Services

Editorship

• Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
• Associate Editor of International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation
• Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications
• Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation
• Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Automation and Control
• Guest Editor of Special Issue on Automated Design and Adaptation of Heuristics for Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 2016

Conference Organisation

• Finance Chair, Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ) 2020
• Proceedings Chair, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2019
• Tutorial Co-chair, Pacific Rim International Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) 2019
• Sponsorship Chair, Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2018
• Technical Co-chair, International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security (ICDIS) 2018
• Organisational Committee Member, International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering (CIE) 2018
• Co-Chair, IEEE Symposium on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation, in IEEE SSCI 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• Co-chair of Special Session on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
• Co-chair of Special Session on Evolutionary Computation for Service-Oriented Computing, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2017, 2018, 2019
• Co-chair of Special Session on Transfer Learning in Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2016
• Co-chair of Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimization, Asia-Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (IES) 2016

Conference Program Committee Member

I serve as a PC member of 60+ international conferences.

• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2021, 2022, 2023
• ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
• EMO 2021, 2022
• International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL) 2014, 2017
• Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AJCAI) 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022
• International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI) 2018, 2020, 2021
• International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI) 2019
• International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI) 2018, 2022
• International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data (DMBD) 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022
• International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS) 2016, 2018, 2022
• International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI) 2018
• International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) 2018, 2019, 2020
• International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security (ICDIS) 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022
• Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence (ACALCI) 2016, 2017
• Asia-Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (IES) 2016, 2017
• International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA) 2015, 2016, 2017
• International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) 2016
• International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR) 2015, 2016
• International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA) 2016
• World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC) 2016
• BRICS Congress on Computational Intelligence (BRCIS-CCI) 2015
• International Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Its Applications (ECIA) 2018
• Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ) 2020, 2022

Journal Reviewer

I serve as a reviewer of 50+ international journals, including the top/major journals in the EC/OR fields.

1. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE (ARC/CORE Tier A*, Q1)
2. ACM Computing Surveys, ACM (ARC/CORE Tier A*, Q1)
3. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE (ARC/CORE Tier A*, Q1)
4. Evolutionary Computation Journal, MIT Press (ARC/CORE Tier A, Q1)
5. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE (ARC/CORE Tier A, Q1) (Outstanding Reviewer 2018)
6. European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier (ARC/CORE Tier A, Q1)
7. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE (Q1)
8. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE (Q1)
9. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Elsevier (Q1)
10. Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier (ARC/CORE Tier A, Q1)
11. Information Sciences, Elsevier (ARC/CORE Tier A, Q1)
12. Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE (Q1)
13. Computers and Operations Research (Q1)
14. Transportation Research Part C, Elsevier (Q1)
15. Transportation Research Part D, Elsevier (Q1)
16. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, IEEE (Q1)
17. IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, IEEE (Q1)
18. Journal of the Operational Research Society, Taylor & Francis (Q1)
19. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, IEEE (Q1)
20. IEEE Software, IEEE (Q1)
21. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, IEEE
22. ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization, ACM
23. Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier (Q1)
24. International Journal of Production Research, Taylor & Francis (Q1)
25. Waste Management, Elsevier (Q1)
26. Computers and Industrial Engineering, Elsevier (Q1)
27. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE (Q1)
28. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier (Q1)
29. Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier (Q1) (Outstanding Reviewer 2015, 2017)
30. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier (Q1)
31. Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier (Q1)
32. Knowledge-based Systems, Elsevier (Q1)
33. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Elsevier (Q1)
34. Journal of Computational Science, Elsevier (Q1)
35. NeuroComputing, Elsevier (Q1)
36. Journal of Scheduling, Springer (Q1)
37. Journal of Heuristics, Springer
38. Complexity, Hindawi (Q1)
39. World Wide Web, Springer (Q2)
40. Swarm Intelligence, Springer
41. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Springer
42. IEEE Access, IEEE
43. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, IEEE
44. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi
45. Journal of Information Technology & Software Engineering, Longdom Publishing SL
46. Applied Sciences, MDPI
47. Soft Computing, Springer
48. Complex & Intelligent Systems, Springer
49. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, Hindawi
50. Computational Optimization and Applications, Springer
51. Memetic Computing, Springer
52. Journal of Industrial and Production Engineering, Taylor & Francis
53. Journal of Computer Science and Technology
54. Natural Computing, Springer
55. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Springer
56. PLOS ONE Journal
57. Frontiers in Computer Science, Frontiers
58. Frontier of Engineering Management, Frontiers

Membership

• Fellow of Engineering New Zealand
• Chair of IEEE Taskforce on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation, 2021-present
• Chair of IEEE New Zealand Central Section, 2021-present
• Vice-chair of IEEE CIS Emergent Technologies Technical Committee, 2017-2018
• Member of IEEE CIS Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee, 2017-2018
• Member of IEEE Task Force on Automated Algorithm Design, Configuration and Selection, 2019-present
• Member of IEEE Task Force on Hyper-Heuristics, 2018-present
• Member of IEEE Task Force on Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection and Construction, 2016-present
• Member of IEEE Task Force on Operations Research and Management Sciences, 2018-present
• Member of IEEE Task Force on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimization, 2016-2017
• Member of IEEE Task Force on Large Scale Optimisation, 2015-2016
• Treasurer of IEEE New Zealand Central Section, 2018-2020
• Young Professional Coordinator of IEEE New Zealand Central Section, 2018
• IEEE Senior Member, ACM Member

Internal (VUW)

• Postgraduate Coordinator (Science), School of Engineering and Computer Science, 2022-present
• Red-Folder Committee Member (Admission for Masters of COMP/AI/CGRA, PGDipSc COMP/AI/CGRA), 2020-2022
• ENGR/COMP489 (Honours Project) Committee Member, 2019, 2020