Members #
Faculty
1 member
Professor Ke Li
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow | Turing Fellow
Group Leader of AI for Biology Earlham Institute
Honorary Professor University of Exeter
Research Staff
5 members
Dr Shengbo Wang
Research Associate
2026–present
Research interests BO, SO
Hongjie Wu
Research Associate
2026–present
Research interests Explainable AI agents
Thomas Chambers
Research Associate
2026–present
Research interests cell segmentation
Mingyu Huang
Research Associate
2025–present
Research interests XAI, agentic systems, landscape analysis
Dr Jiangtao Shen
Research Fellow
2025–present
Research interests LLM-powered algorithm discovery
PhD Students
10 members
Yuan Li
PhD Student
2025–present
Research interests Foundation models
Tianmeng Hu
PhD Student
2025–present
Research interests RL, AI4Science
Wanli Ma
PhD Student
2025–present
Research interests AI4Science
Shiting Wang
PhD Student
2024–present
Research interests AI4Science
Yingjie Zou
PhD Student
2024–present
Research interests AutoML for energy
Hong Sun
PhD Student
2024–present
Research interests EMO, preference learning
Jack Cole
PhD Student
2024–present
Research interests AI4Science
Shasha Zhou
PhD Student
2023–present
Research interests XAI, ML, EMO
Peili Mao
PhD Student
2021–present
Research interests SE, BO, MCM, LA
Savas Yuec
PhD Student
2018–present
Research interests EMO, BO, reliability
Alumni
PhD Graduates 6
Dr Heng Yang
2021–2026 University of Exeter
Role PhD student
Career Tonghuashun Ltd
Selected outputs 1 NMI paper; 1 IEEE Transactions paper; papers at AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, and ECAL
Dr Phoenix Williams
2020–2024 University of Exeter
Role PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. Geyong Min
Career GSK.ai Lloyds Banking Group
Selected outputs 1 IEEE Transactions paper; papers at CVPR, NeurIPS, EMO, SMC, GECCO, and CEC
Dr Bo Lyu
2018–2022 The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Role PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. Shiping Wen
Career Zhijiang Lab
Selected outputs 2 IEEE Transactions papers; 1 other journal paper
Dr Joseph Billingsley
2017–2022 University of Exeter
Role PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. Geyong Min
Career G-Research, London
Selected outputs 2 EMO papers; 1 GLOBECOM paper; 1 WCCI paper
Dr Mengyuan Wu
2014–2018 City University of Hong Kong
Role PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. Sam Kwong
Career Huawei Noah's Ark Laboratory SHEIN Lab
Selected outputs 3 IEEE Transactions papers; 1 GECCO paper; 1 SMC paper
Dr Renzhi Chen
2013–2018 University of Birmingham
Role PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. Xin Yao
Career National Defense University of Technology PLA Academy of Military Science Qiyuan Lab
Selected outputs 4 IEEE Transactions papers
Postdoctoral Researchers 4
Dr Fan Li
2021–2025 University of Exeter
Career Associate Professor, Hunan University
Dr Jiaxin Chen
2022–2023 University of Exeter
Career Assistant Professor, China University of Mining and Technology
Dr Jiangjiao Xu
2020–2022 University of Exeter
Career Zhongneng Integrated Smart Energy Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing, China Assistant Professor, Shanghai Electric University
Dr Xinqi Li
2021–2022 University of Exeter
Career GLAMOROUS.AI
Visiting Students 9
Miss Kailai Gao
2023–2024 Northeastern University
Role Visiting PhD student
Mr Shuang Li
2022–2023 Harbin Institute of Technology
Role Visiting PhD student
Miss Jiaxin Chen
2021–2023 Northeastern University
Role Visiting PhD student
Miss Huan Zhang
2021–2022 Northeastern University
Role Visiting PhD student
Mr Jiadi Liu
2019–2020 Southwest University
Role Visiting PhD student
Mr Ruxin Zhao
2019–2020 Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Role Visiting PhD student
Miss Yingying Guan
2019–2020 Northeastern University
Role Visiting PhD student
Mr Lingjie Li
2019 Shenzhen University
Role Visiting student
Dr Nan Mu
2018 Wuhan University of Technology
Role Visiting PhD student
Career Sichuan Normal University
Visiting Scholars 3
Dr Senyue Zhang
2022–2023 Shenyang Aerospace University
Role Visiting scholar
Career Shenyang Aerospace University
Dr Lei Yang
2017–2018 South China Agricultural University
Role Visiting scholar
Career South China Agricultural University
Dr Geng Lin
2018 Minjiang University
Role Visiting scholar
Career Minjiang University