Research Associates

Prof. David Green; Associate Prof. David Dowe (Monash University, Clayton)
Dr. Michael Kirley (Melbourne University)

Associate Prof Vic Ciesielski (RMIT Computer Science)
Prof Xinghuo Yu (RMIT Electrical Engineering)
Prof Martin Purvis (Otago University, NZ)
Dr. Hepu Deng (RMIT Business Systems)
Dr. Hussein A. Abbass (ADFA Canberra)
Dr. Tim Blackwell (Computing at Goldsmiths College, University of London)

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

Prof. Xin Yao (University of Birmingham, UK)

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

Dr Jani Rönkkönen (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland)

Research Supervision

Upali K Wickramasinghe (PhD candidate, from 2007) - Integrating User Preference information into a Multiobjective Particle Swarm Optimizer (I'm the 1st supervisor)

Lily Li (PhD candidate, from 2006) - Constraint handling using Particle Swarm Optimization (I'm the 2nd supervisor)

Gayan Wijesinghe (PhD candidate, from 2006) - Topic to be confirmed (I'm the 2nd supervisor)

Clemens Gersbacher (Master, 2009) - Improving Binary PSOs for knapsack problems

Past students

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

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

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

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.