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Yen" loading="lazy"> </div> <div class="member-info"> <h4 class="member-name"><a href="https://cs.scu.edu.cn/info/1396/19253.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gary G. Yen</a></h4> <p class="member-affiliation">Sichuan University, China</p> </div> </div> <div class="member-card"> <div class="member-avatar"> <img src="https://www.gpeml.org/images/member/Jiancheng_Lv.jpg" alt="Jiancheng Lv" loading="lazy"> </div> <div class="member-info"> <h4 class="member-name"><a href="https://cs.scu.edu.cn/info/1303/13767.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jiancheng Lv</a></h4> <p class="member-affiliation">Sichuan University, China</p> </div> </div> <div class="member-card"> <div class="member-avatar"> <img src="https://www.gpeml.org/images/member/Bing_Xue.png" alt="Bing Xue" loading="lazy"> </div> <div class="member-info"> <h4 class="member-name"><a href="https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/Bing.Xue" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bing Xue</a></h4> <p class="member-affiliation">Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand</p> </div> </div> <div class="member-card"> <div class="member-avatar"> <img src="https://www.gpeml.org/images/member/Ying_Bi.png" alt="Ying Bi" loading="lazy"> </div> <div class="member-info"> <h4 class="member-name"><a href="https://www5.zzu.edu.cn/eie/info/1065/4153.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ying Bi</a></h4> <p class="member-affiliation">Zhengzhou University, China</p> </div> </div> <div class="member-card"> <div class="member-avatar"> <img src="https://www.gpeml.org/images/member/LiangFeng.jpg" alt="Liang Feng" loading="lazy"> </div> <div class="member-info"> <h4 class="member-name"><a href="https://cs.cqu.edu.cn/info/1274/3810.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Liang Feng</a></h4> <p class="member-affiliation">Chongqing University, China</p> </div> </div> <div class="member-card"> <div class="member-avatar"> <img src="https://www.gpeml.org/images/member/ChaoQian.jpg" alt="Chao Qian" loading="lazy"> </div> <div class="member-info"> <h4 class="member-name"><a href="https://ai.nju.edu.cn/71/c9/c18540a422345/page.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chao Qian</a></h4> <p class="member-affiliation">Nanjing University, China</p> </div> </div> <div class="member-card"> <div class="member-avatar"> <img src="https://www.gpeml.org/images/member/yangcuie.png" alt="Cuie Yang" loading="lazy"> </div> <div class="member-info"> <h4 class="member-name"><a href="http://faculty.neu.edu.cn/yangcuie/zh_CN/index.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cuie Yang</a></h4> <p class="member-affiliation">Northeastern University, China</p> </div> </div> <div class="member-card"> <div class="member-avatar"> <img src="https://www.gpeml.org/images/member/zhongjingyao.jpg" alt="Jinghui Zhong" loading="lazy"> </div> <div class="member-info"> <h4 class="member-name"><a href="https://www2.scut.edu.cn/cs/2017/0129/c22284a327657/page.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jinghui Zhong</a></h4> <p class="member-affiliation">South China University Of Technology, China</p>https://www.gpeml.org/2026/schedule2026/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://www.gpeml.org/2026/schedule2026/<h2 id="daily-program-overview">Daily Program Overview</h2> <h3 id="july-24-2026--afternoon-sessions">July 24, 2026 · Afternoon Sessions</h3> <table class="fixed-session-table"> <colgroup> <col style="width:10%"> <col style="width:60%"> <col style="width:40%"> </colgroup> <thead> <tr> <th>Time</th> <th>Session</th> <th>Chair</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr><td>14:00-14:40</td><td><strong>Invited Talk</strong><br/> Role of LLM in Data-Driven Evolutionary Optimization <br/>Speaker: Prof. Handing Wang</td><td>Chair: Yu Xue</td></tr> <tr><td>14:40-15:20</td><td><strong>Invited Talk:</strong> Evolutionary Computation for Automated <br/>Speaker: Prof. Shinichi Shirakawa</td><td>Chair: Zhixing Huang</td></tr> <tr><td>15:20-15:40</td><td>Tea Break</td><td></td></tr> <tr><td>15:40-16:20</td><td><strong>Invited Talk:</strong> Recent Advances in LLM-based Evolutionary Program Search and Its Application to Neural Architecture Search<br/>Speaker: Prof. Zhichao Lu</td><td>Chair: Dujuan Wang</td></tr> <tr><td>16:20-17:00</td><td><strong>Invited Talk:</strong> Feature Reduction for Complex Data: From Streaming Scenarios to Long-Tail Distributions<br/>Speaker: Prof. Ruwang Jiao</td><td>Chair: Junhao Huang</td></tr> <tr><td>17:00-17:40</td><td><strong>Invited Talk:</strong> From Single Rules to Adaptive Heuristic