancreatic cancer mass spectrometry data for biomarker selection using a group search optimizer”. Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control. (In press)


Refereed Conference Papers
S. He, E. Prempain, Q. H. Wu, J. Fitch, S. Mann. "An improved particle swarm optimization for optimal power flow", 2004 International Conference on Power Systems Technology. Singapore. Nov 2004.

W. H. Tang, S. He, E. Prempain, Q. H. Wu and J. Fitch. "A particle swarm optimizer with passive congregation approach to thermal modeling for power transformers", 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2005). Edinburgh. Sep 2005.
 
S. He, Q. H. Wu, and J. R. Saunders. "A group search optimizer for neural network training", 2006 International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2006). Glasgow. May 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3982: 934-943, Springer.

S. He, Q. H. Wu and J. R. Saunders. "A novel group search optimizer inspired by animal behavioural ecology", in Proceeding of 2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2006). Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Jul 16-21, 2006. Tue PM-10-6.

W. J. Tang, M. S. Li, S. He, Q. H. Wu and J. R. Saunders. "Optimal power flow with dynamic loads using bacterial foraging algorithm". International Conference on Power Systems Technology (POWERCON), Chongqing, China, 22-26 Oct 2006.

S. He, and X. Li. "Profiling of high-throughput mass spectrometry data for ovarian cancer detection", 8th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Data Eng. and Automated Learning (IDEAL). Birmingham, UK. Dec 16-19, 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4881: 860-869, Springer.

S. He, and X. Li. "Application of a Group Search Optimization based Artificial Neural Network to Machine Condition Monitoring", 13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation. Hamburg, Germany, Sep 15-18, 2008.

A. Koutsou and S. He. "Study of ants’ traffic organisation under crowded conditions using individual-based modelling and evolutionary computation". IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2009. Trondheim, Norway, May 18-21, 2009.

S. He, H. Chen, X. Li, and X. Yao. "Profiling of mass spectrometry data for ovarian cancer detection using negative correlation learning". 19th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN). Lanarca, Cyprus, Sep 14-17, 2009.

S. He, J. K. Heath and H. J. Cooper, “Improved identification of phosphopeptides from ETD/ECD MS data using robust twin boosting”. RECOMB Satellite Conference on Computational Proteomics 2010. San Diego, USA, Mar 26-28, 2010.


Submitted Papers
Q. H. Wu, S. He and J. R. Saunders. "An improved group search optimizer for security-constrained optimal power flow". 8 pages. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. (Manuscript available upon request)

S. He, and X. Li and X. Yao. “Application of a Lévy Group Search Optimizer to Ultrasonic Detector Based Machine Condition Monitoring”. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. (Manuscript available upon request)

S. He, H. Chen, D. G. Ward, W. Wei, H. J. Cooper, M. R. Viant, X. Yao and J. K. Heath. "Cancer diagnosis and biomarker discovery from mass-spectrometry data using robust twin boosting". BMC Bioinformatics. (Manuscript available upon request)


Working Papers
S. He, I. D. Couzin, V. Guttal, C. D. Tosh, J. Kreft, J. K. Heath and X. Yao. "Evolution of animal aggregation from first principle – an evolutionary artificial neural networks approach". (in preparation. Manuscript available upon request)

“Data mining tool for automated metabolite identification and quantification using J-resolved NMR spectroscopy”. (in preparation, target journal is Bioinformatics)

 “Birmingham Metabolite Library (BML): A publicly accessible database of J-resolved NMR spectra of authentic metabolite standards”. (in preparation, target journal is Metabolomics)