Current Research Fellows, Students and Visitors

Current Research Fellows

• Tao Chen
• Ran Cheng
• Miqing Li
• Mohammad Nabi Omidvar
• Shuo Wang

Current PhD Students

• Renzhi Chen
• Pietro Consoli (writing-up)
• Xiaofen Lu (writing-up)
• Natasha Nigar
• Liyan Song (writing-up)
• Yamonporn Thummanusarn
• Liangpeng Zhang
• Liangli Zhen (visiting student from Sichuan University)

External supervisor of

• Bingdong Li, University of Science and Technology of China
• Mang Wang, University of Science and Technology of China (visiting student)

Former Research Fellows

• Dr Bahriye Basturk Akay
• Dr Chris Bowers
• Dr Huanhuan Chen (Full profesosr at USTC, China)
• Dr Siang Yew Chong (Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia)
• Dr Colin Frayn
• Dr Simon Hammond
• Dr Jun He (Reader at the Aberystwyth University)
• Dr Shan He (Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham)
• Dr Leandro Lei Minku (Lecturer at the University of Leicester)
• Ke Li (Lecturer at the University of Exeter)
• Dr Nanlin Jin (Lecturer at the University of Northumbria)
• Dr Ben Jones
• Dr Ricardo Becerra Landa
• Dr Per Kristian Lehre (Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham)
• Dr Peter Lewis (Lecturer at the Aston University)
• Dr Jin Li
• Dr Xiaoli Li (Full professor at the Beijing Normal University)
• Dr Xudong Luo
• Dr Alberto Moraglio (Lecturer at the University of Exeter)
• Dr. Vivek Nallur
• Jinzhong Niu
• Dr Pietro Oliveto (Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield)
• Dr Edward Robinson
• Dr Philipp Rohlfshagen
• Dr Andy Pryke
• Dr Ramon Sagarna
• Dr Sancho Salcedo-Sanz (Associate Professor at the Universidad de Alcal¨, Spain)
• Dr Thorsten Schnier
• Dr Dirk Sudholt (Lecturer at the University of Sheffield)
• Dr Ping Sun
• Mohamad Tayarani
• Dr Simon Tyrrell
• Dr James Whitacre
• Dr Yong Xu

Former PhD Students

• Andrea Arcuri (completed in 2009)
• Derek Bartram (co-supervision with Dr. Michael Burrow, RRUK)
• Jason Bobbin (co-supervisor) (completed in 2002)
• Arjun Chandra (completed in 2011)
• Huanhuan Chen (completed in 2008).
• Pin Chen (Advisor) (completed in 1996)
• Tianshi Chen, University of Science and Technology of China (completed in 2010)
• Siang Yew Chong (completed in 2007) (Siang Yew's PhD thesis on "Generalization and Diversity in Co-evolutionary Learning" is available for downloading.)
• Paul Darwen (completed in 1996)
• Weishan Dong (completed in 2009)
• Haobo Fu (completed in 2014)
• Simon Hammond (completed in 2007)
• Rachel Harris (completed in 2008)
• Tang Ke, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (external co-supervisor, completed in 2007)
• Ben Jones (completed in 2009)
• Matthew Kent (completed in 2015)
• Vineet Khare (completed in 2006)
• Ko-Hsin Liang (completed in 2000)
• Peter Lewis (completed in 2010)
• Guangming Lin (completed in 2003)
• Minglong Lin (completed in 2012)
• Yong Liu (completed in 1999)
• Guanzhou Lu (completed in 2013)
• Qiang Lu (completed in 2004)
• Andrea Mambrini (completed in 2015)
• Yi Mei, University of Science and Technology of China (completed in 2010)
• Leandro Lei Minku (completed in 2010)
• Alireza Nazemi (co-supervision with Prof. Andrew Chan, Civil Engineering) (completed in 2008)
• Trung Thanh Nguyen (completed in 2011)
• Pietro Oliveto (completed in 2009)
• Fei Peng, University of Science and Technology of China (completed in 2011)
• Thomas Runarsson (co-supervisor)
• Kata Praditwong (completed in 2008)
• Carlo Raquel (withdrawn)
• Kate Reed (MRes in Natural Computation, completed in 2012)
• Edward Robinson (completed in 2011)
• Neale Samways (withdrawn)
• Rodrigo Soares (completed in 2013)
• Ping Sun (completed in 2007)
• Jiang Tian from the Glasgow Caledonian University, UK (External co-supervisor, completed in 2005)
• Juan Wang, University of Science and Technology of China (completed in 2016)
• Rui Wang, University of Science and Technology of China (completed in 2013)
• Pu Wang, University of Science and Technology of China (completed in 2013)
• Shuo Wang (completed in 2011)
• Zai Wang, University of Science and Technology of China (completed in 2011)
• Peter Whigham (co-supervisor)
• John Woodward (completed in 2005)
• Bao-Lin Wu (co-supervisor) (completed in 2001)
• Xiaoxing Yang, University of Science and Technology of China (completed in 2013)
• Zhengyu Yang, University of Science and Technology of China (completed in 2010)
• Xin Yu, University of Science and Technology of China (completed in 2011)

