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Honours and Awards

- HUMIES Gold Award 2023
- PLDI Distinguished Paper Award 2023
- Nomination: Student-Led Teaching Award 2022
- Unsung Hero Award (Faculty ECMS) 2021
- Best Paper Award at GECCO 2020
- Best Paper Awards at GECCO 2019
- Invited Lecturer at the Data61 5th International Optimisation Summer School, Kioloa in January 2017
- Many-Objective Optimisation Competition at IEEE CEC 2017: 3rd place (7 competitors)
- Best Presentation Award at the Genetic Improvement Workshop (GECCO 2016)
- MaxSAT 2016 Competition: my SC2016 achieved 1x 1st place, 3x 2nd place, 4x 3rd place (17 competitors)
- University Doctoral Research Medal 2013 (The University of Adelaide)
- Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence 2013 (The University of Adelaide)
- Representative of the University of Adelaide at the China Nine / Group of Eight HDR Forum "Clean Energy and Sustainable Future", Beijing, China 2011
- School of Computer Science HDR Day Best Poster Award "People's Choice" 2011 (The University of Adelaide), best out of 23 posters
- Metaheuristics International Conference 2011 Best Paper Award, best out of 120 accepted papers

Grants and Scholarships

- MDFI Seed Grants 2023
Digital future schools: AI and energy curriculum for future learning
AUD 48,182 (total cash: AUD 78,182) (Yolande Strengers, Neil Selwyn, Bronwyn Cumbo, Markus Wagner, Kari Dahlgren)
- FIT Sustainability Seed Grants 2023
Models of Climate Change Disinformation
AUD 42,000 (Julian Garcia Gallego, John Cook, Markus Wagner)
- Defence Innovation Partnership: AI for Decision Making Initiative 2022 (Round Two)
a) Abstract Game Prototype for Cyber Attack/Defence (AUD 30,000; Mingyu Guo, Hung Nguyen, Aneta Neumann, Frank Neumann and Markus Wagner)
b) Tackling the TTCP CAGE challenge using Monte-Carlo planning for large-scale POMDPs (AUD 30,000; Mingyu Guo, Hung Nguyen, Aneta Neumann, Frank Neumann and Markus Wagner)
c) Applying machine learning techniques to games on graphs for the detection and concealment of spatially defined communication networks (AUD 30,000; Aneta Neumann, Mingyu Guo, Hung Nguyen, Frank Neumann, and Markus Wagner)
- Pawsey Supercomputing Centre (Australia) 2022
Intelligent Wave Power: Reinforcement control of a wave energy converter
2.5 million core hours (lead: Prof. Ben Cazzolato, in total 5 Cis)
- Facebook Agent-based User Interaction Simulation to Find and Fix Integrity and Privacy Issues RFP 2021
Socialz - Multi-Objective Automated Social Fuzz Testing
USD 92,784 (A/Prof Markus Wagner, Dr Christoph Treude)
- Defence Innovation Partnership: AI for Decision Making Initiative 2021 (Round One, Phase Two), sponsor: Office of National Intelligence
Contextually Situated Anomaly Detection
AUD 100,000 (A/Prof Markus Wagner, Dr Chetan Arora, Menasha Thilakaratne, Dr Christoph Treude, Dr Wei Zhang)
- Linkage Project LP200200881 (Australian Research Council) 2021-2024
Collaborative Sensing and Learning for Maritime Situational Awareness
AUD 643,565 (ARC) + AUD 301,171 (SEDA, cash) (A/Prof Markus, Prof Tat-Jun Chin, Prof Ian Reid, Dr Surabhi Gupta, Dr Christophe Guettier)
- Google Research Scholar Award 2021
Automatic Post-Quantum Cryptographic Code Generation and Optimization
USD 60,000 (Dr Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup, A/Prof Markus Wagner)
- Discovery Project DP210102670 (Australian Research Council) 2021-2023
Intelligent Technologies for Smart Cryptography
AUD 480,000 (Dr Yuval Yarom; Dr Markus Wagner; Dr Minhui Xue; Dr Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup, Prof Dr Lejla Batina)
- Defence Innovation Partnership: AI for Decision Making Initiative 2020 (Round One, Phase One)
Deceitful/Persuasive Writing Detection
AUD 20,000 (Dr Markus Wagner)
- Faculty ECMS Seed Funding 2020
Intelligence Technologies for Smart Cryptography
AUD 10,000 (Dr Yuval Yarom, Dr Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup, Dr Markus Wagner, Dr Jason Xue)
- Google Faculty Award 2020
Rewriting software documentation for non-native speakers
USD 39,722 (AUD 60,032) (Dr Christoph Treude, Dr Sebastian Baltes, Dr Markus Wagner)
- Discovery Project DP200102364 (Australian Research Council) 2020-2022
Multiobjective Memetic Algorithms for Multi-task Symbolic Regression
AUD 518,000 (Prof. Pablo Moscato; Dr Markus Wagner; Prof.Stanislav Djorgovski; Prof.Carlos Cotta; A/Prof. Massimo Cafaro)
- Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, Research Project, 2019
