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Editorship in Professional Journals

  • Associate Editor (2024-now) for Neurocomputing, Elsevier (SCI IF: 5.5; Q1)
  • Associate Editor (2023-now) for IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, IEEE (SCI IF: 5.0; Q1)
  • Associate Editor (2022-now) for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning System, IEEE (SCI IF: 10.2; Q1)
  • Associate Editor (2022-now) for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE (SCI IF: 11.7; Q1)
  • Associate Editor (2022-now) for Neural Networks, Elsevier (SCI IF: 6.0; Q1)
  • Associate Editor (2020-now) for IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE (SCI IF: 10.3; Q1)
  • Associate Editor (2020-now) for Memetic Computing, Springer (SCI IF: 3.3; Q1)
  • Associate Editor (2016-now) for Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Elsevier (SCI IF: 8.2; Q1)
  • Associate Editor (2016-now) for International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, Inderscience (SCI IF: 1.7; Q2)
  • Associate Editor (2017-2018) for Journal of Complex & Intelligent Systems, Springer (SCI IF: 5.0; Q1)

 

IEEE Technical Committees and Tasks Forces

  • Fellow (2025-now), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • Senior Member (2012-2024), IEEE
  • Vice President for Education (2025-now), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • Chair (2023-2024), Student Activities Sub-committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • Chair (2021-2022) and Vice-Chair (2019-2020; 2023), Neural Networks Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • Chair (2022-now), IEEE Task Force on ¡°Deep Vision in Space¡±, Neural Networks Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • Chair (2014-2017) and Vice-Chair (2011-2013; 2018-2022), IEEE Task Force on ¡°Collaborative Learning and Optimisation¡±, Emergent Technologies Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • Vice-Chair (2022-now), IEEE Task Force on ¡°Deep Edge Intelligence¡±, Neural Networks Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • Vice-Chair (2017-now), IEEE Task Force on ¡°Multitask Learning and Multitask Optimisation¡±, Emergent Technologies Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • Member (2023-now), Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • Member (2023-now), STEM Education Material Ad-hoc Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • Member (2020-now), ¡°AI4 Space¡± Steering Committee, SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC)
  • Member (2017-now), Data Mining and Big Data Analytics Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • Member (2013-2019), Emergent Technologies Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • Member (2014-now), IEEE Task Force on ¡°Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection and Construction¡±, Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • Member (2012-now), IEEE Task Force on ¡°Differential Evolution¡±, Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • Member (2009-now), IEEE Task Force on ¡°Large Scale Global Optimisation¡±, Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • Member (2013-2018), IEEE Task Force on ¡°Operations Research and Management Sciences¡±, Emergent Technologies Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • Member (2012-2013), IEEE Task Force on ¡°Education¡±, Emergent Technologies Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

 

