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

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

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

Kan Tong Po Fellowship 2023

#KTP/R1/231017| PI| £3,000| 2023–2024

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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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