Editorial/Chair

• Guest editor (with Derek Long and Maria Fox) for the Special Issue of Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling at Journal of Scheduling, 12(3), June, 2009.
• Chair (with Ender Ozcan) of 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling, Paris, 11-15 April, 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 Professor 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 Computational 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.
• Chair of Working Group on Evolutionary Scheduling and Timetabling at Technical Committee of 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.
• WATT (EURO Working Group on Automated Timetabling) administrator 2001-now.
  

Programme Committee Members

• 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.
• 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.
• AI-2009 Twenty-eighth SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 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), Université de Montréal, 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), Journal of Operations Research Society (JORS), Journal of Scheduling, Operations Research
  • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, International Journal of Metaheuristics, Journal of Heuristics, Memetic Computing
  • Applied Intelligence, Expert Systems, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, Knowledge Management Research & Practice (KMRP)
  • Automation in Construction, Computers & Industrial Engineering, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, Journal of Computers & Applications, The IMA Journal of Management Mathematics
• Book reviews for The OR Society 2004, 2005.
  

Others

• Member of The OR Society, IEEE Computing Society, EURO, etc.

Education Background

1998-2002 PhD in Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
under the supervision of Professor Edmund Burke, Professor Bart MacCarthy and Dr. Sanja Petrovic.

1992-1996 BSc in Computer Science and Its Application, XiDian University, ShaanXi, P. R. China

Others links

• My CV.
• Nottingham Chinese School.
• 24 Hours Operations Research