Families: Ensemble, Task-Aware, Preference-Aware, and Transformer-Guided Genetic Programming<br/>Speaker: Prof. Meng Xu</td><td>Chair: Yahui Jia</td></tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 id="july-25-2026--morning-sessions">July 25, 2026 · Morning Sessions</h3> <table class="fixed-session-table"> <colgroup> <col style="width:10%"> <col style="width:60%"> <col style="width:40%"> </colgroup> <thead> <tr> <th>Time</th> <th>Session</th> <th>Chair</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr><td>9:00-9:40</td><td><strong>Opening Ceremony</strong> <td>Chair: Yanan Sun</td></tr> <tr><td>9:40-10:20</td><td><strong>Invited Talk:</strong> From Distributive Fairness to Procedural Fairness in Machine Learning<br/>Speaker: Prof. Xin Yao</td><td>Chair: Mengjie Zhang</td></tr> <tr><td>10:20-10:40</td><td>Tea Break</td><td></td></tr> <tr><td>10:40-11:20</td><td><strong>Invited Talk:</strong> The AI Research Revolution: How Language Models Are Changing the Way We Conduct Research<br/>Speaker: Prof. Yew-Soon Ong</td><td>Chair: Bing Xue</td></tr> <tr><td>11:20-12:00</td><td><strong>Panel Discussion:</strong> The Synergy Triangle – How Evolution, Learning, and Foundation Models Complete Each Other <br/>Panelists: Xin Yao, Risto Miikkulainen, Bing Xue, Ke Tang, Ting Hu </td><td>Chair: Wolfgang Banzhaf</td></tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 id="july-25-2026--afternoon-sessions">July 25, 2026 · Afternoon Sessions</h3> <table class="fixed-session-table"> <colgroup> <col style="width:10%"> <col style="width:60%"> <col style="width:40%"> </colgroup> <thead> <tr> <th>Time</th> <th>Session</th> <th>Chair</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr><td>14:00-14:40</td><td><strong>Invited Talk:</strong> Neuroevolution 3.0: Fine-tuning LLMs with evolution strategie<br/>Speaker: Prof. Risto Miikkulainen</td><td>Chair: Yanan Sun</td></tr> <tr><td>14:40-15:20</td><td><strong>Invited Talk:</strong> Program Trace Optimization: Theory and Practice<br/>Speaker: Prof. Alberto Moraglio</td><td>Chair: Ying Bi</td></tr> <tr><td>15:20-15:40</td><td>Tea Break</td><td></td></tr> <tr><td>15:40-16:20</td><td><strong>Invited Talk:</strong> Why Evolution Favors Simplicity: The Role of Neutral Networks<br/>Speaker: Prof. Ting Hu</td><td>Chair: Cuie Yang</td></tr> <tr><td>16:20-17:00</td><td><strong>Invited Talk:</strong> Automated Algorithms – Where Evolutionary Computation, GP and Learning Meet<br/>Speaker: Prof. Rong Qu</td><td>Chair: Jinghui Zhong</td></tr> <tr><td>17:00-17:40</td><td><strong>Panel Discussion:</strong> The Adoption Gap – Why Isn't GP/EML Everywhere, and What Will It Take to Get There?<br/>Panelists: Wolfgang Banzhaf, Rong Qu, Shinichi Shirakawa, Alberto Moraglio, Yuan Yuan</td><td>Chair: Mengjie Zhang</td></tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 id="july-26-2025--morning-sessions">July 26, 2025 · Morning Sessions</h3> <table class="fixed-session-table"> <colgroup> <col style="width:10%"> <col style="width:60%"> <col style="width:40%"> </colgroup> <thead> <tr> <th>Time</th> <th>Session</th> <th>Chair</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr><td>9:00-9:40</td><td><strong>Invited Talk:</strong> Data-Driven Optimization of Complex Systems Assisted by Small Surrogates and Large Language Models<br/>Speaker: Prof. Yaochu Jin</td><td>Chair: Wolfgang Banzhaf</td></tr> <tr><td>9:40-10:20</td><td><strong>Invited Talk:</strong> Algorithm Space Distillation - A perspective on data-driven automated algorithm design<br/>Speaker: Prof. Ke Tang</td><td>Chair: Liang Feng</td></tr> <tr><td>10:20-10:40</td><td>Tea Break</td><td></td></tr> <tr><td>10:40-11:20</td><td><strong>Invited Talk:</strong> From LLM Reasoning to Continually Evolving Scheduling Intelligence<br/>Speaker: Prof. Yuan Yuan</td><td>Chair: Ye Tian</td></tr> <tr><td>11:20-12:00</td><td><strong>Invited Talk:</strong> Causal Learning and its Applications<br/>Speaker: Prof. Huanhuan Chen</td><td>Chair: Mengjie Zhang</td></tr> <tr><td>12:00-12:20</td><td><strong>Closing Ceremony<td>Chair: Yanan Sun</td></tr> </tbody> </table>https://www.gpeml.org/2026/speaker/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://www.gpeml.org/2026/speaker/<h2 id="speaker-for-gpeml-2026">Speaker for GPEML 2026</h2> <div class="member-grid"> <div class="member-card"> <div class="member-avatar"> <img src="https://www.gpeml.org/images/member/Xin_Yao.png" alt="Xin Yao" loading="lazy"> </div> <div class="member-info"> <h4 class="member-name"><a href="https://www.ln.edu.hk/po/people/professor-xin-yao" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Xin Yao</a></h4> <p class="member-affiliation">Lingnan University, China</p> </div> </div> <div