Leakage-free Cryptography: Eliminating Side Channel Leakage Using Compiler Optimization
AUD 18,145 / AUD 88,000 (Dr Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup, Dr Markus Wagner, Dr Minhui Xue, Dr Yuval Yarom)
- Hasso Plattner Institute: Future SOC Lab (Service-Oriented Computing) 2019-21
"Designing practical algorithms through overfitting"
access to 1000-core cluster, October 2019 – September 2021
- Training Centre "Integrated Operations for Complex Resources" 2019-2023 (Australian Research Council)
    AUD 3,700,000 (lead CI Prof. Peter Dowd, in total 20 Cis and 17 PIs), AUD 12,500,000 total
- Hasso Plattner Institute: Future SOC Lab (Service-Oriented Computing) 2019
    "Overfitting on purpose to design new algorithms"
    access to 1000-core cluster for 6 months, April-September 2019
- Special Studies Program (The University of Adelaide) 2019
    AUD 4,800 (Dr. Markus Wagner)
- Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms: Beyond Expected Optimization Times 2018 (Gaspard Monge Program for Optimization, operations research, and their interactions with data science (PGMO))
    EUR 21,500 (lead: Dr. Carola Doerr, in total 10 partners)
- Pawsey Supercomputing Centre (Australia)
    "Intelligent Wave Power: Advance control of Carnegie's multi-moored wave energy converter"
    1.3 million core hours (lead: Prof. Ben Cazzolato, in total 5 Cis)
- EPIC Expert Visit, Dr. Earl Barr from University College London (funded by European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (ICT) under grant agreement No 687794)
    EUR 2,000 (Dr. Markus Wagner, Dr. Christoph Treude, Dr. Marcel Böhme)
- Overseas Conference Leave Scheme Travel Award 2018 (The University of Adelaide)
    AUD 2,000 (Dr. Markus Wagner)
- Premier's Research and Industry Fund: Research Consortia Program 2018-2021 (Department of State Development)
    "Unlocking Complex Resources through Lean Processing"
    AUD 4,000,000 (lead CI Prof. Stephen Grano, in total 22 CIs), total project AUD 14.6 million
- Australia-China Young Scientists Exchange Program 2017 (Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering and China Science and Technology Exchange Center)
    Two-week networking programm in China (all expenses paid)
- ARC Linkage Project Proposal Support (The University of Adelaide)
    AUD 4,100 (Prof. Ben Cazzolato, A/Prof. Maziar Arjomandi, Dr. Markus Wagner, Dr. Luke Bennetts, Dr. Boyin Ding)
- CSIRO ON Prime Pre-Accelerator Program (CSIRO)
"Portable Hardware Energy Optimisation"
    AUD 3,200 (Dr. Brad Alexander, Francois Duvenage, Dr. Markus Wagner (lead applicant))
- Overseas Conference Leave Scheme Travel Award 2017 (The University of Adelaide)
    AUD 3,065 (Dr. Markus Wagner)
- Faculty ECMS Interdisciplinary Research Grant 2016 (The University of Adelaide)
    "Nonlinear modelling of fully submerged wave energy converters for high fidelity yet computationally efficient numerical analysis and prototype design"
    AUD 18,025 (Dr. Boyin Ding, Dr. Javad Farrokhi Derakhshandeh, Dr. Markus Wagner, Dr. Luke Bennetts, Prof. Benjamin Cazzolato, A/Prof. Maziar Arjomandi, Prof. Frank Neumann, Prof. Gus Nathan)
- Faculty ECMS Professional Development Grant 2016 (The University of Adelaide)
    AUD 4,700 (Dr. Markus Wagner)
- Priority Partner Grant 2016 Nottingham (The University of Adelaide)
    AUD 5,000 (Dr. Markus Wagner (lead applicant), Prof. Frank Neumann)
- ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (Australian Research Council)
    AUD 330,000 (Dr. Markus Wagner)
- Priority Partner Grant 2015 Strasbourg/Freiburg (The University of Adelaide)
    AUD 5,000 (Dr. Markus Wagner (lead applicant), A/Prof. Frank Neumann)
- Interdisciplinary Research Fund 2015 (The University of Adelaide)
    "Modelling and optimisation of submerged buoys for improved ocean wave energy production"
    AUD 27,000 (Dr. Markus Wagner (lead applicant), Dr. Bojin Ding, A/Prof. Frank Neumann, Prof. Benjamin Cazzolato, Dr. Mazia Arjomandi)
- Faculty Research Internal Grant 2014 (The University of Adelaide)
    AUD 8,500 for software licenses and specialised coprocessor cards (three investigators)
- Overseas Conference Leave Scheme Travel Award (The University of Adelaide)
    AUD 2,000
- School of Computer Science Research Internal Grant 2013 (The University of Adelaide)
    AUD 30,000 for a computing cluster and software licenses (four investigators)
- Google PhD Travel Prize 2012 (Google Australia Pty Ltd.)
