Cheng He

Associate Professor
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)
chenghehust [at] gmail.com

Dr. Cheng He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. His main research interests are Artificial/Computational Intelligence (includes evolutionary multi-objective optimization, model-based optimization, large-scale optimization, etc.) and its applications.

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Research Grants

2022 - 2026: Error Mechanism, Mathematical Model, and Ratio Error Prediction of Measurement Devices based on Mass Data, Co-PI, National Key Research and Development Program of China.
2020 - 2022: Computationally Expensive Large-Scale Multi-Objective Optimization Driven by Generative Learning, PI, National Science Foundation of China.
2020 – 2024: Deep Learning Applied to Aerofoil Design, Co-PI, China.
2020-2022: Evolutionary Computation Based Deep Neural Architecture Search for Microchips, Co-PI, China.
2020-2022: Computational Intelligence based Error State Evaluating for Grouped Instrument Transformers: Key Technologies and Applications, PI, National Science Foundation of China.
2021-2022: Voltage Transformer Ratio Error Estimation Driven by Computational Intelligence, PI，Shenzhen.

Honors and Awards

2022: 2022中国商业联合会科学技术奖特等奖
2021: 2021 ACM SIGBio Rising Star Award
2020: SUSTech the 6th Presidential Outstanding Postdoctoral Award
2019: The 14th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2019) Best Paper Award

Professional Experience

Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Associate Professor
03/2022 - present
Artificial/Computational Intelligence for Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

University of Science and Technology of China
Southern University of Science and Technology
Post-doc Research Fellow
08/2018 - 07/2020
Large-scale optimization, neural architecture search, airfoil design.

Southern University of Science and Technology
Visting Scholar
03/2018 - 07/2018
Visiting scholar engaged in large-scale multiobjective optimization supervised by
Professor Xin Yao.

University of Surrey
Visting PhD Student
2016 - 2017
Visiting student engaged in surrogate-assisted many-objective optimization supervised by
Professor Yaochu Jin.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
09/2012 - 03/2018
Control Science and Engineering
Focus on many-objective optimization and its applications supervised by
Professor Linqiang Pan.

Bachelor of Science
Wuhan University of Science and Technology
09/2008 - 6/2012
Automation