class="member-card"> <div class="member-avatar"> <img src="https://www.gpeml.org/images/member/thumb.miikkulainen-hr.jpg" alt="Risto Miikkulainen" loading="lazy"> </div> <div class="member-info"> <h4 class="member-name"><a href="https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~risto/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Risto Miikkulainen</a></h4> <p class="member-affiliation">University of Texas at Austin, USA</p> </div> </div> <div class="member-card"> <div class="member-avatar"> <img src="https://www.gpeml.org/images/member/Yaochu_Jin.jpg" alt="Yaochu Jin" loading="lazy"> </div> <div class="member-info"> <h4 class="member-name"><a href="https://www.westlake.edu.cn/faculty/yaochu-jin.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Yaochu Jin</a></h4> <p class="member-affiliation">Westlake University, China</p> </div> </div> <div class="member-card"> <div class="member-avatar"> <img src="https://www.gpeml.org/images/member/Yew_Song_Ong.jpg" alt="Yew Soon Ong" loading="lazy"> </div> <div class="member-info"> <h4 class="member-name"><a href="https://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/asysong/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Yew Soon Ong</a></h4> <p class="member-affiliation">Nanyang Technological University, Singapore</p> </div> </div> <div class="member-card"> <div class="member-avatar"> <img src="https://www.gpeml.org/images/member/rongqu.jpg" alt="Rong Qu" loading="lazy"> </div> <div class="member-info"> <h4 class="member-name"><a href="https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/people/rong.qu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rong Qu</a></h4> <p class="member-affiliation">University of Nottingham, UK</p> </div> </div> <div class="member-card"> <div class="member-avatar"> <img src="https://www.gpeml.org/images/member/Ting_Hu.jpg" alt="Ting Hu" loading="lazy"> </div> <div class="member-info"> <h4 class="member-name"><a href="https://www.cs.queensu.ca/people/profile.php?fname=Ting&amp;lname=Hu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ting Hu</a></h4> <p class="member-affiliation">Queen&#39;s University, Canada</p> </div> </div> <div class="member-card"> <div class="member-avatar"> <img src="https://www.gpeml.org/images/member/tangke.jpg" alt="Ke Tang" loading="lazy"> </div> <div class="member-info"> <h4 class="member-name"><a href="https://www.sustech.edu.cn/en/faculties/tangke.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ke Tang</a></h4> <p class="member-affiliation">Southern University of Science and Technology, China</p> </div> </div> <div class="member-card"> <div class="member-avatar"> <img src="https://www.gpeml.org/images/member/chenghuanhuan.png" alt="Huanhuan Cheng" loading="lazy"> </div> <div class="member-info"> <h4 class="member-name"><a href="https://cs.ustc.edu.cn/2020/0828/c23235a460073/page.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Huanhuan Cheng</a></h4> <p class="member-affiliation">University of Science and Technology of China, China</p> </div> </div> <div class="member-card"> <div class="member-avatar"> <img src="https://www.gpeml.org/images/member/thumbnail.jpg" alt="Senior Lecturer Alberto Moraglio" loading="lazy"> </div> <div class="member-info"> <h4 class="member-name"><a href="https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/23132-alberto-moraglio" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Senior Lecturer Alberto Moraglio</a></h4> <p class="member-affiliation">University of Exeter, UK</p>https://www.gpeml.org/2026/transportation/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://www.gpeml.org/2026/transportation/<h2 id="getting-to-the-venue">Getting to the Venue</h2> <p><a href="http://www.wangjianghotel.com/index.html">Wangjiang Hotel</a>(No.42 Xiashahepu Street, Jinjiang District, 610066, Chengdu, Sichuan, China)is reachable by taxi or metro from the city’s main transport hubs. Use the routes below for the smoothest arrival experience.</p> <h3 id="from-chengdu-shuangliu-international-airport">From Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport</h3> <p><strong>Taxi</strong></p> <ul> <li>Distance: ~22 km</li> <li>Duration: ~0.5 hour</li> <li>Boarding point: Ride-hailing pickup area at Terminal 2</li> </ul> <p><strong>Metro</strong></p> <ol> <li>Enter at Shuangliu Airport Station (Exit B).</li> <li>Take the Suburban Line to Zhujiang road Station.</li> <li>Transfer to Line 8 toward Dongda road Station.</li> <li>Walk 700 m to the hotel entrance.</li> <li>Total duration: ~1 hours.</li> </ol> <h3 id="from-chengdu-tianfu-international-airport">From Chengdu Tianfu International Airport</h3> <p><strong>Taxi</strong></p>