    AUD 2,500
- Bupa Postgraduate Travel Grant 2012 (Bupa Australia Pty Ltd.)
    AUD 2,500
- Google PhD Top Up Grant 2011 for "meritorious academic record and high standard of research capability" (Google Australia Pty Ltd.)
    AUD 5,000
- School of Computer Science Postgraduate Scholarship 2011/2012 (The University of Adelaide)
    AUD 54,000 p.a. (approx)
- Max Planck Research School Postgraduate Scholarship 2010 (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
    EUR 16,000 p.a. (approx)
- Internationale Studien- und Ausbildungspartnerschaften ISAP (German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD), full scholarship for my MSc studies at the University of Athens, USA, 2006/2007
    EUR 15,000 (approx)
- Travel awards to attend the following events (granted by the respective organising committees):
    Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2013
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2011
    Interdisciplinary College (IC) 2010
    Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) 2009
    Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2009
    Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM) 2008
    EvoWorkshops 2008
- Jugend forscht (regional youth research competition)
    3rd place in the field of Mathematics/Computer Science 2002
    3rd place in the field of Technology 2000

Services to the Community

Chairing Activities
1. Co-editor in Chief (General Chair equivalent) - Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimisation (EvoCOP) 2024 & 2025
2. Co-Chair - OPTIMA CON 2024
3. Local Chair - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2024
4. Chair - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society "High School Outreach" 2023
5. General Chair - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2022
6. Chair - IEEE CIS Canberra Artificial Intelligence Summer School (CAI-SS) 2020, Australia - USD 5400 support from the IEEE CIS
7. Chair - IEEE CIS Summer School on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence 2018, Wellington, New Zealand - USD 3200 support from the IEEE CIS
8. Local Organising Committee Co-Chair - IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2020
9. General Chair - Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence (ACALCI) 2018, which has become the IEEE CIS Summer School on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence 2018, Wellington, New Zealand
10. Program Chair - Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence (ACALCI) 2017
11. Chair for Competitions - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2018-2021
12. Chair for Tutorials - Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) 2018
13. Chair for Workshops - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2016 & 2017
14. Founding Chair (2020) - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society "Task Force on Benchmarking"
15. Founding Chair (2014) and Chair (2015) - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society "Task Force on Computational Intelligence in the Energy Domain" (in 2016 & 2017: Co-Chair)
16. Chair - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society "University Curricula" 2017
17. Chair - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society "University Curricula" 2016
18. Chair - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society "Educational Material" 2015
19. Chair - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society "Educational Repository" 2014

Editorial Activities
1. Managing Guest Editor of the "Special Issue on Genetic Improvement" at the Automated Software Engineering Journal 2023
2. Guest Editor of ACM Transaction on Evolutionary Learning and Optimisation (TELO) 2022
3. Editorial Board Member of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (GPEM) since 2021
4. Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Recent Advances in Deep Learning Towards Securing IoT Intelligence Systems" at the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI) 2020
5. Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI) 2019-2024
6. Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms" at Computational Intelligence Journal 2018, moved to the Elsevier Applied Soft Computing Journal in July 2018 (ongoing in 2019)
7. Managing Editor of the Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence (ACALCI) 2018
8. Associate Editor on the Editorial Board of "Optimization", a specialty of Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics 2015-2019
9. Managing Guest Editor for the Special Issue "Optimization Methods in Renewable Energy Systems Design" (Elsevier Renewable Energy Journal, >130 submissions) 2015/2016
10. Guest Editor for the Special Issue "Computational Energy Management in Smart Grids" (Elsevier Neurocomputing Journal) 2014

Other Activities
1. Treasurer - ACM SIG Evolutionary Computation 2023-2027
2. Co-Organiser - QuantOpt Optimisation Workshop (GECCO) 2024
3. Co-Organiser - GECCO 2024 Competition "Travelling Thief Problem"
4. Co-Organiser - GECCO 2024 Competition "Do My Coding Homework: Optimizing LLM Interactions for Code"
5. Co-Organiser - GECCO 2023 Competition "Travelling Thief Problem"
6. Co-Organiser - GECCO 2023 Competition "Predicting Good Configurations for Topic Models"
7. Advisory Committee Member - International Student Competition in Structural Optimization (ISCSO) 2023
8. Co-Organiser - ICSE Workshop Genetic Improvement of Software (GI@ICSE) 2023
9. Co-Organiser - GECCO Workshop Genetic Improvement of Software (GI@GECCO) 2022
10. Co-Organiser - IEEE CEC 2021 Special Session on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA) (a paper this is special session won this conference’s best paper award)
11. Co-Organiser - GECCO Workshop Genetic Improvement of Software (GI@GECCO) 2020
12. Co-Organiser - GECCO Workshop Black Box Discrete Optimization Benchmarking (BB-DOB) 2020
13. Co-Organiser - PPSN Workshop Black Box Discrete Optimization Benchmarking (BB-DOB) 2020
14. Business Committee Member - ACM SIG Evolutionary Computation 2019-2025
