My research area relies on Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems. My PhD (awarded in 2018) focused on the development of metaheuristics for parameter estimation in biological systems. As part of that work, I conducted experiments using various metaheuristic approaches, including scatter search, differential evolution, particle swarm optimization, genetic algorithms, and covariance matrix adaptation strategies.
Currently, much of my research centers on deep learning. In particular, we investigate transformer models, long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, and generative adversarial networks (GANs), applying them to various domains such as stock market prediction, drug discovery, multi-omics, and cancer bioinformatics.
Below are several research projects I have conducted:
Research Grant
Type |
Role |
Project Title |
Amount Approved |
Year / Duration |
Funder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
External (International) |
Recipient |
STIC Travel Gant – US ASEAN Science, Technology, and Innovation Cooperation Program |
$1,500 |
2023 |
US-ASEAN |
External |
Member |
A Flood Resilience Framework For Data Driven Decision and Integrated Big Data Analytics for Comprehensive Flood Disaster Preparedness |
RM120,000 |
2024 / 2 Year |
Collaborative Research Grant (CRG) |
External |
Project Leader (PI) |
France-Malaysia Collaboration Programe for Joint Research 2023 (MyTIGER) – Deep Generative Adversarial Algorithm with Variational Autoencoders for Realistic Construction of New Synthetic Cells in Genomics Data |
RM90,000 |
|
France-Malaysia |
External |
|
|
RM70,000 |
|
|
External |
|
Computational Modeling of Metagenomics in Polar Microbiota for Biomarkers Discovery through Generative Artificial Intelligence |
RM120,000 |
2023 / 3 Year |
|
External |
Member |
Privacy-Preserving in Publishing Big Data using an improved Slicing-Based method and the hybrid Fuzzy-Jaya optimization algorithm |
RM74,700 |
2022 / 2 Year |
|
Internal |
|
An Enhanced Feature Selection Method for Multi-Class Gene Expression Data Using Relaxed Lasso and Genetic Algorithm |
RM20,000 |
2020 / 1 Year |
|
Internal |
Member |
Improved non-dominated sorting Differential Search Algorithm and Flux Balance Analysis for Optimizing Metabolites Production and growth rate of mutants (improved nds-DSAFBA) |
RM20,000 |
2020 / 1 Year |
UMK-FUND |
Internal |
Member |
User Grouping Mechanism Using Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization for 5G NOMA Systems |
RM20,000 |
2020 / 1 Year |
UMK-FUND |
Internal |
Member |
Improve the Chatbots using Deep Learning Techniques |
RM20,000 |
2020 / 1 Year |
UMK-FUND |
Internal |
Member |
Covid-19 Impact Analysis: Identifying Principal Factors with Ensemble Machine Learning Methods |
RM20,000 |
2020 / 1 Year |
UMK-FUND |
Internal |
Member |
COVID-Face: Prototype of Facial Recognition Tracking for COVID-19 |
RM20,000 |
2020 / 1 Year |
UMK-FUND |
External |
Member |
Improved Hybrid Differential Search Algorithm and Flux Balance Analysis for Optimizing Metabolites Production (improved DSAFBA) |
RM145,000 |
2019 / 2 Years |
FRGS-MRSA |
External |
Project Leader |
An Enhanced Cooperative Parallel Metaheuristic Method for Parameter Estimation in Large-Scale Biological Models |
RM48,200 |
2019 / 2 Year |
FRGS-RACER |
Internal |
Project Leader |
The development of computational modelling method based on hybrid metaheuristic optimization for bioprocess improvement in pharmaceutical and industrial biotechnology |
RM5,500 |
|
UMP RDU Seed Money |
Internal |
Project Leader |
An Evolutionary Diversification-based Learning Algorithm for Model Calibration in Large-Scale Metabolic Systems |
RM35,000 |
|
UMP RDU |
External |
Member |
An Improved Penalized Machine Learning Algorithm for Model Calibration in Large-Scale Metabolic Systems |
RM68,700 |
2019 / 2 Year |
FRGS |
External |
Member |
An Enhancement of Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Parameter Estimation in Computational Systems Biology Models |
RM48,200 |
2019 / 2 Year |
FRGS-RACER |
External |
Member |
An Enhanced Deep Learning Algorithm based on Stacked Denoising Autoencoder to identifying the informative features in Multi-Omics data |
RM48,200 |
2019 / 2 Year |
FRGS-RACER |
External |
Member |
A new formulation of Android malware intrusion detection system model towards Cyber Security |
RM48,200 |
2019 / 2 Year |
FRGS-RACER |
External |
Member (Research Student) |
An Improved Scatter Research Algorithm for Parameter Estimation in Large-Scale Kinetic Models of Metabolic Systems |
RM68,000 |
2016 / 2 Year |
FRGS |
External |
Member (Research Student) |
Development of Heterogenous Web Services Ontology-Based Discovery Algorithm and Qos-Based Automated Filtering Model |
N/A |
N/A |
UTM Gup |
External |
Member (Research Student) |
In-silico cell factory for protein and biochemical production (Vitamin B) |
N/A |
N/A |
Malaysia Genome Institute (MGI) |