Zhun Fan 范 衠 Professor

Zhun Fan is a Ph.D. of electrical engineering, a professor, a doctoral supervisor, the director of the key lab of digital signal and image processing of Guangdong province, the director of the department of electrical engineering, Shantou University, and the executive director of the Shantou robotics and intelligent manufacturing research institute. He is also a young talent of the recruitment program of global experts, a talent of the Guangdong's sailing plan, a creative talent of the Chinese overseas contribution award, and a young talent of the first group of talents in Shantou.
He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in control engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 1995 and 2000, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University, East Lansing, in 2004. From 2004 to 2007, he was an Assistant Professor with the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.

1. 2019-2020, as Principle Investigator, “Research on Design Automation of Composite Robot System for Road and Bridge Detection”, Open Project of State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology,Huazhong University of Science and Technology ,2019,Project no. DMETKF2019020,CNY 60,000

2. 2018-2020, as Principle Investigator, “Group Intelligence Aggregation and Emergence Research Based on Organism Evolution Mechanism——Study on the Dynamic Transformation Mechanism of Population Aggregation Morphology”, Science and Technology Commission of the Central Military Commission,Contract no.18-163-11-ZT-003-008-02,CNY 600,000

3. 2018-2020, as Principle Investigator, “Research and Application of Power Plant Maintenance Robot System Based on Deep Learning”, Special Fund for Science and Technology Innovation Strategy of Guangdong Province,CNY 400,000

4. 2018-2019, as Principle Investigator, “The Project of Shantou Robot and Intelligent Manufacturing Research Institute”, CNY 2,000,000

5. 2018-2019, as Principle Investigator, “Intelligent Robot Project for Online Operation of Power Pipeline in Power Plant”, Huaneng Haimen Power Generation co. LTD, Shantou,CNY 804,500

6. 2018-2019, as Principle Investigator, “Intelligent Machine Vision Application Software Development”, Julifang-vision, Shenzhen,CNY 765,000

7. 2018-2020, as Principle Investigator, “The Intelligent Design of a Complex Robot System for Road and Bridge Detection”, Provincial Scientific Research Projects of Guangdong Universities and Colleges,project no.2017KZDXM032 , CNY 250,000

8. 2017-2018, as Principle Investigator, “Construction of the Key Laboratory of Digital Signal and Image Processing of Guangdong Province”, The Central Government Guided Local Science and Technology Development Projects in 2017, CNY 700,000

9. 2017-2019, as Principle Investigator, “Operating Fund of the Key Laboratory of Digital Signal and Image Processing of Guangdong Province”, The Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province,project no.2017B030314100, CNY 1,000,000

10. 2016-2018, as Principle Investigator, “Construction of the Key Laboratory of Digital Signal and Image Processing of Guangdong Province”, The Central Government Supports Special Projects for the Development of Local Colleges and Universities, CNY 1,100,000

11. 2015-2017, as Principle Investigator, “Key Technology Research and Development of Programmable Robot Hardware System”, Wange Educational Material Sci-Tech Co.Ltd, CNY 100,000

12. 2015-2018, as Principle Investigator, International Joint Research Center of “Evolutionary Intelligence and Robotics(EIRO)”, Evolutionary Design of Intelligent Robotics, CNY 1,800,000

