Editorial/Chair/Membership

• Area Editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence since October 2022.
• Area Editor of Journal of the Operational Research Society since Feb 2020.
• Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation since Jan 2020.
• Associate Editor of Computational Intelligence Magazine (CIM) since Jan 2016.
• Associate Editor of PeerJ Computer Science since 2015.
• IEEE Senior member since 2012.
• JSPS Invited Fellow at Computational Intelligence Labo. at Osaka Prefecture University, Dec 2016 - Jan 2017. Seminar cafe, JSPS-Net
• Vice Chair (2019-present) of Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
• Vice Chair (2019-present) of Task Force on Automated Algorithm Design, Configuration and Selection (AADCS) at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
• Vice Chair (2019-present) of Task Force on Intelligent Systems in Healthcare at Technical Committee on Intelligent Systems Applications at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
• Vice Chair (2015-2018) of Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
• Vice Chair (2013-2018) of Task Force on Hyper-heuristics at Technical Committee on Intelligent Systems Applications at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
• Chair (2007-2012) and Member (2013-present) of Task Force on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation at Technical Committee of Evolutionary Computation at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
• Member of IEEE Women in Computational Subcommittee
  
  
• Guest editor, Special Issue on Automation in AI and Machine Learning at IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2020.
• Guest editor, Special Issue of Automated Design of Machine Learning and Search Algorithms, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 13(2), June, 2018.
• Guest editor, Special Issue of Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling at Journal of Scheduling, 12(3), June, 2009.
  
  
• IEEE Symposium on Automated Algorithm Design, Configuration and Selection (IEEE AADCS) at SSCI2022, 4-7 Dec 2022, Singapore.
• Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Healthcare Industry at WCCI2022, 18-23 Jul 2022, Padua, Italy.
• IEEE Symposium on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation at SSCI2021, 4-7 Dec 2021, Florida, USA.
• Special Session on Evolutionary Computation for Automated Algorithm Design at CEC, WCCI'2021, 28.06-1.07.2021 Krakow, Poland.
• Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Healthcare Industry at CEC, WCCI'2021, 28.06-1.07.2021 Krakow, Poland.
• IEEE Symposium on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation (IEEE ESCO) at SSCI2020, 1-4 Dec 2020, Canberra Australia.
• Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Healthcare Industry at CEC, WCCI'2020, 19-24 July, 2020, Glasgow, UK.
• Stream on Hyper-heuristics at INFORS 2020, June 21-26 2020, Seoul/Korea.
• IEEE Symposium on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation (IEEE ESCO) at SSCI2019, 6-9, Dec 2019 Xiamen, China.
• Stream on Hyper-heuristics at EURO2019, June 23-26, 2019 Dublin, Ireland.
• Special Session on Auto Machine Learning, Auto ML at IJCNN 2019, 14-19 July 2019.
• Special Session on Evolutionary Computation for Automated Algorithms Design at CEC'2019, 10-13 June, 2019.
• Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Healthcare Industry at CEC'2019, 10-13 June, 2019.
• Special Session on Hybrid Algorithms in Scheduling and Network Design at CEC'2019, 10-13 June, 2019.
• Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Healthcare Industry at CEC'2018, WCCI'2018, July, 2018, Rio Brazil.
• Stream on Hyper-heuristics at EURO2018, July, 2018, Valencia, Spain.
• Special Session on Computational Intelligence for the Automated Design of Machine Learning and Search (CIAD 2018) WCCI'2018, July, 2018, Rio Brazil.
• 2017 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling and Network Design (IEEE CISND'17) CISched'17 at 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence SSCI'2017, December Hawaii, USA.
• Special Session on Automated Design: Hyper-heuristics and Metaheuristics at CEC'2016, WCCI'2016, 25-29, July, 2016, Vancouver, Canada.
• 2016 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling and Network Design (CISND'16) at SSCI'2016, December 6-9, 2016, Athens, Greece.
• 2015 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling CISched'15 at 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence SSCI'2015, December 7-10, 2015, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Special Session on Hypeheuristics in Scheduling at MISTA'2015, Prague, Czech Republic, 25-28 Aug 2015.
• Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Hyper-heuristics at CEC'2015, 25-28 May, 2015, Sendai, Japan.
• Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization at CEC'2014, WCCI'2014, Beijing, China.
• Chair (with Dario Landa-Silva and Kay Chen Tan) Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimization at 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2013), June 20-23, 2013, Cancun, Mexico. Call for Papers
• Chair (with Kay Chen Tan) Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Scheduling at 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2012), June 10-15, 2012, Brisbane, Australia. Call for Papers
• Chair (with Sima Uyar) Special Session on Evolutionary-Based Hyper-heuristics and Their Applications at 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2012), June 10-15, 2012, Brisbane, Australia. Call for Papers
• Chair (with Ling Wang) 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched2013) at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2013), Singapore 16-19 April, 2013. Call for Papers
• Chair (with Ender Ozcan and Michel Gendreau) of 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched2011) at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2011), Paris, 11-15 April, 2011. Call for Papers
• International Advisory Board member of The Third Conference on Data Mining and Optimization (DMO'11), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 28 & 29 June 2011.
• Co-chair of Special Session of Evolutionary Computation in Scheduling at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2010), Barcelona, 18-23 July, 2010.
• Organiser (with Edward Tsang) of the special session on Computational Intelligence Methods in Finance and Management at The 6th International Conference on Computational Management Science (CMS2009), Geneva, May 1-3 2009.
• International Advisory Board member of The Data Mining and Optimization Seminar (DMO'09), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 27-28 October 2009.
• Chair (with Tan Kay Chen and Michel Gendreau) of 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computatal Intelligence in Scheduling (CI-Sched 2009), Nashville, TN, USA, Mar 30 - Apr 2, 2009. Call For Papers
• Program chair of The 25th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (PlanSIG'06), Nottingham, UK, 14th - 15th December, 2006.
• Publicity chair of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched'07), Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007.
• Memeber of Task Committee on Intelligent Systems Applications at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
• Special Interest Group on Local Search at The OR Society.
• Organiser team member of The second International Timetabling Competition, sponsored by PATAT and WATT.

