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Room: C87
E-mail: wenjie.yi@nottingham.ac.uk
I am a PhD graduate in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham/UK, in the Computational Optimisation & Learning (COL) Lab.
Currently, I am also a Research Associate at the Department of Architecture & Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham/UK.
Area of interest: Automated Algorithm Design, Evolutionary Computation, Multi-objective Optimization, Hyper-heuristics.
| First supervisor: | Dr. Rong Qu |
| Second supervisor: | Dr. Dario Landa-Silva |
Main research interest: Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Real-world Applications
• Automated Algorithm Design
• Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
• Evolutionary Computation
• Reinforcement Learning
Bachelor in Electronic Commerce & Mathematics and Applied Mathematics(minor) from Shenzhen University(China), 2012-2016. My Bachelor thesis is Improved Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm for Nurse Scheduling, supervised by Profossor Ben Niu.
Master in Management Science and Engineering from Shenzhen University(China), 2016-2019. My master thesis is Bacterial Heuristic Multi-objective Feature Selection Method for Customer Segmentation, supervised by Profossor Ben Niu.
1.IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
2.IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
3.Journal of the Operational Research Society
4.Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
5.Expert Systems with Applications
6.PeerJ Computer Science
7.Expert Systems
1. Program Committee Member: The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference(GECCO’2023) , Lisbon, Portugal, July 15th-19th, 2023.
2. Program Committee Member: 14th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI’2023), Shenzhen, China, July 14th-18th, 2023.
3. Member of IEEE Taskforce on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation at Computational Intelligence Society, 2023-present.
4. Organizing Committee Member: 2022 NACTOR "Heuristic Optimization and Learning", University of Nottingham, UK, Apr 25-29, 2022.
5. Organizing Committee Member: 2019 International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI2019), Chiang Mai, Thailand, Jul 26-30, 2019.
1.Wenjie Yi, Rong Qu, Licheng Jiao, Ben Niu. Automated Design of Metaheuristics Using Reinforcement Learning within a Novel General Search Framework. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.2023, 27(4):1072-1084. pdf. Doi:10.1109/TEVC.2022.3197298.
2.Wenjie Yi*, Rong Qu, Licheng Jiao. Automated Algorithm Design Using Proximal Policy Optimisation with Identified Features. Expert Systems with Applications 2023,216,119461. pdf.
3.Wenjie Yi*, Rong Qu. Automated Design of Search Algorithms based on Reinforcement Learning. Information Sciences. August 2023.
4.Chen Yang, Tingting Liu, Wenjie Yi*, Xiaohong Chen, Ben Niu. Identifying Expertise Through Semantic Modeling: A Modified BBPSO Algorithm for the Reviewer Assignment Problem. Applied Soft Computing. 2020,106483:94.
5.Ben Niu, Wenjie Yi, Lijing Tan, Shuang Geng, Hong Wang. A Multi-objective Feature Se-lection Method Based on Bacterial Foraging Optimization. Natural Computing. 2019,1-14.
6.Ben Niu, Lijing Tan, Jing Liu, Jia Liu, Wenjie Yi, Hong Wang. Cooperative Bacterial For-aging Optimization Method for Multi-objective Multi-echelon Supply Chain Optimization. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation. 2019,49:87-101.
7.Hong Wang, Lulu Zuo, Jia Liu, Wenjie Yi, Ben Niu.Ensemble Particle Swarm Optimization and Differential Evolution with Alternative Mutation Method. Natural Computing. 2018,1-14.
1. Sept.2022-Jan.2023, Teaching Assistant (Machine Learning), School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham.
2. Sept.2022-Jan.2023, Teaching Assistant (Mathematics for Computer Science), School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham.
3. Jan.2022-Aug.2022, Teaching Assistant (Programming Paradigms), School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham.
4. Jan.2022-Aug.2022, Teaching Assistant (Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence), School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham.
5. Sept.2021-Jan.2022, Teaching Assistant (Mathematics for Computer Science), School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham.
6. Jan.2021-Aug.2021, Teaching Assistant (Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence), School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham.
7. Sept.2020-Jan.2021, Teaching Assistant (Mathematics for Computer Science), School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham.
8. Sept.2020-Jan.2021, Teaching Assistant (Developing Maintainable Software), School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham.
9. Jan.2020-Aug.2020, Teaching Assistant (Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence), School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham.