Welcome to COLA Laboratory #
Computational Optimization for Learning and Adaptive Systems (COLA) laboratory is working in computational/artificial intelligence, multi-objective optimization and decision-making, operational research, machine learning and statistical modeling of complex systems. Applications focus on search-based software engineering, energy, biological science and medicine.
We are constantly looking for talented and passionate people to join our lab. Please refer to vacancies for potential opportunities.
Recent News (Year 2023) #
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COLA-Lab is now hiring!!! We have multiple fully funded PhD studentships available for September 2023 entry. Detailed information can be found from here.
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Our paper on “A Multi-Population Evolutionary Algorithm Using New Cooperative Mechanism for Solving Multi-Objective Problems with Multi-Constraint” has been accepted to IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput. Congratulations to our collaborators! March 25
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I’m glad to be invited to join the Editorial Board for the Brain-Computer Intersection section of Frontiers in Human Neuroscience journal (Impact Factor=3.473). March 20
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Our tutorial on “Preference-Based Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization: Steppingstone to Involve Human in the Loop” has been accepted to IEEE CEC 2023 and SMC 2023. This is an emerging topic that has been explored in my group for more than five years. It is my pleasure to share with you some of our very recent advances along this direction. Look forward seeing you in Chicago and Hawaii. March 4
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My paper on “ Batched Data-Driven Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization Based on Manifold Interpolation” published in IEEE Tran. Evolutionary Computation this year has been invited to give a Journal to Conference talk in IEEE CEC 2023. March 2
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COLA-Lab is now hiring!!! We have multiple fully funded PhD studentships available for September 2023 entry. Detailed information can be found from here.
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Our papers on “Black-Box Sparse Adversarial Attack via Multi-Objective Optimisation” has been accepted to CVPR 2023. Congratulations to Phoenix! Very well done! February 27
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COLA-Lab is now hiring!!! We have multiple fully funded PhD studentships available for September 2023 entry. Detailed information can be found from here.
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Our papers on “Evolutionary Bi-level Optimization via Multi-objective Transformation Based Lower Level Search” has been accepted to IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput. Congratulations to our collaborators! January 2
Previous news can be found from our news archive.
Contact #
Department of Computer Science
Innovation Centre A1-D
University of Exeter
Streatham Campus, North Park Road
Exeter, EX4 4QF, UK
E-mail: k.li AT exeter.ac.uk
Tel: +(44) 0139-272-4557