Michalis Mavrovouniotis

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Research Interests

• Evolutionary Computation
• Swarm Intelligence
• Memetic Computing
• Artificial Neural Networks
• Combinatorial Optimization Problems
• Dynamic Optimization
• Real-world Applications

Professional Mememberships

• Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), since 2023
• Chair, IEEE Task Force on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, since 2022
• Vice-Chair, IEEE Task Force on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, since 2018
• Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), since 2013
• Member, IEEE Task Force on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE), since 2013
• Member, IEEE, since 2013

Honors and Awards

• Listed in the Stanford University World's Top 2% Scientists List (DOI:10.17632/btchxktzyw.6)
• Outstanding Reviewer award at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2023 - Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence Track
• Nominatee for the Best Paper award of EvoApplications 2016 at Evostar 2016 Conference, for the paper "Direct memory schemes for population-based incremental learning in cyclically changing environments"
• Nominatee for the Best Paper award of the Ant Colony Optimization - Swarm Intelligence (ACO - SI) track at 2015 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, for the paper "An ant colony optimization based memetic algorithm for the dynamic travelling salesman problem"
• Winner of the Microsoft Best Project Price, Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, UK

Invited Talks

• Seminar talk, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia Cyprus, December 2018
• Seminar talk, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham UK, March 2016
• Seminar talk, School of Computing, University of Kent, Kent, UK, December 2013
• Seminar talk, Faculty of Technology, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, May 2012
• Seminar talk, School of Engineering & Computing, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK, December 2012
• Seminar talk, School of Computer Science, Brunel University, London, March 2012

PhD Student Supervision

• Sadegh M. Salesi: co-supervised with Dr. Georgina Cosma at Nottingham Trent University, graduated in December 2020 (Thesis: Combinatorial Optimisation Methods for Finding Stable Features When Building Interpretable Machine Learning Models)
• Jayne Eaton: co-supervised with Prof. Shengxiang Yang at De Montfort University, graduated in January 2018 (Thesis: Ant Colony Optimization for Dynamic Multi-objective Railway Rescheduling Problems)

PhD Examination

• External Examinar: Reginald Boafo Ankrah (PhD: Supervisor: Prof. John McCall; Thesis: Generation and Optimisation of Real-World Static and Dynamic Location-Allocation Problems with Application to the Telecommunications Industry), Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK, thesis examined in February 2020.