13. 2015-2018, “The Thousand Talents Plan of Young Professionals”, The Organization Department of the Central Committee of the CPC, CNY 1,000,000
14. 2014-2017, as Principle Investigator, “Talent Project of Sail Plan in Guangdong Province”, Guangdong Provincial Government, CNY 1,000,000
15. 2014-2017, as Principle Investigator, “Integrated Intelligence in Advanced Mechatronic Systems”, Department of Education, Guangdong Province, China, CNY, 680,000
16. 2014-2017, as Principle Investigator, “Intelligent Design Framework of Mechatronics Systems”, Department of Education, Guangdong Province, China, CNY 400,000
17. 2014-2018, as co-Principle Investigator, “Theory and Application of Distributed Computing”, National Natural Science Foundation of China, support no. 61332002, CNY 3,100,000
18. 2013-2015, as Principle Investigator, “Innovative Application and Integrated Services Platform of the First Generation of Numerical Control in the Eastern Part of Guangdong Province”, support no. 2013B011304002, CNY 2,000,000
19. 2012-2015, as Principle Investigator, “Concurrent Evolutionary Design of both the Controller and the Plant of Hybrid Mechatronic Systems”, National Natural Science Foundation of China, support no. 61175073, CNY 600,000
20. 2013-2015, as Principle Investigator, “Intelligent Design Framework of Mechatronics Systems”, Shantou University, project no. NTF12024, CNY 1,000,000
21. 2013-2017, as co-Principle Investigator, “Adaptive Design of Diversity-oriented Open Product”, National Natural Science Foundation of China, support no.51375289, CNY 900,000
22. 2011-2012, as co-Principle Investigator, "Evolutionary Design of Bio-inspired Fish-type Flying Robot Actuated by Artificial Muscles", seeding fund of NSF Sponsored BEACON Center for Study of Evolution in Action, (National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement No. DBI-0939454, $98,040)
23. 2010-2011, Hans Christian Ørsted Postdoc Fond for Dr. Yuan Li (Project no. 95-4248-81082, DKK 500,000)
24. 2009, Alectia Fond Award Recipient for the research work in the healthcare sector (with 12 other people, DKK 250,000)
25. 2009, Otto Mønsted Fond for Guest Professor of DTU for three months (Project no. 95-4248-81070, 195,000 Danish Kroner)
26. 2008-2011, as Principle Investigator and main supervisor, industrial PhD research project funded by FORCE Technology Inc, and Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation, “On Key Technical Issues to Commercialize Hospital Robotic Transportation Systems”, (FI’s sagsnr. 07-023362, DTU Project no. 95-4248-80817, 2.064 million Danish Kroner)
27. 2008-2011, as Principle Investigator and main supervisor, industrial PhD research project funded by FORCE Technology Inc, and Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation, “Direct Vision Based Molten Pool Feature Extraction in Automated Arc Welding”, (FI’s sagsnr. 08-032306, DTU Project no. 95-4248-80924, 2.054 million Danish Kroner)
28. 2007-2010, as Principal Investigator and main supervisor, international PhD research project, funded by Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation, “Automated Design of Advanced Mechatronic Systems”, (FI’s sagsnr. 645-06-0186, DTU Project no. 95-4248-80844, 1.64 Million Danish Kroner)
29. 2007, Otto Mønsted Fond for a visiting professorship of DTU for three months. (Project no. 95-4248-80846, 180,000 Danish kroner)
30. 2004-2006, participator, educational project, “Asia Link – Promoting and Assisting Engineering Design Education in China”. The project is an EU-funded project (ASI/B7-301/98/679-09), my major responsibility includes designing and delivering one training course on Mechatronics in China
31. 2000-2004, participator, NSF project, “Automated Design of Mechatronic Systems Using Bond Graphs and Genetic Programming” (National Science Foundation No. DMI 0084934, $3,080,000)