Conference Organising Committees

  • Program Chair of the 2026 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN¡¯26), Maastricht, Netherlands, June 25-26, 2026
  • Technical Co-Chair of the 2025 International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Nature-inspired Computing (MIND), Xiamen, China, October 31 - November 2, 2025
  • Publicity Chair of the 2025 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN¡¯25), Rome, Italy, June 30 - July 05, 2025
  • Chair of Special Session on Deep Vision in Space, 2025 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN¡¯25), Rome, Italy, June 30 - July 05, 2025
  • Co-Chair of Special Session on Trustworthy and Reliable Artificial Intelligence Applications in Healthcare Decision-Making, 2025 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN¡¯25), Rome, Italy, June 30 - July 05, 2025
  • Co-Chair of Special Session on Machine Learning for Optimisation, 2025 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN¡¯25), Rome, Italy, June 30 - July 05, 2025
  • Co-Chair of Special Session on Evolutionary Multitasking, 2025 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC¡¯25), Hangzhou, China, June 8-12, 2025
  • Technical Activities Liaison/Strategy Representative of the 2025 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI¡¯25), Trondheim, Norway, March 17-20, 2025
  • Co-Organiser of Multimodal Semantic Segmentation Challenge, The 14th IEEE Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing (IEEE WHISPERS), Helsinki, Finland, December 9-11, 2024
  • Sponsorship Co-Chair of the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AJCAI¡¯24), Melbourne, Australia, November 25-29, 2024
  • Track Co-Chair of Evolutionary Machine Learning at the 2024 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO¡¯24), Melbourne, Australia, July 14-18, 2024
  • Chair of Special Session on Deep Vision in Space, 2024 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN¡¯24), Yokohama, Japan, June 30 - July 05, 2024
  • Co-Chair of Special Session on Applied Artificial Intelligence for Reliable and Trustworthy Medical Decision-Making Systems, 2024 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN¡¯24), Yokohama, Japan, June 30 - July 05, 2024
  • Co-Chair of Special Session on Deep Edge Intelligence, 2024 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN¡¯24), Yokohama, Japan, June 30 - July 05, 2024
  • Co-Organiser of Cross-City Multimodal Semantic Segmentation Challenge, The 13th IEEE Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing (IEEE WHISPERS), Athens, Greece, October 31-November 6, 2023
  • Chair of Special Session on Deep Vision in Space, 2023 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN¡¯23), Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, June 18-23, 2023
  • Co-Chair of Special Session on Advanced Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Medical Decision-Making: Challenges and Opportunities, 2023 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN¡¯23), Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, June 18-23, 2023
  • Co-Chair of Special Session on Deep Edge Intelligence, 2023 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN¡¯23), Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, June 18-23, 2023
  • Outreach Chair of the 35th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-23), Washington, DC, USA, February 7-14, 2023
  • Special Session Chair of the 29th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2022), New Delhi, India, November 22-26, 2022
  • General Co-Chair of the 2022 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN¡¯22), Padua, Italy, 2022
  • Co-Chair of Special Session on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Medicine: Challenges and Breakthroughs, 2022 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN¡¯22), Padua, Italy, July 18-23, 2022
  • Chair of Special Session on Differential Evolution: Past, Present and Future, 2022 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC¡¯22), Padua, Italy, July 18-23, 2022
  • Co-Chair of Special Session on Evolutionary Multitasking, 2022 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC¡¯22), Padua, Italy, July 18-23, 2022
  • Co-Chair of Competition on Evolutionary Multi-task Optimization, 2022 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC¡¯22), Padua, Italy, July 18-23, 2022
  • Local Chair of the 13th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation (ICCMS¡¯21) in joint with the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Applications (ICICA¡¯21), Brisbane, Australia, June 25-27, 2021
  • Chair of Special Session on Differential Evolution: Past, Present and Future, 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC¡¯21), Krak¨®w, Poland, June 28-July 1, 2021
  • Co-Chair of Competition on Evolutionary Multi-task Optimisation, The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO¡¯20), Cancun, Mexico, July 8-12, 2020
  • Co-Chair of Competition on Evolutionary Multi-task Optimisation, 2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC¡¯20), Glasgow, UK, July 19-24, 2020
  • Chair of Special Session on Differential Evolution: Past, Present and Future, 2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC¡¯20), Glasgow, UK, July 19-24, 2020
  • Program Chair of the 3rd International Conference on Data Science and Information Technology (DSIT¡¯20), Xiamen, China, July 24-26, 2020
  • Steering Committee Member of the 12th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation (ICCMS¡¯20) in joint with the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Applications (ICICA¡¯20), Brisbane, Australia, February 26-28, 2020
  • Poster Chair of the 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC¡¯19), Wellington, New Zealand, June 10-13, 2019
  • Co-Chair of Competition on Evolutionary Multi-task Optimisation, 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC¡¯19), Wellington, New Zealand, June 10-13, 2019
  • Chair of Special Session on Differential Evolution: Past, Present and Future, 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC¡¯19), Wellington, New Zealand, June 10-13, 2019
  • Program Chair of the 11th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation (ICCMS¡¯19) in joint with the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Applications (ICICA¡¯19), Melbourne, Australia, January 16-19, 2019
  • Student Volunteer Chair of the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI¡¯17) Melbourne, Australia, August 19-25, 2017
  • Publicity Co-Chair of the 2017 Australian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence, Melbourne (ACALCI¡¯17), Australia, January 31-Feburary 2, 2017
  • Publicity Co-Chair of the 11th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2016), Xi'an, Shanxi, China, October 28-30, 2016
  • Chair of Competition on Evolutionary Multi-task Optimisation, 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC¡¯18), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 8-13, 2018
  • Chair of Special Session on Differential Evolution: Past, Present and Future, 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC¡¯18), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 8-13, 2018
  • Chair of Competition on Evolutionary Multi-task Optimisation, 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC¡¯17), Donostia - San Sebasti¨¢n, Spain, June 5-8, 2017
  • Chair of Special Session on Differential Evolution: Past, Present and Future, 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC¡¯17), Donostia - San Sebasti¨¢n, Spain, June 5-8, 2017
  • Chair of Special Session on Differential Evolution: Past, Present and Future, 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC¡¯16), Vancouver, Canada, July 25-29, 2016
  • Chair of Special Session on Differential Evolution: Past, Present and Future, 2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC¡¯15), Sendai, Japan, May 25-28, 2015
  • Co-Chair of the Invited Session on Collaborative Learning and Optimisation, the 18th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (IES¡¯14), Singapore, November 10-12, 2014
  • Publicity Co-Chair of the 18th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (IES¡¯14), Singapore, November 10-12, 2014
  • Chair of Special Session on Differential Evolution: Past, Present and Future, 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC¡¯14), Beijing, China, July 6-11, 2014
  • Chair of Special Session on Differential Evolution: Past, Present and Future, 2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC¡¯13), Cancun, Mexico, June 20-23, 2013
  • Publicity Committee of the 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI¡¯13), Singapore, April 16-19, 2013
  • Competition Chair of the 9th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL¡¯12), Ha Noi, Viet Nam, December 16-19, 2012
  • Chair of Special Session on Differential Evolution: Past, Present and Future, 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI¡¯12), Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012

 

Others

  • 2020-now, Member of "AI4 Space" Steering Committee in SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC)
  • 2020, Invited Panel Member at Workshop "Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) Showcase" organized by Swinburne Iverson Health Innovation Research Institute, Australia, 3 December 2020.
  • 2019, Member of the Recruitment Selection Panel for the Australian Laureate Fellowship Project FL180100060, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
  • 2019, Member of the Interdisciplinary Seed Grants Review Panel, Swinburne Data Science Research Institute, Australia
  • 2018-2019, Mentor in Swinburne¡¯s Early Career Research Mentoring Program, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
  • 2018-2019, Member of ARC Grant Pitch & Review Panels (organized by Swinburne Research), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
  • 2016, Invited Panel Member at Workshop "Strategies for Publishing Your Research for Maximum Impact" organized by RMIT Professional Development, RMIT University, Australia, 24 August 2016