I'm also a thesis group member of the following PhD students:

• James Bradbury
• Weiqi Chen
• Simon Fong
• Sara Hassan
• Nishan Kamaleson
• Benjapun Kaveelerdpotjana
• Dong Li
• Michael Mathew
• Maria Salama

• Khulood Alyahya
• Sarah Al-Azzani
• Faisal Alrebeish
• Stevan J Anastasoff
• Jakramate Bootkrajang
• Gavin Brown
• Tao Chen
• Funmilade Faniyi
• Robert Goldsmith
• Adrian Hartley
• Marcos Ivan Quintana Hernandez
• Guanbo Jia
• Ming Jiang
• Vladislav Kramarev
• Tim Kovacs
• Victor M. Landassuri-Moreno
• Zhenyu Liu
• Jason Cheah Moey
• Abel Garcia Najera
• Vivek Nallur
• James Neil
• Stuart Reynolds
• Mark Roberts
• Mark Rowan
• Zeyn A Saigol
• Tebogo Seipone
• Christopher Staite
• Wen-Chi Yang
• Jane Li Zhang
• Hang Zhang
• Claudio Zito

Long-Term Academic Visitors

• Prof. Guofu Zhang, School of Computer and Information Sciences, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China. (09/09/2015 - 8/9/2016)
• Dr. Siang Yew Chong, School of Computer Science, The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Jalan Broga, 43500 Semenyih, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia. (1-31 July 2009)
• Matteo De Felice, ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment), Rome, Italy. (16 June - 15 September 2009).
• Zhenyu Yang, Nature Inspired Computation and Applications Laboratory (NICAL), Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China. (8/10/2008 - 7/10/2009)
• Mr Weishan Dong, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. (2/9/2008 - 31/3/2009)
• Mr Yang Yu, Department of Computer Science, Nanjing University, China. (1/9/2008 - 28/2/2009)
• Dr. Tapabrata Ray, School of Aerospace, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia. (15/8/2008 - 15/2/2009)
• Dr. Hisashi Handa, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Japan. (15/7 - 7/10/2008)
• Dr. Xiaodong Li, School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476v, Melbourne, 3001, Victoria, Australia. (14/7 - 19/9/2008)
• Mr. Juan Peralta Donate, Universidad Carlos III, Avenida De la Universidad 30, Legan\'es 28911, Madrid, Spain. (14/7-14/9/2008)
• Dr. Yi-Yuan Chiang, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Vanung University, No.1, Vanung Rd, Chungli, Taoyuan, Taiwan 320. (10/7-30/8/2008)
• Professor Tianshi Liu, School of Computer Science, Xi'an Shiyou University, Dian Zi 2nd Road 18, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710065, P. R. China. (31/1/2008-30/7/2008)
• Professor Shuang Cong, Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, P. R. China. (10/1/2008-9/4/2008)
• Mr Li-Ning Xing, College of Information System and Management, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan 410073, P.R. China. (22/11/2007-21/11/2008)
• Miss Jiali Yun, School of Computer Science and Information Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, P.R. China. (18/11/2007-17/11/2008)
• Miss Yang Li, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, Beijing 100083, P. R. China. (31/10/2007-30/10/2009)
• Professor Naiqian Li, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Baoji University of Arts and Science, No. 44, Baoguang Road, Weibing District, Baoji, Shaanxi 721007, P. R. China. (14/10/2007-7/10/2008)
• Dr. Cara MacNish, School of Computer Science & Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia, M002, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia. (3/9-30/11/2007)
• Professor Dunwei Gong, School of Information and Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, XuZhou, Jiangsu 221008, China. (9/7/2007-30/12/2007)
• Ingo Paenke, Institut fur Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren - AIFB Universitat Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany. (5/2-30/3/2007)
• Professor Chengjian Wei, College of Information Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing 210009, JiangSu Province, P.R. China. (August 2006 - August 2007)
