Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence
School of Engineering and Computer Science (SECS)
Evolutionary Computation Research Group (ECRG)
Faculty of Science and Engineering (FOSE)
Victoria University of Wellington

About me

I am Bach Nguyen (also known in my publications as Bach Hoai Nguyen). I am currently a Lecturer at the Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), New Zealand. I received my PhD from VUW in November 2018, under supervision of Prof. Bing Xue (IEEE Fellow), A/Prof Peter (Pondy) Andreae, and Prof. Mengjie Zhang (IEEE Fellow).

My research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, and evolutionary computation. I am particularly interested in applying evolutionary computation to achieve feature mannipuluation, transfer learning, and multi-label learning. My current research topics include:

• Machine learning: Classification, Transfer Learning/Domain Adaptation, Multi-label Learning, and Multi-objective Learning.
• Dimensionality Reduction: Feature Selection, Feature Construction, and Feature Extraction.
• Evolutionary Algorithms: particularly Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO), Differential Evolution (DE), and Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimisation (EMO).
• AI for Climate Change and Agriculture.

Biography

Dr. Bach Nguyen is a Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at the School of Engineering and Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

His research interests include Evolutionary Computation for Machine Learning, Dimensionality Reduction (Feature Selection/Feature Construction), Transfer Learning/Domain Adaptation, Multi-objective Optimisation, and Multi-label Learning. He has publised on top research venues including IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Evolutionary Computation Journal, and ACM GECCO.

He is the Chair of the IEEE New Zealand Central Section. He serves as Vice-Chair of the IEEE Taskforce on Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection and Construction. He is also a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.