Mustafa MISIR, Associate Professor

Email:   mmisir [at] nuaa.edu.cn
Address: College of Computer Science and Technology, Office 230, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 29 Jiangjun Avenue, 211106 Nanjing, Jiangsu, China PR

Leading the Machine lEarning and Operations Research (MEmORy) Lab: https://memoryrlab.github.io/

News

• Looking for under/-graduate students to work on several research projects. Please contact.
  (招收2018级计算机科学硕士研究生，研究方向为机器学习，算法设计，数据科学，运算研究。有兴趣的同学与我联系 mmisir [at] nuaa.edu.cn)
• Having a stream on Hyper-heuristics in EURO 2019, Dublin, 06/2019
• Organizing an invited session on Automated Algorithm Design in MCDM 2019, Istanbul, 06/2019
• Won 2-years TUBITAK 2232 Reintegration Fellowship grant on Automated Algorithm Design, 08/2018
• Organized a stream on Hyper-heuristics in EURO 2018, Valencia, 07/2018
• Visited CODeS research group at KU Leuven, 03/2018
• Presented a keynote talk on Automated Algorithm Design in ISCC 2017, Guangzhou, 12/2017
• Organized a special session on Algorithm Algorithm Design in IEEE CIEL 2017, Hawaii, 11-12/2017
• Delivered a tutorial on Algorithm Selection in SEAL 2017, Shenzen, 11/2017
• Gave a keynote talk on Algorithm Selection in CENet 2017 , Shanghai, 07/2017
• Visited ASAP research group at University of Nottingham, 05-06/2017
• 7+1 papers were accepted/published in AIJ, JoH, MIC, DSO, IEEE CEC and SEAL, 2017
• A new, up-to-date Hyper-heuristic Bibliography is online

Research Interests

• Automated Algorithm Design (Machine Learning + Algorithm Design)
• Data Science / Analytics
• Operations Research

Evolutionary Algorithms, Computational Intelligence, Meta/Hyper-heuristics, Adaptive/Reactive/Autonomous Search, Algorithm Portfolios, Algorithm Configuration (Tuning + Control), Meta-learning, Empirical Algorithmics, Design of Experiments, Recommender Systems (Collaborative Filtering), Boolean Satisability, Constraint Programming, Combinatorial Optimisation, Data Mining (Knowledge Discovery), Expert Systems, Decision Support Systems and Automated Planning/Scheduling

Achievements / Awards

• TUBITAK 2232 Reintegration Research Fellowship 2018
• China Thousand Young Talents Program 2016 Nominee
• Best Paper Runner-up in the 9th Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION) Conference 2015 for OSCAR
• ERCIM Cor Baayen Award 2013 Finalist (for Young Researchers in CS and Applied Math)
• ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Postdoctoral Fellowship 2012
• 1st International Cross-Domain Heuristic Search Challenge (CHeSC) 2011 Winner
• 1st International Nurse Rostering Competition (INRC) 2010 Finalist team member
• KU Leuven PhD Scholarship in Computer Science 2009-2012
• Turkish National Ministry of Education Overseas PhD Scholarship, 2008 (declined)
• Yeditepe University (Turkey) BSc Fellowship (2002-2007), Undergraduate Assistantship (2006-2007) and Graduate Assistantship (2007-2008) in Computer Engineering