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Hi there, welcome to the temporary homepage of Yuxuan Wang, who is currently pursuing his Bachelor's degree at School of Communications and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. His dream of being a real problem solver dates back to his high school time. Ever since, he has been working on artificial/computational intelligence related issues.  As a high school student, he independently developed a neural network and decision tree based spammail filter, which led him to the land of formal scientific research.

In his self-motivated and self-initiated undergraduate research, he dives into the field of evolutionary computation and heuristic search because the idea of solving problems by mimicking nature and collective intelligence is so attractive to him. General AI methodologies such as search, learning, modeling and knowledge from applied mathematics such as statistics, matrix analysis and optimization, serve as basic tools to facilitate his research in the field of interest. So far, he has several publications in various challenging yet interrelated areas, all of which were carried out and done without any supervision. His various research interests mainly span Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning/Perception, Multi-Agent System, Cognitive Computation, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, etc. 

In future, he expects to do research in a strongly interdisciplinary way, i.e., (possibly) with a combination of cognitive science, computer science and mathematics, through which he believes the insight of how "intelligence" emerges can be better revealed. Besides, he also wishes to develop new algorithms for solving real-world problems, such as those arise in the field of signal processing, distributed data management, information retrieval, social information processing, and multi-agent robotics. In other words, his future research can also be application-driven, which appropriately applies state-of-the-art theories to solving fancy real-world problems.

Currently, Yuxuan is looking for a Ph.D research student position related to the above areas, please feel free to drop him an email to: logpie AT gmail DOT com. You may want to check his brief CV below.

Education

  • B.E. Network Engineering, Nanjing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, 2009 (Expected)                         -Overall GPA: 87.7/100; Major GPA: 90.6/100; Ranking: 2/42 (Class); 5/130 (Department)

Journal Papers

  • Yu-Xuan Wang: Filtering Chinese Spam Mail based on LVQ2 Neural Network and Decision Tree Classification, Computer Engineering, Issue 9, Volume 31, 2005  (In Chinese, this is my first academic paper published during senior high school)
  • Yu-Xuan Wang, Qiao-Liang Xiang, Zhen-Dong Zhao: Particle Swarm Optimizer with Adaptive Tabu and Mutation: A Unified Framework for Efficient Mutation Operators, Under second round review, 2008  (My representative work, PDF is available here)

Conference Papers (In Chronological Order)  

  • Yu-Xuan Wang, Qiao-Liang Xiang: An Improved Discrete Particle Swarm Optimizer for Fast Vector Quantization Codebook Design, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2007), pp. 472-475, 2007  (Source code is available upon request)
  • Yu-Xuan Wang, Zhen-Dong Zhao, Ran Ren: Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimizer with Tabu Strategy for Global Numerical Optimization, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007), pp. 2310-2316, 2007
  • Yu-Xuan Wang, Forrest Sheng Bao: An Entropy-based Weighted Clustering Algorithm and Its Optimization for Ad hoc Networks, IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2007), pp. 56-61, 2007
  • Zhen-Dong Zhao, Lei Yuan, Yu-Xuan Wang, et al.: A Novel Model of Working Set Selection for SMO-type Decomposition Methods, IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2007), to appear
  • Stephen Gang Wu, Forrest Sheng Bao, Yu-Xuan Wang, et al.: A Leaf Recognition Algorithm for Plant Classification Using Probabilistic Neural Network, ISSPIT 2007
  • Yu-Xuan Wang, Qiao-Liang Xiang: Exploring New Learning Strategies in Differential Evolution Algorithm, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2008), to appear
  • Yu-Xuan Wang, Qiao-Liang Xiang: Particle Swarms with Dynamic Ring Topology, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2008), to appear
  • Ya-Liang Li, Fei-Ding, Yu-Xuan Wang: Iterated Function System Based Adaptive Differential Evolution, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2008), to appear
  • Liang Feng, Yin-Fei Yang, Yu-Xuan Wang: A New Approach to Adapting Control Parameters in Differential Evolution Algorithm, The 7th International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL 2008), to appear

Professional Activities

  • Student Member, IEEE and IEEE Computational   Intelligence Society (CIS)
  • Journal Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEC); Journal of Soft Computing
  • PC Member, SEAL 2008 (The 7th International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning, Dec. 2008, Melbourne, Australia)
  • Research Group Leader, Computational Intelligence Research Group, ECHO Laboratory

Honors and Awards

  • The 2nd place in the 15th Adolescents Science &Technology Contest in Jiangsu Province, 2004
  • The 1st place in the 16th Adolescents Science &Technology Contest in Jiangsu Province, 2005
  • The 1st place in the 20th China Adolescents Science & Technology Innovation Contest, 2005 (With the nomination of Ten Big Events in Yangzhou City in 2005)
  • The 1st place in the 10th "Innovation Cup" in Nanjing Univ. of P. & T., 2006
  • The First-Class Scholarship in Nanjing Univ. of P. & T., 2006
  • "MinXun" Enterprise Scholarship, 2006
  • Stelcom Enterprise Scholarship for Innovation, 2007
  • Travel Grant to Attend the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2007
  • Second-Class Scholarship in Nanjing Univ. of P. & T., 2007
  • Excellent Student Awards in Nanjing Univ. of P. & T., 2007
  • The 1st place in the 11th "Innovation Cup" in Nanjing Univ. of P. & T., 2007
  • Excellent Student Awards in Nanjing Univ. of P. & T., 2008
  • The 1st place in the 12th "Innovation Cup" in Nanjing Univ. of P. & T., 2008

Projects (My toy software)

  • Fast Screenshot Transmission Over LAN, 2003
  • Distributed Domain Simplification and Re-direct System, 2003-2004  (A middle-scaled distributed system, which aims at simplifying Internet domain names. Sole developer)

Academic Seminars Given

  • "A Brief Introduction to Modern Computational Intelligence Algorithms", Nanjing Univ. of P. & T., 2005
  • "Tutorial on Particle Swarm Optimization", Nanjing Univ. of P. & T., 2006
  • Technical Reports, ECHO Laboratory, Nanjing Univ. of P. & T., 2006-2008