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Associate Professor Saber Elsayed

Associate Professor Saber Elsayed

Associate Professor
UNSW Canberra
School of Systems & Computing

Saber is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Engineering and Information Technology (SEIT), University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra, Australia. Saber was awarded a PhD degree in Computer Science from the UNSW Canberra, in 2012.

Dr Elsayed’s primary research focus areas include single and multi-objective optimisation, static and dynamic optimisation, large-scale optimisation, project scheduling, swarm guidance and cyber-security using computational intelligence. His research contributi...
Phone
+61 2 5114 5114
E-mail
s.elsayed@unsw.edu.au
Location
Room 115, B15 

  1. Development of Portfolio Optimisation Heuristics (DSTG, 2021-23, $156K)
  2. Co-evolutionary Computational Intelligence (DSTG, 2020-22, $196K)
  3. Smart Shepherding for UxV Swarm Control (DSTG, 2021-22, $160K)
  4. Distributed Symbolic-Non-Symbolic Context-Aware Swarm Logics (Office of Naval Research Global, 2019-21, $625K)
  5. Intelligent Algorithms for Portfolio Selection in Future Force Design (DSTG, 2019-21, $320K)
  6. Evolutionary Frameworks for Dynamic Big Optimisation Problems, UNSW Rector’s start-up grant, $50K
  7. Distributed Context-Awareness for Multi-Agent Systems and its Application to Military Land Vehicles (DSTG, 2018, $20K)
  8. Distributed Symbolic-Non-Symbolic Context-Aware Swarm Logics (DSTG, 2018, $5,750)
  9. Development of Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms for Big Optimisation Problems, NVIDIA GPU Grant (2017, Nvidia Titan Xp graphics card ~=A$1950)
  10. Intrusion Detection with Evolutionary Algorithms, the Australian Centre for Cyber Security Research Funding Program (2015, A$50K).

 

  1. Winner of the IEEE WCCI/CEC 2022 Competition on Seeking Multiple Optima in Dynamic Environment (Ahrari A; Elsayed S; Sarker R; Essam, D.; Coello Colleo C)
  2. Winner of the IEEE WCCI/CEC 2022 Competition on Dynamic Optimization Problems Generated by Generalized Moving Peaks Benchmark  (Ahrari A; Elsayed S; Sarker R; Essam, D.; Coello Colleo C)
  3. Best student paper award: Deep Learning For Noisy Communication System. [Mohamed, R.E., Hunjet, R., Elsayed, S. and Abbass, H.] In 2021 31st International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC) (pp. 40-47). IEEE.
  4. Winner of the IEEE WCCI/CEC 2020 Competition on Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization (Ahrari A; Elsayed S; Sarker R; Essam, D.)
  5. Winner of the GECCO 2020 Competition on Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization (Ahrari A; Elsayed S; Sarker R; Essam, D.)
  6. Winner of the IEEE-CEC2020’s Competition “Real-Parameter Numerical Optimization".
  7. Winner of the IEEE-CEC2016’s Competition “Real-Parameter Numerical Optimization".
  8. Winner of the IEEE-CEC2014’s Competition “Real-Parameter Numerical Optimization".
  9. UNSW Publication Fellowship (SEIT, UNSW Canberra)
  10. Winner of the IEEE-CEC2011’s Competition “Testing Evolutionary Algorithms on Real-world Numerical Optimization Problems”
  11. High Impact Journal Publications (as a top-up scholarship, (SEIT, UNSW Canberra), 2011
  12. Postgraduate Research Support Scheme (PRSS) funding, 2011

Selected 

  • Editorial board member- Alexandria Engineering Journal

  • Member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Summer School subcommittee

  • IEEE CIS ACT Chapter Chair (since 2019-2020)

More can be found on https://www.saberelsayed.com/professional-engagements 

My Research Supervision

  1. Reem Sherif (PhD: joint supervisor)
  2. Tanvir Islam (M. Sc.: Supervisor)

Past Research Candidates

  1. Kangjing (Jenny) Li (PhD.: joint supervisor- Completed 2022)

  2. Dr Md Forhad Zaman (PhD: Power Generation Planning Using Evolutionary Algorithms) (co-supervisor - Completed 2017) - working as a Post-doc at UNSW Canberra

  3. Mr Ismail Ali (M. Sc.: Evolutionary Optimisation for Scheduling Problems) (co-supervisor - Completed June 2016) - received the outstanding thesis in an IT topic award (UNSW Canberra, 2016 )
  4. Dr Eman Hasan Samir (PhD: Decomposition based Evolutionary Optimisation) (co-supervisor - completed 2014)- working as an Assistant Professor, Egypt.

My Teaching

Data Structures and Representation (ZEIT2103)

Introduction to Programming (ZEIT1102)