OnDecember5, Prof. Ferrante Neri, aninternational expert in computational intelligence and optimization at University of Surrey in UK, was invited to give an online academic lecture for the graduate students and teachers of School of Automation.

The theme of this report is "Fitness landscape analysis for supervised learning", and Prof.Neri gave a detailed report on the definition, general idea, feature examples, tests and applications of adaptive terrain analysis.

Prof.Neri’s wonderful report, truth-seeking and pragmatic scientific attitude, rigorous and pragmatic academic style deeply affected the teachers and students present. This lecture broadened the international vision of our teachers and students, and laid a foundation for further strengthening in-depth cooperation in related fields in the future.

Prof. Ferrante Neri’s brief CV

Dr. Ferrante Neri received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Bari, Italy in 2002 and 2007, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Finland in 2007. Dr. Neri joined De Montfort University in 2013 as a full professor of computational intelligence optimization. Dr. Neri is a member of a group of funding agencies in seven countries. He has participated in more than 100 meetings on programme committees, and published nearly 200 papers. He is now a professor at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Surrey, UK.

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