Professional Activities

Professional Membership/Chairs

• Editorial Board Member: International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications, 2021–present.
• Editorial Board Member: International Journal of Machine Intelligence and Sensory Signal Processing, 2017–2018.
• Governing Board Member: International CyberSecurity Data mining Society (ICSDS), 2019–present.
• Chair: IEEE CIS Young Professionals Subcommittee, 2021–present.
• Chair: IEEE CIS Website Subcommittee, 2019–2021.
• Vice-chair: IEEE CIS Task Force on Intelligence Systems for Cybersecurity of IoT, 2018–present.
• Member: IEEE CIS Women in Computational Intelligence Subcommittee, 2021–present.
• Member: IEEE CIS Members Activities Committee, 2019–present.
• Member: IEEE CIS Task Force on Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Processing, 2018–present.
• Member: IEEE CIS Task Force on Evolutionary Deep Learning and Applications, 2018–present.
• Member: IEEE CIS Task Force on Transfer Learning and Transfer Optimization, 2017–present.
• Member: IEEE CIS Task Force on Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection and Construction, 2015–present.
• Member: Artificial Intelligence Researchers Association New Zealand, 2021–present.
• Member: ACM, 2018–present.
• Member: IEEE and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, 2013–present.
• Co-chair: Victoria University Cyber Security Researchers, 2018–present.
• Co-chair: Feature Analysis, Selection, and Learning in Image and Pattern Recognition Research Group, 2016–present.
• Member: The Evolutionary Computation Research Group, 2010–present.

Conference Organising Committee

• General Co-Chair: The 32nd International Telecommunication Networks and Application Conference (ITNAC 2022), 23-25 November 2022, Wellington, New Zealand
• Programme Co-Chair: The 35th Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ 2020), 25-27 November 2020, Wellington, New Zealand
• Organising Committee: The 12th International Cybersecurity Data Mining Competition (CDMC 2021), 8 December 2021, Bali, Indonesia
• Organising Committee: The 11th International Cybersecurity Data Mining Competition (CDMC 2020)
• Publicity Co-Chair: 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2020), 1-4 December 2020, Canberra, Australia
• Webmaster: 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2019), 10-13 June 2019, Wellington, New Zealand
  
• Webmaster: The 31st Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2018), 11-14 December 2018, Wellington, New Zealand

Organised Special Issues

• Guest Editor: Special Issue on "Evolutionary Computer Vision, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition", Applied Soft Computing (ASC 2020). Editors: Stefano Cagnoni, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang, Harith Al-Sahaf and Yanan Sun.
  

Organised Special Sessions

• Co-organiser: Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition, in 24th European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary and bio-inspired Computation (EvoAPPS 2022), Seville, Spain, Apr 20-22, 2022.
  
• Co-organiser: Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition, in 23rd European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary and bio-inspired Computation (EvoAPPS 2021), Seville, Spain, Apr 15-17, 2021.
  
• Co-organiser: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal Processing and Vision Processing, in IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2021), Orlando, Florida, USA, Dec 5-8, 2021.
  
• Co-organiser: Special Session on Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Processing, in 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2021), Krakow, Poland, Jun 28-Jul 1, 2021.
  
• Leading Organiser: Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Cybersecurity, in 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2021), Krakow, Poland, Jun 28-Jul 1, 2021. 
  
• Co-organiser: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal Processing and Vision Processing, in 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2020), Canberra, Australia, Dec 1-4, 2020.
  
• Co-organiser: Special Session on Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Processing, in 2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (WCCI/CEC 2020), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 19-24 July, 2020.
  
• Leading Organiser: Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Cybersecurity, in 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2019), Wellington, New Zealand, Jun 10-13, 2019. 
  
• Co-organiser: Special Session on Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Processing, in 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2019), Wellington, New Zealand, Jun 10-13, 2019.

Keynotes/Tutorials/Sessions (co-)Chair

• Keynotes:
  • Keynote Chair: Cinematic XR, in The 35th Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ 2020), Wellington, New Zealand, Nov 25-27, 2020.
• Tutorials:
  • Tutorial Chair: Managing and Communicating Object Identities in Knowledge Representation and Information Systems, in The 31st Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI2018), Wellington, New Zealand, Dec 11-14, 2018.
• Sessions:
  • Session Chair: Multimedia and Multimodal Data Analysis/Computer Vision/Signal Processing, in 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2020), Canberra, Australia, Dec 1-4, 2020. 
  • Session Chair: Computational Intelligence for Cybersecurity, in 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2019), Wellington, New Zealand, Jun 10-13, 2019.
  • Session Chair: Representation Learning, in The 31st Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI2018), Wellington, New Zealand, Dec 11-14, 2018.
  • Session Chair: Evolutionary Computation II, in The 31st Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI2018), Wellington, New Zealand, Dec 11-14, 2018.
  • Session Co-Chair: Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Processing, in 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2019), Wellington, New Zealand, Jun 10-13, 2019.

Peer Reviewer for International Journals

• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
• IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
• IEEE Transactions on Computers
• IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
• Applied Soft Computing
• Information Science
• Memetic Computing
  
• Soft Computing
  
• Swarm and Evolutionary Computation
  
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
  
• Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control
  
• Journal of Electronic Imaging
  
• Complex And Intelligent Systems
  
• American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
  
• Informatics
  
• ...
  

International Conference Program/Review Committee Member

• AAAI (2019-2022): Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (Core Tier A*).
  
• IJCAI (2020, 2022): International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Core Tier A*).
  
• IJCNN (2021): IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (Core Tier A).
  
• GECCO (2017-2022): The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (ARC/ERA and Core Tier A).
  
• CEC (2015-2021): IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation.
  
• EvoApps (2022): International Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation.
  
• WCNC (2022): IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference.
  
• PRICAI (2020): Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  
• IVCNZ (2013-2021): International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand.
  
• SSCI (2016-2021): IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence.
  
• AI/AJCAI (2013, 2015, 2018-2021): Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  
• ICC (2019): IEEE International Conference on Communications.
  
• CSAE (2018): International Conference on Computer Science and Application Engineering.
  
• SEAL (2017): International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning.
  
• ADMA (2016): International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications.
  
• SoCPaR (2015): International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition.
  

Talks

• 13 May 2021: Application of AI to Analysis of Malicious Behaviour by Code, Bots, & Humans (Malware and Reverse Engineering (MRE) Conference - Threat Intelligence Webinar). Starting time is 1:14:04
  
• 09 Apr 2021: AI for Behaviour-based in Cybersecurity (New Zealand Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Research).
  

Designs