From left to right: Shenkai, Colin, Chris, Joe, Wissam, Yaochu, Tameera, and Xiaoyan (09.2011)
The NICE Research Group at University of Surrey presently consists of six permanent academic members and over 25 RAs and PhD students. This page is an unofficial website of Prof. Yaochu Jin's own team, including research fellows, PhD students and academic visitors.
Current Team Members
Hyondong Oh, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Topic: Morphogenetic self-organisation of collective systems.
Wissam Albukhanajer, PhD Student
Topic: Fast and robust feature extraction for detection of bootlegged museum images (CI)
Joseph Chrol-Cannon, PhD Student
Topic: Modeling neural plasticity for spatiotemporal pattern recognition (CCN)
Shenkai Gu, PhD Student
Topic: Semi-supervised learning for BCI-based game control (CCN)
Tameera Rahman, PhD Student
Topic: Predicting suitable vaccines for foot-and-mouth disease virus based on genetic sequence (CSBB)
Christopher Smith, PhD Student
Topic: Efficient evolutionary multi-objective optimisation of synthetic jet for active flow control (CI)
Spencer Thomas, PhD Student
Topic: Reconstruction of global regulatory networks governing the production of antibiotics in Streptomyces bacteria (CSBB)
Mohd Hanif Yusoff, PhD Student
Topic: Semi-supervised learning for echo state machines (CCN)
Ran Cheng, PhD Student
Topic: Model-based evolutionary many-objective optimisation. (CI)
Xin-Lan Liao, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, ROC, Visiting PhD student
Topic: Robustness over time
The following Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Students are co-supervised by Professor Yaochu Jin:
Craig Brown (co-supervised with Prof Matthew Leach, Centre for Environmental Strategy)
Topic: Intelligent heat solutions: Concepts and strategies for product development (CI)
Michael Rustell (co-supervisor with Prof Soon-Thiam Khu, Division of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
Topic: Knowledge extraction and development of decision support systems for conceptual design of sustainable liquified nitrogen gas terminals (CI)
Prof. Yaochu Jin is also the secondary supervisor of the following PhD students:
Nick F Ryman-Tubb (Principal Supervisor: Prof Paul Krause, Department of Computing)
Topic: Knowledge extraction for fraud detection
Raveesh Kandiyil (Principal Supervisor: Dr Yang Gao, Surrey Space Center)
Topic: Multi-agent planning of autonomous spacecrafts
Past Team Members
Dr Borys Wrobel, Visiting Academic Researcher
Topic: Evolutionary developmental systems (06-08.2013)