Team

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About the Team

EIPI Lab is a research group in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at South China University of Technology, led by Prof. Jinghui Zhong. The group has one professor, one postdoctoral researcher, 12 PhD students, and 20 master’s students. Outstanding undergraduates also take part in our research.

We work on evolutionary computation, symbolic regression, AI for science, and multimodal language models. Members work together on algorithm design, mathematical modeling, experimental evaluation, and applications in science and engineering.

Group Leader

Prof. Jinghui Zhong

• Position: Professor and doctoral supervisor
• Affiliation: School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology
• Email: jinghuizhong@scut.edu.cn
• Links: SCUT faculty profile · Google Scholar · Personal homepage

Jinghui Zhong received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Sun Yat-sen University in 2005, 2007, and 2012, respectively. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, from 2013 to 2016 and joined SCUT in 2016. He leads the EIPI research group.

His research focuses on evolutionary computation, intelligent optimization and decision-making, symbolic regression, explainable AI for science, and multimodal language models. He has authored or coauthored more than 150 journal and conference papers, including more than 40 IEEE/ACM Transactions articles. His awards include the Outstanding Industry-Academia Collaboration Case recognition from KylinSoft (2024), the IEEE TETCI Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE CIS (2023), and the Ministry of Education Natural Science Award (First Class, 2010). He has also been included in the Stanford list of the world’s top 2% of scientists.