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Mengjie Zhang (Meng)

BE, ME (AUH), PhD (RMIT), SMIEEE, MACM
Professor of Computer Science
Evolutionary Computation Research Group
School of Engineering and Computer Science
Email: Mengjie.Zhang@ecs.vuw.ac.nz
Phone: +64 4 463 5654
Fax: +64 4 463 5045

Room: CO 355 Postal Address

Research Interests

My main area of interest is artificial intelligence, particularly

  • Evolutionary Computation (Genetic Programming, Particle Swarm Optimisation, Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimisation, etc.)
  • Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Analysis
  • Machine Learning and Data Mining
  • Bioinformatics (Working with Dr Lifeng Peng in Biology)

Research Projects, Funding and Scholarships

  • I am working on several research projects.
  • I have been awarded the following research fundings:

    • Genetic Programming for Job Shop Scheduling. Marsden Fund of New Zealand, 2013-2016. Grant: $520,000. (PI)
    • Study on Bacterial Colony Optimisation Based on Quorum Sensing Mechanism. National Natural Science Foundation of China (International Collaboration). 2012-2013. Grants: $15,000 RMB. (Overseas PI).
    • Conditional outlier detection in Massive Data (using rough sets, granular computing, evolutionary computation techniques). National Natural Science Foundation of China. 2012-2015. Grant: $550,000 RMB. (Co-PI).
    • Feature Manipulation Based on Evolutionary Computation and Rough Sets Methods. Overseas Collaboration in State Key Lab in Software Engineering at Nanjing University. . 2011-2013. Grant: $40,000 RMB. (Co-PI)
    • Toward Optimal Offspring Selection in Genetic Programming. BuildIT Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, New Zealand. 2009-2011. Grant: $138,435. (PI)
    • Genetic Programming for Classification Tasks. Marsden Fund of New Zealand, 2009-2012. Grant: $465,000. (PI)
    • Predictive Difficulty Measures in Genetic Programming based on Complex Networks. International Mobility Fund, New Zealand., 2011. Grant: $8050. (NZPI. Overseas PI: Jing Liu)
    • Novel Program Structures and Search Algorithms in Genetic Programming, Marsden Fund of New Zealand, 2006-2008. Grant: $140,000. (PI)
    • Identification of Authors in Chinese Email, Natural Science Fundation of Hebei Province, China, 2006-2008. Grant: $50,000. (with Guifa Teng)
    • Machine Learning for Speech Recognition, New Economy Research Fund, 2001-2004. (with David Crabbe, etc.) Grant: $330,000.

    • PSO and Rough Sets for Feature Reduction in Classification. University Research Fund, Victoria University of Wellington, 2012-2013. Grant: $31,976. (PI)
    • Novel Particle Swarm Optimisation Techniques for Image Analysis. University Research Fund, Victoria University of Wellington, 2010-2011. Grant: $30,000. (PI)
    • Learning Classifier Systems for Feature Manipulation and Image Processing. University Research Fund, Victoria University of Wellington, 2010-2011. Grant: $25,000. (with Will Browne)
    • Novel PSO Topologies and Search Algorithms for Pattern Classification. University Research Fund, Victoria University of Wellington, 2009-2010. Grant: $25,000. (PI)
    • Evolutionary Multiple-criterion Optimization for Visual Object Detection. University Research Fund, Victoria University of Wellington, 2009-2010. Grant: $20,000. (with Mark Johnston)
    • Particle Swarm Optimisation for Image Recognition. University Research Fund, Victoria University of Wellington, 2008-2009. Grant: $38,239. (PI)
    • Simplification and Class Imbalance in Genetic Programming. University Research Fund, Victoria University of Wellington, 2008-2009. Grant: $22,580. (with Mark Johnston)
    • Genetic Programming for Image Recognition, University Research Fund, Victoria University of Wellington, 2007. Grant: $48,000. (PI)
    • Program Representations in Genetic Programming, University Research Fund, Victoria University of Wellington, 2005-2006. Grant: $45,500. (PI)
    • Genetic Programming for Multiclass Classification, University Research Fund, Victoria University of Wellington, 2004-2005. Grant: $25,000. (PI)
    • Novel Genetic Programming Techniques for Image Recognition Tasks, University Research Fund, Victoria University of Wellington, 2004. Grant: $12,200. (PI)

  • PhD Sholarships: Good students (GPA of A- or above) can apply for the following scholarships: Contact me if you want to do a PhD in my research areas and want to get a scholarship.

  • Summer Research Sholarships/Assistantships (Closed):
    • My research grants can support several summer research scholarships/assistants (during Oct 2013 to Feb 2014) and Honour projects in 2014. Succesful applicants will be paid.
    • Applicants are expected to have a B+/A- or above for COMP307, and have strong programming skills in C++/Java.
    • If you want to gain work experience in summer or want to do an Honours project in 2014, please contact me.

Current and Past Research Students

You can also find a list of recent thesis/project students and their theses here.

Selected Publications

A number of selected publications can be viewed here. Some technical reports can be found here.

Genetic Programming Research Packages

  • Tree-based Genetic Programming research package for classification at Victoria University (VGP): Download Manual

  • Linear Genetic Programming research package at Victoria University (VUWLGP): Download Manual

Upcoming Conferences and Journal Special Issues

Teaching

In 2013, I will be teaching the following courses:

Administration

  • Deputy Head of School, the School of Engineering and Computer Science.
  • Chair of the Research Committee, School of Engineering and Computer Science and Faculty of Engineering
  • Representative of Faculty of Engineering at FGR Board
  • Representative of Faculty of Engineering at the University Scholarships Committee

Professional Activities

Personal Interests

  • Playing table tennis, Chinese chess
  • Watching soccer, tennis matches

Linda's Photoes

My daughter Linda's photoes can be viewed here .