Xin Yao's Current Grants
- Royal Society International Exchange with China. ``Dynamic Optimization
of Software Architectures for Cloud Applications''. GBP12,000.
UK PI: Xin Yao, China Co-I: Xin Du. 31/3/2016 - 31/3/2018.
- Royal Society-Newton Mobility Grant (with Malaysia). ``Learning the
Pareto optimal solutions for vehicle dynamics on Proton Gen-2 with hybrid
powertrain''. Total sum: GBP11,181. Royal Society Award: GBP5,591.
ASM/MIGHT's contribution: MYR40,200 per year.
Malaysia PI: Cheng Wai Kheng, UK Co-I: Xin Yao. 16/3/2016 - 15/3/2018.
- Royal Society Newton Advanced Fellowship. ``Data-Driven Meta-heuristic
Search''. GBP90,000. Fellow: Ke Tang from China, UK Host: Xin Yao.
15/3/2016 - 14/3/2019.
- Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH. ``Experienced-based Optimisation''.
EURO180,000. 1/2/2016 - 31/1/2019.
Fully funded PhD
student vacancy.
- EPSRC (EP/K001523/1).
``Evolutionary
Computation for Dynamic Optimisation in Network Environments.''
GBP512,325. 25 February 2013 --- 17 August 2017.
- EPSRC (EP/J00930X/1).
``New Control Methodology for the Next Generation of Engine Management
Systems.'' GBP563,195. 25 March 2013 --- 24 September 2016. (PI: Hongming
Xu, Co-I: Xin Yao)
- EPSRC (EP/J017515/1).
``DAASE:
Dynamic Adaptive Automated Software Engineering.'' GBP6,834,903. (PI: Mark
Harman. Co-Is: Edmund Burke, John Clark, Jens Krinke and Xin Yao). 1/6/2012 -
31/5/2018.
Completed Grants
- EPSRC KTS (Knowledge Transfer Secondments).
``Least Cost Fulfilment.'' GBP26,415. 23/7/2012 - 31/3/2013.
- EPSRC (EP/I010297/1).
``Evolutionary
Approximation Algorithms for Optimisation: Algorithm Design and Complexity
Analysis.'' GBP469,838. 29 April 2011 - 28 April 2015.
- European Commission. FP7-ICT-2009-6, Challenge 2.
"iSense: Making
Sense of Nonsense". EURO 453,526. 1/1/2011-31/12/2013.
- European Commission. ICT Call 5: FP7-ICT-2009-5. "
EPiCS: Engineering
Proprioception in Computing Systems."
EURO 681,385. 1/9/2010 - 31/8/2014.
- European Commission. Call: FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IRSES. "NICaiA: Nature
Inspired Computation and its Applications." EURO 799,200.
1/10/2010 - 30/9/2014.
- Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH.
``Integrating functional design evaluation methods in aesthetic design
processes.'' EURO 150,000. 1/2/2010 - 31/1/2013.
- EPSRC (EP/J501414/1). EPSRC
Knowledge Transfer Secondments. "Market Based
Control of Complex Computational Systems". GBP19,983. 12/12/2011 - 11/6/2012.
- EPSRC (EP/H500294/1). Knowledge
Transfer Secondment Grant. "Dynamic Optimization in Automotive Applications".
GBP33,375. 31/5/2011 - 30/5/2012.
- Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH.
``Divergence of Neural Structures in Changing Environments.'' EURO 56,000.
1/2/2010 - 31/1/2011.
- EPSRC (EP/D052785/1). ``SEBASE: Software
Engineering By Automated SEarch.'' GBP 764K. 29/6/2006 - 28/12/2011.
- EPSRC (EP/F033087/1).
"Multi-disciplinary Optimisation and Data Mining at Birmingham." GBP360,909.
1/4/2008 - 31/3/2011.
- EPSRC
(EP/E058884/1). ``Evolutionary
Algorithms for Dynamic Optimisation Problems: Design, Analysis and
Applications.'' GBP263,969. Additionally, BT contributed GBP60K
and Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH contributed 64K euros. This is part of
a linked project with the University of Leicester, where
GBP307,469 was
awarded. 1/12/2007 - 30/11/2010.
- Nuffield Foundation. "Evolutionary optimization
and exploration of pattern generation." GBP 1,440. 2/8 - 24/9/2010.
- DSTO, The Commonwealth of Australia. "Fleet designs for Robustness and
Adaptiveness." GBP 47,594. 21/10/2009 - 20/10/2010.
- EPSRC BT Industrial CASE Studentship.
``Autonomic solutions for virtualised ICT.'' GBP 61K. 1/9/2006-31/3/2010.
- Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH. An artificial environment with human
interaction for the evolution of
brain-like processing patterns. EURO 81K. 1/11/2006 - 31/10/2008.
- Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH. The co-evolution of functional
information and information control on the
DNA. EURO 124K. 1/10/2005 - 30/9/2008.
- EPSRC (GR/T10671/01). Market Based
Control of Complex Computational Systems. GBP281K. 1/10/2004-31/3/2010.
- EPSRC (EP/G002339/1)
"Cooperatively
Coevolving Particle Swarms for Large Scale Optimisation". GBP28,341.
21/7/2008-20/10/2009.
- EPSRC (EP/C520696/1). Computational Complexity
Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms. GBP291K. 1/5/2005 - 31/10/2008. (PI: Xin Yao, Co-Is:
Jon Rowe, Jun He)
- PPARC (PP/C503138/1). Designer
Algorithms for Astronomical Data Mining. GBP152K.
