Researcher

My Expertise

Evolutionary Computation; Swarm Control; Planning and Scheduling

 

Fields of Research (FoR)

Optimisation, Neural, Evolutionary and Fuzzy Computation, Decision Making, Decision Support and Group Support Systems

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Biography

Saber is an Associate Professor 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 UNSW Canberra in 2012.

Dr Elsayed’s primary research focus areas include computational intelligence and swarm guidance. His research contributions have led to several advantages in many areas, i.e., defence, logistics, engineering and...view more

Saber is an Associate Professor 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 UNSW Canberra in 2012.

Dr Elsayed’s primary research focus areas include computational intelligence and swarm guidance. His research contributions have led to several advantages in many areas, i.e., defence, logistics, engineering and business.  

Dr Elsayed is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. He is a Senior IEEE member. From 2019 to 2020, he served as the Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (ACT Chapter). Dr Elsayed contributed to the organisation of several international conferences. Currently, he is a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Summer School subcommittee. Dr Elsayed won several competitions organised at top conferences in the field

 


My Grants

  1. Sarker, R; Elsayed, SM; Coello Coello, C. Evolutionary Framework for Electric Vehicles and Drones Logistics Systems (ARC DP, 2025-2027, $547K) 

  2. Elsayed, SM; Sarker, R. Optimised Sensor Placement for Enhanced Autonomous ISR and Persistent Monitoring  (DSTG, 2023-24, $150K)

  3. Elsayed, SM; Essam, D. IoMT Sensor Placement Research and Development  (DSTG, 2022-23, $150K)

  4. Sarker, R, Elsayed, SM. Development of Portfolio Optimisation Heuristics (DSTG, 2021-23, $156K)

  5. Elsayed, SM; Essam, D. Co-evolutionary Computational Intelligence (DSTG, 2020-22, $196K)

  6. Abbass, HA, Elsayed, SM. Smart Shepherding for UxV Swarm Control (DSTG, 2021-22, $160K)

  7. Abbass, HA, Elsayed, SM; Singh, H.; Hunjet, H. Distributed Symbolic-Non-Symbolic Context-Aware Swarm Logics (Office of Naval Research Global, 2019-21, $625K)

  8. Sarker, R, Elsayed, SM. Intelligent Algorithms for Portfolio Selection in Future Force Design (DSTG, 2019-21, $320K) 

  9. Elsayed, SM; Evolutionary Frameworks for Dynamic Big Optimisation Problems, UNSW Rector’s start-up grant, $50K

  10. Abbass, HA, Elsayed, SM; Singh, H. Distributed Context-Awareness for Multi-Agent Systems and its Application to Military Land Vehicles (DSTG, 2018, $20K)

  11. Abbass, HA, Elsayed, SM; Singh, H. Distributed Symbolic-Non-Symbolic Context-Aware Swarm Logics (DSTG, 2018, $5,750)

  12. Elsayed, SM; Development of Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms for Big Optimisation Problems, NVIDIA GPU Grant (2017, Nvidia Titan Xp graphics card ~=A$1950)

  13. Essam, D.; Elsayed, SM;  Sarker, R. Intrusion Detection with Evolutionary Algorithms, the Australian Centre for Cyber Security Research Funding Program (2015, A$50K).


My Awards

 

  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

My Research Supervision


Supervision keywords


Areas of supervision

 

Evolutionary computation

Optimisation

Scheduling

Single and multi-objective optimisation

Swarm Control


Currently supervising

Research Candidates

  1. Ahmed Gad (PhD - area: Real-time Task Scheduling in Internet-of-Everything-Fog-Cloud Computing Environment) (Started: May 2024)

  2. Setyo Tri Windras Mara  (PhD – area: Optimisation of Electric Vehicle Routing Problems with Drones) 

  3. Dyuti Paul (M. Sc. – area: Artificial Intelligence for Energy Consumption in Electric Vehicle) ( Completed 2024) 

  4. Mr Tanvir Islam (M. Sc. – Development and Application of Artificial Neural Networks for Energy Demand Forecasting in Australia) ( Completed 2023) 

  5.  Dr Reem Sherif (PhD – Computational Intelligence for Cooperative Swarm Control) ( Completed 2023) 

  6. Dr Kangjing (Jenny) Li (PhD: Landscape-based Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimization Problems) ( Completed 2022) 

  7. Mr Paul Bigland (Honours: Differential Evolution Optimisation Toolbox & A Comparative Study of Differential Evolution Adaptations) 

  8. Dr Md Forhad Zaman (PhD: Power Generation Planning Using Evolutionary Algorithms) (Completed 2017)

  9. Dr Ismail Ali  (M. Sc.: Evolutionary Optimisation for Scheduling Problems) (Completed June 2016) - received the outstanding thesis in an IT topic award (UNSW Canberra, 2016 ) 

  10. Dr Eman Hasan Samir (PhD: Decomposition-based Evolutionary Optimisation) (Completed 2014)

Chief of Defence Force Research students

  1. Isaac Muscat: Quantity to Quality The Case for the Sheep-Lamb Method in Shepherding Swarm Control, 2024

  2. James Miller: Particle Swarm Optimisation for Large-Scale Open-Pit Mining, 2021

  3. David King: Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Static and Dynamic Path Costs, 2020

  4. Viet Hoang Le: Evaluate some basic algorithms for optimisation of resource-constrained project scheduling problem, 2020

  5. Simon J. Telford: Maximising the Profit of an Open-Pit Mine Scheduling Problem Using Evolutionary Algorithms, 2018

Past Post-docs mentorship

  1. Dr Kangjing Li – is currently a post-doc at UNSW, Australia

  2. Dr Kyle Harrison – is currently a Lecturer at the University of New Castle, Australia

  3. Dr Ali Ahrari – is currently an ARC DECRA Fellow at UNSW, Australia

  4. Dr Heba Elfeky– is currently a Lecturer at UNSW, Australia

  5. Dr Essam Debie – is currently a Lecturer at the University of Canberra, Australia

  6. Dr Md Forhad Zaman –  is currently an Advisor with IP Australia

  7. Dr Hatem Saad– is currently working at the University of Canberra

  8. Dr Tung Nguyen 

 

Current Post-docs mentorship

  1. Dr Ehab Elfeky

  2. Dr Mohamed Radwan

  3. Dr Jing Liu 

 

Past Research Students co-mentorship

  1. Dr Karam Sallam (PhD)

  2. Dr Mohamed Radwan (PhD)


My Engagement

Selected 

  • IEEE Transactions of Evolutionary Computation

  • Member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Summer School subcommittee

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

 


My Teaching

Data Structures and Representation (ZEIT2103)

Introduction to Programming (ZEIT1102)

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Location

UNSW Canberra
Room 115, B15

Contact

+61 2 5114 5114
+61 2 5114 5114

ORCID as entered in ROS

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UNSW Sydney NSW 2052 Australia Telephone +61 2 93851000
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