2026 A. K. Qin: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	47	6297	6114	197	196	146	18774

Overview

A. K. Qin is affiliated with Swinburne University of Technology in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of computer science and engineering, with a strong focus on artificial intelligence and related subfields. Their research output includes work on privacy-preserving technologies, remote-sensing image classification, and optimization algorithms.

The scientist's primary fields of study include:

Computer Science
Engineering

The subfields A. K. Qin has focused on cover:

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Media Technology
Atmospheric Science
Computer Networks and Communications

Main topics of their research work include:

Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Remote-Sensing Image Classification
Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research
Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms
Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques
Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications
Advanced Graph Neural Networks

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by A. K. Qin include:

"A Survey on Modern Deep Neural Network for Traffic Prediction: Trends, Methods and Challenges" (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
"Commonality Autoencoder: Learning Common Features for Change Detection From Heterogeneous Images" (2021), published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
"A Survey on Differentially Private Machine Learning [Review Article]" (2020), published in IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
"Evolutionary Multiform Optimization With Two-Stage Bidirectional Knowledge Transfer Strategy for Point Cloud Registration" (2022), published in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
"AdvDrop: Adversarial Attack to DNNs by Dropping Information" (2021), published in 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

Frequent co-authors of A. K. Qin include:

Maoguo Gong
Hao Li
Yue Wu
Yu Xie
Lining Xing

A. K. Qin publishes regularly in several research venues, including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Best Publications

Comprehensive learning particle swarm optimizer for global optimization of multimodal functions

J.J. Liang;A.K. Qin;P.N. Suganthan;S. Baskar

4389
Citations
Differential Evolution Algorithm With Strategy Adaptation for Global Numerical Optimization

A.K. Qin;V.L. Huang;P.N. Suganthan

4161
Citations
Self-adaptive differential evolution algorithm for numerical optimization

A.K. Qin;P.N. Suganthan

1508
Citations
Rapid and brief communication: Evolutionary extreme learning machine

Qin-Yu Zhu;A. K. Qin;P. N. Suganthan;Guang-Bin Huang

1088
Citations
Multiobjective Deep Belief Networks Ensemble for Remaining Useful Life Estimation in Prognostics

Chong Zhang;Pin Lim;A. K. Qin;Kay Chen Tan

856
Citations
Evolutionary Multitasking via Explicit Autoencoding

Liang Feng;Lei Zhou;Jinghui Zhong;Abhishek Gupta

396
Citations
A Survey on Modern Deep Neural Network for Traffic Prediction: Trends, Methods and Challenges

David Alexander Tedjopurnomo;Zhifeng Bao;Baihua Zheng;Farhana Choudhury

372
Citations
Self-adaptive Differential Evolution Algorithm for Constrained Real-Parameter Optimization

V.L. Huang;A.K. Qin;P.N. Suganthan

321
Citations
Unsupervised Polarimetric SAR Image Segmentation and Classification Using Region Growing With Edge Penalty

P. Yu;A. K. Qin;D. A. Clausi

252
Citations
A review of population initialization techniques for evolutionary algorithms

Borhan Kazimipour;Xiaodong Li;A. K. Qin

241
Citations
Adversarial Camouflage: Hiding Physical-World Attacks With Natural Styles

Ranjie Duan;Xingjun Ma;Yisen Wang;James Bailey

221
Citations
Private spatial data aggregation in the local setting

Rui Chen;Haoran Li;A. K. Qin;Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan

184
Citations
Commonality Autoencoder: Learning Common Features for Change Detection From Heterogeneous Images

Yue Wu;Jiaheng Li;Yongzhe Yuan;A. K. Qin

182
Citations
Self-Regulated Evolutionary Multitask Optimization

Xiaolong Zheng;A. K. Qin;Maoguo Gong;Deyun Zhou

171
Citations
Evolutionary Multitasking for Multiobjective Continuous Optimization: Benchmark Problems, Performance Metrics and Baseline Results

Yuan Yuan;Yew-Soon Ong;Liang Feng;A. K. Qin

158
Citations
Linear dimensionality reduction using relevance weighted LDA

E. K. Tang;P. N. Suganthan;X. Yao;A. K. Qin

143
Citations
Robust growing neural gas algorithm with application in cluster analysis

A. K. Qin;P. N. Suganthan

143
Citations
Multivariate Image Segmentation Using Semantic Region Growing With Adaptive Edge Penalty

A K Qin;David A Clausi

134
Citations
An Extended Catalog of Galaxy–Galaxy Strong Gravitational Lenses Discovered in DES Using Convolutional Neural Networks

C. Jacobs;T. Collett;K. Glazebrook;E. Buckley-Geer

134
Citations
Adversarial Laser Beam: Effective Physical-World Attack to DNNs in a Blink

Ranjie Duan;Xiaofeng Mao;A. K. Qin;Yuefeng Chen

128
Citations
Problem Definitions for Performance Assessment of Multi-objective Optimization Algorithms

VL Huang;AK Qin;K Deb;E Zitzler

118
Citations
Two-hidden-layer extreme learning machine for regression and classification

B.Y. Qu;B.F. Lang;J.J. Liang;A.K. Qin

108
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Maoguo Gong Xidian University

Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan Qatar University

Kay Chen Tan Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Xiaodong Li University of Virginia

Jing Liang Zhengzhou University

Ke Tang Southern University of Science and Technology

D. L. Burke Stanford University

Yun Yang Swinburne University of Technology

Robert A. Gruendl University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

David A. Clausi University of Waterloo

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