The NICE Research Group at Surrey presently consists of six permanent academic members and over 25 RAs and PhD students. Below are RAs, PhD students and academic visitors principally supervised by Prof. Yaochu Jin:
Dr Colin Bell, KTA Research Fellow
Topic: Evolutionary optimisation of CFRP stiffened panels of aircraft (CI)
Wissam Albukhanajer, PhD Student
Topic: Fast and robust feature extraction for detection of bootlegged museum images (CI)
Joseph Chrol-Cannon, PhD Student
Topic: Modeling neural plasticity for spatiotemporal pattern recognition (CCN)
Shenkai Gu, PhD Student
Topic: Semi-supervised learning for BCI-based game control (CCN)
Tameera Rahman, PhD Student
Topic: Predicting suitable vaccines for foot-and-mouth disease virus based on genetic sequence (CSBB)
Christopher Smith, PhD Student
Topic: Efficient evolutionary multi-objective optimisation of synthetic jet for active flow control (CI)
Spencer Thomas, PhD Student
Topic: Reconstruction of global regulatory networks governing the production of antibiotics in Streptomyces bacteria (CSBB)
Mohd Hanif Yusoff, PhD Student
Topic: Multi-objective machine learning for biomedical applications (CI)
The following Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Students are co-supervised by Professor Yaochu Jin:
Craig Brown (co-supervised with Prof Matthew Leach, Centre for Environmental Strategy)
Topic: Intelligent heat solutions: Concepts and strategies for product development (CI)
Michael Rustell (co-supervisor with Prof Soon-Thiam Khu, Division of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
Topic: Knowledge extraction and development of decision support systems for conceptual design of sustainable liquified nitrogen gas terminals (CI)
Prof. Yaochu Jin is also the secondary supervisor of the following PhD students:
Nick F Ryman-Tubb (Principal Supervisor: Prof Paul Krause, Department of Computing)
Topic: Knowledge extraction for fraud detection
Raveesh Kandiyil (Principal Supervisor: Dr Yang Gao, Surrey Space Center)
Topic: Multi-agent planning of autonomous spacecrafts
Team News
22.02.2012: Three papers by our members have recently been accepted for publication at 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2012 Joint Conference on Neural Networks, and 2012 IEEE
Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Congratulations to Spencer, Joe and Wissam!
04.01.2012: Ayang Xiao recently joined NICE as visiting PhD student. Ayang is a PhD student at the Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He will be with us from January to December 2012, working on evolutionary optimisation of micro satellites.
10.10.2011: The first NICE party was held on 9th October 2011.
From left to right: Shenkai, Colin, Chris, Joe, Wissam, Yaochu, Tameera, and Xiaoyan.