◆ Sept. 2005-June 2009, School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, B.Eng.

◆ Sept. 2009-June 2011, School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Master

◆ Sept. 2011-June 2017, School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Ph.D.

◆ Sept. 2013-Dec.2018,School of Computer Science, Universityof Birmingham, Ph.D.

◆ Nov. 2016-Nov. 2018, Southern University of Science and Technology,Visiting Student

◆ Sept. 2013-June 2016, Honda Research Institute Europe, EGN Student

◆ 2013, IEEE CIS GRADUATE Student Research Grant

◆ 2013, Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship

◆ 2011, Google Excellence Scholarship

◆ X. Lu, S. Menzel, K. Tang, and X. Yao, “Cooperative co-evolution-based design optimization: A concurrent engineering perspective,” IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 173–188, 2018.

◆ X. Lu, K. Tang, and X. Yao, “Speciated evolutionary algorithm for dynamic constrained optimisation,” in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN XIV), vol. 9921. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2016, pp. 203–213.

◆ X. Lu, K. Tang, B. Sendhoff, and X. Yao, “A new self-adaptation scheme for differential evolution,” Neurocomputing, vol. 146, pp. 2–16, 2014.

◆ X. Lu and K. Tang, “Classification-and regression-assisted differential evolution for computationally expensive problems,” Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 1024–1034, 2012.