Education and Experiences

• Ph.D.: Sep 2017 - Dec 2022, Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Xingyi Zhang (Supervisor)

• Visiting Ph.D.: Mar 2022 - Oct 2022, Bielefeld University, Germany, Yaochu Jin (Co-Supervisor)

• Intern-researcher: Jul 2021 - Oct 2021, Tencent Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd

• B.E:  Sep 2013 - Jun 2017, Network Engineering, Anhui University

Fundings & something like

• The Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Grade B) of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant Number GZB20240002  (A two-year support started in 2024, only 1000 people won, and about 500 people won Grade A) ；

• The China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (74th Batch of General Funding)，2023-2025 (at a funding rate of about 17% )；

• The National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Project)，2024-2026；

Publications

• Shangshang Yang, Haiping Ma, Ying Bi, Ye Tian, Limiao Zhang*, Yaochu Jin, an Xingyi Zhang*. "An Evolutionary Multi-Objective Neural Architecture Search Approach to Advancing Cognitive Diagnosis in Intelligent Education". IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2024. 

• Shangshang Yang, Xiangkun Sun, Ke Xu, Yuanchao Liu, Ye Tian*, Xingyi Zhang*. "Hybrid Architecture-based Evolutionary Robust Neural Architecture Search". IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2024. 

• Haiping Ma, Changqian Wang, Hengshu Zhu, Shangshang Yang*, Xiaoming Zhang, Xingyi Zhang*. "Enhancing Cognitive Diagnosis using Un-interacted Exercises: A Collaboration-aware Mixed Sampling Approach".  in the Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24, CCF A), 2023.

• Shangshang Yang, Xiaoshan Yu, Ye Tian, Xueming Yan, Haiping Ma*, Xingyi Zhang*. "Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search for Transformer in Knowledge Tracing". in the Proceedings of the Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS, CCF A), 2023.

• Shangshang Yang, Cheng Zhen, Ye Tian, Haiping Ma*, Yuanchao Liu, Panpan Zhang, Xingyi Zhang*. "Evolutionary Multi-Objective Neural Architecture Search for Generalized Cognitive Diagnosis Models".  in the Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Data-driven Optimization of Complex Systems (EI), 2023, Best Paper.

• K. Xu, L. Han, Y. Tian, S. Yang*, X. Zhang. "EQ-Net: Elastic Quantization Neural Networks".  in the Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV, CCF A), 2023.

• S. Yang, H. Wei, H. Ma*, Y. Tian, X. Zhang, Y. Cao,  Y. Jin. "Cognitive Diagnosis-Based Personalized Exercise Group Assembly via a Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm".  IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2023, 7(3):829-844. 

• S. Yang, Y. Tian, X. Xiang*, S. Peng, X. Zhang*. "Accelerating Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search via Multi-Fidelity Evaluation". IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2022, 14(4): 1778-1792. 

• S. Yang, Y. Tian*, C. He, X. Zhang*, K.C. Tan, and Y. Jin. "A Gradient-Guided Evolutionary Approach to Training Deep Neural Networks". IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2021, 33(9): 4861-4875. 

• Y. Tian, S. Yang, X. Zhang*. "An Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Based Fuzzy Method for Overlapping Community Detection". IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2019, 28(11): 2841-2855.

• Y. Tian, S. Yang, L. Zhang, F. Duan, X. Zhang*. "A Surrogate-Assisted Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm for Large-Scale Task-Oriented Pattern Mining". IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2019, 3(2): 106-116.  

• L. Zhang, S. Yang, X. Wu, F Cheng*, Y. Xie, Z. Lin. "An indexed set representation based multi-objective evolutionary approach for mining diversified top-k high utility patterns". Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2019, 77: 9-20. 

• L. Zhang, H. Yang, S. Yang, X. Zhang. "A Macro-Micro Population-Based Co-Evolutionary Multi-Objective Algorithm for Community Detection in Complex Networks ". IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, In Press.

• Y. Tian, S. Peng, S. Yang, X. Zhang*, K.C. Tan, Y. Jin. "Action Command Encoding for Surrogate-Assisted Neural Architecture Search". IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2022, 14(3): 1129-1142. 

• Y. Tian, J. Pan, S. Yang, X. Zhang*, S. He, Y. Jin. "Imperceptible and sparse adversarial attacks via a dual-population based constrained evolutionary algorithm". IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2022, 4(2):268-281. 

• H. Ma, J. Zhu, S. Yang, Q. Liu, H. Zhang, X. Zhang*, Y. Cao, X. Zhao. "A Prerequisite Attention Model for Knowledge Proficiency Diagnosis of Students", in the Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management. 2022: 4304-4308, Atlanta GA USA, October 17–21 2022. 

• H. Ma, Y. Zeng, S. Yang, C. Qin, X. Zhang, L. Zhang*. "A novel computerized adaptive testing framework with decoupled learning selector". Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2023: 1-12. 

• J. Chu, X. Yu, S. Yang, J. Qiu, Q. Wang*. "Architecture entropy sampling-based evolutionary neural architecture search and its application in osteoporosis diagnosis". Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2023, 9(1): 213-231.