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Short Bio

I am currently a Ph.D. student in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, where my research focuses on software configuration tuning. Under the supervision of Prof. Tao Chen and Prof. Miqing Li, I am developing state-of-the-art multi-fidelity configuration tuning algorithms, with the goal of improving the efficiency and performance of computationally expensive optimization processes in complex software systems.

I began my academic journey in the field of Evolutionary Computation at Shenzhen University, where I completed my Master's degree in Computer Technology under the supervision of Prof. Qiuzhen Lin.

Research Interests

🧠 Self-adaptive Systems
🔁 Multi-fidelity Configuration Tuning

🏔 Fitness Landscape Analysis

🧬 Evolutionary Computation

🤖 Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)

Selected Awards

[May 2024] 2nd Prize Award in 2024 Soyotec Chinese Intelligent Optimization Competition for Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization.

[Nov. 2023] Full PhD Studentship in the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham.

[Jul. 2023] 2nd Runner-up Award in IEEE CEC 2023 Competition on Dynamic Constrained Multiobjective Optimization.

[Nov. 2022] National Scholarship for Postgraduates (Top 1%), Shenzhen University.

[Nov. 2022] The First Prize Scholarship, Shenzhen University.

[Jul. 2022] 2nd Runner-up Award in IEEE CEC 2022 Competition on Seeking Multiple Optima in Dynamic Environments.

Publications [Google Scholar][DBLP]

ICSE

Distilled Lifelong Self-Adaptation for Configurable Systems

Yulong Ye, Tao Chen*, Miqing Li

Proceedings of the 47th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2025.

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TEVC

Learning-Based Directional Improvement Prediction for Dynamic Multiobjective Optimization

Yulong Ye, Songbai Liu, Junwei Zhou, Qiuzhen Lin*, Min Jiang, Kay Chen Tan

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEVC), 2024.

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EAAI

A Localized Decomposition Evolutionary Algorithm for Imbalanced Multi-objective Optimization

Yulong Ye, Qiuzhen Lin*, Ka-Chun Wong, Jianqiang Li, Zhong Ming, Carlos A. Coello Coello

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), 2024.

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TSMC

Dynamic Multiobjective Evolutionary Optimization via Knowledge Transfer and Maintenance

Qiuzhen Lin, Yulong Ye, Lijia Ma*, Min Jiang, Kay Chen Tan

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (TSMC), 2023.

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KBS

Knowledge guided Bayesian classification for dynamic multi-objective optimization

Yulong Ye, Lingjie Li, Qiuzhen Lin*, Ka-Chun Wong, Jianqiang Li, Zhong Ming

Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), 2022.

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IS

Multiple source transfer learning for dynamic multiobjective optimization

Yulong Ye, Qiuzhen Lin, Lijia Ma, Ka-Chun Wong, Maoguo Gong, Carlos A Coello Coello

Information Sciences (IS), 2022.

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Collaboration

[1] Clustering-based Autoencoding for Dynamic Multiobjective Evolutionary Optimizatione

Yulong Ye, Qingling Zhu*, Lingjie Li, Jianyong Chen

[2] A novel multimodal multiobjective memetic algorithm with a local detection mechanism and a clustering-based selection strategy

Naili Luo, Yulong Ye, Wu Lin, Qiuzhen Lin*, Victor CM Leung

[3] A Kriging model-based evolutionary algorithm with support vector machine for dynamic multimodal optimization

Xunfeng Wu, Qiuzhen Lin*, Wu Lin, Yulong Ye, Qingling Zhu, Victor CM Leung

[4] Dynamic Constrained Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimization via Adaptive Two-Stage Archiving and Autoencoder Prediction

Qianhui Wang, Yulong Ye, Qingling Zhu, Songbai Liu, Qiuzhen, Lin*

Services

Journal Reviewers

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEVC)

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (TSMC)

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS)

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI)

ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)

Information Sciences (IS)

Applied Soft Computing (ASC)

Contact

Address: University of Birmingham, University Rd W, Birmingham B15 2TT
Office Location: The School of Computer Science, 145.
Email: yxy382@student.bham.ac.uk