Associate Professor    

School of Computing

Queen's University

Kingston, ON

Canada

Faculty Member   

Ingenuity Labs

Faculty Affiliate    

Vector Institute

Teaching

@ Queen's University

• BMIF802 - Biomedical Data Analysis, Summer 2023, Summer 2024, Summer 2025

• CISC121 - Introduction to Computer Science I, Winter 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021

• CISC365 - Algorithms I, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024, Winter 2025

• CISC455/851 - Evolutionary Optimization and Learning, Fall 2021, Winter 2023, Winter 2024, Winter 2025

@ Memorial University

• COMP1000 - Computer Science - An Introduction, Fall 2016

• COMP1700 - Introduction to Computer Science, Fall 2015

• COMP3201 - Introduction to Nature-Inspired Computing, Fall 2018

• COMP4752 - Introduction to Computational Intelligence, Fall 2015

• COMP6776 - Evolutionary Computation, Spring 2015, Winter 2018

• COMP6915 - Machine Learning, Winter 2016

• COMP6917 - Complex Networks, Fall 2016, Fall 2017

• MED6395 - Genetic Epidemiology (section of network and pathway analysis), Winter 2016, Winter 2018

Professional Services

• Scientific society committee:

  • • Data Mining and Big Data Analytics Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)

    • European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP) Steering Committee

• Journal editorial: 

  • • Associate Editor, Neurocomputing

    • Area Editor for life sciences, Associate Editor, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines

    • Associate Editor, Entropy

• Journal special issue editing: 

  • • Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines - SI on highlights of genetic programming events, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

    • Frontiers in Genetics - SI on machine learning in genome-wide association studies, 2020

    • Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines - SI on highlights of genetic programming 2020 events, 2021

    • Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines - SI on highlights of genetic programming 2019 events, 2020

    • Entropy - SI on application of information theory in biomedical data mining, 2019

    • Genes - SI on novel computational methods for the analysis of gene-gene interactions, 2018

    • Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine - SI on soft computing for analysis of biomedical data, 2018

• Program chair: 

  • • Genetic Programming Theory and Practice (GPTP) Workshop, 2023, 2024

    • Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) GP Track, 2019, 2023, 2024

    • European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP), 2019, 2020 and 2021

    • European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning, and Data Mining in Bioinformatics (EvoBio), 2016, 2017

• Publication chair: 

  • • European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP), 2013

• Journal reviewer: 

  • • Scientific Reports

    • Bioinformatics

    • BMC Genetics

    • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 

    • Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines 

    • Applied Soft Computing 

    • Neurocomputing

    • Optimization Methods and Software 

    • BioData Mining 

    • Human Genetics

    • Soft Computing 

    • Brain Informatics 

    • BMC Bioinformatics 

    • Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 

    • Information Sciences 

    • Computational Intelligence 

    • PLoS ONE

    • PeerJ

• Program committee and conference reviewer: 

  • • ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2023

    • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2021-2023

    • International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM), 2020

    • Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), 2009-2023 

    • European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP), 2013-2023

    •  European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics (EvoBio), 2012-2019

    • Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2014, 2017-2021 

    • International Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning Symposium, 2012 

    • IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2011

    • International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC), 2008

Mini Bio

• Postdoc      Computational Genetics, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

• Ph.D.          Computer Science, Memorial University, St. John's, NL, Canada

• M.Sc.          Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China 

• B.Sc.           Applied Mathematics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China