Grants #

We are grateful to be well supported by a substantial and diverse research funding portfolio from UKRI, Royal Society, EU Commission, Amazon, Hong Kong RGC, etc.

Active Grants

10 grants

PHASE: Physics-Informed AI for Sensors and Enzymes

UKRI Turing AI Pioneer Interdisciplinary Fellowship

#TBD| Co-I| £2,163,635| 2026–2029

Deciphering the RNA Language in Nature

Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship

FDF/S2/251014| Co-PI| £7,992,182| 2025–2035

Explainome: Open-Source Automated Explainable AI Agent Powered by Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs for Computational Biology

BBSRC Transformative Research Technologies

#UKRI1875| PI| £194,564| 2025–2027

Large Language Model Empowered Explainable Automated Machine Learning for Early Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease

EPSRC IAA Impact Visionary Award

#TBD| PI| £48,882.04| 2025–2026

SAILING: Secure AI and Digital Twin Empowered Smart Internet-of-Energy

MSCA Doctoral Networks 2024

#TBD| Co-I| £836,971.5| 2026–2029

Towards Scalable Data-Driven Multi-Objective Surrogate Modelling and Transfer Optimisation

Royal Society International Exchanges 2024 Global Round 3

#IES/R3/243136| PI| £11,970| 2025–2027

AI-Based Support for Mental Health Communication

MRC

#TBD| Co-I| £124,137| 2025–2028

EASY-CROSS: Secure and Modular Border Control Platform Supporting Handheld Biometric Scanning Devices for Verifying Travellers Crossing EU Land and Sea Borders

MSCA Staff Exchange 2022

#TBD| Co-I| €613,185| 2024–2027

VENTURE: Investigating the Role of RNA Structure in mRNA Export

ERC Consolidator Grant (UKRI Horizon Europe Guarantee)

EP/Y009886/1| External Participant| £1,644,752| 2023–2028

Transfer Optimisation System for Adaptive Automated Nature-Inspired Optimisation

UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship

Phase 2: #MR/X011135/1| PI| £743,285 prima facie case| 2023–2027

Phase 1: #MR/S017062/1| PI| £1,370,803| 2019–2023

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Knowledge-Driven Evolutionary Multi-Objective Search for Automated Software Configuration Tuning

Kan Tong Po Fellowship 2023

#KTP/R1/231017| PI| £3,000| 2023–2024

Evolutionary Multi-Objective Search for Automating CNN Architecture Design

Royal Society

#IES\R2\212077| PI| £11,815| 2021–2023

Human-Centric Computing

Alan Turing Fellowship

PI| 2021–2023

Towards Scalable Multi-Objective Bilevel Optimization: Foundations, Methodologies and Applications

Hong Kong GRF

#11211521| Co-I| HK$1,150,000| 2021–2024

Knowledge Representation in Transfer Optimisation System and Applications for Highly Configurable Software Systems

EPSRC DTP Doctoral Prize

#2404317| PI| £74,000| 2020–2024

Many Hands Make Work Light: Multi-task Deep Semantic Learning for Testing Web Application Firewalls

Amazon Research Award

PI| $80,000 + $10,000| 2021–2022

Transfer Bayesian Optimization for Multi-Fidelity Data in Uncertain Environments

European Network Fund

#GP ENF5.10| PI| £7,440| 2021–2022

Dynamic Resource Management and Optimization for SLA Guarantees in Hyperconverged Communication Infrastructures

EPSRC Industrial CASE Studentship

#EP/P51049X/1| Co-I| £81,430| 2017–2021

Multi-Task Semi-Supervised Deep Learning based on Evolutionary Algorithms and Its Applications

NSFC

#61876162| Co-I| ¥640,000| 2019–2022

University of Exeter Start-up Grant

University of Exeter

PI| £10,000| 2017–present

Three-Fold Decomposition in Multi-objective Optimization

North-European Associated Team Project between INRIA Lille Nord Europe and University of Exeter

PI| €10,000| 2018–2020

Key Questions in Multi-Label Active Learning: Multi-objective Optimisation

Royal Society International Exchange Program (Cost Share with NSFC)

#IEC/NSFC/170243| PI| £11,863| 2018–2020

Research on Key Problems in Dynamic Environment Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimization

NSFC

#61502408| Co-I| ¥250,000| 2015–2018

DAASE: Dynamic Adaptive Automated Software Engineering

EPSRC Program Grant

#EP/J017515/1| Research Fellow| ¥6,834,903| 2012–2019

Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimisation in Network Environments

EPSRC

#EP/K001523/1| Research Fellow| ¥512,325| 2013–2017

Stable Matching Theory in Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm based on Decomposition

Hong Kong GRF

#11205314| Proposal drafting and activity scheduling| HK$692,894| 2014–2017