Ran Cheng

18.4k total citations · 16 hit papers
209 papers, 12.9k citations indexed

About

Ran Cheng is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ran Cheng has authored 209 papers receiving a total of 12.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 83 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 31 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ran Cheng's work include Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms (79 papers), Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research (72 papers) and Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (56 papers). Ran Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms (79 papers), Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research (72 papers) and Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (56 papers). Ran Cheng collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Ran Cheng's co-authors include Yaochu Jin, Xingyi Zhang, Ye Tian, Bernhard Sendhoff, Markus Olhofer, Cheng He, Xin Yao, Miqing Li, Kay Chen Tan and Fan Cheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Cancer Research.

In The Last Decade

Ran Cheng

193 papers receiving 12.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

PlatEMO: A MATLAB Platform for Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization [Educational Forum]

2017 1.8k citations Ye Tian, Ran Cheng et al. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine profile →
A Reference Vector Guided Evolutionary Algorithm for Many-Objective Optimization

2016 1.2k citations Ran Cheng, Yaochu Jin et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
A Competitive Swarm Optimizer for Large Scale Optimization

2014 803 citations Ran Cheng, Yaochu Jin IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics profile →
A social learning particle swarm optimization algorithm for scalable optimization

2014 588 citations Ran Cheng, Yaochu Jin Information Sciences profile →
An Indicator-Based Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm With Reference Point Adaptation for Better Versatility

2017 528 citations Ye Tian, Ran Cheng et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
A Decision Variable Clustering-Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Large-Scale Many-Objective Optimization

2016 471 citations Xingyi Zhang, Ye Tian et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
An Efficient Approach to Nondominated Sorting for Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

2014 397 citations Xingyi Zhang, Ran Cheng et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
A benchmark test suite for evolutionary many-objective optimization

2017 375 citations Ran Cheng, Ye Tian et al. profile →
A competitive mechanism based multi-objective particle swarm optimizer with fast convergence

2017 309 citations Xingyi Zhang, Ran Cheng et al. Information Sciences profile →
Surrogate-Assisted Cooperative Swarm Optimization of High-Dimensional Expensive Problems

2017 307 citations Yaochu Jin, Ran Cheng et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
A Strengthened Dominance Relation Considering Convergence and Diversity for Evolutionary Many-Objective Optimization

2018 291 citations Ye Tian, Ran Cheng et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
Test Problems for Large-Scale Multiobjective and Many-Objective Optimization

2016 286 citations Ran Cheng, Yaochu Jin et al. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics profile →
A Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm Using Gaussian Process-Based Inverse Modeling

2015 284 citations Ran Cheng, Yaochu Jin et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
Evolutionary Large-Scale Multi-Objective Optimization: A Survey

2021 255 citations Ye Tian, Xingyi Zhang et al. profile →
Accelerating Large-Scale Multiobjective Optimization via Problem Reformulation

2019 237 citations Cheng He, Lianghao Li et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
Mapping global lake dynamics reveals the emerging roles of small lakes

2022 194 citations Ran Cheng et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ran Cheng	8.2k	7.8k	1.4k	1.1k	988	209	12.9k
Gary G. Yen	7.4k 0.9×	5.2k 0.7×	812 0.6×	1.6k 1.4×	888 0.9×	316	12.1k
Thomas Bäck	6.4k 0.8×	3.9k 0.5×	800 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	315	12.3k
Andries P. Engelbrecht	9.0k 1.1×	4.5k 0.6×	702 0.5×	1.9k 1.6×	1.3k 1.3×	366	13.5k
Gary B. Lamont	4.8k 0.6×	5.0k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	129	10.9k
Carlos M. Fonseca	4.4k 0.5×	5.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	1.4k 1.2×	964 1.0×	77	9.6k
Jing Liang	11.5k 1.4×	7.5k 1.0×	534 0.4×	2.2k 1.9×	2.5k 2.5×	413	17.1k
Boyang Qu	6.6k 0.8×	4.9k 0.6×	446 0.3×	1.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	168	9.5k
Hisao Ishibuchi	13.3k 1.6×	8.1k 1.0×	3.1k 2.2×	2.3k 2.0×	1.0k 1.0×	610	19.8k
Yong Wang	6.2k 0.7×	5.0k 0.6×	399 0.3×	957 0.8×	1.8k 1.8×	367	12.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ran Cheng

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Shehzad, Aamir, Ran Cheng, Fang Zhang, & Zhixun Luo. (2025). A Cu ₁₄ (dppy) ₇ (dmbt) ₃ cluster of chelating structure for enhanced electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction to ammonia. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(40). 34836–34842.

