We are happy to announce that we will hold the 2022 IEEE NZCS Postgraduate Symposium on Wednesday 31 August 2022 (10:00 am-5:00 pm) at the Laby Building, Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn Campus, Wellington. This event is held annually with 30+ attendants, providing excellent opportunities for postgraduate students to practice their presentation skills and network with colleagues. By attending the symposium, you will have a chance to give a 10-min presentation (8 mins talk + 2 mins Q/A) about your research and expand your knowledge from others' presentations. Other benefits include: - 1-year free IEEE Graduate Student Membership - Cash awards for top-ranked presentations - Free food (lunch, morning tea and afternoon tea) - Excellent networking opportunities - Certificate of attendance We sincerely invite you to register and attend the symposium. Below are the registration instructions: Registration link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/321483 Registration deadline: 23:59, 24 August 2022 Please get in touch with VUW Student Branch Chair, Kun Huang, if you have any questions. Please see our Events Page for future events affiliated with the IEEE New Zealand Central Section.

All members and guests of the IEEE Central Section, IET Wellington Network, and ENZ Wellington Branch are welcomed to a special event, hosted by all three institutions, on the morning of 1 September 2022, in Central Wellington. The guest speaker for this event is Sir Neville Jordan, a highly regarded New Zealand engineer, entrepreneur, investor, advisor, and philanthropist. Sir Neville will enlighten us with some perspectives on his life journey across these domains. Tickets: $15 for members of any of the hosting organisations, $30 otherwise. Please register at the ENZ website here. Abstract Our lives and careers ebb and flow – positive things happen and so do the negative. As fresh graduates, we start on square one and we think we can pilot ourselves to the magic 100 but unfortunately many things get in the way. This is a perspective from an engineer who went from baking to nuclear engineering and electronics and got into drugs along the way. Introducing Our Speaker Sir Neville Jordan KNZM CNZM, is a graduate engineer and has an honorary Doctorate from Canterbury University. He is a Distinguished Fellow of Engineering New Zealand and was awarded the UK IET Kirby Medal for outstanding eminence and distinction in advanced technology”. Neville has served on numerous and varied Ministerial Advisory committees and Boards for the Australian and NZ governments. He co-founded over 30 science/tech startup companies including his microwave telecommunications company which achieved a successful IPO on the NASDAQ Main Board. He has received the Governor General's Supreme award for Exporting and was inducted into both the NZ Hi-Tech Hall of Fame and the Business Hall of Fame. He is the Past President, Royal Society of NZ, and Chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington. He was Knighted in 2015 for “Services to business, science and the community”.   Please see our Events Page for information regarding future events affiliated with the IEEE New Zealand Central Section.

Monthly meeting of the NZ Central Section committee. IEEE NZCS Committee Minutes 08 September 2022 Note: this month's meeting is one week later than usual due to the Postgraduate Student Symposium.

Held at Victoria University of Wellington's Kelburn Campus, Prof. Carlos A. Coello Coello will give a presentation discussing the Lessons Learned after 25 Years Designing Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms. Please join us from 4-5:30pm on September 23 in CO350 (Cotton Building, third floor)! Alternatively, you are welcome to join via Zoom. Abstract: In this talk, I will describe my origins as a researcher working in a field which is now known as "evolutionary multi-objective optimization" (EMOO), 25 years ago. Then, I'll describe the inception of my research group at Cinvestav (in Mexico City, Mexico) in 2001, including some of the issues (good and bad) that researchers had to face at that time in Mexico. I will also mention some of the main differences between the way in which research on EMOO was conducted 25 years ago with respect to current research practices including, among other things, topics and methodological issues. In the last part of the talk, I'll briefly mention some of the pioneering contributions developed by my research group, but not without mentioning some of our biggest failures, too. The discussion will include some of the research topics in which I am currently interested. I'll finalize the talk with my personal (and a bit critical) view of the way in which research on EMOO is being conducted today, including some advice for young researchers working in this exciting field. Biography: Carlos A. Coello Coello (Fellow, IEEE) received his PhD in computer science from Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA, in 1996. He is currently a Professor with Distinction (CINVESTAV-3F Researcher), Computer Science Department, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico. He has authored and co-authored over 450 technical papers and book chapters. He has also co-authored the book Evolutionary Algorithms for Solving Multiobjective Problems (2nd ed., Springer, 2007). His publications currently report over 63,197 citations in Google Scholar (his H-index is 96). His major research interests are evolutionary multiobjective optimization and constraint-handling techniques for evolutionary algorithms. Prof. Coello Coello received the 2007 National Research Award from the Mexican Academy of Sciences in the area of Exact Sciences, the Medal to the Scientific Merit 2009, granted by Mexico City’s congress, and the National Medal of Science and Arts in the area of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and serves on the editorial board of several other international journals. He is a member of ACM, Sigma Xi, and the Mexican Academy of Science. Carlos' profile is available here.