Education

GPA: 85.64/3.38 (first 5 semester)

• Queen Mary University of London
• Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
• Dual Degree Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TO8Ac6UAAAAJ&hl=en Home Page: https://mingxuan-li-official.github.io/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mingxuan-li-b8a013394/ Email: mingxuan.li@se23.qmul.ac.uk

  Publications

  Accepted

• Integrative Hybrid Local Search with a Restart Strategy for University Course Timetabling with Student Sectioning
  • Mingxuan Li, Thomas Weise, Sina Abdipoor, Jourdan D’Orville, Say Leng Goh, Razali Yaakob and Salwani Abdullah
  • https://github.com/ScholORs/itc-2019/tree/RSHC-Mingxuan
  • The 15th Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT)
  • 2026
• SpOC 4 Challenges 1 Beginner: Permutation Encodings and Challenge 3: Simulated Annealing for the Luna Tomato Advertising
  • Mingxuan Li, Thomas Weise, Sina Abdipoor, Zhize Wu
  • https://optimise.esa.int/challenge/spoc-4-luna-tomato-advertising/p/tie-breaker
  • https://optimise.esa.int/challenge/spoc-4-luna-tomato-logistics/Problems
  • Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)
  • 2026
• Solving the SpOC 4 Challenge 2 with a Multi-Step Permutation Encoding for the Keplerian Traveling Salesperson
  • Thomas Weise, Sina Abdipoor, Mingxuan Li, Zhize Wu
  • https://optimise.esa.int/challenge/spoc-4-keplerian-tomato-traveling-salesperson/Dependencies
  • Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)
  • 2026
• Distance to Feasibility: Performance Assessment of Baseline Metaheuristics on University Course Timetabling with Student Sectioning
  • Sina Abdipoor, Mingxuan Li, Say Leng Goh, Razali Yaakob, Luo Hao, Salwani Abdullah
  • Presenter
  • https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11325835
  • https://youtu.be/VjT95G3qsIE
  • 2025 IEEE 13th Conference on Systems, Process & Control (ICSPC)
  • 5-6 Dec. 2025

    Under Review

• Educational Timetabling: Trends, Obstacles, and Prospects
• Sina Abdipoor, Razali Yaakob, Laura Suleymenova, Hazlina Hamdan, Khairul Azhar Kasmiran, Say Leng Goh, Mingxuan Li ,Salwani Abdullah
  • [[ETP]]
  • Operations Research and Decisions
  • 2026
• An Integration of Discrete Wavelet Transform and Time-series Recurrent Neural Network to Improve Stock Price Prediction
  • Applied Computing and Informatics
  • 2026

Research & Project Experience

Space Optimization Competition (SpOC)

• 1 April-30 June. 2026
• Organizers
  • European Space Agency (ESA)
  • The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)
• https://optimise.esa.int/
• Challenges
  • SpOC 4: Keplerian Tomato Traveling Salesperson
    • Graph Theory
  • SpOC 4: Luna Tomato Logistics
    • Mission Analysis
  • SpOC 4: Luna Tomato Advertising
    • Mission Analysis

      International Timetabling Competition (ITC 2019)

• A premier international competition focused on optimizing complex, real-world university course timetabling and student scheduling.
• https://www.itc2019.org/home

  For CV

  Space Optimization Competition (SpOC 4) | Core Developer (Apr. 2026 - Jun. 2026)

• Algorithm Design: Developed a Simulated Annealing algorithm and multi-step permutation encodings to optimize complex space logistics, advertising, and Keplerian traveling salesperson scenarios.
• Performance Optimization: Benchmarked baseline metaheuristics and improved algorithmic efficiency, leading to multiple accepted papers at the prestigious GECCO 2026 conference.

  International Timetabling Competition (ITC 2019) | Lead Researcher (Jul. 2025 - Mar. 2026)

• Algorithm Design: Engineered an Integrative Hybrid Local Search with a Restart Strategy (HRSHCL) to simultaneously optimize university course timetabling and student sectioning under highly complex, real-world constraints.
• Performance Assessment: Benchmarked the proposed algorithm against Random Search and standard Hill Climbing baselines, proving its capability to resolve complex penalty violations rather than just justifying extended runtimes. Research resulted in a first-author paper accepted at PATAT 2026 and a presentation at IEEE ICSPC 2025.

Honors & Awards

• BUPT University-Level Scholarship

  Scholarship Award (2025)

• 14th Asia-Pacific Mathematical Contest in Modeling (APMCM)

  Second Prize (Nov 2024)

  • Tag: Team Leader, Production Forecasting, ARIMA, Python

• “Zhilian Cup” National University Intelligence & Computing Competition

  First Prize (2025)

• “Huaqing Cup” National College Student Innovation & Programming Competition | Second Prize (2026)

  Skills

  Skills: Python, C++, Java, Metaheuristics, PowerBI, LaTeX, Git, Linux. (Languages: English/IELTS 6.0, Mandarin/Native)

  References