(PI: Trevor Ponman, I'm one of the Co-Is) 09/05/2005 - 08/05/2008.
- The Centre of Excellence for Research
in Computational Intelligence and Applications (CERCIA).
GBP2.6M from
Advantage West Midlands (AWM).
(PI: Xin Yao). 1/1/2003-31/3/2007.
- EPSRC and
Thales Research and Technology (UK)
Target Classification and Recognition Using Neural Network Ensembles. GBP65K.
1/2004-12/2006. (PI: Xin Yao)
- Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH. An artificial environment with human
interaction for the evolution of
brain-like processing patterns. EURO 40K. 1/11/2005 - 31/10/2006.
- The Royal Society. ``Follow-Up Networking with China.'' GBP12K. 10/2006. This grant has enabled us to
strengthen our links with leading Chinese researchers in nature inspired
computing by holding workshops in Beijing on 23-24 October 2006, hosted by the
Institute of Systems Sciences, Institute of Computing Technologies and
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a three-day
China-UK Workshop on Nature
Inspired Computation and Applications (CUWNICA'06), on 25-27 October 2006,
hosted by the University of Science and
Technology of China in Hefei, Anhui, China. This is the second such joint
workshop. The first one was
jointly supported by the Royal Society and National Natural Science
Foundations of China in 2004. As a result of deepened ties with Chinese
researchers, a new research laboratory
has been set up with joint efforts from both UK and Chinese scientists.
- Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH. ``DOAR: Design Optimization with
Adaptive Representations.'' EURO 64K. 15/2/2006-11/8/2006.
- EPSRC MTP
on Natural Computation, GBP535K from EPSRC (GR/N29969/01), 2001-2006.
Lead proposer: Xin Yao. Co-proposers: Drs
Riccardo Poli and
Julian Miller.
- Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage --- International.
``Ensembles of Collaborative Neural Networks.'' AUD14K.
(Australia PI: Hussein Abbass, UK PI: Xin Yao). 1/4/2005-31/3/2006
- "High
Performance Computing Facility and Business Incubation Centre.'' GBP250K from
AWM.
PIs: Bob Hendley and Xin Yao. 15/3/2003-31/3/2006.
- Honda Research Institute (Europe) GmbH.
Evolutionary Computation Benchmarking.
EURO 20K. 1/3/2005 - 28/2/2006. (PI: Xin Yao)
- EPSRC (EP/C514297/1). Nature Inspired
Creative Design --- A Design for the 21st Century Research Cluster. GBP50K.
1/1-31/12/2005. (PI: Thorsten Schnier, Co-Is: Xin Yao, Bob Hendley and Russell Beale)
- "Adaptive Agents Simulation of Freshwater Ecosystems." $A167,213.
Australian Research Council (DP0345279).
Investigators: Friedrich Recknagel, Xin Yao and Peter Whigham.
1/1/2003-31/12/2005.
- Honda Research Institute (Europe) GmbH. "Automatic Problem Decomposition Using
Co-evolution and Ensembles." EURO 100K. 21/11/2002-20/11/2005. (PI: Xin Yao)
- EPSRC (GR/S63472/01 and GR/S63465/01).
``Prisoner's Dilemma
Competition: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary.'' GBP24K. (PIs: Xin Yao and Graham
Kendall)
- The Royal Society and National
Natural Science Foundations of China. UK-China
Science Network. GBP4K and CNY40K. 25-29/10/2004. (PI: Xin Yao)
- EPSRC (GR/S63847/01).
``Adaptive
Divide-and-Conquer --- Nature's Way to Cope With Complexity.''
-
Severn Trent Water, Ltd.
Principal Investigator. (Research Assistant: Stuart Reynolds)
- "Average Computation Time of
Evolutionary Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimisation Problems."
GBP62,432 from EPSRC (GR/R52541/01).
1/9/2001-28/2/2003. Principal Investigator.
(Research Fellow: Dr. Jun He)
- "Natural Computation
Techniques for Intelligent Manufacturing." EURO197,285 from the European
Commission (ASI/B7-301/97/0126-08). 1/7/2001-30/6/2002. Coordinator.
Partners: Dr. Hans-Michael Voigt and Professor Kalyanmoy Deb. (MSc Students:
Kamal Gupta, Benoy Ittyavirah Mohammad Saif Khan, Vineet Khare,
Padmanabhan Kolappapillai, Bhuvan Sharma, Markandey Upadhyay, and Vibhu Walia)
- "Automatic Problem Decomposition Using Co-evolution and Ensembles."
1/10/2001-31/3/2002. HONDA R&D Europe (Deutschland) GmbH. Principal
Investigator. (Research Assistant: Gavin Brown)
- EPSRC/BT CASE Studentship,
"Combinations Between
Evolutionary Computation and Neural Networks".
Fully-funded EPSRC Studentship
plus GBP18,600 from BT, 1999-2002. (PhD Student: Rachel Harris)
- Evolvable
Hardware and Automatic Discovery of Unconventional Designs, GBP225,576 from
Marconi plc, 2000-2003. Principal Investigator.
(Research Fellow: Dr. Thorsten Schnier)
- EPSRC (GR/R47394/01), "Theory of Evolutionary Computation- Application for Visiting
Fellowship". (PI: Jon Rowe, Co-Is: Xin Yao and Riccardo Poli).
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