Jin, Yaochu, et al.. (2025). Multi-phase constrained multi-objective optimization via heterogeneous transfer. Information Sciences. 700. 121836–121836. 2 indexed citations

Ma, Yuxin, Zherui Zhang, Ran Cheng, Yaochu Jin, & Kay Chen Tan. (2025). ParetoLens: A Visual Analytics Framework for Exploring Solution Sets of Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms [Application Notes]. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. 20(1). 78–94. 1 indexed citations

Zhu, Yichen, Jinming Li, Ning Liu, et al.. (2025). TinyVLA: Toward Fast, Data-Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 10(4). 3988–3995. 11 indexed citations

Wu, Xingyu, Yu Zhou, Jibin Wu, et al.. (2025). Evaluation of Large Language Models as Solution Generators in Complex Optimization. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. 20(4). 56–70.

Li, Yuan, et al.. (2024). CTU-Level Adaptive QP Offset Algorithm for V-PCC Using JND and Spatial Complexity. IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics Communications and Computer Sciences. E107.A(8). 1400–1403. 1 indexed citations

Lu, Zhichao, et al.. (2024). A Multi-objective Optimization Benchmark Test Suite for Real-time Semantic Segmentation. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. 163–166. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Xingyi, Ran Cheng, Ye Tian, & Yaochu Jin. (2024). Evolutionary Large‐Scale Multi‐Objective Optimization and Applications. 1 indexed citations

Cheng, Ran, et al.. (2024). Tensorized NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies for GPU Acceleration. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 1156–1164. 1 indexed citations

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Shehzad, Aamir, Chaonan Cui, Ran Cheng, & Zhixun Luo. (2024). Electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction to ammonia by atomically precise Cu₆ nanoclusters supported on graphene oxide. Nanoscale. 16(30). 14441–14447. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiangyu, Ran Cheng, & Yaochu Jin. (2024). Sparse Large-Scale Multiobjective Optimization by Identifying Nonzero Decision Variables. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems. 54(10). 6280–6292. 4 indexed citations

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Cheng, Ran, et al.. (2024). EvoX: A Distributed GPU-Accelerated Framework for Scalable Evolutionary Computation. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 29(5). 1649–1662. 16 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zherui, Fan Yang, Ran Cheng, & Yuxin Ma. (2024). ParetoTracker: Understanding Population Dynamics in Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms Through Visual Analytics. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 31(1). 820–830.

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Zhang, Zherui, et al.. (2023). A Comparative Visual Analytics Framework for Evaluating Evolutionary Processes in Multi-objective Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 30(1). 1–11. 6 indexed citations

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Hou, Xin, Ran Cheng, Jia Song, et al.. (2021). Effects of rhizome and root trimming on the growth and survival of Phyllospadix iwatensis transplants: a case study in Shandong Peninsula, China. Botanica Marina. 64(3). 189–200. 3 indexed citations

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Pan, Linqiang, Lianghao Li, Ran Cheng, Cheng He, & Kay Chen Tan. (2019). Manifold Learning-Inspired Mating Restriction for Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization With Complicated Pareto Sets. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 51(6). 3325–3337. 19 indexed citations

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Tian, Ye, Cheng He, Ran Cheng, & Xingyi Zhang. (2019). A Multistage Evolutionary Algorithm for Better Diversity Preservation in Multiobjective Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems. 51(9). 5880–5894. 98 indexed citations

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Tian, Ye, Ran Cheng, Xingyi Zhang, Yansen Su, & Yaochu Jin. (2018). A Strengthened Dominance Relation Considering Convergence and Diversity for Evolutionary Many-Objective Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 23(2). 331–345. 291 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tian, Ye, Ran Cheng, Xingyi Zhang, Fan Cheng, & Yaochu Jin. (2017). An Indicator-Based Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm With Reference Point Adaptation for Better Versatility. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 22(4). 609–622. 528 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Xingyi, Ye Tian, Ran Cheng, & Yaochu Jin. (2016). Empirical analysis of a tree-based efficient non-dominated sorting approach for many-objective optimization. 1–8. 12 indexed citations

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