Keynotes / Invited Talks / Seminars

• Invited Talk, "Towards a Better Understanding of Search Algorithms: A New Standard on Algorithm Design" at CEC 2019.
• "Recent Developments in Real-world Optimisation - Towards Automated Algorithm Design", 2020 China Artificial Intelligence Summit, 30 Oct, 2020.
• "Recent Developments on Combinatorial Optimisation Problems", Masaryk University, Czech Republic, Oct, 2015.
• "Hybridising Constructive Heuristics within Hyper-heuristic Frameworks"", Xidian University, Xi'an, China, August 2012.
• "Hybridising constructive heuristics in hyper-heuristics", Invited talk at Workshop of "Self-tuning, self-configuring and self-generating search heuristics" at the 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN 2010), 11 - 15, September, 2010. .pdf
• "Recent Research on Nurse Rostering and Other Ongoing Research in Scheduling and Optimisation", Xidian University, Xi'an, China, March, 2008. .pdf.
• "Recent Research on Nurse Rostering at ASAP Group"", Atoss, Munich, Germany, 17th-18th, September, 2007.pdf
• Observations of a Graph-Based Hyper-heuristic to Timetabling Problems". University of Osnabruck, Germany. Nov 2004 .pdf

• "Summer School Course on Hyper-heuristics". Invited summer school course (with Dr G. Ochoa), Istanbul Technology University, Turkey, 31st July - 3rd August 2007. (lecture slides on request). Invited summer school course (with Dr G. Ochoa), Istanbul Technology University, Turkey, 31st July - 3rd August 2007. (lecture slides on request). .pdf
• "Intelligent Decision Support in Scheduling and Optimization". .pdf
• "Graph Based Hyper-heuristic Framework", .pdf