Conference Activities

• Co-Chair/Co-Organizer:
1. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Changhe Li, Danial Yazdani, Aneta Neumann, Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE24), for the 2024 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2024), Yokohama, Japan, June 30 - 5 July, 2024
2. Changhe Li, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE23), for the 2023 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2023), Chicago, USA, 1-5 July, 2023
3. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Chnaghe Li, and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs) 2023 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (IEEE CIDUE 2023), part of the 2023 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2023), Mexico City, Mexico, 5-8 December, 2023
4. Danial Yazdani, Juergen Branke, Mohammad Nabi Omidvar, Xiaodong Li, Changhe Li, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Trung Thanh Nguyen, Shengxiang Yang and Xin Yao (Co-Chairs), Competition on Dynamic Optimization Problems Generated by Generalized Moving Peaks Benchmark , part of the 2022 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2022) Competitions, Padua, Italy, 18-23 July, 2022
5. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Chnaghe Li, and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs) 2022 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (IEEE CIDUE 2022), part of the 2022 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2022), Singapore, 4-7 December, 2022
6. Changhe Li, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE22), for the 2022 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2022), Padua, Italy, 18-23 July, 2022
7. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Chnaghe Li, and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs) 2021 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (IEEE CIDUE 2021), part of the 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2021), Orlando, Florida, USA, 5-8 December, 2021
8. Changhe Li, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE21), for the 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2021), Krakow, Poland, 28 June- 1 July, 2021
9. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Charalambos Menelaou, Stelios Timotheou, Christos Panayiotou, Georgios Ellinas and Marios Polycarpou (Co-Chairs), CEC-12 Competition on Electric Vehicle Routing Problem, part of the 2020 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2020) Competitions, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 19-24 July, 2020
10. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Chnaghe Li, and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs) 2020 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (IEEE CIDUE 2020), part of the 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2020), Canberra, Australia, 1-4 December, 2020
11. Changhe Li, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Shengxiang Yang, and Yinan Guo (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE20), for the 2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE WCCI 2020), Glasgow, UK, 19-24 July, 2020
12. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Chnaghe Li, Shengxiang Yang, and Wenjian Luo (Co-Chairs) 2019 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (IEEE CIDUE 2019), part of the 2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2019), Xiamen, China, 6-9 December, 2019
13. Changhe Li, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE19), for the 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2019), Wellington, New Zealand, 10-13 June, 2019
14. Shengxiang Yang, Robi Polikar, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, and Yaochu Jin (Co-Chairs), 2018 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (IEEE CIDUE 2018), part of the 2018 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2018), Bengaluru, India, 18 - 21 November, 2018
15. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Changhe Li and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs) Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE18), for the 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2018), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 8-13 July, 2018
16. Michalis Mavrovouniotis and Trung Thanh Nguyen (Co-Chairs), Track on Evolutionary Algorithms and Meta-heuristics in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC 2018), incooperating Evo* 2018, Parma, Italy, 4-6 April, 2018
17. Michalis Mavrovouniotis and Amir Pourabdollah (Local Organisation Co-Chairs), The 2018 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2018), Nottingham Trent University, UK, 5-7 September, 2018
18. Shengxiang Yang, Robi Polikar, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, and Yaochu Jin (Co-Chairs), 2017 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (IEEE CIDUE 2017), part of the 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2017), Hawaii, USA, 27 November - 1 December, 2017
19. Changhe Li, Trung Thanh Nguyen, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Swarm and Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (SECDUE 2017), for the 11th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL 2017), Shenzhen, China, 10-13 November, 2017
20. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Changhe Li, and Shengxiang Yang (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE17), for the 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2017), Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, 5-8 June, 2017
21. Michalis Mavrovouniotis and Trung Thanh Nguyen (Co-Chairs), Track on Evolutionary Algorithms and Meta-heuristics in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC 2017), incooperating Evo* 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 19-21 April, 2017
22. Shengxiang Yang, Robi Polikar, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, and Yaochu Jin (Co-Chairs), 2016 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (IEEE CIDUE 2016), part of the 2016 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2016), Athens, Greece, 6-9 December, 2016
23. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Changhe Li, Shengxiang Yang, and Yinan Guo (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE16), for the 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2016), Vancouver, Canada, 25-29 July, 2016
24. Michalis Mavrovouniotis and Trung Thanh Nguyen (Co-Chairs), Track on Evolutionary Algorithms and Meta-heuristics in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC 2016), incooperating Evo* 2016, Porto, Portugal, 30 March-1 April, 2016
25. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Changhe Li, Shengxiang Yang, and Yinan Guo (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE15), for the 2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2015), Sendai, Japan, 25-28 May, 2015
26. Michalis Mavrovouniotis and Trung Thanh Nguyen (Co-Chairs), Track on Evolutionary Algorithms and Meta-heuristics in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC 2015), incooperating Evo* 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, 8-10 April, 2015
27. Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Changhe Li, Shengxiang Yang, and Xin Yao (Co-Chairs), Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE14), for the 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2014), Beijing, China, 6-11 July, 2014
28. Changhe Li, Michalis Mavrovouniotis, Shengxiang Yang, and Xin Yao (Co-Chairs), 2014 IEEE Competition on Evolutionary Computation for Dynamic Optimization Problems, part of the 2014 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2014) Competitions, Beijing, China, 6-11 July, 2014

