Education

September 1996 - June 1999
     PhD in computer software and theory at State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, P.R. China.
     thesis: Evolutionary Modeling of Complex Systems based on Genetic Programming  (supervised by Professor  Lishan Kang)

 September 1993 - June 1996
      M.Eng. in computer science at Department of Computer Science, Chongqing University, P.R.China.
      thesis: The Study of Diagnosis Algorithms in Probabilistic Diagnosis and Distributed Diagnosis by Computer Simulations (supervised by Professor Tinghuai Chen)

 September 1989 - June 1993
      B. Eng. in computer software at Department of Computer Science, Chongqing University, P.R.China.
 

Employment


November 2007 - present
    EPSRC funded Research Fellow in  School of Computer Science and Information Technology at the University of Nottingham, UK.

July 2003 - July 2006
    ARC funded Research Associate in School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

October 2001 - June 2003
    Associate Professor in State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering at Wuhan University, P.R.China.

July 1999 - December 2001
    Lecturer in State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering at Wuhan University, P.R.China.
 

Professional Activities


Academic Activities
1. Conference Programme Committee Member of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference in 2009 (GECCO-2009), 8-12 July 2009, Montreal, Canada.
2. Conference Programme Committee Member of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference in 1999 (GECCO-1999), 13-17 July 1999, Orlando, Florida, USA.
3. Co-Organizer of International Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, 3-9 April 2000, Wuhan, China.
    (group photo for 2000 EC workshop in Wuhan,  name list in the photo )

Teaching Experience
1. Practical demonstrator in the course of "Concepts in Ecology". The University of Adelaide, Australia, 2007.
2. Practical demonstrator in the course of "Research Methods in Environmental Biology". The University of Adelaide, Australia, 2006.
3. Practical demonstrator in the course of "Ecosystem Modelling for Environmental Management". The University of Adelaide, Australia, 2004.
4. Lecturer on the course of "Computational Methods". Wuhan University, P.R. China, 2000.
5. Lecturer on the course of "Database Theory and Technology". Wuhan University, P.R. China, 2001.

Grant and Journal Reviewer
1. Referee for Research Proposal of Israel Science Foundation (ISF) in 2005 and 2006.
2. Referee for some journals including:
    - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part B: Cybernetics
    - Ecological Modeling
    - Ecological Informatics

Research Students Supervision
-MSc Dissertation Co-supervisor of Byron Zhang (The University of Adelaide, Australia, 2004-2006).
    Thesis: Objected-Oriented Ecosystem Modelling-A Case Study: SALMO-OO.

Awards and Prizes
-2008  Awarded Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Research Fellowship by Department of Education, Science and Training, Australia. (decline for some reason)
-2000  Awarded the Second-Class Prize of Natural Science by Hubei Province of China for the research achievement "Evolutionary Computation and the Modelling of Complex Systems"
-1998  Awarded the Scholarship of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China by Wuhan University, China
-1991-1993  Awarded the Outstanding Student Prize twice by Chongqing University, China
 

Leisure Activities

    Enjoy cooking, garden planting, travelling, and reading.
 

Pictures


 

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