Honours and Awards

Honours

Honours and Awards

  • IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine Outstanding Paper Award for "Genetic Programming and Reinforcement Learning on Learning Heuristics for Dynamic Scheduling: A Preliminary Comparison," with Yi Mei, Fangfang Zhang, and Mengjie Zhang. The award includes a certificate and a USD 1,000 prize shared equally among the coauthors. IEEE CIS award details.
  • ESI Highly Cited Paper (Top 1%) by citations among Computer Science papers from the same publication year for "Niching Genetic Programming to Learn Actions for Deep Reinforcement Learning in Dynamic Flexible Scheduling," with Yi Mei, Fangfang Zhang, and Mengjie Zhang, published in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 61-75, February 2026. Based on May/June 2026 ESI data; status verified October 23, 2026.
  • SIGEVO Dissertation Award: Honorable Mention for the PhD thesis "Advancing Genetic Programming for Learning Scheduling Heuristics" (USD 1,000).
  • The paper "Genetic Programming for Dynamic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling: Evolution with Single Individuals and Ensembles" was selected as a Popular Paper by IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.
  • The article "Genetic Programming and Reinforcement Learning on Learning Heuristics for Dynamic Scheduling: A Preliminary Comparison" received Research Frontier recognition in IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine.
  • Best Poster Runner-up, AJCAI PhD Forum (AUD 500).