Fangfang Zhang

Fangfang Zhang

Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington

Professional Activities

Professional (Vice-)Chairs:

  1. Vice Chair, IEEE Taskforce on Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation, Dec 2022-present
  2. Board member, The Artificial Intelligence Researchers Association (AIRA), 2021-present

Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member:

  1. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Jan. 2025-present
  2. Editorial Board Member, Intelligent Marine Technology and Systems, Sep. 2024-present
  3. Associate Editor, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Jan. 2024-present
  4. Associate Editor, Expert Systems with Applications, Sep. 2022-present

Internatioanl Conference Organising Committees:

  1. Local Chair of Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AJCAI 2026)
  2. Local Chair of Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2025)

Organised Tutorials:

  1. Organsier/Speaker, Genetic Programming and Machine Learning for Scheduling, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2023, CEC2024)
  2. Organsier/Speaker, Genetic Programming and Machine Learning for Job Shop Scheduling, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI2022)
  3. Organsier/Speaker, Evolutionary Machine Learning for Combinatorial Optimisation, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2022)/IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2022)
  4. Organsier/Speaker, Genetic Programming for Job Shop Scheduling, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI2021)

Organised Special Sessions/Speicail Issues/Workshops:

  1. Guest Editor: Special Issue on Evolutionary Machine Learning in Business Optimisation, in Memetic Computing, 2025-
  2. Local Organising Chair: Centre of Data Science and AI (CDSAI) Workshop on Evolutionary Machine Learning and Optimisation, Wellington, New Zealand, 11-12 July 2024
  3. Chair, Evolutionary Computation and Computational Intelligence for Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2024)
  4. Chair, Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimisation, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2022, CEC2023)
  5. Chair, Genetic Programming and Machine Learning for Scheduling, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2023)
  6. Chair, Evolutionary Machine Learning for Planning and Scheduling, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2022)
  7. Chair, Genetic Programming and Machine Learning for Scheduling, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI2021, SSCI2022)
  8. Chair, Evolutionary Machine Learning for Combinatorial Optimisation, EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (BICT2022)

Professional Leadership:

  1. Project Coordinator: Data Science for Aquaculture, VUW, 2022-Present
  2. Secretary: IEEE New Zealand Central Section, 2023 - Present
  3. Treasurer: Young Professional Affinity Group, IEEE New Zealand Central Section, 2020 – Present
  4. Secretary: Woman in Engineering, IEEE New Zealand Central Section, July 2021 – Present
  5. Secretary: AI Researchers Association, VUW, 2024-present
  6. Diversity Chair: AI Researchers Association, VUW, 2023-2024
  7. Post-Doc Member representative: AI Researchers Association, 2021-2024
  8. Professional Activities Coordinator: IEEE New Zealand Central Section, 2021 - 2022
  9. Chair: Student Branch (Victoria University of Wellington), IEEE New Zealand Central Section, 2020 – 2021
  10. Chair: New Zealand Chinese Students Association (Wellington), 2018 - 2021

Peer Reviewer for International Journals:

  1. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (Top Q1, ARC/ERA Tier A*)
  2. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (Top Q1, ARC/ERA Tier A)
  3. Evolutionary Computation (ARC/ERA Tier A)
  4. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems (Top Q1, ARC/ERA Tier A)
  5. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (Q1)
  6. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (Q1)
  7. Journal of Manufacturing Systems (Top Q1)
  8. Information Sciences (Top Q1)
  9. Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing (Q1, ARC/ERA Tier A)
  10. International Journal of Intelligent Systems (Q1)
  11. International Journal of Production Research (Q1)
  12. Journal of Industrial Information Integration (Q1)
  13. Knowledge-Based Systems (Q1)
  14. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (Q1)
  15. Expert Systems With Applications (Q1)
  16. Applied Soft Computing (Q1)
  17. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Q1)
  18. Memetic Computing (Q1)
  19. Neurocomputing (Q1)
  20. Computers & Industrial Engineering (Q1)
  21. Computers and Operations Research (Q1)
  22. Journal of Computational Science (Q1)
  23. Journal of Process Control (Q1)
  24. CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology (Q1)
  25. Journal of Scheduling (Q1)
  26. Heliyon (Q1)
  27. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (ARC/ERA Tier A)
  28. Complex & Intelligent Systems (Q2)
  29. International Journal of Bio-inspired Computation (Q2)
  30. Operational Research
  31. Journal of Heuristics
  32. Mathematics
  33. Electronics

Program Committee Member for International Conferences:

  1. The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), 2021, 2022, 2023
  2. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
  3. The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2022
  4. The Leading European Event on Bio‑Inspired Computation (Evo*), 2022, 2023
  5. The Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), 2024
  6. IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), 2024
  7. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
  8. The Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AJCAI), 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023
  9. The International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI), 2022
  10. Heterodox Methods for Interpretable and Efficient Artificial Intelligence (HMIEAI2022), 2022
  11. The International Conference on Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems (MLIS), 2021
  12. The International Symposium on Automation, Information and Computing (ISAIC), 2021

Professional Membership:

  1. ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO) Member, 2019 – Present
  2. IEEE Women in Engineering Member, 2020 - Present
  3. IEEE Young Professionals, 2019 - Present
  4. IEEE Member, 2019 – Present
  5. IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Member, 2019 – Present
  6. AI Researchers Association Member, 2021 - Present