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Xiaodong Li, PhD, Senior Lecturer

School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University

GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, 3001, Victoria, Australia
Office: 14.08.14B (City Campus)
Email: xiaodong.li <@> rmit.edu.au
Telephone: +61 3 99259585
Facsimile: +61 3 96621617

Consultation time: every Friday between 4:30 - 5:30pm

PhD scholarship is available (starting from 2012) for an ARC Discovery Grant funded project on "Novel Decomposition Methods for Large Scale Optimization". Applicants must have strong background in optimization and excellent undergrad/postgrad results (GPA 3.6 or above). Please see the official advertisement.

Professional activities

IEEE Senior Member.

Associate Editor, the journal of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.

Associate Editor, the International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research (IJSIR)

Member, Task Force on Swarm Intelligence, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

Member, Task Force on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

Vice-chair, Task Force on Large Scale Global Optimization, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

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

Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society – Webinars Subcommittee.

Vice Chair, Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, IEEE Victorian Section, Melbourne, Australia.

Member, IASR Board of Editors, Journal of Advanced Research in Evolutionary Algorithms (JAREA).

Member, Steering committee of Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL).

General Chair, Seventh International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'08), 7 - 10 December 2008.

Program Co-chair, 22nd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09), 1 - 4 December 2009.

Technical Committee Chair, International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI'2010), 6 - 9 June 2010.

Publicity Co-Chair, Seventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), 8 - 10 September 2010.

Visiting research fellow at CERCIA, University of Birmingham (12 July - 19 September 2008; 13 - 22 May 2009; 28 August - 11 September 2009), funded by an EPSRC grant.

Guest editor, Special issue on Swarm Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.

Organizing chair, First Australasian Computational Intelligence Summer School (ACISS’09), 30 November - 1 December, 2009.

Organizing chair, 2010 IEEE CEC Special Session on Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization, 18 - 23 July 2010, Barcelona, Spain.

Program Chair, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2012 (CEC 2012), part of 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012), 10 - 15 June 2012.

Special session chair, Third International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI'2012), Shenzhen, China, 17 - 20 June 2012.

Research interests

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

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.

Citation stats: h-index: 19, according to GoogleScholar; and h-index: 14, according to Scopus.

Teaching

COSC1283/1284 Programming Techniques (2007 - present)
Introduction to Programming (2010): COSC1125/1126/1127 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (2001 - 2005)
COSC1165/1167 Intelligent Web Systems (2006 - 2007)
COSC2269/2270 Artificial Intelligence Tools and Applications (2005 - 2006): COSC1207/2033 Evolutionary Computing (2002 - present)

Administrative duties

RMIT Programming Club coordinator.: ACM ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) 2010 South Pacific Regional Contest - Melbourne Site