Awards and winning competitions​

• July 2022 Obtained the winner of AutoML2022 competition on Multiobjective Hyperparameter Optimization for Transformers in Proc of AutoML 2022. Link to results. Team name: AutoMLFreiburg

• Sep. 2020 Obtained the winner of alternate Leaderboard of NeurIPS Black-Box Optimization Challenge in Proc of NeurIPS 2020. Link to results. Prize: 3000$. Team name: AutoML.org & IOHprofiler, featuring the switching squirrel

• Sep. 2020 Obtained Rank 2 in CEC20 competition on single objective bound constrained real-parameter numerical optimization in Proc of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE-CEC 2020, Glasgow, UK

• June 2017 Obtained Rank 3 in CEC’17 competition on single objective bound constrained real-parameter numerical optimization in Proc of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE-CEC 2017, San Sebastián, Spain. Link to results. Algorithm name: LSHADE-cnEpSin

• July 2016  Obtained Joint Winner in CEC’16 competition on single objective real-parameter numerical optimization competition in Proc of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE-CEC 2016, Vancouver, Canada. Link to results. Algorithm name: LSHADE_EpSin

•  Jan. 2016 Scholarship to finish PhD at Nanyang Technological University funded by Agency for Science, Technology and Research of Singapore (A*STAR) to support 4 years of study 

• May 2015 Obtained Rank 2 in CEC’15 competition on learning-based real-parameter single objective optimization competition in Proc of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE-CEC 2015, Sendai, Japan. Link to results. Algorithm name: DEsPA