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.

The 15th Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT'26). Accepted.

SpOC 4 Challenges 1 Beginner: Permutation Encodings and Challenge 3: Simulated Annealing for the Luna Tomato Advertising

Mingxuan Li, Thomas Weise, Sina Abdipoor, and Zhize Wu.

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'26). Accepted.

Solving the SpOC 4 Challenge 2 with a Multi-Step Permutation Encoding for the Keplerian Traveling Salesperson

Thomas Weise, Sina Abdipoor, Mingxuan Li, and Zhize Wu.

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'26). Accepted.

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, and Salwani Abdullah.

IEEE 13th Conference on Systems, Process & Control (ICSPC'25). Presenter.

Educational Timetabling: Trends, Obstacles, and Prospects

Operations Research and Decisions, 2026. Under review.

An Integration of Discrete Wavelet Transform and Time-series Recurrent Neural Network to Improve Stock Price Prediction

Applied Computing and Informatics, 2026. Under review.

Space Optimization Competition (SpOC 4), 2026

An official European Space Agency (ESA) competition focusing on complex optimization problems in space mission planning, operations, and logistics through advanced metaheuristic and AI approaches.

International Timetabling Competition (ITC 2019), 2025-2026

A prestigious international competition focusing on complex university course timetabling problems through advanced optimization and metaheuristic algorithms.