Jintong Ren

Jintong Ren

Hohai University

I work at Hohai University as an assistant professor now in Nanjing.

I graduated from Northwestern Polytechnical University with a bachelor’s degree, from Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard (France) with a master’s degree, and a Ph.D in Computer Science from Université d’Angers, France, supervised by Jin-Kao Hao.

My research interest includes large-scale combinatorial optimization and intelligent optimization algorithms, which are mainly applied in vehicle routing, chip resource scheduling, graph layout, etc. The main published papers appear in EJOR, ESWA, KBS and EAAI. I have received several research grants from National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.

Some other close colleagues: Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello, Zequn Wei etc.

📝 Publications

  • Zequn Wei, Jianing Yu, Jin-Kao Hao, Jintong Ren. Adaptive neighborhood reduction-based memetic algorithm for the set-union knapsack problem, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2026, 101:102289.
  • Zequn Wei, Junhao Li, Jintong Ren*, Yawen Li, Xin Lyu. Frequency-Driven Variable Neighborhood Search for the Unmanned Agricultural Machinery Scheduling Problem, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems (ICUS), Changzhou, China, 2025, pp. 1855-1861.
  • Yawen Li, Xin Lyu, Zequn Wei, Guanhua Ye, Jintong Ren. A Memetic Algorithm for the Capacity-Constrained Community Detection Problem in Social Networks, 2025 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Hangzhou, China, 2025, pp. 1-4.
  • Zequn Wei, Jianing Yu, Jintong Ren*, Wei Duan and Dexin Wu. Progressive Simulated Annealing Algorithm for the Pipeline Allocation Problem of Protocol Independent Switch Architecture Chips, 2024 6th International Conference on Data-driven Optimization of Complex Systems (DOCS), Hangzhou, China, 2024, pp. 243-249.
  • Zequn Wei, Jin-Kao Hao, Jintong Ren*, Qinghua Wu, Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello. An intensification-driven search algorithm for the family traveling salesman problem with incompatibility constraints. Knowledge-Based Systems, 2024, 302: 112378.
  • Wenheng Liu, Mahjoub Dridi, Jintong Ren, Amir Hajjam El Hassani, Shuying Li. A double-adaptive general variable neighborhood search for an unmanned electric vehicle routing and scheduling problem in green manufacturing systems. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2023, 126: 107113.
  • Zequn Wei, Jin-Kao Hao, Jintong Ren, Fred Glover. Responsive strategic oscillation for solving the disjunctively constrained knapsack problem, European Journal of Operational Research, 2023,309(3): 993-1009.
  • Jintong Ren, Jin-Kao Hao, Feng Wu, Zhang-Hua Fu. An effective hybrid search algorithm for the multiple traveling repairman problem with profits. European Journal of Operational Research, 2023, 304(2): 381-394.
  • Jintong Ren, Jin-Kao Hao, Feng Wu, Zhang-Hua Fu. Intensification-driven local search for the traveling repairman problem with profits. Expert Systems with Applications, 2022, 202: 117072.
  • Jintong Ren, Jin-Kao Hao, Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello, Liwen Li, Kun He. A new iterated local search algorithm for the cyclic bandwidth problem. Knowledge-Based Systems, 2020, 203: 106136.
  • Jintong Ren, Jin-Kao Hao, Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello. A study of Recombination Operators for the Cyclic Bandwidth Problem. In P. Legrand et al (Eds): Selected and revised paper from AE 2019, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 12052, 2020.

📖 Educations

  • 2016.09 - 2020.07, Doctor, Université d’Angers, Angers, France.
  • 2014.09 - 2016.06, Master (Ingénieur), Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, Belfort, France.
  • 2011.09 - 2015.06, Undergraduate, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China.

💻 Working Experience

  • 2022.10 - now, Assistant Professor, Hohai University (HHU), Nanjing.
  • 2021.11 - 2022.10, Assistant Researcher, Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society (AIRS), Shenzhen.
  • 2020.11 - 2022.10, Joint Post-Doc, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and The Chinese University of Hong Kong，Shenzhen (CUHK-SZ).