15. Sustainability Officer - ACM SIG Evolutionary Computation 2019-2023
16. Co-Organiser - GECCO Workshop Genetic Improvement of Software (GI@GECCO) 2019
17. Co-Organiser - GECCO Workshop Black Box Discrete Optimization Benchmarking (BB-DOB) 2019
18. Co-Organiser - EMO 2019 Competition "Optimisation of Problems with Multiple Interdependent Components"
19. Co-Organiser - CEC 2019 Competition "Evolutionary Computation in Uncertain Environments: A Smart Grid Application"
20. Co-Organiser - CEC 2019 Special Session on Evolutionary Algorithms for Optimisation in the Energy Domain
21. Co-Organiser - CEC 2019 Special Session on Genetic Improvement and Search-Based Software Engineering
22. Co-Organiser - CEC 2019 Special Session on Benchmarking of Evolutionary Algorithms for Discrete Optimization (BEADO)
23. Co-Organiser - Adelaide Autumn School on Software Engineering 2018
24. Co-Organiser - PPSN Workshop Black Box Discrete Optimization Benchmarking (BB-DOB) 2018
25. Co-Organiser - GECCO Workshop Black Box Discrete Optimization Benchmarking (BB-DOB) 2018
26. Main-Organiser - GECCO Workshop Genetic Improvement of Software (GI@GECCO) 2018
27. Co-Organiser - International Workshop on Benchmarking of Computational Intelligence Algorithms (BOCIA) 2018
28. Co-Organiser - IEEE CEC 2017 / GECCO 2017 Competition "Optimisation of Problems with Multiple Interdependent Components"
29. Co-Organiser - GECCO Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms for Smart Grids (SmartEA) 2017
30. Main-Organiser - NII Shonan Meeting "Data-Driven Search-Based Software Engineering" 2017
31. Co-Organiser - IEEE WCCI/CEC 2016 Special Session "Genetic Improvement of Software"
32. Co-Organiser - IEEE CEC 2015 Competition "Optimisation of Problems with Multiple Interdependent Components"
33. Co-Organiser - IEEE CEC 2015 Special Session "Evolutionary Computation in the Energy Domain"
34. Co-Organiser - PPSN 2014 Workshop "Renewable Energy and Evolutionary Computation"
35. Co-Organiser - Uni-Tech Outreach Activity "My First Red-Eye Removal" 2015
36. Co-Organiser - IEEE WCCI/CEC 2014 Competition "Optimisation of Problems with Multiple Interdependent Components"
37. Co-Organiser - IEEE WCCI/CEC 2014 Special Session "Heuristic Methods for Multi-Component Optimization Problems"
38. Co-Organiser - Uni-Tech Outreach Activity "My First Red-Eye Removal" 2014
39. Co-Organiser - Colloquium on Combinatorics (KOLKOM) Saarbrücken 2010
40. Co-Organiser - International Conference Summer Koblenz 2005
41. Member - COST Action CA22137
42. Member - IEEE CIS "Task Force on Evolutionary Learning" 2023+
43. Member - IEEE CIS "Theory Task Force" 2018+
44. Member - IEEE CIS "Task Force on Automated Algorithm Design, Configuration and Selection" 2019+
45. Member - IEEE CIS "Task Force on Computational Intelligence in the Energy Domain" 2014+
46. Committee Member - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society "Education Strategic Planning" 2023
47. Committee Member - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society "Education Portal Subcommittee" 2023
48. Committee Member - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society "Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee 2017"
49. Committee Member - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society "Webinars Committee" 2016
50. Committee Member - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society "Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee 2016"
51. Committee Member - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society "Education Committee" 2015
52. Committee Member - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society "Multimedia Subcommittee" 2015
53. Committee Member - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society "Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee 2015"
54. Committee Member - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society "Education Committee" 2014
55. Committee Member - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society "Multimedia Subcommittee" 2014
56. Committee Member - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society "Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee 2014"
57. Task Force Member - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Task Force on Many-Objective Optimisation 2017
58. Volunteer - The University of Adelaide "Open Day" 2018
59. Volunteer - The University of Adelaide "Open Day" 2017
60. Volunteer - The University of Adelaide "Open Day" 2016
61. Volunteer - The University of Adelaide "Open Day" 2015
62. Volunteer - The University of Adelaide "Open Day" 2014
63. Volunteer - Young Women in Technology (The University of Adelaide) 2013
64. Volunteer - The University of Adelaide "Open Day" 2013
65. Volunteer - ACM South Pacific Regional Programming Contest 2011
66. Volunteer - South Australian Science and Engineering Super Challenge 2011 (stage coordinator)

PC Member
1. 18th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN) 2024
2. ICSE Workshop Genetic Improvement of Software (GI@ICSE) 2024
3. 36th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AJCAI) 2023
4. Automated Software Engineering (ASE) Tutorials 2023
5. Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XVII (FOGA) 2023
6. IEEE CEC 2023 Special Session "Automated Algorithm Design for Evolutionary Computation (AutoDesign4EC)"
7. Evo° Special Session "Analysis of Evolutionary Computation Methods: Theory, Empirics, and Real-World Applications" 2023
8. 23nd European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (EvoCOP 2023)
9. 35th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AJCAI) 2022
10. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2022, Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM)
11. Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Algorithms for Decision Sciences (PDADS) 2022
12. 17th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN) 2022
also: one of the seven Poster Session Chairs (which includes "pitching" the papers on behalf of the actual authors)
