Education
- 2009-2013: Bachelor of Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Software
- 2013-2019: Doctor of Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Data and Computer Science
Research Interests
My main research interest is Evolutionary Computation (EC), including:
- Large-scale Global Optimization (LSGO) ALgorithms and Applications
- Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms and Applications
- Reinforcement Learning Algorithms and Applications
- Hyper-heuristic Algorithms and Applications
publications
Journal Papers:
- Xiao-Cheng Liao, Wei-Neng Chen, Ya-Hui Jia, Wen-Jin Qiu (2023). "Towards Scalable Dynamic Traffic Assignment With Streaming Agents: A Decentralized Control Approach Using Genetic Programming." IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, early access.
- Qiang Yang, Gong-Wei Song, Wei-Neng Chen, Ya-Hui Jia, Xu-Dong Gao, Zhen-Yu Lu, Sang-Woon Jeon, Jun Zhang (2023). "Random Contrastive Interaction for Particle Swarm Optimization in High-Dimensional Environment." IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, early access.
- Xiao-Cheng Liao, Ya-Hui Jia, Xiao-Min Hu, Wei-Neng Chen (2023). "Uncertain Commuters Assignment Through Genetic Programming Hyper-Heuristic." IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, early access.
- Ya-Hui Jia, Yi Mei, Mengjie Zhang (2022). "Learning Heuristics with Different Representations for Stochastic Routing." IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, early access. PDF / supplementary material
- Ya-Hui Jia, Yi Mei, Mengjie Zhang (2022). "Confidence-based Ant Colony Optimization for Capacitated Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Comparison of Different Encoding Schemes." IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 26(6), 1394-1408. 10.1109/TEVC.2022.3144142 / PDF / code
- Ya-Hui Jia, Yi Mei, Mengjie Zhang (2021). "A Two-Stage Swarm Optimizer with Local Search for Water Distribution Network Optimization." IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, early access. 10.1109/TCYB.2021.3107900 / PDF / supplementary material / code
- Ya-Hui Jia, Yi Mei, Mengjie Zhang (2021). "A Bi-level Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Capacitated Electric Vehicle Routing Problem." IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 52(10), 10855-10868. 10.1109/TCYB.2021.3069942 / PDF / supplementary material / code
- Guanqiang Gao, Yi Mei, Bin Xin, Ya-Hui Jia, Will N Browne (2021). "Automated Coordination Strategy Design using Genetic Programming for Dynamic Multi-Point Dynamic Aggregation." IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 52(12), 13521-13535. 10.1109/TCYB.2021.3080044
- Guanqiang Gao, Yi Mei, Ya-Hui Jia, Will N Browne, Bin Xin (2021). "Adaptive Coordination Ant Colony Optimization for Multipoint Dynamic Aggregation." IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 52(8), 7362-7376. 10.1109/TCYB.2020.3042511
- Ya-Hui Jia, Yi Mei, Mengjie Zhang (2020). "Contribution-based Cooperative Co-evolution for Non-separable Large-scale Problems with Overlapping Subcomponents." IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 52(6), 4246-4259. DOI:10.1109/TCYB.2020.3025577 / PDF / supplementary material / code
- Ya-Hui Jia, Yu-Ren Zhou, Ying Lin, Wei-Jie Yu, Ying Gao, Lu Lu (2019). "A Distributed Cooperative Co-evolutionary CMA Evolution Strategy for Global Optimization of Large-Scale Overlapping Problems." IEEE Access, 7, 19821-19834. DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2897282
- Wei-Neng Chen, Ya-Hui Jia, Feng Zhao, Xiao-Nan Luo, Xing-Dong Jia, Jun Zhang (2019). "A cooperative co-evolutionary approach to large-scale multisource water distribution network optimization." IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 23(5), 842-857. DOI:10.1109/TEVC.2019.2893447
- Ya-Hui Jia, Wei-Neng Chen, Huaqiang Yuan, Tianlong Gu, Huaxiang Zhang, Ying Gao, Jun Zhang (2018). "An Intelligent Cloud Workflow Scheduling System With Time Estimation and Adaptive Ant Colony Optimization." IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 51(1), 634-649 DOI:10.1109/TSMC.2018.2881018/ PDF
- Ya-Hui Jia, Wei-Neng Chen, Tianlong Gu, Huaxiang Zhang, Hua-Qiang Yuan, Sam Kwong, Jun Zhang (2018). "Distributed cooperative co-evolution with adaptive computing resource allocation for large scale optimization." IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 23(2), 188-202. DOI:10.1109/TEVC.2018.2817889 / code
- Ya-Hui Jia, Wei-Neng Chen, Tianlong Gu, Huaxiang Zhang, Huaqiang Yuan, Ying Lin, Wei-Jie Yu, Jun Zhang (2017). "A dynamic logistic dispatching system with set-based particle swarm optimization." IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 48(9), 1607-1621. DOI:10.1109/TSMC.2017.2682264
Conference Papers:
- Shihao Dai, Ya-Hui Jia, Wei-Neng Chen, Yi Mei, (2023, July). "Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization with Local Search for Multi-robot Multi-point Dynamic Aggregation." In Proceedings of the Companion Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (pp. 195-198). ACM. DOI:10.1145/3583133.3590586
- Junjie Liang, Huilin Yao, Jiayi Wang, Ya-Hui Jia, (2022, Oct). "Dynamic Information Mining Based Vaccine Distribution Strategy." In Proceedings of the 2022 6th International Conference on Universal Village (UV) (pp. 1-8). IEEE. DOI:10.1109/UV56588.2022.10185518
- Ya-Hui Jia, Yi Mei, Mengjie Zhang, (2020, July). "A memetic level-based learning swarm optimizer for large-scale water distribution network optimization." In Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 1107-1115). ACM. DOI:10.1145/3377930.3389828
- Guanqiang Gao, Yi Mei, Bin Xin, Ya-Hui Jia, Will Browne, (2020, July). "A Memetic Algorithm for the Task Allocation Problem on Multi-robot Multi-point Dynamic Aggregation Missions." In 2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) (pp. 1107-1115). IEEE. DOI:10.1109/CEC48606.2020.9185647
- Ya-Hui Jia, Wei-Neng Chen, Jun Zhang, Jing-Jing Li (2014, December). "Generating software test data by particle swarm optimization." In Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (pp. 37-47). Springer, Cham. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-13563-2_4
- Ya-Hui Jia, Wei-Neng Chen, Xiao-Min Hu (2014, July). "A PSO approach for software project planning." In Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2014 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (pp. 7-8). DOI:10.1145/2598394.2598422
Services
- Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
- Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
- Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on SMC : Systems
- Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
- Reviewer of Applied Soft Computing
- Reviewer of CEC, GECCO, IJCAI
Supervision
- Kaitong Zheng, Ph.D. Student from South China University of Technology.
- Rui Qi, Ph.D. Student from South China University of Technology.
- Yang Wang, Ph.D. Student from South China University of Technology.
- Shihao Dai, M.D. Student from South China University of Technology.
- Jianyin Chen, M.D. Student from South China University of Technology.
- Qiquan Zheng, M.D. Student from South China University of Technology.
- Changtao Feng, M.D. Student from South China University of Technology.
- Qiuting Cai, M.D. Student from South China University of Technology.
- Guanqiang Gao, Ph.D. Student from Beijing Institute of Technology. (Graduated in 2021)
Recruitment
Every year, I can recruit TWO master students and ONE doctor student. You are encouraged to contact me through email if you are intereted in my research topic. After joining my team, you will be mentored not only by me but also by Prof. Chen and Dr. Yi Mei.