Xiaodong Li, PhD, Associate Professor

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

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)

Vice Chair, Task Force on Swarm Intelligence, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (from 2012).

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

Chair, Task Force on Large Scale Global Optimization, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (from 2012).

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 of the editorial board of the journal of Swarm Intelligence (Springer), and journal of Softcomputing (Springer).

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

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

Advisor, Scientific Advisory Board, SolveIT Software.

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.

Invited lecturer,  Sun Yat-sen University Computational Intelligence Winter School 2011, Guangzhou, China, 24 - 28 January 2011.

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.

Invited lecturer, an IEEE & ITEE Evening Lecture on "Swarm Intelligence", Melbourne, Australia, 6:30 - 7:30pm, 5 September 2012.

Invited lecturer, two talks on "Swarm Intelligence" and "Decomposition via Cooperative Coevolution for Large Scale Global Optimization",  2012 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Applications (IWNICA'12), Hefei, China, 22 - 25 October 2012.

Organizing chair, 2013 IEEE CEC Special Session on Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization, 20 - 23 June 2013, Cancun, Mexico.

Organizing chair, 2013 IEEE CEC Special Session on Large Scale Global Optimization, 20 - 23 June 2013, Cancun, Mexico

Tuorial speaker, on "Decomposition via Cooperative Coevolution for Large Scale Global Optimization", 2013 IEEE CEC, 20 - 23 June 2013, Cancun, Mexico.

Call-For-Paper: Special Issue of Information Sciences Journal (ISJ) on "Nature-Inspired Algorithms for Large Scale Global Optimization", due 30 September 2013.

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. Here are my publications and CV.

Citation stats: h-index: 24, according to GoogleScholar.

Current competitive national grants

• ARC Discovery Grant (DP120102205), "Novel Decomposition Methods for Large Scale Optimization", $317K, 2012 - 2014.
• ARC Linkage Grant (LP120200305), "An integrated and real-time passenger travel and public transport service information system", $510K, 2012 - 2015.

Teaching

  COSC2148/2149 Research Methods (2013 - present)

  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

             Higer Degree of Research (HDR) coordinator.      

             RMIT Programming Club coordinator.

   ACM ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) 2010 South Pacific Regional Contest - Melbourne Site