| 2025 | CSCWD | HMNet: High-Resolution Mamba Network for Semantic Segmentation of Surface Defects. | Haidong Xiao, Zhigang Ren, Shengze Cai |
| 2023 | IJCNN | Evolutionary Multitasking with Search Direction Alignment. | Wenhao Du, Zhigang Ren, Muju Wang, An Chen, Hanqing Liu, Shenyu Su |
| 2021 | CEC | Enhancing Cooperative Coevolution for Large Scale Optimization by Exploiting Decomposition Solutions. | An Chen, Zhigang Ren, Yongsheng Liang, Daofu Guo |
| 2021 | CEC | A Knowledge Transfer-Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Multimodal Optimization. | Wenhao Du, Zhigang Ren, An Chen, Hanqing Liu |
| 2020 | CEC | Scaling Up Radial Basis Function for High-Dimensional Expensive Optimization Using Random Projection. | Daofu Guo, Zhigang Ren, Yongsheng Liang, An Chen |
| 2020 | CEC | Traffic Signal Optimization with Estimation of Distribution Algorithms and VISSIM-MATLAB Integrated Simulation Platform. | Yongsheng Liang, Zhigang Ren, An Chen, Daofu Guo |
| 2019 | IECON | Research on Control Strategy of Excitation-loss for DSEM based on Full-bridge Converter. | Ning Zhang, Bo Zhou, Kaimiao Wang, Zhou Zhou, Siyuan Jiang, Feng Zhao, Zhigang Ren |
| 2019 | SMC | A Mahalanobis Distance-Based Fitness Approximation Method for Estimation of Distribution Algorithms in Solving Expensive Optimization Problems. | Yongsheng Liang, Zhigang Ren, Yang Yang, An Chen, Daofu Guo, Bei Pang |
| 2018 | GECCO | A historical interdependency based differential grouping algorithm for large scale global optimization. | An Chen, Zhigang Ren, Yang Yang, Yongsheng Liang, Bei Pang |
| 2018 | GECCO | A global information based adaptive threshold for grouping large scale optimization problems. | An Chen, Yipeng Zhang, Zhigang Ren, Yang Yang, Yongsheng Liang, Bei Pang |
| 2018 | GECCO | Niching an archive-based gaussian estimation of distribution algorithm via adaptive clustering. | Yongsheng Liang, Zhigang Ren, Bei Pang, An Chen |
| 2018 | GECCO | Enhancing cooperative coevolution for large scale optimization by adaptively constructing surrogate models. | Bei Pang, Zhigang Ren, Yongsheng Liang, An Chen |
| 2017 | CEC | Inferior solutions in Gaussian EDA: Useless or useful? | Yongsheng Liang, Zhigang Ren, Lin Wang, Bei Pang, Mohammad Moinul Hossain |
| 2017 | GECCO | An efficient vector-growth decomposition algorithm for cooperative coevolution in solving large scale problems. | Zhigang Ren, An Chen, Lin Wang, Yongsheng Liang, Bei Pang |
| 2017 | ICMLC | Backstepping stabilization of the Fitzhugh-Nagumo system arising in nonlinear spatial-temporal evolutionary processes. | Xin Yu, Chao Xu, Zhigang Ren |
| 2016 | CEC | Enhance continuous estimation of distribution algorithm by variance enlargement and reflecting sampling. | Zhigang Ren, Chenlong He, Dexing Zhong, Shanshan Huang, Yongsheng Liang |
| 2016 | GECCO | A Two Stages Invasive Weed Optimization via a New Clustering Strategy. | Shanshan Huang, Zhigang Ren, Muju Wang, Chenlin Sun |
| 2016 | IJCNN | A vision-based auxiliary system of multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles for autonomous rendezvous and docking. | Dexing Zhong, Xuefei Zhang, Haotian Sun, Zhigang Ren, Jiuqiang Han |
| 2016 | SMC | Collective motion of self-propelled particles without collision and fragmentation. | Chenlong He, Zuren Feng, Zhigang Ren |
| 2013 | CEC | Community detection using Ant Colony Optimization. | Honghao Chang, Zuren Feng, Zhigang Ren |
| 2013 | GECCO | Enhancing invasive weed optimization with taboo strategy. | Zhigang Ren, Wen Chen, Aimin Zhang, Chao Zhang |
| 2013 | GECCO | A novel multimodal-problem-oriented particle swarm optimization algorithm. | Zhigang Ren, Muyi Wang, Jie Wu |
| 2010 | GECCO | An ant colony optimization approach to the multiple-choice multidimensional knapsack problem. | Zhigang Ren, Zuren Feng |
| 2008 | CEC | A fast and efficient ant colony optimization approach for the set covering problem. | Zhigang Ren, Zuren Feng, Liangjun Ke, Hong Chang |