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24-11-2010 - Cercia director, Prof. X. Yao, delivered an IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Distinguished Lecture on “Evolutionary Optimisation and Constraint Handling” at the RMIT City Campus in Melbourne, Australia, no 24 November 2010. During his visit to Australasia, he also gave invited talks at NICTA (on evolving neural network ensembles), Melbourne, on 25 November 2010 and at [...]
02-11-2010 - Cercia director, Prof. X. Yao, was the Distinguished “Leon the Mathematician” Lecturer at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and gave an invited talk on “Co-evolution, games and social bahaviors” on 2 November 2010.
27-10-2010 - Cercia, through The Joint USTC-Birmingham Research Institute in Intelligent Computation and Its Applications, co-organised and co-sponsored The 2010 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Applications on 23-27 October 2010 in Hefei, China (http://nical.ustc.edu.cn/nica2010/home.htm).
21-10-2010 - The Joint USTC-Birmingham Research Institute in Intelligent Computation and Its Applications (http://ubri.ustc.edu.cn/) was officially launched on 21 October 2010 by Professor Chu-Sheng Chen, Vice President of USTC, and Professor Nigel Weatherill, Pro Vice Chancellor of University of Birmingham and Head of College of Engineering and Physical Sciences. The ceremony was held at USTC, Hefei, Anhui, [...]
02-08-2010 - Cercia welcomed Valentin Dalibard from the University of Cambridge as a summer research scholar. He will be here on 2 August — 24 September 2010, funded by a Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursary. He is working with Prof. Xin Yao on “Evolutionary optimization and exploration of pattern generation”.
01-08-2010 - Cercia welcomed Dr. Pei-Chann Chang, Dean of College of Informatics, and Professor at Department of Information Management, YuanZi University, 135 Yuan-Tung Road, Chung-Li, Taiwan 32003, R.O.C, who visited Cercia on 1-10 August 2010.
31-07-2010 - Dr. Huanhuan Chen, a former PhD student and Research Associate at Cercia, won the 2011 IEEE CIS Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award (http://ieee-cis.org/announcements/detail/?id=6). This is a prestigious international award in the field of computational intelligence, covering neural network, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, etc. Only one award is given each year. Huanhuan’s winning thesis on “Diversity and [...]
31-07-2010 - Cercia researchers have won the 2011 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award (http://ieee-cis.org/announcements/detail/?id=6) for the following paper: S. Y. Chong, P. Tino and X. Yao, “Measuring Generalization Performance in Co-evolutionary Learning“, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 12 (4):479-505, August 2008. which is the only winner bestowed in 2010. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation [...]
29-07-2010 - Prof. Xin Yao, Cercia Director, gave an invited keynote speech at the 2010 IADIS International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Agents (ISA’2010), Freiburg, Germany, 29-31 July 2010.
26-07-2010 - Cercia welcomes Matteo De Felice from Italian Environment, New Technology and Energy Agency, who is working with Prof. Xin Yao on building energy consunmption modelling for three months (26 July — 25 October 2010). This is the second time that Matteo visits us. His current visit is funded by EU’s COST Action IC0806: Intelligent Monitoring, [...]
25-07-2010 - Cercia welcomes Dr Michael Kirley, a Senior Lecturer from Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, AUSTRALIA, who is visiting us as part of his sabbatical leave on 25 July 2010 — 7 August 2010 and on 6 September — 15 October 2010
14-07-2010 - Cercia has won a new EU PF7 grant on “Making Sense of Nonsense (iSense)”. The main objective of this project is to develop intelligent data processing methods for analyzing and interpreting the data such that system/network faults are detected (and whereas possible anticipated), isolated and identified as soon as possible, and accommodated for in future [...]
07-07-2010 - Congratulations to Edward Robinson, a PhD student at Cercia, who has been offered an EPSRC PhD Plus Fellowship to continue his postdoctoral work after he submits his PhD next year. This is the second success in a row for Cercia students. Last year, Dr. Pietro Oliveto won such an EPSRC PhD Plus Fellowship. He is [...]
05-07-2010 - Cercia researchers, Peter Lewis (student), Paul Marrow (honorary research fellow) and Xin Yao (supervisor), won the second prize of the 2010 BT Gordon Radley Award for Best Author of Innovation, announced at the 2010 BT Innovation Awards ceremony on 5 July 2010, for their paper: P. R. Lewis, P. Marrow and X. Yao, “Resource Allocation [...]
25-06-2010 - Prof. Xin Yao, Cercia Director, gave an invited keynote speech at 2010 International Conference on Computer Design and Applications (ICCDA 2010), Qinhuangdao, China, 25-27 June 2010.
21-06-2010 - Prof. Xin Yao, Cercia Director, gave an invited keynote speech at the 2010 International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications (INISTA 2010), Kayseri & Cappadocia, Turkey, 21-24 June 2010. The talk has led to a postdoc and a PhD student to Cercia, both funded by Turkish government/university.
01-06-2010 - Prof. Xin Yao, Cercia Director, gave an invited keynote speech at The 5th International Conference on Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence (ICNNAI’2010), 1-4 June 2010, Brest State Technical University, Belarus. New collaborations were also established during the visit to the University.
05-05-2010 - Prof. Xin Yao, Cercia Director, gave an invited plenary speech at the 14th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems 2010 (INES 2010), Las Palmas of Gran Canaria, Spain, 5-7 May 2010. During the visit, several discussions were held about further collaborations between Birmingham and other European universities.
01-02-2010 - Ben Jones joined Cercia as a new research fellow in the project on “Divergence of Neural Structures in Changing Environments” funded by Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH. Ben passed his PhD viva last December. His PhD study was also fully funded by Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH. His postdoctoral work will further extend his PhD [...]
25-01-2010 - Jinzhong Niu joined Cercia as a new research fellow in the EPSRC-funded project on “Market Based Control of Complex Computational Systems” (http://www.cercia.ac.uk/projects/research/mbc/). Jinzhong came from the City University of New York, USA. He will work on automatic mechanism design using evolutionary and other heuristic algorithms. Warmest welcome to Jinzhong!
18-01-2010 - Xin Yao, the Cercia Director, gave an invited speech at the 4th international Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference (LION 4) on 18-22 January 2010 in Venice, Italy.
13-01-2010 - Xin Yao, the Cercia Director, gave an invited talk at the 2nd LANCS Workshop on Understanding Heuristics on 13-14 January 2010 in Cardiff, UK.
11-01-2010 - Peter Tino, a Senior Lecturer at Cercia, won a £744,773.96 BBSRC grant as the PI. Congratulations to Peter!