13. Special Session "AutoDesign4EC" (WCCI/CEC 2022)
14. Special Session "Theoretical Foundations of Bio-inspired Computation" (WCCI/CEC) 2022
15. 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft 2022, co-located with ICSE 2022)
16. Evo* (EvoCOP) Conference 2022
17. Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AJCAI) 2021
18. Realising Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Software Engineering (RAISE) 2021
19. NIER Track of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE NIER) 2022
20. ASE 2021 Artifact Evaluation PC
21. Ideas, Visions and Reflections (V&R) Track of ESEC/FSE 2021
22. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2021, Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM)
23. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2021, Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI)
24. Special Session on Representation Learning meets Meta-heuristic Optimization (RepL4Opt) at IEEE CEC 2021
25. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2021 "Search-Based Software Engineering Track"
26. Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XVI (FOGA) 2021
27. Progress in Applied Electrical Engineering (PAEE) 2020
28. IEEE Symposium on CI in Multicriteria Decision-Making (MCDM) 2020
29. Visions and Reflections (V&R) Track of ESEC/FSE 2020
30. RAISE2020 (Realizing Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Software Engineering) 2020
31. Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION) 2020
32. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2020 "Search-Based Software Engineering Track"
33. 16th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN) 2020
34. Evo* Conference 2020
35. 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2020
36. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2019
37. 32th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) 2019
38. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2019
39. Genetic Improvement @ ICSE Workshop 2019
40. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2019 "Search-Based Software EngineeringTrack"
41. Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XV (FOGA) 2019
42. EvoApplications (EvoApps) 2019
43. Australasian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) 2018
44. Workshop at PPSN 2018 on Investigating Optimization Problems from Machine Learning and Data Analysis
45. 10th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE) 2018
46. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2018, Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI)
47. 24th Constraint Programming (CP) 2018
48. Genetic Improvement @ ICSE Workshop 2018
49. 15th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN) 2018
50. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2018 "Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics Track"
51. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2018
52. 5th International Workshop on Computational Energy Management in Smart Grids (CEMiSG) 2018
53. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2017, Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI)
54. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2017 "Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics Track"
55. ECML/PKDD Fifth International Workshop on Data Analytics for Renewable Energy Integration (DARE) 2017
56. 11th Int. Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL) 2017
57. 3rd International Conference on Machine learning, Optimization & Big Data (MOD) 2017
58. 30th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) 2017
59. 13th IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI) 2017
60. 4th International Workshop on Computational Energy Management in Smart Grids (CEMiSG) 2017
61. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2017
62. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2017 "Theoretical Foundations of Bio-inspired Computation Track"
63. Genetic Improvement @ GECCO 2017
64. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2016 "Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics Track"
65. International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimisation (EMO) 2016
66. Evo*Conference: EvoEnergy 2017
67. Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XIV (FOGA) 2017
68. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2016
69. 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN) 2016
70. 20th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (IES) 2016
71. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2016 "Theoretical Foundations of Bio-inspired Computation Track"
72. 3rd International Workshop on Computational Energy Management in Smart Grids (CEMiSG) 2016
73. Evo*Conference: EvoEnergy 2016
74. PlanSOpt@AI-15: AI-2015 Workshop on Planning, Search, and Optimization 2015
75. Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XIII (FOGA) 2015
76. Evo*Conference: EvoEnergy 2015
77. 2nd International Workshop on Computational Energy Management in Smart Grids (CEMiSG) 2015
78. Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION) 2015
79. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2015 "Theoretical Foundations of Bio-inspired Computation Track"
80. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2014 "Special Session on Benchmarking and Testing for Production and Logistics Optimization"
81. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2014 "Theoretical Foundations of Bio-inspired Computation Track"
82. International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS) 2014 "Computational Optimisation in the Real World Workshop"
83. 13th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN) 2014
84. 12th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL) 2013
85. 12th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS) 2013
86. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2013 "Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization Track"
87. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2013 "Theoretical Foundations of Bio-inspired Computation"
88. Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION) 2013
89. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2013 "Special Session on Scalable Evolutionary Logistic Planning"
90. 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS) 2012
91. 12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN) 2012
92. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2012 "Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization Track"
93. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2011 "Theory Track"

Reviewer
1. International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM) 2023
2. Software Testing, Verification and Reliability (STVR) 2023
3. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2023
4. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEVC) 2022
5. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (SWEVO) 2022
6. Journal of Simulation (JOS/TJSM) 2022
7. Artificial Intelligence (ARTINT) 2022
8. Computers and Operations Research (CAOR) 2022
9. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (RSER) 2022
10. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) 2021
11. Information and Software Technology (IST) 2021
12. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DAMI) 2021
13. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 2021
14. Applied Soft Computing (ASOC) 2021
15. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) 2021
16. 7th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security (ICAIS) 2021
17. Springer Nature Computer Science (SNCS) 2020
18. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems (SMC) 2020
19. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2020
20. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) 2020
21. Applied Mathematics & Computer Science (AMCS) 2020
22. South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) 2020 - Grant Review for BRICS (Brazil, Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa) multilateral project, BRICS-STI Framework Programme
23. Czech Science Foundation (CSF) 2020 - Grant Review on the panel P103 (Cybernetics, artificial intelligence and information processing)
24. Soft Computing (SOCO) 2020
25. SN Operations Research Forum (ORFO) 2020
26. ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization (TELO) 2020
27. Elsevier Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) 2019
28. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (CYB) 2019
29. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC/CRSNG) - Discovery Grants 2019
30. MIT Press Evolutionary Computation Journal (ECJ) 2018
31. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEVC) 2018
32. Elsevier Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) 2018
33. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (CYB) 2018
34. Applied Soft Computing (ASOC) 2018
35. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) 2017
36. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (CYB) 2017
37. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (SWEVO) 2017
38. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEVC) 2017
39. MIT Press Evolutionary Computation Journal (ECJ) 2017
40. International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR) 2017
41. Springer Natural Computing (NACO) 2017
42. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TES) 2016
43. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI) 2016
44. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEVC) 2016
45. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (CYB) 2016
46. MIT Press Evolutionary Computation Journal (ECJ) 2016
47. Elsevier Applied Energy (APEN) 2015
48. IEEE Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) 2015
49. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (CIM) 2015
50. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (CYB) 2015
51. IEEE Transactions on Power Engineering Systems (PES) 2015
52. MIT Press Evolutionary Computation Journal (ECJ) 2015
53. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEVC) 2015
54. Elsevier Journal of Neurocomputing (NEUCOM) 2015
55. Informs Journal on Computing (JOC) 2014
56. Springer Natural Computing (NACO) 2014
57. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2014
58. Elsevier Cleaner Production (JCLEPRO) 2014
59. Elsevier Energy Conversion and Management (ECM) 2014
60. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEVC) 2014
61. MIT Press Evolutionary Computation Journal (ECJ) 2014
62. Emerald Engineering Computations (ENCOM) 2014
63. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2014
64. Elsevier Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) 2013
65. Elsevier Renewable Energy Journal (RENE) 2013
66. Springer Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms in Operations Research (JMMA) 2013
67. Elsevier Journal of Neurocomputing (NEUCOM) 2013
68. Emerald Engineering Computations (ENCOM) 2013
69. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEVC) 2013
70. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (CYB) 2013
71. MIT Press Evolutionary Computation Journal (ECJ) 2013
72. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2013
73. 12th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA) 2013
74. Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) 2012
75. Springer Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS) 2012
76. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 2012
77. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEVC) 2011
78. 24th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) 2011
79. 10th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS) 2011
80. 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA) 2011
81. 28th Int. Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS) 2011
82. 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN) 2010
83. Elsevier Information Processing Letters (IPL) 2010
84. MIT Press Evolutionary Computation Journal (ECJ) 2010
85. 7th Int. Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM) 2009
86. 3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI) 2007

Note: being a PC Member or higher typically entails the reviewer role.

