JIALIN LIU (M’16-SM’20) received her PhD in 2016 from Université Paris-Saclay (oral defence in December 2015), MSc in 2013 from École Polytechnique & Université Paris-Sud, France, Diplôme d'Ingénieur in 2012 from Polytech'Paris-Sud, France, and BSc in 2010 from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST, 华中科技大学), China. Currently, Jialin is a Tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China. She worked as a Research Assistant Professor and Research Associate Professor at SUSTech between 2018 and 2021. Before joining SUSTech in 2018, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Essex, UK. Her main research interests include, but not limited to the following areas: AI in games (AI for playing games, particularly reinforcement learning and rolling horizon evolutionary algorithms; AI for designing games, particularly procedural content generation), optimisation and learning under uncertainty (derivation-free optimisation, dynamic resampling strategies, algorithm portfolio, etc.), evolutionary computation and its applications (e.g., vehicle routing problems), and fair machine learning.


Dr. Yang obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Control Science and Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2007, respectively. He has previously worked at institutions and enterprises such as the Shenzhen Research Institute of Northwestern Polytechnical University and ZTE Corporation, accumulating years of experience in the industry. From 2013 to 2018, he obtained his Doctoral degree in Mechanical Electronic Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology. During this period, from 2015 to 2016, he went to the University of Notre Dame in the United States for joint training under the guidance of Professor Peter Bauer. In January 2019, Dr. Yang joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology, currently serving as a Research Assistant Professor. Dr. Yang is skilled in identifying and solving scientific problems oriented towards engineering applications. He has published more than 30 papers of various types to date. His research interests include computational intelligence, swarm intelligence, and AI robotics.


Qingquan received his B.S degree in Computer Science in 2019, MSc degree in 2022 from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of SUSTech. His research interests include multi-objective optimisation and fairness in machine learning.


Jiyuan received his BSc degree in Computer Science in 2020, and MSc degree in 2023 from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of SUSTech. His research interests include vehicle sechduling, evolutionary computation and algorithm portfolios. Jiyuan will join the Victoria University of Wellington to pursue a PhD with Dr. Yi Mei.


Wenxing received his BSc degree in Computer Science in 2020, and MSc degree in 2023 from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of SUSTech. He is currently pursuing a PhD in our team with research interests in the areas of evolutionary computing, vehicle behavior prediction, and routing problem. Wenxing's academic record, coupled with his research experience, demonstrates his commitment and expertise in these fields. We are excited to have Wenxing as a part of our team and look forward to his contributions towards advancing research in these areas.


She received her BSc degree in 2014 from the Sheffield Hallam University, and MSc degree in 2017 from the Coventry University.


Yueyun received her bachelor's degree in 2023 from the Southern University of Science and Technology.


Yuyang received his bachelor's degree in 2023 from the Southern University of Science and Technology.


He received his BSc degree in computer science from the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China, in 2021. He is currently pursuing the M.S degree from SUSTech. His current research interests include game AI, evolutionary computation and combinatorial optimization. Chengpeng has been offered a fully funded PhD scholarship by the Eindhoven University of Technology.


He is a postgraduate student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). He received the B. S. degree in Computer Science and Technology from SUSTech in 2021. His research concentrates on Procedural Content Generation through AI methods including Deep Reinforcement Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks and Evolutionary Computation.




Yuan Yi, a graduate from Beijing Forestry University, currently is a first-year graduate student and she is passionate about the fascinating world of Procedural Content Generation. Her research focuses on the development and application of algorithms and computational techniques to automate the creation of digital content across various domains.


He is currently a PhD student of the University of Birmingham, UK. He received the B.E. degree from China University of Mining and Technology in 2017 and MA.Sc degree from Joint Program of Southern University of Science and Technology and Harbin Institute of Technology in 2019. His research interests include meta-heuristics, dynamic optimisation and surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithm and their applications in arc routing problems.


Yuchen Li, a visiting scholar with a Master's degree in Interactive Media Arts from New York University (NYU) and a Bachelor's degree in Integrated Digital Media, also from NYU. Yuchen has demonstrated a remarkable ability to combine creativity with technical expertise, delivering innovative solutions to complex problems. Currently, Yuchen is a visiting student at the Southern University of Science and Technology, where she is pursuing her research in the field of artificial intelligence.



Currently a research assistant in our team.

Currently a graduated student in Tsinghua University.

Currently a graduated student in New York University.

Visting student from the Yunan University. Currently a graduated student in SUSTech.

Co-supervised with Prof. Xin Yao. Currently a research assistant in our team.

Currently a graduated student in Carnegie Mellon University.

Currently a PhD candidate with full PhD scholarship at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Currently at NetEase Games.

Currently a master student at SUSTech, intern at Tencent in 2020.

Currently at Yotta Games; intern at Tencent in 2020; intern at Wiqun in 2019.

He is currently an undergraduate student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. He joined our research team as a visiting scholar for three months working on topological architecture.

Currently a PhD student in our team.

Obtained a master degree in 2023 from the SUSTech. Currently a PhD candidate with full PhD scholarship at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Obtained a master degree in 2023 from the Shenzhen University. Currently woring at HONOR.



Master student from University of Nottingham, UK.