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Mengjie Zhang (Meng)

BE, ME (AUH), PhD (RMIT), MIEEE, MACM
Associate Professor (Reader)
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


Vacancy: Summer Research Scholarships/Assitantships
  • Topics: Evolutionary Computing: genetic programming, evolutionary computer vision and image analysis, evolutionary art, etc.
  • Closing date: Availble NOW, as soon as filled 2009 (Closed)
  • Contact: A/Prof Mengjie Zhang

Room: CO 427 Postal Address


Research Interests

My main area of interest is artificial intelligence, particularly

  • Genetic Programming and Evolutionary Computing
  • Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Analysis
  • Machine Learning, Data Mining and Web Mining


Research Projects, Funding and Scholarships

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

    • Toward Optimal Offspring Selection in Genetic Programming. BuildIT Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, New Zealand. 2009-2011. Grant: $123,053. (PI)
    • Genetic Programming for Classification Tasks. Marsden Fund of New Zealand, 2009-2012. Grant: $465,000. (PI)
    • 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.

    • 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:
    • Victoria PhD scholarship (Closing dates: 1 March 2010, for both domestic and international students)

    • New Zealand International Doctoral Research Scholarships (NZIDRS) (Closing date: 15 July 2010. International students only.)

    • Vice Chancellor's Strategic PhD Scholarship The topic is: Particle Swarm Optimization for Image Recognition (with Mark Johnston and Mengjie Zhang). Descriptions and application methods can be seen from here. (Closing date: 15 May 2009, for both domestic and international students) (Closed)

    • Marsden PhD Scholarship: I am looking for a PhD student in Genetic Programming (Evolutionary Computing). I have full funding available to cover tuition fees, living, and travel. Please email me for more information if you have a Masters or Honours degree and a good background in evolutionary computing and/or machine learning! (Closed)

    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 2009 to Feb 2010) and Honour projects in 2009. 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 2010, 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

  • Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2010)

  • Special Session on Evolutionary Computer Vision for 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, part of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2010).

  • The 23rd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2010)

  • The 24th International Conference Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ 2009)

  • Evo* 2010 , including EuroGP2010, EvoIASP2010, EvoEnvironment 2010, etc.


Teaching

In 2010, I will be teaching the following courses:


Administration

  • I am the Associate Dean (Postgraduate Research), Engineering
  • I am the Postgraduate Research Thesis Coordinator of the School of Engineering and Computer Science (includingComputer Science, Software Engineering, Network Engineering, Computer System Engineering, and Electronic Engineering).
  • Contact me if you are interested in doing a PhD at VUW in any area of the above engineering and computer science disciplines.

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 .
 
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