• Program Committee
1. The 2024 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2024) Melbourne, Australia, 14-18, July, 2024
2. The Fourteenth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2023), Shenzhen, China, 14-18 July, 2023
3. The 2023 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2023), Chicago, USA, 1-5 July, 2023
4. The 2023 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Enviornments (CIDUE), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2023), Mexico City, Mexico 5-8 December, 2023
5. The 2023 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2023) Lisbon, Portugal, 15-19, July, 2023
6. The Thirteen International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2022), Malaga, Spain, 2-4 November, 2022
7. The 2022 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2022) Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 9-13, July, 2022
8. The 2022 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Enviornments (CIDUE), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2022), Singapore, 4-7 December, 2022
9. The 2022 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2022), Padua, Italy, 18-23 July, 2022
10. The 2021 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2021) Lille, France, 10-14 July, 2021
11. The 2021 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Enviornments (CIDUE), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2021), Orlando, Florida, USA, 5-8 December, 2021
12. The 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2021), Krakow, Poland, 28 June-1 July, 2021
13. The 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2020) Cancun, Mexico, 8-12 July, 2020
14. The 2020 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Enviornments (CIDUE), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2020), Canberra, Australia, 1-4 December, 2020
15. The 2020 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2020), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 19-24 July, 2020
16. The 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2019) Prague, Czech Republic, 13-17 July, 2019
17. The 2019 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Enviornments (CIDUE), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2019), Xiamen, China, 6-9 December, 2019
18. The 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2019), Wellington, New Zealand, 10-13 June, 2019
19. The 2018 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2018) Kyoto, Japan, 15-19 July, 2018
20. The 2018 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Enviornments (CIDUE), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2018), Bengaluru, India, 18 - 21 November, 2018
21. The Eleventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2018), Rome, Italy, 29-31 October, 2018
22. The 9th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ISCI 2018), Shanghai, China, 17-22 June, 2018
23. The 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2018), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 8-13 July, 2018
24. The 2018 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2018), Nottingham Trent University, UK, 5-7 September, 2018
25. The 15th European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms and Meta-heuristics in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC 2018), incooperating EvoStar(Evo*), Parma, Italy, 4-6 April, 2018
26. The 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2017), Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, 5-8 June, 2017
27. The 2017 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Enviornments (CIDUE), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2017), Hawaii, USA, 27 November - 1 December, 2017
28. The 14th European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms and Meta-heuristics in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC 2017), incooperating EvoStar(Evo*), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 19-21 April, 2017
29. The 2016 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (CIDUE), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2016), Athens, Greece, 6-9 December, 2016
30. The 2nd EAI International Conference on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems (INISCOM), Leicester, UK, 31 October-2 November, 2016
31. International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data (DMBD 2016), Bali, Indonesia, 25-30 June 2016
32. The Tenth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2016), Brussels, Belgium, 7-9 September, 2016
33. The Seventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2016), Bali, Indonesia, 25-30 June, 2016
34. The 6th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing (META'2016), Marrakech, Morocco, 27–31 October, 2016
35. The 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2016), Denver-Colorado, USA, 20-24 July, 2016
36. The 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2016), Vancouver, Canada, 25-29 July, 2016
37. The 13th European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms and Meta-heuristics in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC 2016), incooperating EvoStar(Evo*), Porto, Portugal, 30 March-1 April, 2016
38. The 2015 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (CIDUE), part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2015), Cape Town, South Africa, 7-10 December, 2015
39. The 2015 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2015), Exeter, UK, 7-9 September, 2015
40. The 2015 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2015), Madrid, Spain, 11-15 July, 2015
41. The 2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2015), Sendai, Japan, 25-28 May, 2015
42. The 12th European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms and Meta-heuristics in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC 2015), incooperating EvoStar(Evo*), Copenhagen, Denmark, 8-10 April, 2015
43. The 2014 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2014), Bradford, UK, 8-10 September, 2014
44. The Fifth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2014), Hefei, Anhui Province, China, 17-20 October, 2014
45. The 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2014), Beijing, China, 6-11 July, 2014
46. The 11th European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC 2014), incooperating EvoStar(Evo*), Granada, Spain, 23-25 April, 2014
47. The 2013 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2013), Surrey, UK, 9-11 September, 2013

Journal Activities

• Reviewer for:
1. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
2. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
3. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
4. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
5. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
6. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
7. Information Sciences
8. Applied Soft Computing
9. Soft Computing
10. Expert Systems with Applications
11. Natural Computing
12. Future Generation Computer Science
13. Theoretical Computer Science
14. IET Intelligent Transport Systems