School of Engineering and Computer Science Te Kura Mātai Pūkaha, Pūrorohiko

Events

Plenary/Keynote/Invited Talks

  • Maren Wellenreuther was invited to give a talk about "Breeding new finfish species for aquaculture". Smart and Connected, 10.8.2022.
  • Bing Xue: Plenary Talk: Evolutionary Computation for Automated Design of Deep Neural Networks IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2022), July 2022
  • Bing Xue: Tutorial: Evolutionary Computation for Feature Reduction. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2022) in World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2022) , 18 July - 23 July 2022
  • Bing Xue: Tutorial: Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection and Feature Construction. 2022 The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 2022
  • Dana Briscoe gave an invited presentation and programme overview at the 100 Years of Cawthron Science Speaker Series at the Nelson Museum on 24 July 2022.

Collaborations

  • Fangfang Zhang was invited by Todd Cochrane from NMIT to participate an interview of "Hybrid educational Design based research Agile Software development (hDAS) in the design and delivery of an ML/AI workshop, You are the controller: ML/AI Posenet game controller for Flappy bird", 3.8.2022

Recent and Upcoming Talks

  • 27/05/2022 Kevin Shedlock: Te Pataka Purorohiko: An overview of the ECS Māori Digital Lab
  • 21/04/2022 Jeff Dean (from Lead at Google AI), "AI isn't as smart as you think -- but it could be", an online talk
  • 21/04/2022 Prof Emma Hart, "Self-assembling robots and the potential of artificial evolution", an online talk
  • 14/04/2022, Christian Raymond, "Multi-objective GP with AWS for Symbolic Regression"
  • 07/04/2022 Prof. Melanie Mitchell, "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans", an online talk
  • 17/03/2022 Prof. Yaochu Jin, "Multi-objective Evolutionary Federated Learning", an online talk
  • 24/02/2022 Prof. Risto Miikkulainen, "Evolutionary computation: The next deep learning", an online talk
  • 25/11/2021 Prof Mengjie Zhang, "Evolutionary Transfer Learning for Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition", an invited talk in a workshop related to evolutionary computation algorithms
  • 22/10/2021 Kirita-Rose Escott (Ngāti Kahungunu me Ngāti Hamoa), "Māori Data sovereignty-II", the second talk at VUW, following a discussion
  • 14/10/2021 David Knox, "Point Annotations for Image Segmentation", a FASLIP talk at VUW
  • 01/10/2021 Kirita-Rose Escott (Ngāti Kahungunu me Ngāti Hamoa), "Māori Data sovereignty-I", a talk at VUW, following a discussion
  • 20/09/2021 Prof Mengjie Zhang, "Evolutionary Machine Learning: Research, Applications and Challenges", a talk at the University of Auckland
  • 10/09/2021 Dr. Cuie Yang, "Transfer Learning and Domain Adaptation", a talk at VUW
  • 23/07/2021 Prof Carlos Artemio Coello Coello, "Lessons Learned after 25 Years Designing Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms", an online talk
  • 16/07/2021 Prof Zbigniew Michalewicz, "AI-based business applications and the EC research", an online talk
  • 09/07/2021 Prof Xin Yao, "When Everything Else Fails, Try Co-evolution", an online talk
  • 11/07/2021 Prof Bing Xue and Prof Mengjie Zhang, "Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection and Feature Construction", a tutorial at 2021 The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)
  • 10/07/2021 Prof Mengjie Zhang, "Evolutionary Computation and Evolutionary Deep Learning for Image Analysis, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition", a tutorial at 2021 The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)
  • 28/06/2021 Prof Mengjie Zhang and Prof Bing Xue, "Evolutionary Computation for Feature Reduction", a tutorial at 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC)
  • 23/05/2021 Ying Bi, "Genetic Programming for Image Classification", a talk invited by NICE Seminar online
  • 23/04/2021 Ying Bi, "Automatically learning features using genetic programming for low-quality fish image classification", Victoria University of Wellington
  • 14/03/2021 Prof Mengjie Zhang, "Evolutionary Machine Learning", IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturers talk for IEEE CIS Kolkata Chapter, West Bengal, India
  • 12/02/2021 Kevin Shedlock, "Te Ruapekapeka Pa: A kaupapa māori case study research during the construction of the IT artifact", Victoria University of Wellington
  • 15/01/2021 Prof Mengjie Zhang, "How to write a paper", Victoria University of Wellington
  • 27/11/2020 Dr. Bach Nguyen, "Transfer learning", Victoria University of Wellington
  • 19/12/2020 Prof Bing Xue, "Evolutionary Computation for Automated Design of Deep Neural Networks", a tutorial at "2020 International Workshop on Knowledge Transfer in Evolutionary Optimization"
  • 19/12/2020 Prof Mengjie Zhang, "Evolutionary Transfer Learning for Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition", a keynote at "2020 International Workshop on Knowledge Transfer in Evolutionary Optimization"
  • --/12/2020 Prof Bing Xue, "Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection and Automated Design of Deep Neural Networks", a talk at Zhenzhou University, China
  • 25/11/2020 Prof Mengjie Zhang, "Evolutionary Deep Learning and Applications to Image Classification", a keynote at "The 35th Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand"
  • 20/11/2020 Qinglan Fan, Ph.D. Proposal rehearsal: Genetic programming for image classification
  • 06/11/2020 Alex Gavryushin, from University of Otago: "Machine Learning for Oncology", a talk at Victoria University of Wellington
  • 06/11/2020 Prof. Michael Witbrock, from The University of Auckland, Broad AI Lab: "Our Future with AI", a talk at Victoria University of Wellington
  • 31/10/2020 Prof Mengjie Zhang, "Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection and Dimensionality Reduction", a keynote at "2020 International Conference on Computing and Pattern Recognition (ICCPR 2020)"
  • 09/07/2020 Prof Mengjie Zhang, "Evolutionary Computation and Evolutionary Deep Learning for Image Analysis, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition", a tutorial at 2020 The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)
  • 09/07/2020 Prof Bing Xue, "Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection and Feature Construction", a tutorial at 2020 The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)
  • 18/06/2020 A/Prof. Maren Wellenreuther, "Phenotyping of aquatic fish species: challenges, progress, and future directions", Invitation to present at the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources (BANR), National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Theme Artificial Intelligence: The Potential for Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources More information here
  • 04/02/2020 Prof Mengjie Zhang, "Evolutionary Computation and Evolutionary Deep Learning for Image Analysis, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition", an invited talk at La Trobe University
  • 03/02/2020 Prof Mengjie Zhang, "Evolutionary/Automated Deep Learning and Applications", IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturers talk, RMIT University, link

Events

  • From 10 July 2021 to 14 July 2021, a group of staff members and students attend the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) online
  • From 28 June 2021 to 1 July 2021, a group of staff members and students attend the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) online
  • 28 May 2021, a group of staff members and students at VUW went to Pipitea Marae.
  • 7 May 2021, a group of staff members at VUW attend the Joint VUW-MetService Seminar Programme. Most of them present our research on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and evolutionary learning.
  • 16 April 2021, Mengjie Zhang and Ying Bi visit the Dragonfly Data Science office
  • 9 April 2021, over ten staff members, including postdocs, attend the New Zealand Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Research. Our research has been presented orally in the workshop by key members.
  • 30/11/2020-01/12/2020: we visit Plant & Food lab, Cawthron lab, and Mussel farms at Havelock in Nelson. some photos
  • We host the conference: "The 35th Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ 2020)" *
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