CV
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Education
- Ph.D. The University of Melbourne, Australia (2014)
- Grad. Cert. in University Teaching The University of Melbourne, Australia (2025)
- Grad. Cert. in Advanced Learning and Leadership The University of Melbourne, Australia (2012)
- M.Eng. (Electronics) Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia (2008)
- B.Eng. (Electronics) Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia (2005)
Employment
- 2023–present Senior Research Fellow (Level C), OPTIMA & School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
- 2022–2023 Research Fellow (Level B), OPTIMA & School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
- 2018–2019 Lecturer (0.2 FTE), School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
- 2017–2021 Research Fellow (Level B), School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
- 2014–2017 Research Fellow (Level A), School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University
Research Highlights
- 41 journal articles and 28 conference papers; 2,241 citations (Google Scholar), h-index 24
- Invited participant at Schloss Dagstuhl seminars (2016, 2023) and Lorentz Centre workshop Benchmarked (2020)
- Tutorial presenter at GECCO’24, PPSN’24, IJCNN’24, PRICAI’23, CEC’20
- Lead developer of MATILDA (Melbourne Algorithm Test Instance Library with Data Analytics), a cloud platform for Instance Space Analysis with 200+ users across 4+ countries and 3,000+ jobs processed
Research Funding (Selected)
| Year | Grant | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Australia Economic Accelerator Ignite (IG240100160), with Czyz, Polyzos, Smith-Miles | AU$428,296 |
| 2025 | Dyason Fellowship (2025DYA013) | AU$7,896 |
| 2024 | Franco-Australian Hubert Curien Program | AU$6,800 |
| 2021 | ACEMS Research Sprint Scheme, with Kandanaarachchi | AU$20,000 |
| 2017 | ARC Linkage LP160101885, with Smith-Miles, Hyndman, Katsifolis | AU$204,000 |
| 2016 | Research Connection RC53128, with Smith-Miles, Kandanaarachchi | AU$100,000 |
| 2015 | Research Connection RC48547, with Smith-Miles | AU$100,000 |
Total research funding received: >AUD$700,000
Teaching
- COMP90083 Computational Modelling and Simulation (PG Elective) — Sole Coordinator (S2/2025, 47 students); Coordinator & Lecturer (S2/2022–2024). SES scores: 4.45 (2022), 4.21 (2023), 4.02 (2024), 4.57 (2025).
- COMP90038 Algorithms and Complexity (PG Compulsory) — Lecturer (S2/2018–2019), cohort of ~350 students. Average SES: 4.03.
Supervision
Current PhD students (5)
Lantao Zhang (2025–, AGL Energy, principal 50%), Margherita Battistotti (2024–, joint UoM/Manchester, co-supervisor 30%), Behzad Moradi (2023–, joint 50%), Anthony Rasulo (2022–, joint UoM/Manchester, co-supervisor 30%), Luxin Fang (2021–, joint 50%)
Completed PhD students (5)
Hanan Alsouly (2020–2025, joint 50%), Nicolau Andrés-Thio (2020–2024, joint 50%, Boeing Australia), Hossein Alipour (2019–2023, joint 50%), Estefania Yap (2017–2022, joint 50%), Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi (2016–2019, post-doc co-supervisor 20%, Linkage LP160101885)
Completed Master’s students (selected)
Parsa Babadi Noroozi (2025, MDSc, sole supervisor — placed 3rd in ESA Spacecraft Anomaly Challenge at ML4ITS2025/ECML-PKDD), Sanjit Kumar Raj Kumar (2025, MCS, sole supervisor), Ashar Siddiqui (2024–2025, MCS, sole supervisor), Pan Yue (2024, MCS, co-supervisor 45%), Yin-Shao Chen (2024, MCS, co-supervisor 45%), Runqi Zhao (2022, MInfoTech, sole supervisor), Paul Ou (2022, MInfoTech, sole supervisor), Hao Li (2019–2020, MSc, sole supervisor), Christopher Hadi Oetomo (2019–2020, MSc, sole supervisor), Zhenhao Yu (2019, MInfoTech, sole supervisor)
Service
- ARC Detailed Assessor for DECRA and DP schemes (2021–present; 10+ reviews)
- Hybridization co-chair, GECCO’24–’26; L4EC Track co-chair, GECCO’26
- Program Committee: AAAI (A*), GECCO (A), PPSN (A), ECML-PKDD (A), CEC (B), Evo*
- Regular reviewer for IEEE Trans. Evolutionary Computation, Evolutionary Computation, EJOR, Computers & OR, IEEE Trans. Cybernetics, and others (74 reviews in 2023–2025; 110+ total since 2017)
- Education & Training Committee, OPTIMA (2021–present); organiser of 10 training sessions for PhD students and ECAs