NICAL's research has been generously supported by a number of agencies and USTC.

  1. "Nature Inspired Computation for Large Scale Optimization", supported by the graduate innovation funds of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 2008.1-2008.12 (PI: Zhenyu Yang)

  2. "Research on Evolutionary Negative Selection Algorithms", supported by the general project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2008.1-2010.12 (PI: Wenjian Luo)

  3. "The 6th International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning" (SEAL'06), partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), October 15-18, 2006 (PI: Xufa Wang)

  4. "Research on Flexible Integration of EvolvaWare and Its Applications", supported by the general project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2006.1-2008.12 (PI: Jingsong He)

  5. "Analyzing and Designing Evolutionary Algorithms", Overseas Young Scholars Collaborative Research Grant, supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2005.1-2007.12 (PI: Xin Yao, Co-PI: Xufa Wang)

  6. "Research on Theories and Applications of Evolvable Hardware", supported by the general project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2005.1-2007.12 (PI: Wenjian Luo)

  7. "Quantum Genetic Algorithms based-on Quantum Probabilistic Representation", supported by the general project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2005-2007 (PI: Bin Li).

  8. "Theory and Applications of Estimation of Distribution Algorithms based-on Population Strategy", supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province, 2005-2007 (PI: Bin Li).

  9. "2004 International (UK-China) Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Applications" (IWNICA'2004, UCWNICA'2004), partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), October 25-29, 2004 (PI/Co-PI: Wenjian Luo, with Prof. Xin Yao)