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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, 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.

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

Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

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

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

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.

Organizing committee member, 2010 IEEE CEC Special Session on Large Scale Global Optimization, 18 - 23 July 2010, Barcelona, Spain.

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.: Applications for Student summer projects 2010, is due by 26 October 2009.