In-Person Attended Events, Invited Talks
1. 3 Talks, 2 Session Chairs - AIOPT, Melbourne, Australia 2023
2. Attendance - IEEE VIS, Melbourne, Australia, 2023
3. Guest Lecture - Evolutionary Computation Course, University of Adelaide, Australia, 2023
4. Attendance - International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Melbourne, Australia, 2023
5. Invited Talk - 63rd CREST Open Workshop "Automated Program Repair and Genetic Improvement", University College London, UK 2023
6. Attendance - Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimisation Conference (EMO), Leiden, The Netherlands, 2023
7. Talk - AI-OPT Workshop 2022
8. Talk - ADSTAR 2022
9. Talk - GI@GECCO 2022
10. Talk - ARC Training Centre OPTIMA Seminar Series 2021
11. Talk - IEEE CIS Queensland Chapter, Seminar Talk 2021
12. Tutorial - GECCO 2021: Genetic Improvement of Software (Advanced Tutorial)
13. Talk - Google Sydney, Tech Talk "Improving software documentation quality" 2021
14. Tutorial - ASE 2020: Genetic Improvement of Software
15. Talk - Data Science Seminar, Centre for Research in Mathematics, Western Sydney University, Australia 2020
16. Tutorial - GECCO 2020: Genetic Improvement of Software (Advanced Tutorial)
17. Talk - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2020
18. Invited Talk - 62nd CREST Open Workshop "Automated Program Repair and Genetic Improvement", University College London, UK 2020
19. Talk - PGMO Days, Paris, France, 2019
20. Talk - CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal 2019
21. Talk - Dagstuhl Seminar "Theory of Randomized Algorithms", Dagstuhl, Germany 2019
22. Attendance - Sports Technology and Applied Research Symposium (STARS), Canberra, Australia 2019
23. 4 Talks, including an invited talk at "Evolutionary Computation in Practice (ECiP)" - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Prague, Czech Republic 2019
24. Tutorial - IEEE CEC 2019: Genetic Improvement of Software
25. Talk - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Kyoto, Japan 2018
26. Talk - Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany 2018
27. Talk - Institute de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et de Developements en Intelligence Artificielle, Brussels, Belgium, 2018
28. Talk - Machine Learning Lab, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany 2018
29. Opening Keynote Speaker - Symposium on Evolutionary Computation, Hefei, China 2017
30. Talk - Institute of Applied Optimization, Hefei University, Hefei, China 2017
31. 2 Talks - 68th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Adelaide, Australia 2017
32. 2 Talks & 1 Poster - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Berlin, Germany, 2017
33. Talk - Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany 2017
34. Talk - 2nd International Summer School on Search-Based Software Engineering, Malaga, Spain, 2017
35. Talk (invited lecturer) - Data 61’s 5th International Optimisation Summer School, Kioloa, Australia 2017
36. Talk - Department of Informatics, University of Leicester, UK 2016
37. Talk - Algorithms Group, University of Sheffield, UK 2016
38. Talk - Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning Research Group, University of Nottingham, UK 2016
39. 2 Talks (invitation-only event) - Dagstuhl Seminar "Automated Algorithm Selection and Configuration", Dagstuhl, Germany 2016
40. Talk - Centre for Research on Evolution, Search and Testing (CREST), University College London, UK 2016
41. Poster - 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), Edinburgh, UK 2016
42. 2 Talks & 2 Posters - Configuration and Selection of Algorithms Workshop (COSEAL), Eindhoven, The Netherlands 2016
43. Talk & Poster - 10th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS), Brussels, Belgium 2016
44. Attendance - 6th International Workshop on Model-based Metaheuristics (Matheuristics), Brussels, Belgium 2016
45. Attendance - IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), Vancouver, Canada 2016
46. Talk - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Denver, USA 2016
47. Talk - School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide Australia 2016
48. Talk - Albert Ludwig University Freiburg, Germany 2015
49. Talk - Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany 2015
50. 2 Talks, 1 Poster - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Madrid, Spain 2015
