About


The Multidisciplinary Design Optimization lab is located in the School of Engineering and Technology, University of New South Wales Australia. It was established in 2005 with a vision to make significant contributions towards global research in the area of multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO). The aim is to develop cutting-edge, practical and efficient algorithms and frameworks to support multidisciplinary optimization, especially for computationally expensive problems. Such technologies are vital for industries to remain competitive.

The members of MDO group have been working on a number of theoretical and applied areas such as development of efficient algorithms for multi/many objective optimization, development of efficient constrained handling schemes, rule and policy mining, shape representation and optimization, decision making in presence of uncertainty, identifying solutions of interest from large trade-off sets among others. The group has several collaborations with academics, industry and public organizations working in diverse areas of computational intelligence and engineering, within Australia and internationally.

Research visitors to MDO group


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  • Dr Steffen Limmer, Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany. July 22, 2024.
  • Prof. Hisao Ishibuchi, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China. July 21 - 25, 2024.
  • Dr. Lie Meng Pang, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China. July 21 - 25, 2024.
  • Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. June 4-6, 2023. Seminar Notice
  • Prof. Ujjwal Maulik, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. June 4-6, 2023. Seminar Notice
  • A/Prof. Ankur Sinha, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India. September 10-18, 2019.
  • Prof. Sanaz Mostaghim, Otto von Guericke University, Germany. May 16-18, 2018. Seminar Notice
  • Prof. Juergen Branke, University of Warwick, UK, April 23-27, 2018.
  • Prof. Patrick Reed, Cornell University, USA. February 19-22, 2018. Seminar Notice
  • Prof. Kaisa Miettinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. October 2-5, 2017. Seminar Notice
  • Prof. Chris Manzie, University of Melbourne, Australia. September 30, 2016. Seminar Notice
  • Prof. Daniel Delahaye, French National Civil Aviation University, Toulouse. June 30, 2016. Seminar Notice
  • A/Prof. William Browne, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. March 16-17, 2016. Seminar Notice
  • Computational Intelligence and Engineering Design Workshop, UNSW Canberra., Invited Speakers: Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb (Michigan State University, USA), Prof. Jun Wang (Chinese University of Hong Kong) , Prof. Yew Soon Ong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,) Prof. Nikhil Ranjan Pal(Indian Statistical Institute, India) and Prof. Akira Oyama (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Feb 05, 2016. Seminar Notice
  • Prof. Xin Yao, CERCIA, University of Birmingham, UK. November 10, 2015. Seminar Notice
  • Prof. Juergen Branke, Warwick Business School, UK. October 25 - November 05, 2015.
  • Prof. Carlos Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico. September 05 - September 12, 2015. Seminar Notice
  • Prof. Qingfu Zhang, University of Essex, UK and City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. July 26 - August 02, 2015 Seminar Notice

PhD Projects and Scholarships


We are continually looking to welcome HDR candidates with relevant skills and interests to work with us. UNSW provides a scholarship of $37,684 per annum for PhD or Masters(by research) students to the candidates selected through merit-bsed ranking. The competitive candidates are expected to have achieved H1/High Distinction in their UG program and/or have completed a Masters by Research. Following are some of the research projects of interest to us and some useful links for prospective students. Feel free to reach out for discussion on these or related topics if you would like to pursue a research degree with us.

  • Development of optimization methods for solving computationally expensive problems
  • Evolutionary algorithms for solving bilevel optimization problems
  • Development of algorithms for solving multi-concept design optimization problems
  • Development of methods for solving large scale constrained optimization Problems
  • Multi-objective optimization and decision-making
    • Key dates for scholarship applications can be found at this link . English language requirements are detailed at this link .
    For more details on requirements visit this link before sending email requests.

    Research Areas

    • Multiobjective Optimization
    • Many Objective Optimization
    • Constrained Optimization
    • Robust Optimization
    • Shape and Topology Representation
    • Surrogate Assisted Optimization
    • Multifidelity Optimization
    • Bilevel Optimization

    Applications

    • Wind farm layout design
    • Hypersonic vehicle design
    • Ship Hull Form Design
    • Renewables
    • Underwater Vehicle design
    • Redesign for Six-Sigma
    • Identifying Solutions of Interest from Large Datasets
    • Optimal Resource Constrained Capability Planning
      • See more on this link .

    News

    • December 2021: Hemant Singh and Tapabrata Ray, with Ankur Sinha receive Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 2022-24
    • December 2021: Kamrul Rahi wins the Best paper award 2021 from the School of Engineering and Information Technology, UNSW
    • March 2021: Bing Wang wins the best presentation award at the Evolutionary Multi-criterion Optimization (EMO) 2021 conference, Shenzhen, China



    Contact:


    Tapabrata Ray, PhD
    Professor, School of Engineering and Technology (SET)
    The University of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT 2600.
    Email: t.ray @unsw.edu.au; Tel(VoIP): +61 2 51145201.

    Hemant Kumar Singh, PhD
    Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Technology (SET)
    The University of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT 2600.
    Email: h.singh @unsw.edu.au; Tel(VoIP): +61 2 5114 5206.