PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Rong Qu

Rong Qu is a professor of computer science at the University of Nottingham, where her research covers hyper-heuristics, automated algorithm design and machine learning. At Nottingham she completed her PhD in 2002 and later rose from lecturer to professor. Her 2007 paper on a graph-based hyper-heuristic for educational timetabling won an EJOR five-year top-cited article award for 2007–2011. She coauthored two Springer books on hyper-heuristics, Hyper-Heuristics: Theory and Applications in 2018 and Advances in Hyper-Heuristics in 2025. The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society named her to the 2026 class of IEEE Fellows for contributions to automated evolutionary algorithms in combinatorial optimisation.

Works
226
Citations
11,027
h-index
51

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1996

    Computer science degree at Xidian

    Xidian University grants her a bachelor's degree with honours in computer science in 1996.

  2. 2001–2005

    Nottingham doctorate and postdoctoral research

    At Nottingham she completes her PhD in 2002, with a dissertation on case-based reasoning for course timetabling problems. Postdoctoral research at the university runs from 2001 to 2005.

  3. 2005–2023

    From lecturer to professor

    Her lecturer post at Nottingham begins in 2005, and she is promoted to associate professor in 2013 and to professor in 2023.

  4. 2007–2011

    An EJOR top-cited article award

    A 2007 paper on a graph-based hyper-heuristic for educational timetabling receives the EJOR five-year top-cited article award for 2007–2011.

  5. 2018–2025

    Two books on hyper-heuristics

    She coauthors two Springer books on hyper-heuristics, Hyper-Heuristics: Theory and Applications in 2018 and Advances in Hyper-Heuristics in 2025.

  6. 2026

    IEEE Fellow for evolutionary algorithms

    The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society names her to its 2026 Fellow class, for contributions to automated evolutionary algorithms in combinatorial optimisation.

  7. As of October 2026

    Professor at Nottingham

    Her current post is professor of computer science at the University of Nottingham. The research covers hyper-heuristics, automated algorithm design and machine learning.

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  1. Rong Qu - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. Rong Qu - The Mathematics Genealogy Project mathgenealogy.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. COL Research Group : People : Rong Qu people.cs.nott.ac.uk. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. Fellows Evaluation Committee - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society cis.ieee.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. People look-up - The University of Nottingham nottingham.ac.uk. Checked 15 October 2026.