51. Attendance - Becoming an Effective Supervisor or Teacher, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia 2015
52. Talk - School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide Australia 2015
53. Opening Keynote Speaker - 2nd Workshop on System Integration of Renewable Energy (WSIRE), Oldenburg, Germany 2014
54. Talk (invitation-only event) - NII Shonan Meeting "Computational Intelligence for Software Engineering", Shonan Village Centre, Japan, 2014
55. Talk - Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik und BWL, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Germany 2014
56. Attendance - South Australian Renewable Energy Institute (SAREI) Technical Symposium, Adelaide, Australia 2014
57. 2 Talks, 1 Competition, 1 Special Session - IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence: Congress on Evolutionary Computation (WCCI/CEC), Beijing, China 2014
58. Attendance - 2nd International Optimisation Summer School, Kioloa, Australia 2014
59. Attendance - Empowering more effective and enjoyable teaching, Adelaide, Australia 2013
60. Talk - 10th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC), Singapore 2013
61. Talk - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2013
62. Talk (invitation-only event) - Dagstuhl Seminar "Computer Science in High Performance Sport", Dagstuhl, Germany 2013
63. Attendance - Felder-Brent "Effective Teaching" Workshop, Adelaide, Australia 2013
64. Attendance - Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XII (FOGA), Adelaide, Australia 2013
65. Talk - School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia 2013
66. Attendance - 1st International Optimisation Summer School, Kioloa, Australia 2013
67. Talk - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Università degli Studi di Udine, Udine, Italy, 2012
68. 2 Posters, 1 Talk - 12th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN), Sicily, Italy 2012
69. Attendance - 21st Int. Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), Berlin, Germany 2012
70. Talk - Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning Group, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia 2012
71. Talk - Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Informatik I, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany 2012
72. Talk - School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia 2012
73. Attendance - AIESEC State Conference, Piccadilly, Australia 2012
74. Attendance - Integrated Planning and Optimization Summit (IPOS), Adelaide, Australia 2012
75. Talk - Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia 2012
76. Poster - HDR Poster Day, School of Computer Science, Adelaide, Australia 2011
77. Talk - China Nine / Group of Eight HDR Forum "Clean Energy and Sustainable Future", Beijing, China 2011
78. Talk - 9th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC), Udine, Italy 2011
79. Poster - 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Barcelona, Spain 2011
80. Talk - 5th Workshop on Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics (ThRaSH), Kopenhagen, Denmark
81. Talk - Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany 2011
82. Talk - CSIRO Information and Communication Technologies Centre, Sydney, Australia 2011
83. Talk - School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia 2011
84. Talk - Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XI (FOGA), Schwarzenberg, Austria 2011
85. Attendance - Colloquium on Combinatorics (KOLKOM), Saarbrücken, Germany 2010
86. Talk - Technical University Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany 2010
87. Talk - Int. Conference on Formal Verification of Object-Oriented Software (FoVeOOS), Paris, France
88. Poster - Interdisciplinary College 2010 Play, Act and Learn (IK), Günne at Lake Möhnesee, Germany
89. Poster - 32nd Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI), Paderborn, Germany
90. Talk - IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Trondheim, Norway 2009
91. Poster - GI Informatiktage 2009, Bonn, Germany 2009
92. Talk - 7th KeY Symposium, Gothenburg, Sweden 2008
93. Poster - 6th European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Art and Design (EvoMusArt), Naples, Italy 2008
94. Talk - 5th KeY Symposium, Speyer, Germany 2006
95. Attendance - International Conference Summer, Koblenz, Germany 2005
96. Talk - 4th KeY Symposium, Lökeberg, Sweden 2005
97. Attendance - German Verification Day, Oldenburg, Germany 2005