Fangfang Zhang Receives an ACM SIGEVO Best PhD Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention/Runner-up).

Congratulations to Fangfang Zhang for receiving a ACM SIGEVO Best PhD Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention/Runner-up) in 2022. Her thesis is “Genetic Programming Hyper-heuristics for Dynamic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling”.

“This dissertation proposes multiple innovative ideas for developing new hyper-heuristics based on genetic programming that tackle challenging dynamic-flexible production scheduling problems. It develops novel surrogate models, genetic operators, feature selection algorithms and multi-task techniques, significantly improving training efficiency, and the accuracy and interpretability of evolved scheduling rules.”