蒋鹏程 (Pengcheng Jiang)

蒋鹏程 (Pengcheng Jiang)

School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

😉 About me

I am currently studying for Ph.D degree (successive postgraduate and doctoral programs of study) in the School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST). I have strong scientific research ability and development ability, master most of the commonly used technologies, and have certain scientific research achievements and development experience.

My research direction is Evolutionary Deep Learning, mainly including Neural architecture search (NAS) and Network Pruning.

📖 Educations

  • 2022.06 - now, School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), Ph.D.
  • 2020.09 - 2022.06, School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), M.Sc (successive postgraduate and doctoral programs of study).
  • 2016.09 - 2020.06, School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), B.S.

🎖 Awards

During the period of Ph.D

  • 2024.12, NUIST “Merit Graduate Student”
  • 2024.10, NUIST Graduate “Puxin” Elite Scholarship (A total of 10 students from the entire school related to integrated circuit engineering are selected.)
  • 2024.10, NUIST “Excellent Scholarship for Graduate Students and Academic Scholarship” 2nd prize (2/8，<5%)
  • 2023.12 2022-2023 Graduate “Qi’anxin Scholarship”
  • 2023.12, NUIST “Merit Graduate Student”
  • 2023.11, NUIST “Excellent Scholarship for Graduate Students and Academic Scholarship” 1st prize (1/8，<5%)
  • 2022.11, NUIST “Scholarship for Outstanding freshmen and academic scholarship” 2nd prize

During the period of M.Sc

  • 2021.12, NUIST “Excellent Scholarship for Graduate Students and Academic Scholarship” 1st prize (3/68, <5%)
  • 2021.12, NUIST “Merit Graduate Student”
  • 2020.12, NUIST “Scholarship for Outstanding freshmen and academic scholarship” 2nd prize

During the period of B.Eng

  • 2020.06, NUIST “Outstanding Graduate”
  • 2016.09 ~ 2020.06, “Merit Student” at College level once and at University level once.
  • 2016.09 ~ 2020.06, Academic Scholarships of University for many times.
  • 2018.04, 9th “Lanqiao Cup Provincial C/C++ Program Design Group B” 2nd prize.
  • 2017.11, NUIST 8th Programming Competition 3rd prize.

📝 Scientific Achievements (Updated on 2025/9/4)

Under review/revision

  • 📜 Paper: Pengcheng Jiang, Yu Xue, Ferrante Neri, Mohamed Wahib, Peng Chen. Evolutionary neural architecture search based on multi-surrogate ensemble and confidence prediction. (Revising)
  • 📜 Paper: Pengcheng Jiang, Yu Xue, Ferrante Neri. Multi-objective evolutionary neural architecture search based on rank surrogate and diversity enhancement (Writing)
  • 📜 Paper: Pengcheng Jiang, Yu Xue, Ferrante Neri, Yong Zhang, Dunwei Gong, Peng Chen, Mohamed Wahib. Evolutionary neural architecture search based on pairwise surrogate model with architecture augmentation[J]. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. (Submited on Jan. 3, 2026) Trans SCI JCR Q1 IF：10.5 CCF-B CAAI-A
  • 📜 Paper: Pengcheng Jiang, Yu Xue, Ferrante Neri, Yong Zhang, Dunwei Gong. Rank surrogate-assisted dual-level evolutionary multi-objective neural architecture search[J]. IEEE Transactions on Computers. (Submited on Jan. 10, 2026) Trans SCI JCR Q1 IF：10.5 CCF-B CAAI-A
  • 📜 Paper: Yu Xue(Supervisor), Pengcheng Jiang, Zhenman Zhang, Mengchu Zhou. Neural architecture search based on a surrogate model with similarity measurement[J]. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems. (Get major revision and resubmit on Dec. 17, 2025) Trans SCI JCR Q1 IF：3.8 CCF-A

