Professional Activities:

Professional memberships:

IEEE Senior Member.

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

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

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.

SIGEVO (The ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation).

Journal editorships:

Associate Editor, the journal of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

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

 Member, editorial board for International Journal of Computational Intelligence (IJCI)

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

Guest editor, Special issue on Swarm Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, August 2009
Guest editor, special issue on Evolutionary Optimization and Learning, Journal of Soft Computing (to appear).
Guest editor, special issue on Simulated Evolution and Learning, Journal of Evolutionary Intelligence, Vol. 2, 2009
Guest editor, special issue on Evolutionary Optimization, Journal of Computer Science Technology,  Vol.23, No.1, January 2008.
Guest editor, special issue on Simulated Evolution and Learning,  International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (IJCIA), World Scientific Press, Vol.7, No.2, June 2008,
Guest editor, special issue on Theoretical Foundations of Evolutionary Computation,  Journal of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Springer, Vol.9, No.2, June 2008
Guest editor, special issue on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization,  Connection Science, Vol.19, No.4, December 2007

Conference chairs:

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

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

Publicity chair, Second International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI'2011), Chongqing, China, 12 - 15 June 2011.
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. 

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

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

Organizing chair, First Australasian Computational Intelligence Summer School (ACISS’09), 30 November - 1 December, 2009.
General Chair, Seventh International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'08), 7 - 10 December 2008.
Publicity chair and steering committee member, IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium 2007 (SIS2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 1 - 5 April, 2007.
Organizing chair, special session on Swarm Intelligence,  CEC'06.
Tutorial and special sessions chair, Sixth International Conference on Evolution And Learning (SEAL'06), Hefei, China, 15 - 18 October, 2006.    
 Organizing chair, special session on Swarm Intelligence, CEC 2004.
 Organizing chair, special session on Swarm Intelligence and Its Applications, CEC 2003.

Program committees:

Programme committee member,  Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2012 (GECCO 2012), 7 - 11 July 2012, Philadelphia, USA.

Program committee member,  Eighth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2012), 12-14 September 2012, Brussels, Belgium.

Program committee member,  12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN 2012), 1-5 September 2012, Taormina, Italy.

Program committee member,  24th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'11), 5th-8th December 2011, Western Australia.

Program committee member, 2011 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS2011), Paris, France, 11 - 15 April 2011.

Program committee member, 6th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO 2011), 5 - 8 April 2011, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Program committee member, European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation 2011 (EVO 2011), 27-29 April 2011, Torino, Italy.

Program committee member, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2011 (CEC 2011),  June 5-8, 2011, New Orleans, USA.

Program committee member (ACO-SI track), Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2011 (GECCO 2011),  July 12-16, 2011, Dublin, Ireland.

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

Program committee member,  Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2010 (GECCO 2010),  7th - 11th July  2010.

 Program committee member,  Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2009 (GECCO 2009), 8 - 12 July, 2009.

Program committee member,  Fifth International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO'09), 7th - 10th April, 2009.

Program committee member,  2009 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium (SIS'09), 30th March -  2nd April, 2009.

 Program committee member,  IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2009 (CEC 2009), 18th - 21st May, 2009.

Program committee member,  2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriterion Decision-Making (MCDM'09), 30th March -  2nd April, 2009.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  Program committee member, 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, 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.

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

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

  Program committee member, 4th International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT06). 7 - 9 June, 2006.
  Program committee member, Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2006 (CEC 2006), 16th - 21st July, 2006.

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

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

  Program committee member, 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - AI05, 5th - 9th December 2005.

  Program committee member, Third International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO'05), 9 - 11th March, 2005.

  Program committee member, Second Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL'05), 5-7th December, 2005.

  Program committee member, Special session on Swarm Intelligence, 2005 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI 2005)

  Program committee member, Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2004 (CEC 2004), 20th - 23rd June, 2004.

  Program committee member, 17th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - AI04, 6th - 10th December 2004.

 Technical committee member, Inaugural workshop on Artificial Life (AL'01), Adelaide, Australia, December 2001,

 Program committee member,  Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2003 (CEC 2003).

 Program committee member, First Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL03), 2003.

Reviewer for the following international journals:

  IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B

  Journal of Evolutionary Computation

  IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part C: Applications and Reviews

  IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

  International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications

  Journal of Research and Practice in Information Retrieval

  International Journal of Knowledge-Based Engineering Systems

  Journal of Heuristics

  Journal of Soft Computing

  Neural Computing

  Connection Science

  Journal of Computer Science Technology

  Information Sciences Journal (ISJ)

  Swarm Intelligence

  Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

  Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications

  Computers & Operations Research

  Pattern Recognition

  Theoretical Computer Science

  Computational Optimization and Applications

  Book series on Computational Intelligence in Expensive Optimization Problems

  Natural Computing

  International Journal of Systems Science

External PhD examinations:

  PhD thesis, Department of Information Science, University of Otago, New Zealand, 2004.

  PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2005.

  PhD thesis, Department of Information Science, University of Otago, New Zealand, 2007.

  PhD thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia, 2009.

  PhD thesis, School of Aerospace, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia, 2009.

 PhD thesis, School of Engineering and Information Technology, University College, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, Australia, 2009.

  PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2009.

  PhD thesis, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia, 2011.

  PhD thesis, Department of Statistics, Macquarie University, Australia, 2012.

Tutorials and talks:

Invited lecture, on "Advances on Particle Swarm Optimization", Sun Yat-sen University Computational Intelligence Winter School 2011, Guangzhou, China, 24 - 28 January 2011.

A seminar talk on "Particle Swarm  Optimization", School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences, RMIT University, 28 May 2010.

A seminar on "Recent developments on Particle Swarm Optimization", University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China, 24 September 2008.

A tutorial on "Particle Swarm Optimization",  with Prof. Andries P. Engelbrecht, GECCO'07, London, UK, 7 - 11 July 2007.

A tutorial on "Particle Swarm Optimization", SEAL'06, Hefei, China, 15 - 18 October 2006.

A seminar talk on "Multiobjective Optimization using Particle Swarms", Monash University, Melbourne, 2005.

Photos:

      I was giving a short speech during the SEAL'08 conference dinner (to thank everyone making the conference a success).

         The dean of Engineering of the Melbourne University giving an opening speech at SEAL'08 (Mengjie Zhang, Michael Kirley, and I were sitting at the front rows).