1. Z. Fan, Y. You, X. Cai∗, H. Zheng, G. Zhu, W. Li, A. Garg, K. Deb, & E. Goodman. Analysis and Multi-objective Optimization of a Kind of Teaching Manipulator. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2019.(Accepted,IF=6.330)
2. Z. Fan, W. Li, X. Cai*, H. Li, C. Wei, Q. Zhang, K. Deb, & E. Goodman. Difficulty Adjustable and Scalable Constrained Multi-objective Test Problem Toolkit. Evolutionary Computation, 2019.(Accepted,IF=2.388)
3. Z. Fan, J. Lu, C. Wei, H. Huang, X. Cai, X. Chen*. A Hierarchical Image Matting Model for Blood Vessel Segmentation in Fundus Image. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 2367–2377, 2019.(IF=6.790)
4. Z. Fan, W. Li, X. Cai*, H. Huang, Y. Fang, Y. You, J. Mo, C Wei, and E. D. Goodman. An improved epsilon constraint-handling method in MOEA/D for CMOPs with large infeasible regions. Soft Computing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-019-03794-x. (Accepted,IF=2.784)
5. Z. Fan, Y. Fang, W. Li, X. Cai*, C. Wei, and E. Goodman. MOEA/D with angle-based constrained dominance principle for constrained multi-objective optimization problems. Applied Soft Computing. vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 621-633, 2019. (IF=4.873)
6. Z. Fan, W. Li, X. Cai, H. Li, C. Wei, Q. Zhang, K. Deb, E. Goodman. Push and pull search for solving constrained multi-objective optimization problems. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation. vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 665-679, 2019. (IF=6.330)
7. Y. Rong, D. Xiang, W. Zhu, F. Shi, E. Gao, Z. Fan, and X. Chen*. Deriving External Forces via Convolutional Neural Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation. Biomedical Optics Express. vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 3800-3814, 2019.
8. X. Cai, M. Hu, D. Gong, Y. Guo, Y. Zhang, Z. Fan, Y. Huang. A Decomposition-based Coevolutionary Multiobjective Local Search for Combinatorial Multiobjective Optimization. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2019.(Accepted, IF=6.330)
9. L. Yun, W. Li, A. Garg, S. Maddila, L. Gao, Z. Fan, P Buragohain, CT Wang. Maximization of extraction of Cadmium and Zinc during recycling of spent battery mix: An application of combined genetic programming and simulated annealing approach. Journal of Cleaner Production. 218,130- 140，2019. (IF=5.651)
10. D. Chen, S. Singh, L. Gao, A. Garg, Z. Fan, CT Wang. A coupled and interactive influence of operational parameters for optimizing power output of cleaner energy production systems under uncertain conditions. International Journal of Energy Research. 43 (3), 1294-1302，2019. (IF=3.009)
11. T. Yang, Y. Chen, J. Lu, Z. Fan. Sampling with level set for pigmented skin lesion segmentation. Signal Image and Video Processing. vol.13, no. 4, pp. 813-821, 2019. (IF=1.643)
12. Y. Rong, D. Xiang, W. Zhu, K. Yu, F. Shi, Z. Fan , and X. Chen. Surrogate-assisted Retinal OCT Image Classification Based on Convolutional Neural Networks. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.2018. (IF=3.850)
13. Z. Fan, Y. Rong, X. Cai, J. Lu, W. Li, H. Lin and X. Chen*. Optic Disk Detection in Fundus Image Based on Structured Learning. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 2017. (IF=3.850)
14. Z. Fan, J. Lu, M. Gong, H. Xie, and E. Goodman. Automatic Tobacco Plant Detection in UAV Images via Deep Neural Networks. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.2018. (IF=3.026)
15. F. Guo, Y. Mai, X. Zhao, X. Duan, Z. Fan, B. Zou, B. Xie. Yanbao: A Mobile App Using the Measurement of Clinical Parameters for Glaucoma Screening. IEEE Access, 6：77414-77428 ,2018. (IF=3.557)
16. X. Zhang, T. Yu, Z. Xu, Z. Fan. A cyber-physical-social system with parallel learning for distributed energy management of a microgrid. Energy, 165: 205-221 ,2018.(IF=4.968)
17. X. Zhang, D. Wang, T. Yu, Z. Xu, Z. Fan. Ensemble learning for optimal active power control of distributed energy resources and thermostatically controlled loads in an islanded microgrid. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 43(49):22474-22486, 2018.(IF=4.229)
18. X. Cai, Z. Mei, Z. Fan, and Q. Zhang. A constrained decomposition approach with grids for evolutionary multi-objective optimization. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 22, no. 4, pp.564–577, 2018.(IF=10.629)
19. X. Cai, Z. Mei, Z. Fan. A Decomposition-Based Many-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm With Two Types of Adjustments for Direction Vectors. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 48, no. 8, pp. 2335–2348, 2018. (IF=8.803)
20. X. Cai, H. Sun, and Z. Fan. A diversity indicator based on reference vectors for many-objective optimization. Information Sciences, vol. 430, pp. 467–486, 2018. (IF=4.832)