Published

  • 📜 Paper: Yu Xue(Supervisor), Pengcheng Jiang, Chenchen Zhu, Yong Zhang, Ran Cheng, Kaizhou Gao, Dunwei Gong. A multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on bi-population with uniform sampling for neural architecture search[J]. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2026, Early Access. DOI: 10.1109/TNNLS.2026.3659508 [Arxiv] [Download PDF] Trans SCI JCR Q1 IF：8.9 CCF-B CAAI-A
  • 📜 Paper：Yu Xue(Supervisor), Pengcheng Jiang, Chenchen Zhu, MengChu Zhou, Mohamed Wahib, Moncef Gabbouj. A pairwise comparison relation-assisted multi-objective evolutionary neural architecture search method with multi-population mechanism[J]. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, 2026, Early Access. DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.2025.3647894 [Arxiv] [Download PDF] CAS Q1 JCR Q1 (2025) IF：8.7 CAAI-B Cited: 10
  • 📜 Paper: Yixia Zhang, Ferrante Neri, Xilu Wang, Pengcheng Jiang, Yu Xue. Evolutionary channel pruning for style-based generative adversarial networks[C]. International Journal of Neural Systems, 2025: 2550070. DOI: 10.1142/S0129065725500704 [Download PDF] CAS Q1 JCR Q1 (2025) IF: 6.4
  • 📜 Paper: Pengcheng Jiang, Yu Xue, Ferrante Neri. Homogeneous architecture augmentation and confidence prediction for evolutionary neural architecture search[C]. 2025 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. Hangzhou, China: IEEE, 2025: 1-8. DOI: 10.1109/CEC65147.2025.11043091 [Download PDF] CAAI-C
  • 📜 Paper: Pengcheng Jiang, Yu Xue, Ferrante Neri. Score predictor-assisted evolutionary neural architecture search[J]. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2025, Early Access. DOI: 10.1109/TETCI.2025.3526179 [Download PDF] CAS Q2 JCR Q1 (2024) IF: 5.3 CAAI-B Cited: 23
  • 📜 Paper: Pengcheng Jiang, Ferrante Neri, Yu Xue, Ujjwal Maulik. A generalised attention mechanism to enhance the accuracy performance of neural networks[J]. International Journal of Neural Systems, 2024, 34(12): 2450063. DOI: 10.1142/S0129065724500631 [Download PDF] CAS Q2 JCR Q1 (2024) IF: 6.6 CAAI-B Cited: 23
  • 📜 Paper (ZH): 蒋鹏程,薛羽.基于排序得分预测的演化神经架构搜索方法[J].计算机学报, 47(11), 2522-2535, 2024. [Download PDF] CCF-A
  • 📜 Paper: Pengcheng Jiang, Yu Xue, Ferrante Neri, Mohamed Wahib. Surrogate-assisted evolutionary neural architecture search with isomorphic training and prediction[C]//2024 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC). Tianjing, China: Springer Nature, 2024, 14863: 191–203. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-5581-3_16 [Download PDF] CCF-C Cited: 6
  • 📜 Paper: Pengcheng Jiang, Yu Xue, Ferrante Neri. Continuously evolving dropout with multi-objective evolutionary optimisation[J]. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2023, 124: 106504. DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2023.106504. [Download PDF] CAS Q1 TOP (2023) JCR Q1 IF: 8 CCF-C Cited: 17
  • 📜 Paper: Pengcheng Jiang, Yu Xue, Ferrante Neri. Convolutional neural network pruning based on multi-objective feature map selection for image classification[J]. Applied Soft Computing, 2023: 110229. DOI: 10.1016/10.1016/j.asoc.2023.110229. [Download PDF] CAS Q1 TOP (2023) JCR Q1 IF: 8.7 Cited: 52
  • 📜 Paper: Yu Xue(Supervisor), Pengcheng Jiang, Ferrante Neri, Jiayu Liang. A multi-objective evolutionary approach based on graph-in-graph for neural architecture search of convolutional neural networks[J]. International Journal of Neural Systems, 2021, 31(09): 2150035. DOI: 10.1142/S0129065721500350. [Download PDF] CAS Q2 (2021) JCR Q1 IF: 6.325 Cited: 117 <!–
  • 📜 Paper: Pengcheng Jiang, Yu Xue. A distributed secret sharing method with QR code based on information hiding[J]. Journal of Cyber Security, 2021, 3(4): 217-225. DOI: 10.32604/jcs.2021.026022. [Download PDF]
  • 📰 Software (ZH): 安全二维码生成系统V1.0（2021SR0885987）
  • 📜 Paper (ZH): 蒋鹏程,熊礼治,韩啸.一种基于内容保护与优化识别的二维码方案[J].软件导刊,2019,18(02):119-122. [Download PDF] [CNKI Link]
  • 📜 Paper (ZH): 韩啸,熊礼治,蒋鹏程,宋婷婷.一种密文图像安全性评价方案[J].计算机应用与软件,2019(03):148-153. [Download PDF] [CNKI Link]
  • 📑 Patent (ZH): 熊礼治(Supervisor),蒋鹏程,王乐,韩啸,汤琳俪,曹梦琦.一种基于精准定位和安全扫码的共享单车计费方法[P]. CN109242645A,2019-01-18. [Download PDF] [CNKI Link]
  • 📰 Software (ZH): 一种密文图像安全性评价软件V1.0（2019SR0588758） –>

📌 Services

Served as a session chair for the following conferences:

  • 📃 “Nature-Inspired Intelligent Computing, Optimization and Applications” in 2024 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC) CCF-C
  • 📃 “Data-driven evolutionary neural architecture search and generative model optimization for complex systems” in 8th International Conference on Data-driven Optimization of Complex Systems (DOCS 2026)

Had following presentations:

  • 📃 基于多目标特征图选择的卷积神经网络剪枝, 第七届智能优化与调度学术会议, Wuxi, Jiangsu, 2024-05-18/2024-05-19 (Sub-Session)
  • 📃 Surrogate-assisted evolutionary neural architecture search with isomorphic training and prediction, 2024 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC), Tianjin, 2024-08-05/2024-08-08 (Sub-Session)
  • 📃 Homogeneous architecture augmentation and confidence prediction for evolutionary neural architecture search, 2025 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 2025-06-08/2025-06-12 (Special Session)
  • 📃 基于均匀采样的双种群演化多目标神经网络架构搜索算法, 第九届智能优化与调度学术会议, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 2026-05-14/2026-05-17 (Sub-Session)

Served as a reviewer for the following journals:

  • 📙 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems IF:10.2
  • 📙 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics IF:11.7
  • 📙 npj Artificial Intelligence
  • 📙 Knowledge-Based Systems IF:7.2
  • 📙 Artificial Intelligence Review IF:10.7
  • 📙 Information Sciences IF:8.1
  • 📙 Scientific Reports IF:3.8
  • 📙 Journal of Supercomputing IF:3.3
  • 📙 PeerJ Computer Science IF:3.8
  • 📙 CMC-Computers Materials & Continua IF:3.1
  • 📙 Knowledge and Information Systems IF:2.7
  • 📙 Neural Processing Letters IF:2.6
  • 📙 Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications IF:3.3

Served as a reviewer for the following conferences:

  • 📃 7th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security
  • 📃 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security
  • 📃 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI 2024)
  • 📃 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IEEE IJCNN 2024)