🎉 Welcome! 👋

I am Dr. Yue-Jiao Gong, a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology (SCUT), China. I received my B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) in 2010 and 2014, respectively, under the supervision of Professor Jun Zhang. I also had the privilege of expanding my horizons as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Macau (UM) from 2015 to 2016, with Professor Yicong Zhou, and as a research assistant in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2014, alongside Professor Lionel M. Ni.

My research interests include optimization methods based on swarm intelligence, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and their applications in smart cities and intelligent transportation.

✨ Recent Research Highlights

1. Toward Automated Algorithm Design: A Survey and Practical Guide to Meta-Black-Box-Optimization

Z. Ma, H. Guo, Y.-J. Gong*, J. Zhang, K. C. Tan,
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (TEC), 2025
Paper | Awesome-MetaBBO Repository

2. Neural Exploratory Landscape Analysis for Meta-Black-Box-Optimization

Z. Ma, J. Chen, H. Guo, Y.-J. Gong*
The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
Paper | NeurELA Repository

3. SYMBOL: Generating Flexible Black-Box Optimizers through Symbolic Equation Learning

J. Chen, Z. Ma, H. Guo, Y. Ma, J. Zhang, Y.-J. Gong*
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024
Paper | SYMBOL Repository