Name: Li Chao
Gender: Male
Professional Title: Lecturer
Degree: Ph.D.
Education and Research Work Experience:
1. June 2024–present, Lecturer, School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Zhongyuan University of Technology
2. September 2020–June 2024, Ph.D., School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University
3. September 2017–June 2020, Master's degree, School of Electronic Information, Zhongyuan University of Technology
4. September 2013–June 2017, Bachelor's degree, School of Information Technology, Jilin Normal University
Research Directions:
1. Adversarial attacks and machine learning
2. Computational intelligence, multimodal multi-objective optimization, and surrogate-model-assisted evolutionary algorithms
Representative Papers:
1. Chao Li, Tingsong Jiang, Handing Wang, Wen Yao, Donghua Wang, Optimizing Latent Variables in Integrating Transfer and Query Based Attack Framework, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 47(1): 161–171, 2025. (CAS Zone 1, top journal, IF: 20.8)
2. Jialiang Sun, Wen Yao, Tingsong Jiang, Chao Li and Xiaoqian Chen, A3D: A Platform of Searching for Robust Neural Architectures and Efficient Adversarial Attacks, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 47(5): 3975–3991, 2025. (CAS Zone 1, top journal, IF: 20.8)
3. Li Yan, Yi Du, Jing Liang, Boyang Qu, Chao Li, and Kunjie Yu, A Weight Inheritance and Guidance Strategy based Evolutionary Network Architecture Search, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2025. (CAS Zone 1, top journal, IF: 14.3)
4. Donghua Wang, Wen Yao, Tingsong Jiang and Chao Li, Universal Multi-view Black-box Attack against Object Detectors via Layout Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2025. (CAS Zone 1, top journal, IF: 11.1)
5. Li Yan, Shunge Guo, Jing Liang, Boyang Qu, Chao Li and Kunjie Yu, A subspace strategy based coevolutionary framework for constrained multimodal multiobjective optimization problems, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2025, 95: 101941. (CAS Zone 2, top journal, IF: 8.5)
6. Chao Li, Handing Wang, Jun Zhang, Wen Yao, Tingsong Jiang, An Approximated Gradient Sign Method Using Differential Evolution For Black-box Adversarial Attack, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 26(5): 976–990, 2022. (CAS Zone 1, top journal, IF: 14.3)
7. Chao Li, Wen Yao, Handing Wang, Tingsong Jiang, Adaptive Momentum Variance for Attention-Guided Sparse Adversarial Attacks, Pattern Recognition, 133: 108979, 2023. (CAS Zone 1, top journal, IF: 8.0)
8. Chao Li, Wen Yao, Handing Wang, Tingsong Jiang, Xiaoya Zhang, Bayesian Evolutionary Optimization for Crafting High-quality Adversarial Examples with Limited Query Budget, Applied Soft Computing, 142: 110370, 2023. (CAS Zone 1, top journal, IF: 8.7)
9. Chao Li, Handing Wang, Wen Yao, Tingsong Jiang, Adversarial Attacks in Computer Vision: A Survey, Journal of Membrane Computing, 2024. (ESCI)
10. Boyang Qu, Chao Li, Jing Liang, Li Yan, Kunjie Yu, Yongsheng Zhu, A Self-organized Speciation Based Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimizer for Multimodal Multi-objective Problems, Applied Soft Computing, 86: 105886, 2020. (CAS Zone 1, top journal, IF: 8.7)
11. Chao Li, Wen Yao, Handing Wang, Tingsong Jiang, Donghua Wang, QRPatch: A Deceptive Texture-based Black-box Adversarial Attacks with Genetic Algorithm, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2024 (IEEE CEC 2024)
12. Donghua Wang, Wen Yao, Tingsong Jiang, Chao Li, Xiaoqian Chen, RFLA: A Stealthy Reflected Light Adversarial Attack in the Physical World, ICCV, 2023 (CCF-A)
Contact:
Email: lichaoedu@126.com
