Mengjie Zhang, Professor of Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, has made extraordinary contributions to the area of artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data/data mining particularly in the fields of evolutionary computation and learning, genetic programming, large scale feature selection and big dimensionality reduction, computer vision and image processing, planning/scheduling and combinatorial optimisation, multi-objective optimisation, bioinformatics, and automated/evolutionary deep learning and transfer learning. He is an Associate Editor of over 10 international journals including IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Emergent Topics in CI, Evolutionary Computation, ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimisation, and Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, and is major chair of many international conferences including GECCO, AAAI, IEEE CEC, AusAI, and EvoStar. He has published over 650 papers in fully refereed international journals and conferences, and supervised over 50 PhD and Masters thesis students to successful. He has recently chaired the IEEE CIS Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee, the IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee, and the IEEE CIS Emergent Technology Technical Committee, and the founding Chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Chapter in New Zealand. He is also a Fellow of IEEE, an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, and Associate Dean (Research and Innovations) for the Faculty of Engineering and heading the Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Research at Victoria University of Wellington.
