Xiaodong Li's Home Page

Xiaodong Li, PhD, Senior Lecturer

School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University

GPO Box 2476v, Melbourne, 3001, Victoria, Australia
Office: 10.11.17A (City Campus)
Email: xiaodong.li @ rmit.edu.au
Telephone: +61 3 99259585
Facsimile: +61 3 96621617

Consultation time: every Friday between 4 - 5pm

*Note: I am currently away on my sabbatical (visiting Cercia at University of Birmingham between 12 July - 6 October).

Research interests

Artificial Intelligence; Learning algorithms; Neural Networks; Connectionist Learning models; Evolutionary Algorithms; Genetic Programming; Artificial Life; Complex Systems; Cellular Automata; Chaos theory; Multi-agent simulation; Intelligent Agents; Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs); Swarm intelligence; Particle Swarm; Ant colony algorithms; Percolation; Self-organized criticality; Phase transition; Prisoner's dilemma; Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization; Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimization Problems; No Free Lunch; Game theory; Memetic Algorithms; Neuro-evolution methods
Differential Evolution

I am a member of ECML (Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning) research group. Following are links to my publications; research associates, and some potential research projects.

Professional activities

I am an IEEE Senior Member.

I am an Associate Editor for the journal of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.

Technical Committee member of Working Group on Swarm Intelligence, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

Member of the Technical Committee on Soft Computing, Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, IEEE.

I am the General Chair for The Seventh International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'08), which will be held in Melbourne, 7th - 10th December, 2008.

Call for papers: Special issue on Swarm Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.

Program committee member of the 6th European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC 2009), 15-17 April, 2009.

Senior program committee member for The 21st Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'08), 3rd-5th December, 2008.

Program committee member of IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium 2008 (SIS'08), 21st - 23rd September, 2008.

Program committee member of 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008), 1st - 8th June, 2008.

Program committee member of The Third Australian Conference on Artificial Life, 4th-6th December, 2007.

Program committee member of the GECCO 2007 workshop "Particle Swarms the Second Decade".

Program committee member of the GECCO 2007 workshop "Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimization Problems".

Program committee member, Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2007 (CEC 2007), 25th - 28th September, 2007.

Program committee member of the IEEE Symposium on Multi-Criterion Decision Making 2007 (MCDM'07), the 2007 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 1-5, 2007.

Publicity chair and steering committee member of the IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium 2007 (SIS2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 1-5, 2007.

Program committee member of The Fouth International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO'07), Matsushima/Sendai, Japan, 5 - 8th March, 2007.

Program committee member of Biologically Inspired Cooperative Computing, IFIP World Computer Conference 2006.

Program committee member, Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2006 (CEC 2006), 16th - 21st July, 2006.

Organizing chair for special session on Swarm Intelligence, at CEC 2006.

Program committee member, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2006 (GECCO 2006), 8 - 12th July, 2006.

Program committee member of the 4thInternational Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT06). 7 - 9th June, 2006.

Program committee member, IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium 2006, 12-14th May, 2006.

Tutorial and special sessions chair, The Sixth International Conference on Evolution And Learning (SEAL'06), 15 - 18th October, 2006.

and more.

I presented a tutorial on Particle Swarm Optimization at SEAL'06. I also presented (coauthored with Professor Andries Engelbrecht) a tutorial on Particle Swarm Optimization at GECCO'07.

Teaching

COSC1125/1126/1127 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Semester 1, 2005)
COSC1165/1167 Intelligent Web Systems (Semester 1, 2006)
COSC2269/2270 Artificial Intelligence Tools and Applications (Semester 1, 2006): COSC1207/2033 Evolutionary Computing (Semester 2, 2006)

Administrative duties

Program Coordinator for B.App.Sci. (Computer Science) with Honours (BH013). If you are interested in doing Honours, please see my Honours program related information page. For Minor Thesis and Projects, please see MBC related information page.
School seminar coordinator (not for semester 2, 2008 though). If you are interested in giving a talk, please contact Dr Jiankun Hu (acting seminar coordinator).