QING Jixiang

Hi there! I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at MARS (Mathematics for AI in Real-world Systems) Lancaster University.

I was previously a postdoc at Computational Optimisation Group at Imperial College London, UK. I completed my Ph.D. in SUMO lab at Ghent University, Belgium, and my undergraduate and Master's degrees in Aerospace Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University, China.

Research Interests: Machine Learning · Black-box Optimisation · Application-driven AI

2025

MARS funded PhD programmes for 2026 are open - check out here for work together opportunities

2025

Started as a Lecturer at Lancaster University MARS, October 2025
Reviewing:
Conferences: ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, AISTATS, AAAI
Journals: TMLR, MLJ, TEVC

2025

"Enable Optimal Acquisition Function Search in Constrained Graph Space"
Workshop on Gaussian Processes for Decision Making, Manchester

2024

"Multi-objective Bayesian Optimization"
Bayesian Optimization Summer School, Imperial College London, London

2023

"{PF}²ES: Parallel Feasible Pareto Frontier Entropy Search for Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Under Unknown Constraints"
Computational and Biological Learning Lab (CBL), Cambridge University

2023

"Robust Bayesian optimization under input uncertainty"
Workshop on Uncertainty in Machine Learning, Ghent