CV
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Education
- Grad. Cert. in University Teaching The University of Melbourne, Australia (2025)
- Ph.D. The University of Melbourne, Australia (2009–2014)
- Grad. Cert. in Advanced Learning and Leadership The University of Melbourne, Australia (2012)
- M.Eng. (Electronics) Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia (2006–2008)
- B.Eng. (Electronics) Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia (1999–2005)
Employment
- 2024–present Senior Research Fellow (Level C), ARC Centre OPTIMA, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
- 2022–2024 Research Fellow (Level B), ARC Centre 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
- 2008–2009 Auxiliary Professor, School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Universidad del Valle, Colombia
- 2008 Intern, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware, USA
Research and Industry Engagement
My research interests are randomised optimisation heuristics, automated optimisation and machine learning, operations research, experimental algorithmics, and modelling and simulation.
- 45 journal articles and 30 conference papers; 2,385 citations (Google Scholar, 1,397 in Scopus), h-index 25 (19 in Scopus), with 1,651 (1,027) citations over the last five years on an upward trajectory
- 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
- Industry partners, as researcher or supervisor of student teams:
- Future Fibre Technologies Ltd. (2016–2019) — methods for detecting intrusion events across various operating environments while mitigating nuisances
- Powerline Bushfire Safety Program (2017) — algorithms to identify plant species likely to cause a fault on a 22 kV power line
- Boeing Australia (2021–2024) — methodologies using multi-fidelity information to model an aircraft flight envelope
- IntelliSchool (2022) — models for identifying groups of students based on academic development
- HatchQuarter (2022) — a model to predict demand for milk derivatives in global markets
- AGL Ltd. (2024) — an anomaly detection model for predictive maintenance on wind turbines
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, with Doerr, Santori, Gallagher, Smith-Miles | €4,000 (AU$6,800) |
| 2021 | ACEMS Research Sprint Scheme, with Kandanaarachchi | AU$20,000 |
| 2018 | Defence Science Institute, with Yellishetty, Northey, Yuan, Weng, Walsh | AU$50,000 |
| 2017 | ARC Linkage LP160101885, with Smith-Miles, Hyndman, Katsifolis | AU$204,000 |
| 2017 | ACEMS Research Support Scheme, with Kandanaarachchi, Talagala | AU$13,468 |
| 2016 | Research Connection RC53128, with Smith-Miles, Kandanaarachchi | AU$100,000 |
| 2015 | Research Connection RC48547, with Smith-Miles | AU$100,000 |
Total for grants listed above: >AU$930,000
Teaching
- COMP90083 Computational Modelling and Simulation (PG Elective), School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
- Sole Coordinator [S2/2025] (~50 students)
- Coordinator and Lecturer of twelve sessions [S2/2023–2024] (~40 students per session)
- Lecturer of twelve sessions [S2/2022] (~40 students per session)
- SES scores: 4.45 (2022), 4.21 (2023), 4.02 (2024), 4.57 (2025)
- COMP90038 Algorithms and Complexity (PG Compulsory), School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne — Lecturer of twelve sessions [S2/2018–2019] (~350 students per session). Average SES: 4.03.
- ECE3093 Optimisation, Estimation, and Numerical Methods (UG Compulsory), School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University — Tutor [S1/2015–2017] (~25 students per tutorial)
Supervision
Current PhD students (6)
Parsa Babadi Noroozi (2026–, principal supervisor 50%, with M. Zahedi and S. Mutch), Lantao Zhang (2025–, AGL Energy, principal supervisor 50%, with M. Kirley and K. Smith-Miles), Margherita Battistotti (2024–, joint UoM/Manchester, co-supervisor 30%, with K. Smith-Miles, M. López-Ibañez and J. Handl), Behzad Moradi (2023–, joint supervisor 50%, with M. Kirley), Anthony Rasulo (2022–, joint UoM/Manchester, co-supervisor 30%, with K. Smith-Miles, M. López-Ibañez and J. Handl), Luxin Fang (2021–, joint supervisor 50%, with L. Andrew)
Completed PhD students (4)
Hanan Alsouly (2020–2025, joint supervisor 50% with M. Kirley; currently Lecturer at Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia), Nicolau Andrés-Thio (2020–2024, joint supervisor 50% with K. Smith-Miles; Boeing Australia industry-based PhD; currently Consultant at Endgame Analytics, Australia), Hossein Alipour (2019–2023, joint supervisor 50% with K. Smith-Miles; currently Senior Technology Solutions Specialist at Telstra), Estefania Yap (2017–2022, joint supervisor 50% with K. Smith-Miles; currently Chief of AI Systems at Australian Systems Research Pty Ltd)
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)
- Member of the Health Analytics, Leadership, and Economics Research Hub, the Critical Minerals Consortium, and the Australia-India Critical Minerals Research Hub
- Hybridisation (Visualisation) co-chair, GECCO (2024–2026); L4EC Track co-chair, GECCO (2026, 2027)
- Program Committee, OPTIMA-CON (2024, 2027), co-chair of the committee in 2024
- Program Committee: AAAI (A*), GECCO (A), PPSN (A), ECML-PKDD (A), CEC (B), Evo*
- Regular reviewer for Q1 journals including European Journal of Operational Research, Computers and Operations Research, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Evolutionary Computation, ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimisation, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, and Knowledge-Based Systems (74 reviews in 2023–2025; 110+ total since 2017)
- Education and Training Committee, OPTIMA (2021–present); organiser of 10 training sessions for PhD students and ECAs