21. H. Huang, S. Ye, Z. Fan Z. Lin, L. Lv, and Z. Hao. Evolutionary programming with a simulated-conformist mutation strategy. Soft Computing, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 659–676, 2018. (IF=2.784)
22. T. Yang, Y. Chen, and Z. Fan*. Vegetation segmentation based on variational level set using multi-channel local wavelet texture and color. Signal, Image and Video Processing, pp. 1–8, 2018. (IF=1.643)
23. P. Wang, Q. Lu, Z. Fan*. Evolutionary design optimization of MEMS: a review of its history and state-of-the-art. Cluster Computing, 2018: 1-7. (IF=2.040)
24. X. Cai, Z. Yang, Z. Fan*, Q. Zhang.Decomposition-based-sorting and angle-based-selection for evolutionary multiobjective optimization . IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 2017.(IF= 8.803)
25. L. Chen,H. Liu, Z. Fan, S. Xie, E. D. Goodman. Modeling the tracking area planning problem using an evolutionary multi-objective algorithm. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. 2017 (IF=6.611)
26. J. Liu, Z*. Fan, S. I. Olsen.Boosting Active Contours for Weld Pool Visual Tracking in Automatic Arc Welding. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 2017.(IF=5.224)
27. X. Cai, X. Cheng, Z. Fan*, E. Goodman, and L. Wang.An adaptive memetic framework for multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems: studies on software next release and travelling salesman problems. Soft Computing. vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 2215–2236, 2017.(IF=2.784)
28. D. Jiang, C. Peng, Y. Chen, Z. Fan, and A. Garg. Probability distribution pattern analysis and its application in the acute hypotensive episodes prediction. Measurement. vol. 104, pp. 180–191, 2017.(IF=2.359)
29. V. G. Mahesh, A. N. J. Raj, and Z. Fan. Invariant moments based convolutional neural networks for image analysis. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems. vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 936–950, 2017. (IF=2.000)
30. X. Cai,Y. Li, Z. Fan*,Q. Zhang. An external archive guided multiobjective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition for combinatorial optimization.IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 508–523, 2015. (IF=10.629)
31. J. F. Dupuis, Z. Fan*,E. D. Goodman. Evolutionary design of discrete controllers for hybrid mechatronic systems. Int. J. Systems Science. vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 303–316, 2015. (IF=2.285)
32. D. Jiang, L. Li, B. Hu, and Z. Fan . An approach for prediction of acute hypotensive episodes via the Hilbert-Huang transform and multiple genetic programming classifier.  International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, vol. 11, no. 8, p. 354807, 2015. (IF=1.787)
33. D. Jiang, Z. Fan.* The Algorithm for Algorithms: An Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Automatic Designing of Genetic Operators. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, vol. 2014, no. 2, pp. 66-70, 2015.(IF=1.145)
34. Z. Hu, X. Cai, Z. Fan, An improved memetic algorithm using ring neighborhood topology for constrained optimization. Soft Computing. 18(10): 2023-2041 (2014). (IF=2.784)
35. Q. Li, B. Zhang, L. Cui, Z. Fan and V. V. Athanasios. Epidemics on small worlds of tree-based wireless sensor networks. Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 1095–1120, 2014.(IF=0.556)
36. X. Cai, Z. Hu, Z. Fan. A novel memetic algorithm based on invasive weed optimization and differential evolution for constrained optimization. Soft Computing. 17(10): 1893-1910, 2013. (IF=2.784)
37. J. F. Dupuis, Z. Fan*, E. Goodman. Evolutionary Design of Both Topologies and Parameters of a Hybrid Dynamical System. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 16(3): 391-405,2012. (IF = 10.629)
38. L. Qiao, Z. Bai-Hai, C. Ling-Guo, F. Zhun, Vasilakos, A. V. Immunizations on small worlds of tree-based wireless sensor networks.Chinese Physics B, 21(5), 050205, 2012.(IF=1.603)
39. Q. Li, B. Zhang, Z. Fan, and A. V. Vasilakos. Dynamics in small worlds of tree topologies of wireless sensor networks. Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 325–334, 2012. (IF = 0.605)
40. P. Wang, L. Xu, S-M. Zhou, Z. Fan, Y. Li, S. Feng. A Novel Bayesian Learning Method for Information Aggregation in Modular Neural Networks. Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 37, Issue 2, 2010, pp. 1071-1074.(IF = 3.928)
41. Z. Fan, J. Liu, T. Sørensen, P. Wang.Improved Differential Evolution Based on Stochastic Ranking for Robust Layout Synthesis of MEMS Components. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 937-948, 2009.(IF = 7.050)
42. Y. Wang, Z. Cai, Y. Zhou, Z. Fan. Constrained Optimization Based on Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm and Adaptive Constraint-Handling Technique. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 395-413, 2009. (IF = 2.377)

