Assistant Professor Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) luzhichaocn [at] gmail.com Zhichao Lu received his B.Sc. and Ph.D degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Michigan State University, USA, in 2014 and 2020. He was a member in the COIN Laboratory, under the supervision of Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb, where he studied bilevel optimization, multi-objective optimization, and neural architecture search. His general research interest is Evolutionary Computation based learning and optimization. His current research focuses on developing efficient and automated ML/DL algorithms and systems, with an overarching goal of making AI accessible to everyone.
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- 2022/04 - 2024/04: Shenzhen Science and Technology Program (Postdoc Start-up), PI
- 2022/01 - 2023/12: National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Program), PI
- 2021/06 - 2022/10: China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (General Program), PI
- 2022: ACM MM 4th Person In Context (PIC) Challenge (Make-up Temporal Video Grounding Track) Winner
- 2022: ACM MM 4th Person In Context (PIC) Challenge (Make-up Dense Video Captioning Track) Winner
- 2022: CVPR ActivityNet Event Dense-Captioning Challenge Runner-up
- 2021: MICCAI Glaucoma grAding from Multi-Modality imAge (GAMMA) Challenge Excellent Award
- 2021: CVPR ActivityNet Event Dense-Captioning Challenge Runner-up
- 2021: SUSTech the 8th Presidential Outstanding Postdoctoral Award
- 2020: MSU College of Engineering GOF Fellowship
- 2019: GECCO Best Paper Award (Evolutionary Machine Learning Track)
- 2019: MSU MSU Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship
- 2016: GECCO Best Paper Award Runner-up (Real-world Application Track)
- 2014: MSU Engineering Distinguished Fellowship
Assistant Professor
09/2022 - present
School of Software Engineering
Post-doc Research Fellow
10/2020 - 08/2022
Evolutionary machine learning, neural architecture search.
Research Scientist (Intern)
05/2018 - 08/2018
Algorithm developer for large-scale combinatorial optimization.
Research Assistant
12/2013 - 08/2014
Handling variable and parameter uncertainty in evolutionary bi-level optimization.
Michigan State University
08/2014 - 8/2020
Engineering and Computer Engineering
Michigan State University
09/2009 - 12/2013
Engineering and Computer Engineering