Research Associates

Prof. Xin Yao (University of Birmingham, UK)

Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)

Prof. Zbigniew Michalewicz (University of Adelaide)

Prof. Juergen Branke (Warwick Business School The University of Warwick, UK)

Prof. Xinghuo Yu (RMIT Electrical Engineering)

Prof. Jinhu Liu (RMIT Electrical Engineering)

Prof. David Green (Monash University, Clayton)

Prof. Hussein A. Abbass (ADFA Canberra)

Prof. Martin Purvis (Otago University, NZ)

Associate Prof. Vic Ciesielski (RMIT Computer Science)

Prof. Ke Tang (University of Science and Technology, China)
Dr. Michael Kirley (Melbourne University)

Dr. Tim Blackwell (Computing at Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Dr. Jani Rönkkönen (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland)

Prof. Jiyuan Tu (RMIT SAMME)

Research Supervision

William Raffe (PhD candidate, 2011) - Comprehensive Video Game Map Generation through Evolutionary Algorithms (I am the 2nd supervisor)

Lachlan Gregor (PhD candidate, 2011) - Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Actions (I am the 1st supervisor)

Robert Carrese (PhD candidate, 2010) - Integrating User-Preference PSO and Kriging Metamodeling for Airfoil Design (I am the 2nd supervisor)

Mohammad Nabi Omidvar (PhD candidate, 2010) - Cooperative Coevolution for Large Scale Optimization (I am the 1st supervisor)

Sayed Yousef Monir Vaghefi (PhD candidate, 2011) - Topic on Machine Learning (I am the 1st supervisor)

Mohammad Reza Bonyadi (PhD candidate, 2011, University of Adelaide) - Constrained Optimization Using Particle Swarms (I am the 2nd supervisor)

Iman Amini (PhD candidate, 2011) - Text mining on medical clinical records (I am the 2nd supervisor)

Zhaolin Zhai (Master student, 2010) - Multimodal Optimization Using Particle Swarms  (I am the 1st supervisor)

Emil B. Kjer (Master student, 2011) - Passenger journey planner optimization using an evolutionary algorithm  (I am the 1st supervisor)

Asad Mohammadi (Master student, 2011) - Evolutionary Many-objective Optimization (I am the 1st supervisor)

Past Students

Upali K Wickramasinghe (PhD candidate, completed) - Integrating User Preference information into a Multiobjective Particle Swarm Optimizer (I'm the 1st supervisor)

Lachlan Gregor (Minor thesis, 2010) - Support Vector Machine for Time Series Predictions

Mohammad Nabi Omidvar (Honours student) - Cooperative Coevolution for Large Scale Optimization (I am the 1st supervisor)

Stefan Bird (PhD, 2008, completed) - Optimization in Dynamic Environments (1st supervisor)

Antony William Iorio (PhD, 2008, completed) - Handling parameter interactions in multiobjective optimization (1st supervisor)

Xiang Li (PhD, 2007, completed) - Genetic Programming and its applications (2nd supervisor)

Lily Li (PhD, 2009, completed) - Constraint handling using Particle Swarm Optimization (I'm the 2nd supervisor)

Clemens Gersbacher (Master, completed) - Improving Binary PSOs for knapsack problems

Richard Allmendinger (Master, 2008, completed) - Reference Point-Based Particle Swarm Optimization Using a Steady-State Approach

Martin Jane (Master, 2008, completed) - Evolutionary Algorithms and Multi-Objectivization for the Travelling Salesman Problem

Jia Liang He (Master, 2006, completed) - An adaptive Particle Swarm Optimizer (1st supervisor)

Gayan Wijesinghe (Honours, 2005) - Particle Swarm Optimization for image classification

Alex Holkner (Honours, 2006) - Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization for document layout (1st supervisor)

Daniel Parrott (Contracted programmer) - Particle Swarm with speciation for tracking multiple peaks in a dynamic environment

Yaniv Bernstein - Research project on multiobjective optimization applied to Genetic Programming for image classification

Anton Davis (PhD candidate, 2004) - Novel Genetic Programming techniques (2nd supervisor)

Jonathon Vincent (3rd year research project, 2003) - Neuro-evolution techniques to solve the predator-prey pursuit problems
Thomas Phillip Loveard (PhD completed in 2003) - Genetic Programming Methods for Classification Problems (second supervisor)
Antony William Iorio (Master thesis, completed, 2002) - Parameter control within a cooperative coevolutionary genetic algorithm
Yaniv Bernstein (Honours thesis, completed, 2002) - An investigation of applying self-organized criticality to evolutionary algorithms
Tom Gamble (3rd year research project, 2002) - Effects of spatial structure on the dominance of popular strategies in an iterated prisoner's dilemma (IPD)
Amit Kumar Shreewastav (3rd year research project, 2002) - Self-adaptive parameter control in a fine-grained parallel genetic algorithm

Elizabeth Ash (Honours thesis, Charles Sturt, 1998) - Modelling Watertable Fluctuations in Acid Sulphate Soils, Tweed Heads Using Artificial Neural Networks
William Magill (Honours thesis, Monash, 2000) - Modelling Fire Behaviours under Environmental Influences Using a Cellular Automaton Approach

I was also a second supervisor for two Ph.D. students at Charles Sturt and Monash Universities.