Yiping Liu

I am an Associate Professor in the College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at Hunan University.
I received my Ph.D. in 2017 from the China University of Mining and Technology and Oklahoma State University. From 2018 to 2020, I served as an Research Assistant Professor at Osaka Prefecture University (now Osaka Metropolitan University) in Japan, and I joined Hunan University as an Associate Professor in 2020.
My research interests include AI4Science, multi-objective intelligent optimization, and drug discovery. I have published 50+ papers in leading journals and conferences. I have led four national-level projects—including the NSFC Young Scientists Fund (Category B) [formerly the Excellent Young Scientists Fund]—as well as two provincial-level projects.
selected publications
- AAAIMulti-objective molecular design through learning latent Pareto setIn Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025
- J. Med. Chem.HMAMP: Designing Highly Potent Antimicrobial Peptides Using a Hypervolume-Driven Multiobjective Deep Generative ModelJournal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2025
- IEEE-TEVCEvolutionary multimodal multiobjective optimization for traveling salesman problemsIEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2024
- IEEE-CIMEvolutionary multi-objective optimization in searching for various antimicrobial peptides [feature]IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 2023
- IEEE-TEVCHandling Imbalance Between Convergence and Diversity in the Decision Space in Evolutionary Multi-Modal Multi-Objective OptimizationIEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2020