Academics

Invited Talks

• Invited Talk, Automated Design of Local Search Algorithms with Machine Learning for Vehicle Routing Problems, at IEEE CIS Taskforce on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation Webinars, 10 June 2024. pdf

Reviewer for

• Computers and Operations Research
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
• Expert Systems with Applications
• IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
• Journal of the Operational Research Society
• PeerJ Computer Science
• IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI’2025)
• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) (CEC’2024)
• The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference(GECCO’2024)
• The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference(GECCO’2023)

Membership

• Member of Diversity & Inclusion sub-committee at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, since January 2024.
• Member of IEEE Taskforce on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation (ESCO) at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, since October 2023.
• Member of IEEE Taskforce on Automated Algorithm Design, Configuration and Selection (AADCS) at IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, since July 2023.
• Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGEVO, since July 2022.
• Candidate Associate of The Operational Research Society, since June 2022.

Committee Chair & Membership

• Member of the Programme Committee of IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence (SSCI’2025) for Energy, Transport and Environmental Sustainability, March 17-20, 2025, Trondheim, Norway.
• Member of the Programme Committee of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) (CEC’2024), June 30-July 5, 2024, Yokohama, Japan.
• Member of the Programme Committee of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’2025), July 14-18, 2025, Málaga, Spain.
• Member of the Programme Committee of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’2024), July 14-18, 2024, Melbourne, Australia.
• Member of the Programme Committee of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’2023), July 15-19, 2023, Lisbon, Portugal.

Event Organisation

• Organiser of the ML4VRP Competition of The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference(GECCO’2024) , Melbourne, Australia, July 14th-18th, 2024.
• Organiser of the ML4VRP Competition of The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference(GECCO’2023) , Lisbon, Portugal, July 15th-19th, 2023.