• Dr. Hirotaka Inoue, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Information Science, Kure National College of Technology, 2-2-11 Agaminami, Kure-shi, Hiroshima 737-8506, Japan. (March 29, 2006 - March 14, 2007)
• Dr. Xinqi Wang, College of Computer Science, Hangzhou Dianzi University (HDU), Xiasha, Hangzhou 310018, P. R. China. (Sept. 2005 - Sept 2006)
• Dr. Dan Lin, Department of Mathematics, School of Sciences, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China. (August 2005 - August 2006)
• Dr. Zhaoxia Wang, School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China. (August - December 2005)
• Dr. Carsten Witt, Informatik 2, Universitat Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany (1 - 31 October 2005).
• Professor Jinping Li, School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Jinan University. (February - August 2005)
• Dr. Maolin Tang, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (26 January - 31 March 2005).
• Dr Hisashi Handa, Okayama University, Japan (13 December 2004 - 15 September 2005).
• Professor Zhengyu Zhu, Chongqing University, China (September 2004 - September 2005).
• Dr. Yong Liu, University of Aizu, Japan (August 2003 - March 2004)
• Prof. Nader Nariman Zadeh, Dean of Engineering Faculty, The University of Guilan, Iran. (Sept 2003 - March 2004)
• Dr. Ong Yew Soon, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 12/2003-1/2004
• Shisanu Tongchim (Thailand) spent six months here in 2002/03.
• Dr. Shengxiang Yang spent part of his sabbatical leave with me in 2003.
• Dr. Yoshiyuki Matsumura (six months from 16 October 2002)
• Dr. Subin Wang (12 months from 22 April 2002)
• Wenxue Wang (12 months from 2 February 2002)
• Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb (2-15 December 2001 and 27 May - 28 June 2002)
• Dr. Paul Darwen (26 July - 11 August 2000)
• Dr. Jun He (8 July 2000 -- 7 September 2000)
• Prof. Nabil M. Hewahi (8-30 April 2000)
• Prof. Chang-Yong Lee (10 January - 9 February 2001)
• Prof. Qiangping Qu (6-31 August 2001)
• Prof. Thomas Runarsson (23 August - 20 September 2002)
• Prof. Jitang Wang (12 months from 17 July 2001)
• Prof. Qiang Zhao (six months from 10 July 2002)

Short-Term Visitors

• Dr. Frank Neumann, Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Informatik, Department 1: Algorithms and Complexity, Building 46.1, Room 317, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85, 66123 Saarbr\"ucken, Germany. (20-24/10/2008)
• Dr. Naoyuki Kubota (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan) and Dr. Honghai Liu (University of Portsmouth, UK). 2 August 2007.
• Dr. Tomoharu Nakashima from the Osaka Prefecture University, Japan. 27 July 2007.
• Prof. John Fulcher, School of Information Technology and Computer Science, University of Wollongong, Northfields Ave, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia. 20 July 2007.
• Prof. Bob Mckay, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, San 56-1 Sillim-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, South Korea 151-744. 2-6 July 2007.
• Prof. Darrell Whitley, Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA. 2-6 July 2007.
• Prof. De-Shuang Huang, Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui, China. 3-9 July 2006.
• Prof. Shigeyoshi Tsutsu from Hannan University, Japan, and Prof. Isao Hayashi from Kansai University, Japan, 13 December 2004.
• Dr. Lipo Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 4-15/8/2003.
• Prof. Andre Ponce de Leon F. de Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil, 27-30/7/2003.
• Dr. Guo-Jian Cheng, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany. 8-31/3/2003.
• Prof. George Milne, Universiy of Western Australia, 2002
• Dr. Jennifer Hallinan, University of Queensland, 2002
• Prof. Janet Wiles, University of Queensland, 2001
• Prof. Ah Chung Tsoi, University of Wollongong, 2000