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Xiaodong Li, PhD, Senior Lecturer

School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University

GPO Box 2476v, 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 - 5pm

Professional activities 

IEEE Senior Member.

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

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

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

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

Member of Task Force on Large Scale Global Optimization, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

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

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

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

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

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

Visiting research fellow at CERCIA, University of Birmingham (12 July - 19 September 2008).

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

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

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

   Principal components analysis

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.

Teaching

  COSC1283/1284 Programming Techniques (2007 - present)

 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

   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. If you are interested in giving a talk in 2009, please contact me as soon as possible.