# Bing Xue

Bing Xue is a New Zealand computer scientist, and is a full professor at Victoria University of Wellington, specialising in machine learning, artificial intelligence and data visualisation.

## Academic career

Xue earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Henan University of Economics and Law in 2007 followed by a Master of Science from Shenzhen University in 2010. Xue completed a PhD titled Particle Swarm Optimisation for Feature Selection in Classification at Victoria University of Wellington in 2014. Her thesis supervisors were Will Browne and Mengjie Zhang. Xue then joined the faculty of the university, rising to full professor in 2022.
Bing co-led the first undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in New Zealand on in artificial intelligence. She has been awarded two Marsden grants, Large-scale Evolutionary Feature Selection for Classification in 2016 and Evolutionary Automated Design of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification in 2019. The latter project aimed to improve the design of deep convolutional neural networks by using evolutionary computation-based approaches. Deep convolutional neural networks are used to interpret images in many situations, such as security, self-driving vehicles, and medicine. Improvements to their design would lead to better "classification accuracy, improved speed, simplicity, and interpretability".
She is on the editorial board of the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

## Awards and honours

Xue was made a Fellow of Engineering New Zealand in 2023. The citation noted her significant contributions to technical expertise applications and ICT engineering research, including the application of artificial intelligence in engineering. At this point in time Xue had published more than 300 refereed papers and accrued more than 10,000 citations.

## Selected works

* Bing Xue; Mengjie Zhang; Will N. Browne; Xin Yao (August 2016). "A Survey on Evolutionary Computation Approaches to Feature Selection". IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 20 (4): 606–626. doi:10.1109/TEVC.2015.2504420. ISSN 1089-778X. Wikidata Q116757849.
* Bing Xue; Mengjie Zhang; Will N Browne (1 December 2013). "Particle swarm optimization for feature selection in classification: a multi-objective approach". IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 43 (6): 1656–1671. doi:10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2227469. ISSN 2168-2267. PMID 24273143. Wikidata Q51138816.
* Yanan Sun; Bing Xue; Mengjie Zhang; Gary G Yen; Jiancheng Lv (21 April 2020). "Automatically Designing CNN Architectures Using the Genetic Algorithm for Image Classification". IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. arXiv:1808.03818. doi:10.1109/TCYB.2020.2983860. ISSN 2168-2267. PMID 32324588. Wikidata Q93178235.
* Bing Xue; Mengjie Zhang; Will N. Browne (May 2014). "Particle swarm optimisation for feature selection in classification: Novel initialisation and updating mechanisms". Applied Soft Computing. 18: 261–276. doi:10.1016/J.ASOC.2013.09.018. ISSN 1568-4946. Wikidata Q116757907.
* Yanan Sun; Bing Xue; Mengjie Zhang; Gary G. Yen (April 2020). "Evolving Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification". IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 24 (2): 394–407. doi:10.1109/TEVC.2019.2916183. ISSN 1089-778X. Wikidata Q124073007.
* Yuqiao Liu; Yanan Sun; Bing Xue; Mengjie Zhang; Gary G. Yen; Kay Chen Tan (February 2023). "A Survey on Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search". IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 34 (2): 550–570. arXiv:2008.10937. doi:10.1109/TNNLS.2021.3100554. ISSN 2162-237X. Wikidata Q124072853.
* Emrah Hancer; Bing Xue; Mengjie Zhang; Dervis Karaboga; Bahriye Akay (January 2018). "Pareto front feature selection based on artificial bee colony optimization". Information Sciences. 422: 462–479. doi:10.1016/J.INS.2017.09.028. ISSN 0020-0255. Wikidata Q124073024.