Recently, Adjunct Professor Xiaodong Li from Department of Computer Science and Engineering of SUSTech (http://cse.sustech.edu.cn/cn) has been awarded “Pengcheng Scholar” as a short-term distinguished Professor . During his one-year term, Prof. Li will conduct research and teaching work, as well as nurturing PhD and Postdoctoral researchers, with a primary goal to strengthen research exchanges and collaboration within the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

Prof. Xiaodong Li

 Xiaodong Li is a Professor in artificial intelligence at School of Science (Computer Science and Software Engineering), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include machine learning, evolutionary computation, complex systems, multiobjective optimization, multimodal optimization (niching), swarm intelligence, data mining/analytics, journey planning, math-heuristic methods for optimization. He is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, the journal of Swarm Intelligence, and International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research. He is also the group leader of ECML (Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning) research group at RMIT University.

 Funded by Shenzhen government, “Pengcheng Scholar” project aims to recruit renowned scholars and professionals from both domestic and international leading research institutions, with the mission to promote the development of key disciplinary areas and improve technological competitiveness in Shenzhen.