Yixia Zhang

Yixia Zhang

University of Surrey

Biography

I am a PhD student at the University of Surrey in the UK. My research focuses on Optimisation and Generative AI. I am supervised by Prof. Ferrante Neri and Dr. Xilu Wang.

Qualifications

  • Software Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, M.S.
  • Computer Science and Technology, Wuxi University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, B.S.

Publications

  • Yixia Zhang, Ferrante Neri, Xilu Wang, Pengcheng Jiang. Evolutionary Channel Pruning for Style-Based Generative Adversarial Networks[J]. International Journal of Neural Systems, 2025: 2550070. DOI: 10.1142/S0129065725500704
  • Yixia Zhang, Yu Xue, Ferrante Neri, “Multi-Optimiser Training for GANs based on Evolutionary Computation,”. 2024 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Yokohama, Japan, 2024, pp. 1-8. DOI: 10.1109/CEC60901.2024.10612002
  • Yu Xue, Yixia Zhang, Ferrante Neri, “A Method based on Evolutionary Algorithms and Channel Attention Mechanism to Enhance Cycle Generative Adversarial Network Performance for Image Translation[J],”. International Journal of Neural Systems, 2023, 33(05): 2350026. DOI: 10.1142/S0129065723500260
  • Yu Xue, Weinan Tong, Ferrante Neri, Yixia Zhang, “PEGANs: Phased Evolutionary Generative Adversarial Networks with Self-attention Module[J],”. Mathematics, 2022, 10(15): 2792. DOI: 10.3390/math10152792