About me

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK), supervised by Prof. Qingfu ZHANG. I completed my Ph.D. degree at CityUHK, also under Prof. Qingfu ZHANG’s supervision. Prior to this, I obtained both my master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the School of Marine Science and Technology at at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), where I was supervised by Prof. Baowei SONG and Prof. Peng WANG.

My research interests include multiobjective optimization, Bayesian optimization, and their applications.

Email: liang.zhao@cityu.edu.hk

Selected Publications

TEVC 2025
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IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

Component-Sharing Preference in Expensive Multiobjective Optimization

[Accepted Version] [PDF] [code]

Liang Zhao, Peng Wang, Jiangtao Shen, Baowei Song, and Qingfu Zhang.

TEVC 2024
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IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

Many-to-Few Decomposition: Linking R2-based and Decomposition-based Multiobjective Efficient Global Optimization Algorithms

[Accepted Version] [PDF] [code]

Liang Zhao, Xiaobin Huang, Chao Qian, and Qingfu Zhang.

TEVC 2023
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IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

Hypervolume-Guided Decomposition for Parallel Expensive Multiobjective Optimization

[Accepted Version] [PDF] [code]

Liang Zhao and Qingfu Zhang.

Packages

NeurIPS 2024
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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

LibMOON: A Gradient-based MultiObjective OptimizatioN Library in PyTorch

[PDF] [code]

Xiaoyuan Zhang*, Liang Zhao*, Yingying Yu*, Xi Lin, Zhenkun Wang, Han Zhao, and Qingfu Zhang

Educations

  • 2020.09 - 2025.02, PhD, City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK)
  • 2017.09 - 2020.06, Master, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU)
  • 2013.09 - 2017.07, Undergraduate, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU)

Honors and Awards

  • 2023 Outstanding Academic Performance Award for Research Degree Students, Awarded by CityUHK
  • 2022 Outstanding Master’s Degree Thesis, Awarded by China Ordnance Society (COS)
  • 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 National Scholarship, Awarded by Ministry of Education of China

Journal Reviewers

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, Evolutionary Computation, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Memetic Computing