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29-07-2011 - With the support of an Artist in Residency grant from the Leverhulme Trust awarded to Dr. Thorsten Schnier, Cercia will be hosting artist Dr. Myfanwy Johns for 12 months starting September. During her visit, Myfanwy will engage with students and researchers in Computer Science and across the College and University. Myfanwy’s interests are at the [...]
10-06-2011 - Cercia welcomes Dr. Bahriye Basturk Akay from Erciyes University, Turkey, as a visiting postdoctoral fellow for 12 months, working in evolutionary optimisation. Cercia also welcomes Mr. Rustu Akay from the same university as a visiting PhD student for 12 months, working in evolutionary optimisation.
08-06-2011 - Cercia researchers, Huanhuan Chen, Peter Tino and Xin Yao won the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding 2009 Paper Award (bestowed in 2011) for the following paper: H. Chen, P. Tino and X. Yao, “Probabilistic Classification Vector Machines,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 20(6):901-914, June 2009.
29-04-2011 - Cercia welcomes Dr. Alberto Moraglio, who started today as a research fellow in the EPSRC project on “Evolutionary Approximation Algorithms for Optimisation: Algorithm Design and Complexity Analysis” (http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/I010297/1).
21-01-2011 - Cercia director, Prof. X. Yao, gave an invited talk at the 2011 Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION 5) Conference on 17-21 January 2011 in Rome, Italy, on “Evolving and Designing Neural Network Ensembles”.
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”.
