About Me

Hi, welcome to my academic homepage! I’m Yao Zhou (周尧), currently an associate professor with Machine Intelligence Lab, College of Computer Science, Sichuan University. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Sichuan University in 2019, under the supervision of Prof. Yi Zhang (IEEE Fellow).

From Aug 2017 to Feb 2019, I was a visiting researcher (sponsored by China Scholarship Council) at Oklahoma State University, US, and collaborated with Prof. Gary G. Yen (IEEE Fellow) on evolutionary computation methods for compressing deep neural networks.

Email: yaozhou@scu.edu.cn

Research Interest

My primary research areas are neural networks, evolutionary computation and their applications. I’m particularly interested in model compression and automated artificial intelligence.

Selected Publications

• Multi-Objective Evolutionary Generative Adversarial Network Compression for Image Translation[J]
  Yao Zhou, Bing Hu, Xianglei Yuan, Kaide Huang, Zhang Yi, Gary G. Yen
  IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2023 (IF:16.497)
  DOI:10.1109/TEVC.2023.3261135

• Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search for Automatic Esophageal Lesion Identification and Segmentation[J]
  Yao Zhou, Xianglei Yuan, Xiaozhi Zhang, Wei Liu, Yu Wu, Gary G. Yen, Bing Hu, Zhang Yi
  IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2022
  DOI:10.1109/TAI.2021.3134600

• Evolutionary Shallowing Deep Neural Networks at Block Levels[J]
  Yao Zhou, Gary G. Yen, Zhang Yi
  IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2021 (IF:14.255)
  DOI:10.1109/TNNLS.2021.3059529

• Evolutionary Compression of Deep Neural Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation[J]
  Yao Zhou, Gary G. Yen, Zhang Yi
  IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2020 (IF:14.255)
  DOI:10.1109/TNNLS.2019.2933879

• A Knee-Guided Evolutionary Algorithm for Compressing Deep Neural Networks[J]
  Yao Zhou, Gary G. Yen, Zhang Yi
  IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2019 (IF:19.118)
  DOI:10.1109/TCYB.2019.2928174

• Cell Mitosis Detection using Deep Neural Networks[J]
  Yao Zhou, Hua Mao, Zhang Yi
  Knowledge-Based Systems, 2017 (IF:8.139)
  DOI:10.1016/j.knosys.2017.08.016

• Predicting movie box-office revenues using deep neural networks[J]
  Yao Zhou, Lei Zhang, Zhang Yi
  Neural Computing and Applications, 2017 (IF:4.664)
  DOI:10.1007/s00521-017-3162-x

• Evolving Deep Neural Networks for Movie Box-office Revenues Prediction[C]
  Yao Zhou, Gary G. Yen
  IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2018), 8-13 July, 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2018.8477691

• Fast string matching algorithms for very short patterns[C]
  Yao Zhou, Hongbo Fan, Lijun Liu, Qingsong Huang
  IET International Conference on Information Science and Control Engineering 2012
  DOI:10.1049/cp.2012.2321

• Artificial intelligence for diagnosing gastric lesions under white-light endoscopy[J]
  Xianglei Yuan, Yao Zhou (co-first author), Wei Liu, Qi Luo, Xian-Hui Zeng, Zhang Yi, Bing Hu
  Surgical Endoscopy, 2022 (IF:4.584) DOI:10.1007/s00464-022-09420-6

• Artificial intelligence-based assessments of colonoscopic withdrawal technique: a new method for measuring and enhancing the quality of fold examination[J]
  Wei Liu, Yu Wu, Xianglei Yuan, Jingyu Zhang, Yao Zhou, Wanhong Zhang, Peipei Zhu, Zhang Tao, Long He, Bing Hu, Zhang Yi
  Endoscopy, 2022, (IF:10.093) DOI:10.1055/a-1799-8297

• Efficient Esophageal Lesion Detection using Polarization Regularized Network Slimming[C]
  Yue, Fu, Yao Zhou, Xianglei Yuan, Wei Liu, Bing Hu, Zhang Yi
  The 8-th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligent Systems, 2022 DOI:10.1109/CCIS57298.2022.10016387

• ML R-CNN: A Location-Aware Network for Tooth Instance Segmentation[C]
  Jiajun Wang, Ruiyu Suo, Yao Zhou
  Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Digital Image Processing, 2023 DOI:10.1145/3604078.3604097

• An Experimental Study of nmODE in Recognizing Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection Workflow[C]
  Kaide Huang, Xianglei Yuan, Ruide Liu, Yao Zhou, Bing Hu, Zhang Yi
  IEEE International Annual Conference on Complex Systems and Intelligent Science (CSIS-IAC), 2023 DOI:10.1109/CSIS-IAC60628.2023.10364057

• Learning Compact Neural Network for Long-Term Time Series Forecasting[C]
  Nianping Qin, Yao Zhou
  IEEE International Annual Conference on Complex Systems and Intelligent Science (CSIS-IAC), 2023 DOI:10.1109/CSIS-IAC60628.2023.10364022

• MTCGAN: Mini CycleGAN with Tokenized MLP for Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation[C]
  Runlong Liao, Yibo Wang, Wenjie Zhang, Mengxi Cai, Yao Zhou
  IEEE International Annual Conference on Complex Systems and Intelligent Science (CSIS-IAC), 2023 DOI:10.1109/CSIS-IAC60628.2023.10364209

Research Projects

• Evolutionary Multiobjective Deep Generative Model Acceleration, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2024-2027, PI. (国家自然科学基金)
• Evolutionary Neural Network Compression, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2020-2023, PI. (国家自然科学基金)
• Evolutionary Neural Network Models, National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents, 2020-2023, PI. (博新计划)

Teaching

• GPU Programming, Undergraduate level, Spring 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021
• Freshman Seminar, Undergraduate level, Fall 2022, 2023
• Probability and Statistics, International undergraduate students, Spring 2024, 2022
• Program Design Fundamentals, International undergraduate students, Spring 2023
• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Graduate level, Spring 2024, 2023, 2022

Academic Service

• IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Reviewer
• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Reviewer
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Reviewer
• IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Reviewer
• IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Reviewer
• IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Reviewer
• ACM Computing Surveys, Reviewer
• Information Fusion, Reviewer
• Information Science, Reviewer
• Applied Soft Computing, Reviewer
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Reviewer
• Journal of Medical Systems, Reviewer
• Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Reviewer
• Engineering Optimization, Reviewer
• 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI 2024), Reviewer
• 2023 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2023), Reviewer
• IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Reviewer
• 2023 15th International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP), Technical Committee Member
• 2023 International Annual Conference on Complex Systems and Intelligent Science (CSIS-IAC), Program Committee Member

Others

• Council Member, Sichuan Institute of Artificial Intelligence (SCIAI), 2022-

• Session Chair, “Biometrics, Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications I” at 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2018), 8-13 July, 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Conference Travel Grant, 2018

• Volunteer, IEEE Teacher In-Service Program (TISP) Training Workshop (Page 5)
  6-7 Aug 2016, Bangkok, Thailand