Director of Nature Inspired Computational Intelligence (NICI) Lab
General Information
Associate Professor (tenured)
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering
University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Oshawa, Canada
Director of Nature Inspired Computational Intelligence (NICI) Lab
Summary of Achievements
Educational
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professional Education Certificate in Tackling the Challenges of Big Data
Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Nominated to PhD Alumni Gold Medal, University of Waterloo, Canada
CIHR Strategic Training Fellow, Robarts Research Institute, Canada
First Class Honour in M.Sc. Degree, Software Engineering
First Class Honour in B.Sc. Degree, Software Engineering
Ranked in top 1% in Nationwide M.Sc. Entrance exam
First Place in Mathematics in the Technical Institutes National Competition
First Place in Physics in the Institutional Competition
Research-based
Received the UOIT Research Excellence Award, UOIT, 2017.
Pioneered a well-accepted successful branch in Optimization, called Opposition-based Computation
IP holder in a spin-off company established by University of Waterloo (FDA approval has been obtained), 2007
Received more than 35 Honors and Awards, including, NSERC-DG, NSERC-UNENE, MRI-OCIF, NSERC-JSPS, NSERC-IPS, NSERC-IRDF, NSERC-VF, OGS (twice), CIHR (two years), OGSST (twice), FedDev, UOIT-AIA, UoW-GIS, OCE-IDF
Teaching-based
Nominated for the UOIT Teaching Excellence Award, 2013
Developed and taught ten new courses
Teaching quality is assessed OUTSTANDING based on the Dean's evaluation
Received many excellent positive comments from students
Published two conference papers in a conference in engineering education
Developing two teaching-related software systems (Students' Academic Performance Monitoring System and Class Scheduling and Visualization System, both as capstone projects)
Active member of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA)
Supervision-based
Tenure-track faculty positions secured by four previous PhD students
Two times the first place (2013 and 2014) and one time the second place (2012) awards in the annual capstone competitions
Faculty first place award in annual university-wide research showcase, 2010
Service-based
Grant Reviewer: NSERC-DG, NSERC-I2I, MITACS Accelerate Research, NSERC Strategic Grant
Paper Reviewer: more than 35 international journals and more than 25 international conferences
Member of Technical Program Committee: more than 30 conferences
Research Interests
Optimization
Machine Learning
Tackling the Challenges of Big Data: Visualization, Processing, and Analytic
Opposition-Based Computation
Large-scale Optimization
Artificial Intelligence
Interactive Optimization
Multi-Objective, Non-Convex, Nonlinear, and Complex Optimization with its real-world applications