Programme Committee Member

• 16th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (EvoCOP'2016), Porto, Portugal, 30 March - 1 April 2016.
• 2015 Multi-disciplinary international scheduling conference: Theory & Applications (MISTA 2015), Prague, Czech Republic (25-28 Aug 2015).
• The 1st BRICS Countries & 11th Brazilian Congress on Computational Intelligence (BRICS-CCI & CBIC 2013), Recife, Brizil, 8-11 September 2013.
• The 13th UK Annual Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2013), Heriot-Watt University, UK, 9-11 September 2013.
• Thirty Third SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-2013), Cambridge, England, 10-12 December 2013.
• 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2013), 20-23 June, Cancun, Mexico.
• The 6th multi-disciplinary international scheduling conference: Theory & Applications (MISTA 2013), Ghent, Belgium 27-30 Aug 2013.
• Workshop track on Self* Search (GECCO 2013), July 6-10, 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• The 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2013), 15-18 Feb 2013, Barcelona, Spain.
• The 30th Workshop of the UK PLANNING AND SCHEDULING Special Interest Group (PlanSIG12), Middlesbrough UK, December 13th-14th 2012.
• The 12th UK Annual Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2012), Heriot-Watt University, UK, 5th-7th September 2012.
• The IEEE International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI2012), October 18-20 2012, Nanjing, China.
• The Ninth International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2012), 28-30 August 2012, Son, Norway.
• The Ninth International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL 2012), 16-19 December 2012, Ha Noi, Vietnam.
• Workshop track on Self* Search (GECCO 2012), July 7-11, 2012, Philadelphia, USA.
• 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2012), 10-15 June, Brisbane, Australia.
• The 7th European Event on Nature-inspired Techniques in Scheduling, Planning and Timetabling (EvoSTIM 2012), 2012, Malaga.
• The 29th Workshop of the UK PLANNING AND SCHEDULING Special Interest Group (PlanSIG11), University of Huddersfield in December 2011.
• Thirtieth SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-2011), Cambridge, England, 13-15 December 2011.
• the Fourth International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence (IWACI2012), October 19-21, 2011, Wuhan, China
• The 5th multi-disciplinary international scheduling conference: Theory & Applications (MISTA 2011), Phoenix, Arizona, Aug 9-12, 2011.
• 2011 International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (KEOD 2011), Paris, France, 26-29 October, 2011.
• UK Annual Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2011), University of Manchester, 7th - 9th September 2011.
• 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2011), New Orleans, USA, June 5-8, 2011.
• Workshop track on Self* Search at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2011), July 12-16, 2011, Dublin, Ireland.
• Scheduling and Planning Applications woRKshop (SPARK'11) at the 21st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'11), Freiburg, Germany, June 11-16, 2011.
• Special session on Self-tuning, self-configuring and self-generating evolutionary algorithms at the Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION 5), Jan 17-21, 2011, Rome, Italy.
• The 3rd Conference on Data Mining and Optimization (DMO 2011), 27-29 June, 2011, Putrajaya, Malaysia.
• The 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2011), 28-30 January, 2011, Rome, Italy.
• The 6th European Event on Nature-inspired Techniques in Scheduling, Planning and Timetabling (EvoSTIM 2011), 2011 EvoStar, Turin.
• The 28th Workshop of the UK PLANNING AND SCHEDULING Special Interest Group (PlanSIG10) and the 4th Italian Workshop on Planning and Scheduling, associated with (AI*IA 2010) December 1-3, Brescia, Italy.
• Thirtieth SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-2010), Cambridge, England, 14-16 December 2010.
• IEEE-RIVF International Conference on Computing and Telecommunication Technologies 2010 (IEEE-RIVF 2010), Hanoi, Vietnam, Nov 1-4, 2010.
• Workshop on Self-tuning, self-configuring and self-generating search heuristics at the 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN'10), September 11-15, 2010, Krakow, Poland.
• Workshop on Systems to Build Systems at The 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2010), Barcelona, 18-23 July, 2010.
• The Third International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence (IWACI2010), Suzhou, China, August 25-27, 2010.
• 2010 International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (KEOD 2010), Valencia, Spain, 25-28 October, 2010.
• The 8th International Series of Conferences on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2010), Queen's University Belfast, UK, August 10 - 13, 2010.
• Scheduling and Planning Applications woRKshop SPARK at the 20th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'10), Toronto, Canada, May 12-16, 2010.
• 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2010), 22-24 January, 2010, Valencia, Spain.
• Twenty-ninth SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-2009), Cambridge, England, 15-17 December 2009.
• 2009 International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (KEOD 2009), Madeira, 5 - 8 October, 2009, Portugal.
• Scheduling and Planning Applications woRKshop (SPARK) at the 19th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'09), September 19-23, 2009, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• IEEE-RIVF International Conference on Computing and Telecommunication Technologies 2009 (IEEE-RIVF 2009), track "Applied Operations Research and Optimization", Da Nang City, Vietnam, July 13-17, 2009.
• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2009 (IEEE CEC 2009), Trondheim, Norway, May 18-21, 2009.
• The 27th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (PlanSIG'2008), Edinburgh, UK, 11th - 12th December, 2008.
• The 7th International Series of Conferences on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT'2008), University of Montreal, August 19 - 22, 2008.
• The 26th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (PlanSIG'2007), Prague, Czech Republic, 17th - 18th December, 2007.
• Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2007), Zhengzhou, China. September 14-17, 2007.
• The 20th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE 2007), Kyoto, Japan, June 26-29, 2007.
• 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched'07), Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007.
• The 6th International Series of Conferences on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT'2006), Brno, Czech Republic, 30th August - 1st September 2006.

Referees

• Paper reviews for
  • Annals OR, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), Information Systems and Operational Research (INFOR), INFORMS Journal of Computing, International Transactions on Operational Research (ITOR), International Journal of Management and Decision Making (IJMDM), International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, Journal of Operations Research Society (JORS), Journal of Scheduling, Operations Research, Operations Research for Health Care
  • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Evolutionary Intelligence, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, International Journal of Metaheuristics, Journal of Heuristics, Memetic Computing, Natural Computing
  • AI Communications, Applied Intelligence, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, International Journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Knowledge Management Research & Practice (KMRP)
  • Communication Letters, Information Sciences, International Magazine on Advances in Computer Science and Telecommunications, Journal of the Network and Systems Management,
  • Automation in Construction, Computers & Industrial Engineering, European Journal of Industrial Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management,
  • International Journal of Computers & Applications, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, International Journal of Production Economics, The IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, Finance and Management, Intelligent Systems in Accounting
• Book reviews for The OR Society
  

Qualifications

• Fellow of The Higher Education Academy, Nov 2011, UK.
• PGCHE, May, 2011, The University of Nottingham, UK.
• 1998-2002 PhD in Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
  
• 1992-1996 BSc in Computer Science and Its Application, XiDian University, ShaanXi, P. R. China

• Deputy of Nottingham Chinese School.