Services

Professional Membership

• Chair: IEEE CIS Task Force on Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Processing, 2025-Present
• Vice-chair: IEEE CIS Zhengzhou Chapter, 2024
• Vice-chair: IEEE CIS Task Force on Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Processing, 2023-2025
• Chair: the IEEE Women in Computational Intelligence Subcommittee, 2024-2025
• Senior Member: IEEE
• Member of IEEE CIS Task Force on Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection and Construction
• Member: CIS/ACM/SigEvo/CAAI/CCF/CAA/CSIG/CSF
• Member: New Zealand Artificial Intelligence Researchers Association
• Executive Member of the Collaborative Computing Committee of CCF
• Chair/Manager/Founder: WeChat official account “Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Intelligence” with>4000 followers
• Panel Chair: 2026 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2024)
• Workshop Chair: 2024 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2024)
• Organising Committee Member: 2023 IEEE CIS Workshop on Computational Intelligence at Zhengzhou
• Student Workshop Chair: 2024 The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)
• Student Affairs Chair: 2024 The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)
• Student Affairs Chair: 2023 The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)
• Organising Committee Member: 2023 Evolutionary Computation and Learning Workshop (ECOLE)
• Local Organising Committee Member: The 31st Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
• GP Session Chair: 2023 The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)
• Editorial Board Member: Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems (2024.12-)
• Review Editor Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (2023.07-)
• Local Organising Committee Member: 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2019)
• Poster Session Co-Chair: 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2019)

Associate Editor or Editorial Member

• IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2024-
• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2024-
• IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2024-
• Applied Soft Computing, 2024-
• Computers and Electrical Engineering, 2024-
• Complex System Modelling and Simulation (English), 2024-
• Intelligent Marine Technology and Systems, 2023-
• New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 2024-
• Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2024-
• Frontier in Artificial Intelligence, 2024-

Organised Special Issues

• Guest editor: Applied Soft Computing (JCR SCI Q1): Special Issue on Evolutionary Deep Learning for Computer Vision and Image Processing, 2022-2023
• Guest Editor: special issue on Evolutionary and Memetic Algorithms for Computer Vision and Image Processing in the journal of Memetic Computing, 2021-2022 [Call for Papers]
• Guest Editor: special issue on Artificial Intelligence for Fault Detection and Diagnosis in the journal of Algorithms, 2021-2022[ Call for Papers]

Organised Special Sessions/Workshops/Symposiums

• Co-organizer: Special Session on Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Processing(ECVIP) at 2024 IEEE Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2024)
• Lead organiser: Workshop on Evolutionary Data Mining and Machine Learning (EDMML) at 2024 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM 2024)
• Co-organizer: Special Session on Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Processing(ECVIP) at 2024 IEEE Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2024)
• Co-organizer: Special Session and Competition on Constrained Multiobjective Optimization at 2024 IEEE Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2024)
• Co-organizer: Workshop on Multimodal Optimization for Machine Learning at 2024 IEEE Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2024)
• Lead organiser: Workshop on Evolutionary Computation for Explainable Artificial Intelligence (ECXAI) at 2023 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2023)
• Co-organiser: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing (IEEE CIMSIVP) at 2023 IEEE Symposium Series On Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2023)
• Co-organiser: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing (IEEE CIMSIVP) at 2022 IEEE Symposium Series On Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2022)
• Co-organiser: Special Session on Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Processing(ECVIP) at 2023 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2023)
• Co-organiser: Special Session on Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Processing (ECVIP) at 2022 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2022)
• Lead organiser: Special Session on Evolutionary Computation for Computer Vision and Image Analysis at 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2021)
• Lead organiser: Workshop on Evolutionary Data Mining and Machine Learning (EDMML) at 2023 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM 2023)
• Lead organiser: Workshop on Evolutionary Data Mining and Machine Learning (EDMML) at 2022 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM 2022)
• Lead organiser: Workshop on Evolutionary Data Mining and Machine Learning (EDMML) at 2021 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM 2021)
• Lead organiser: Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Computer Vision and Image Processing (CICVIP) at 2021 22nd International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL)

Program Committee Member or Peer Reviewer for Conferences

• International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025
• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2024, 2025
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Special track on AI for Good, 2022
• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) Workshop on NeuroEvolution, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2019，2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ), 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA), 2023, 2024
• Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT) 2023
• International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), 2023, 2024
• Heterodox Methods for Interpretable and Efficient Artificial Intelligence, 2022
• The 15th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), 2018
• Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI), 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL), 2020, 2021
• International Conference Series on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO), 2021
• International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI), 2018
• International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data (DMBD), 2018
• Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), 2018

Peer Reviewer for Journals

• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
• Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press)
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
• IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
• IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
• Swarm and Evolutionary Computation
• Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
• Applied Soft Computing
• Science China Information Sciences
• IET Intelligent Transport Systems
• Expert Systems With Applications
• IEEE Access
• Neurocomputing
• Natural Computing
• Soft Computing
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
• Memetic Computing
• Complex & Intelligent Systems
• Optimization and Engineering
• Machine Learning with Applications
• International Journal of Intelligent Systems
• Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
• International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications
• Algorithms

Talks/Tutorials

• Tutorial on “Evolutionary Computation and Evolutionary Deep Learning for Image Analysis, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition” in 2024, The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 2025
• Tutorial on “Evolutionary Computation and Evolutionary Deep Learning for Image Analysis, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition” in 2024, The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 2024
• Tutorial on “Evolutionary Deep Learning for Image Classification: A Genetic Programming Approach” in IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, July 2023
• Invited Talk at IEEE SSCI 2022 Panel of Women in Computational Intelligence Achieving IEEEFellow Status - The Way Forward, Organised by IEEE CIS WCI and IEEE WIE, December 2022.
• Invited Talk at the “Computational Intelligence Techniques for Solving Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity Problems” workshop in IEEE SSCI 2023
• Invited Talk on “Genetic Programming for Image Classification” in the workshop on Machine Learning for Data-Driven Optimization in AJCAI, December 2023.
• Seminar on “Genetic Programming for Image Classification” in the 2023 IEEE CIS Workshop on Computational Intelligence at Zhengzhou, July 2023
• Tutorial on “Evolutionary Deep Learning for Image Classification: A Genetic Programming Approach” in International Conference on Data Mining and Database (DMDB 2023), December 2023
• Invited presentation on “A Survey on Evolutionary Computation for Computer Vision and Image Analysis: Past, Present, and Future Trends”, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, July 2023
• Invited Talk on “Genetic Programming for Image Classification”, Jimei University, February 2023
• Invited Talk on “Evolutionary Machine Learning”, Zhengzhou University, November, December 2022
• Invited Talk on “Genetic Programming for Image Classification”, Chongqing University, October 2022
• Invited Talk at IEEE SSCI 2022 Panel of Women in Computational Intelligence Achieving IEEE Fellow Status: The Way Forward, Organised by IEEE CIS WCI and IEEE WIE, December 2022.
• Seminar on “Genetic Programming for Image Classification”, NICE seminar, June 2020 [Link]