1. Foundation Member of the Research Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Wuhan University of Technology, China, since 2009

2. Member of the Danish Centre for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (DCAMM) since 2006

3. Member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) since 2008, member of the SIGEVO of ACM since 2007

4. Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) since 2004

5. Member of the Technical Committee on Enterprise Information Systems of the SMC (System, Man, and Cybernetics) of IEEE since 2010

6. Member of the Technical Committee on Intelligent Systems Applications of the CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) of IEEE since 2010

7. Member of the Technical Committee on Industrial Informatics of IES (Industrial Electronics Society) of IEEE since 2010

8. Foundation Member of the Technical Committee on MEMS of IES (Industrial Electronics Society) of IEEE since 2008

9. Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) since 2010

10. Executive director of guangdong society of image and graphics since 2013

11. Member of China intelligent simulation optimization and dispatch committee since 2018

12. Member of Big Data Special Committee of Chinese Association of Automation(CAA) since 2016

13. Executive member of intelligent robot special committee of Chinese artificial intelligence society since 2016

14. Member of the first expert committee of association of intelligent manufacturing association of guangdong association for science and technology

15. Member of the special committee of "computer vision" of guangdong society of image and graphics since 2018

16. Member of the special committee for document image analysis and recognition, China society of image and graphics (CSIG) since 2018

1. International Program Committee Member, The Tenth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2019).
2. International Advisory Committee Member, EMO-2019: Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization.
3. Technical Program Committee Member, The 5th International Conferences on Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision, and Game Technology 2018.
4. Technical Program Committee Member, The 6th International Conference on Advances Technology in Telecommunication, Broadcasting, and Satellite 2018.
5. Program Chair, International Conference on Industrial Informatics --Computing Technology, Intelligent Technology, Industrial Information Integration (ICIICII 2017)
6. Program Chair, International Conference on Industrial Informatics --Computing Technology, Intelligent Technology, Industrial Information Integration (ICIICII 2016)
7. Program Chair, International Conference on Industrial Informatics --Computing Technology, Intelligent Technology, Industrial Information Integration (ICIICII 2015)

8. Advisory Board of International Conference on Emerging Trends , Technology and Research, ICETTR-2013
   

9. Program Chair , 2012 Second Global Congress on Intelligent Systems (GCIS 2012)
   
10. Program Chair , 2015 Second Global Congress on Intelligent Systems (GCIS 2012)
    
11. Guest editorial for special section of Microelectromechanical Systems in Industrial Environments for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics in 2011
12. Special Session Organizer, Evolutionary Computation in Network Optimization, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2011)
    
13. Program Committee, 2011 International Conference on Data Engineering and Internet Technology (DEIT 2011)
    
14. Program Co-Chair, Life Sciences and Health Care, IEEE 7th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2011)
    
15. Program Co-Chair for the 2011 7th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC 2011)
    
16. Special Session Organizer, Intelligent Methods in Mechatronic & Robotic Systems for Performance Improvement, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT’10)
    
17. Program Chair, 2010 Second Global Congress on Intelligent Systems (GCIS’10)
    
18. Session Chair, 35th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON’09)
    
19. Global Congress on Intelligent Systems (GCIS’09)
    
20. World Summit on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GEC’09)
    
21. Session Chair, 35th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON’09)
    
22. IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS’07’08)
    
23. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’06’07’08’09’10)
    
24. ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE’06’07)
    
25. Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED’08)
    
26. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’08)
    
27. IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE’07)
    

1. Fall 2004-2008, 41030 Design of Mechatronic Systems (Technical University of Denmark, DTU)
2. Fall 2004-2008, 41660 Applied Mechatronics, DTU
3. Spring 2005-2010, 41670 Motion Control, DTU
4. Spring 2009-2010, 42062 Design of Electronic Systems, DTU
5. Fall 2009-2010, 42625 Robotics, DTU
6. Spring 2012-2013, Automatic Control Theory (Shantou University, STU)
7. Spring 2013-2019, Digital Image Processing, STU
8. Fall 2014-2015, Automatic Control Theory, STU
9. Spring 2015-2016, Automatic Control Theory, STU
10. Fall 2015-2019, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, STU

Postdoctoral advisees

1. Sofiane Achiche, 2006-2007, postdoctoral researcher, supervisor

   Ttle: Design Automation and Optimization for MEMS

2. Yuan Li, 2010 - 2011, postdoctoral researcher, supervisor

   Title: Decoupled visual control for robots based on structured light and weld seam tracking

3. Tiejun Yang, 2015, postdoctoral researcher, supervisor

PhD student advisees

1. Jean-Francois Dupuis, 2007 – 2010, PhD student, supervisor

   Title: Automated Design of Advanced Mechatronic Systems, thesis defended and PhD certificate granted

2. Jinchao Liu, 2008 – 2011, PhD student, supervisor

   Title: Direct Vision Based Molten Pool Feature Extraction in Automated Arc Welding, thesis defended and PhD certificate granted

3. Ali Ozkil, 2008 – 2011, PhD student, supervisor

   Title: New AI and its Application in Hospital Service Robotics, thesis defended and PhD certificate granted

4. Huibiao Lin, 2013, PhD student,supervisor
5. Wenji Li, 2014, PhD student, supervisor
6. Guijie Zhu, 2016, PhD student, supervisor
7. Sibo Huang, 2017, PhD student, supervisor
8. Chong Li, 2018, PhD student, supervisor

Master student advisees

1. Mattia Perissinotto, 2005 – 2006, master thesis student, advisor

   Title: Design and Verification of a Motor Controller using FPGA Techniques

2. Diego González, 2005 – 2006, master thesis student, advisor

   Title: Embedded System for Face Recognition Using FPGA Techniques

3. Ines Fernández, 2005 – 2006, master thesis student, co-advisor

   Title: Optimization of a Fuzzy Logic Controller Using Genetic Algorithms

4. Jeremy Chapute, 2005 – 2006, master thesis student, co-advisor

   Title: Case study of a MEMS switch supported by a FBS and DFM framework

5. Ali Ozkil, 2006 – 2007, research Assistant, advisor

   Title: SLAM of indoor mobile robots

6. Kristoffer Raun, 2007, master thesis student, advisor

   Title: Application of Artificial Muscles as Actuators, June 2007

7. Michael Lisowski, 2009, Master student, advisor

   Title: Differential Evolution Approach to the Localization Problem for Mobile Robots, September 2009

8. Morten Lindahl, 2009 - 2010, Master student, co-advisor (with Sofiane Achiche)

   Title: Dynamic Gait Balancing of Walking Biped Robots, Sept 2010

9. Shen Zhao, 2009 - 2010, Master student, co-advisor (with Ben Mathews)

   Title: Design Requirements for Hospital Logistic Robot, June 2010

10. Shuxiang Xie, 2012-2015, Master student, advisor

    Title: Research and Application of Constrained Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm

11. Yibiao Rong, 2013-2016, Master student, advisor. Suzhou University PhD

    Title: Optic Disk Detection and Vessels Segmentation in Fundus Image

12. Youxiang Zuo, 2013-2016, Master student, advisor.(National scholarship recipient)

    Title: Prediction of Acute Hypotensive Episodes Using Random Forest Based on Gene Expression Programming

13. Lei Zhao, 2014-2017, Master student, advisor.(National scholarship recipient)
14. Yang Xiao, 2014-2017, Master student, advisor.(National scholarship recipient)
15. Honghui Xie, 2014-2017, Master student, advisor. Working at Dajiang Technologies.
16. Zhongxing Li, 2015-2018, Master student, advisor. Working at Huawei Technologies.
17. Yi Fang, 2015-2018, Master student, advisor. Working at Huawei Technologies.