Biography

I was born in Xuzhou, P. R. China in 1987. I received BSc degree Computer Science and Technology from the Northeastern University of China in 2010. Later, I spent 2 years at the Zhejiang University as a master's student (part of a special postgraduate programme towards a PhD degree at the end of the study, called Zhi-Bo in Chinese). Since January 2013, I am pursuing my PhD degree at the Department of Computing, University of Surrey, financed by the Honda Research Institute Europe. My principal supervisor at Surrey Computing is Prof Yaochu Jin. My research interests are mainly focused on Evolutionary Computation.

Publications

1. Ran Cheng, Min Yao, Particle Swarm Optimizer with Time Varying Parameters based on a Novel Operator, Applied Mathematics and Information Sciences, 2011, 5(2): 33-38
2. Ran Cheng, Min Yao, Xiaowei Xue, Bin Shen, Bisexual evolution: A novel bisexual evolutionary framework based on the Fisher's runaway process, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2012: 1-8
3. Ran Cheng, Min Yao, A Modified Particle Swarm Optimizer with a Novel Operator, AICI (2) 2010: 293-301
4. Jue Wang, Ran Cheng, Jiao Wang, Applying Artificial Neural Network combined with TD(λ) to computer Chinese chess, Control and Decision Conference, 2010: 3207-3211
5. Min Yao, Wensheng Yi, Rong Zhu, Ran Cheng, Semantic Image Retrieval Based on Multiple-Instance Learning, ICDM Workshops 2010: 905-910
6. Xiaowei Xue, Min Yao, Ran Cheng, A Novel Selection Operator of Cultural Algorithm, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, 2011: 71-77

Awards and Scholarships

• 2008: Third Prize in the regional ACM-ICPC, Liaoning Province.
• 2008: First Prize in the National English Contest of College Students (NECCS), China.
• 2009: First Prize in the regional ACM-ICPC, Liaoning Province.
• 2009: Second Prize in the regional ACM-ICPC, Northeastern China.
• 2009: Honorable Mention in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), USA.
• 2009: First Prize in the National English Contest of College Students (NECCS), China.
• 2010: First-Class Scholarship of Zhejiang University.
• 2011: First-Class Scholarship of Zhejiang University.