Scholarships Available
(School Funded Research Scholarships,
School of ITEE, UNSW@ADFA)
AUSTRALIAN STUDENTS
For full time local students with at least Honours 2-1 or equivalent
commencing a Masters by research or a PhD (in Computational Intelligence,
Evolutionary Optimization or Operations Research), may apply for school
scholarships that cover living allowance (equivalent to the University College
Postgraduate Research Scholarship -UCPRS).
Conditions: Student must apply in every subsequent round for a APA or
UCPRS. Continuation of the scholarship is subject to satisfactory progress
review.
For further details contact A/Prof. Ruhul Sarker
(email: r.sarker@adfa.edu.au)
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
For full time international students with at least Honours 2-1 or equivalent
commencing a Masters by research or a PhD (in Computational Intelligence,
Evolutionary Optimization or Operations Research) who are required to pay
international student fees, may apply for a Tuition Fee Scholarship which
will meet the student's international fees and international health care
cover.
Conditions: Student must apply in every subsequent round for an EIPRS
and UIPA and continuation of the scholarship is subject to satisfactory progress
review.
Where a full time international students with at least Honours 2-1 or
equivalent has a scholarship that pays tuition fees and doesn't have a living
allowance scholarship, may apply for a living allowance scholarship (equivalent
to the University College Postgraduate Research Scholarship -UCPRS).
Conditions: Student must apply in every subsequent round for a UCPRS.
and continuation of the scholarship is subject to satisfactory progress
review.
Notes: An international student cannot hold both a tuition fee
scholarship and a living allowance scholarship both funded by this scholarship
plan.
For further details contact A/Prof. Ruhul Sarker
(email: r.sarker@adfa.edu.au)
Info
on Scholarships
If you are interested
to work with me,
please contact me
for the matters on admission and supervision.
For Scholarships, you are requested to contact the relavent
authority as instructed in the following links.
Note: it is very competitive here in UNSW@ADFA!
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Forms for Application for Admission to the University can be obtained from
Student Administrative Services (http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/student/index.html).
Current Research Areas/Topics
- Computational Intelligence and Evolutionary Optimization
- Approaches: Evolutionary
Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Strategy, Evolutionary
Programming, Memetic Algorithms, Artificial Neural Network, Multi-Agent
Systems, and Hybrid Algorithms
- Problem Type: Continuous
optimization, combinatorial optimization, Constrained
Optimization, Large-Scale Problems and Multi-objective
Problems
- Applied Operations Research
- Approaches: Mathematical
programming, Optimization, Simulation, Analytic Hierarchy Process,
Heuristics and Soft Operations Research
- Problem Type: Theoretical and Practical Planning and Decision Making Problems
- Applications (mainly Operations Management topics)
- Areas: Defence, Agriculture, Mining, Petroleum, Manufacturing, Environment and Bio-informatics
- Specific Topics: Strategic
Planning, Operational Planning and Scheduling, Coal Production and
Upgradation, Forecasting, Inventory, Location and Layout,
Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain, Rostering, Job-Shop
Scheduling, and Climate Change Modelling
If you are interested,
contact me immediately otherwise someone else would ...... !!
Contact details: A/Prof. Ruhul
Sarker, School of ITEE, UNSW@ADFA, Northcott Drive,
Canberra 2600, Australia, Tel.- +61 2 6268 8051, Fax. +61 2 6268
8581, Email: r.sarker@adfa.edu.au
Journal Editorial Responsibility
Editor-in-Chief, ASOR Bulletin (The National publication of the Australian Society for Operations
Research, Publishes 4 issues per year)
Associate Editor /Editorial Board Member, Memetic Computing, Springer Journal
Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation
Member, Editorial Board, Operations and Supply Chain Management: An International Journal
Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Sciences of Industrial and System Engineering and management
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers (2003-2006)
Member, Advisory Board, Computer Science and Engineering Research Journal, CUET
Co-editor-in-chief, International
Journal of Computational Intelligence (2003-2006)
Guest Editor:
- Memetic Computing (Springer's New Journal)
- Annals of Operations Research
- International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent
Engineering Systems
- International Journal of Computational Intelligence
and Applications (IJCIA)
Technical Reviewer:
- International Transaction in Operations Research
- European Journal of Operations Research
- Annals of Operations Research
- Optimization and Engineering
- OMEGA - The International Journal of Management Science
- Journal of Heustistics
- Evolutionary Computation
- IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
- IEEE Transaction on Evolutionary Computation
- IEEE Transaction on Reliability
- IEEE Intelligent System
- International Journal of Production Economics
- Computers & Industrial Engineering
- International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications
- International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent
Engineering Systems
- International Journal of Systems Science
- Applied Mathematical Modelling
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research
- Quantitative Finance
- Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry: An
International Journal
- Journal of Strategic Information Systems
- Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing
Systems
- INFOR (Journal of Canadian Operations Research Society)
- Prepublication Book Reviewer, Springer
- Prepublication Book Reviewer, World Scientific
- Evolutionary Optimization, Editted Book, Kluwer Academic
Publisher
- Electronic Commerce, Editted Book, Idea Publisher, USA
- Mathematics in Industry, Editted Book
Publications
Recent Research Grants Go To The Link
Examples of Recent
Research Projects
- Multiobjective
Evolutionary Optimisation with applications to Crop planning, Machine
layout and scheduling, and Gas-lift optimisation (with T Ray, UNSW@ADFA)
- Multiple Operators Based GA for Constrained Optimisation (with S. Elsayed)
- Disrruption Recovery in Supply Chain (with H Hisamuddin)
- Hyper Heuristics for Optimising Bulk Materials Transporation Network (with N. Siswanto)
- Hybrid GA for Multiple Sequence allignment (with F. Naznin)
- Agent Based Memetic Algorithms for Solving Constrained Optimisation (with A Barkat Ullah)
- Memetic Algorithms for Job Shop Scheduling under Process Interruptions (with K Hasan)
- Decomposition based Evolutionary Algorithms for Constrained Optimisation (with E. Elfeky)
- Combined AHP-Goal Programming Approach with application to human
relocation due to climate change problems (with Prof. S. Zahir, Canada)
- Forecasting of Foreign Currency Exchange Rates (with
J. Kamrruzaman, Monash University)
- Fleet-mix Optimization and Scheduling (DSTO research
grant with H. Abbass & C. Newton)
- Evolutionary Algorithms for Constrained Multiobjective
Optimization Problems (Summer Research Grant - with H. Abbass)
- Assessment Methodologies for Evolutionary Multiobjective
Algorithms (Collaborative Research Project - with Carlos Coello
Coello, Mexico)
- Nationwide Crop Planning Models using LP &
GP (Collaborative Research Project - with MA Quaddus of CUT, Perth)
- Multistage Batch Sizing Problems (Collaborative
Research Project - with LR Khan of VU, Melbourne)
- Simultaneous Evolution of Architectures and Connection
Weights in Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) (Special Research
Grant - with H. Abbass)
- Evolutionary Algorithms for Constrained Optimization
Problems (Collaborative Research Project - with T Runarsson,
Iceland)
Current Research Students
- Mrs Farhana Naznin (Ph.D.: Multiple Sequence Allignment of DNA), Scholarship: UCPRS, Started: 8/2008
- Mrs Hawa Hishamuddin (Ph.D.: Supply Chain Modelling and Analysis), Scholarship: Malaysian Government sponsored, Started: 3/2009
- Mr Saber.El-Sayed El-Sayed Helalia
(Ph.D.: Evolutionary Constrained Optimization), Scholarship: UCPRS, Started: 26/8/2009
- Mr
Nurhadi Siswanto (Ph.D.: Ship Routing and Scheduling) Co-supervisor,
Scholarship: Endeavour Australian Government, Started: 3/2008
- Mr
Irman Hermadi (Ph.D.: Evolutionary Test Data Generation) Co-supervisor,
Scholarship: Indonesian Goverment sponsored, Started: 1/2009
Past Research
Students
- Mr Ehab Zaky El Fiky (Ph.D.: Evolutionary Constrained Optimization), 8/2005-3/2009, Scholarship: UCPRS, Working in Canberra
- Mr
Kamrul Hasan (Ph.D.: Evolutionary Systems for Job Scheduling),
2/2006-5/2009, Scholarship: UCPRS, working as a Post-Doc/research fellow
- Mr Barkat Ullah (Ph.D.: Evolutionary Multiagent Systems for Constrained Optimization), 3/2006-7/2009, Scholarship: UCPRS, working as a Post-Doc/research fellow
- Dr Vinh Bui (Ph.D.) Network Reliability (Co-supervisor) 7/2005-8/2008, Scholarship: EIPRS, working as a Post-Doc Fellow
- Mr Jayan Prasad (M.Sc.: Financial Forecasting using ANN) 7/2005-8/2007, Scholarship: UNSW@ADFA Tuition Fee Remission.
- Ms Vivienne Wheaton, M.Sc. Project (Defence Operations Research) Completed November 2007, Working with DSTO Adelaide
- Dr James Whitacre (Ph.D).: Parameters Control in Genetic Algorithms
(Co-supervisor), 7/2004-8/2007, Currently working as a Post-Doc fellow
- Dr Ang Yang (Ph.D).: Multiagent
Combat Systems (Co-supervisor), 3/2003-4/2006, Scholarship: UNSW,
Currently working for CSIRO, Canberra
- Dr Guangming Lin (Ph.D.) Topic: Analysing the
Bahaviour of Evolutionary Algorithms (Completed in Oct. 2003), Currently an academic in China
- Ms Lisa Elliston (M.Sc. Project) on Modelling of Invasive Species
using Multiagent systems, completed in 2005, working in Canberra.
- Mr Vladimir Ilias (MSc project), completed in 2002, working
in Slovakia
- Dr Amanul Haque (MSc), later completed Ph.D.
in UIUC and working with PenState University, USA
- Mr Jashim Uddin (MSc) working with a company
- Dr Sifullah Talukdar (MSc), later finished Ph.D.
and working in Norway
- Mr Salam Azad (MSc) working in USA
- Mr Mahmudul Gani (MSc) working with a company
in Canada
- Dr Munir Uddin (MSc), later finished Ph.D. and
working in USA
Visiting/Post-Doctoral Fellow
- Dr Ko-Hsin Liang, Taiwan (2008-09)
- Prof. Yang Jianzheng, Shanghai University of Science
and Technology, China (2001-02)
- Dr Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra,
Australia (2001)
Contact
details: A/Prof. Ruhul Sarker, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, UNSW@ADFA,
Northcott Drive, Canberra 2600, Australia, Tel.- +61 2 6268 8051,
Fax. +61 2 6268 8581, Email: r.sarker@adfa.edu.au