Research Projects

I have completed over 40 R&D projects sponsored by multiple research grants awarded by government agencies and private organisations, within Canada, Malaysia and UK. Most of the research projects led to the development of Innovative Technology Demonstrators as ‘proofs of concept’ in order to assist with technology awareness and as precursor to full-scale application development. Most of my projects have an inter-disciplinary component, in particular collaboration with healthcare professionals. I have categorized my projects as (a) Projects at Dalhousie University; (b) Projects at Universiti Sains Malaysia; and (c) Projects at University of Surrey.

Projects at Dalhousie University (2002 – To date)

2) Title: Decision Support Services for Managing Chronic Diseases with Co-Morbidities

3) Title: Semantic Web Framework for Developing Personalized Information and

4) Title: An Integrated Knowledge Management Framework for Supporting Young Cancer

Sponsor/Funding Agency: Teasdale-Corti Global Health Research Partner Program,

8) Title: Surveillance Strategies for Identifying Adverse Drug Events: Lessons From Public Health

10) Title: Interpreting Optic Disk Tomography in Glaucoma: Importance of Shape Information

12) Title: Modelling of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Decision Support and Best Evidence

Sponsor/Funding Agency: NSERC (Collaborative Research and Development Grants)

14) Title: A Knowledge Management Framework for Tacit Knowledge Acquisition, Sharing and

15) Title: Scientific Visualization through Data Mining of Electronic Commerce & Health Informatics

Projects Undertaken at Universiti Sains Malaysia (1995-2001)

1) Title: ICT Knowledge Services & Delivery Platform for Applications in Healthcare, Education &

2) Title: Knowledge Management Based Enterprise Memory for Enterprise Modelling

3) Title: Development of a Data Mining Info-Structure for Generating and Delivering Strategic

4) Title: To Develop & Evaluate a Physical Activity Monitor (PAM) – For Personal Fitness &

Sponsor/Funding Agency: IRPA - Healthy Lifestyle Top-Down Project (Long Term Grant)

5) Title: The Design and Development of a Technology-Enriched (B2B and B2C) E-Commerce

6) Title: To Develop a Web-Accessible Database for Chemical and Biological Information

7) Title: The Design and Development of a E-Learning Portal For Technology Enriched Learning

8) Title: The Design & Development Of A Tele-Healthcare Information And Diagnostic

11) Title: Performance Improvement of Test Hardware in High Volume Manufacturing

12) Title: The Design and Development of a Web-Based EDI Interface for Business Applications

13) Title: The Design and Development of a Sophisticated Data Deduping System

14) Title: An Artificially Intelligent Poison Identification and Diagnostic System

16) Title: Medical Forecasting of Infectious Diseases using Neural Networks

17) Title: Information Broker: A Tool for ‘Intelligent’ Database Navigation, Data Filtering and

Projects Undertaken at AI Group, Univ. of Surrey, UK (1991-1994)

I was involved with the below-lised projects which were completed at the AI Group, University of Surrey, Guildford (UK). Most of these R&D projects originated from two large-scale ESPRIT funded projects—(i) Translators’s Workbench II Project and (ii) MULTILEX Project--that involved collaboration with European companies and universities. The team leader and project owner was Prof. Khurshid Ahmad at University of Surrey. Both these ESPRIT projects were broken into smaller sub-projects which were handled and delivered by individual researchers within the research team. A description of these two prominent ESPRIT projects follows:

Translator's Work Bench (TWB) I & II, sponsored by ESPRIT and a consortium of German IT companies, including Triumph Adler, Siemens and Daimler-Benz and the Universities of Heidelberg and Catalonia (Spain). The intention was to store terminological and linguistic information using a knowledge-base paradigm together with a machine-assisted translation system made accessible through a Europe-wide communication network. This was a hundred man-year project spread over three years and had a value of 7 million ECUs.

Multifunctional Lexica (MULTILEX), sponsored by ESPRIT and a consortium of German, French, Dutch and Italian IT companies and universities. The intention here was to define the European standards for a common European lexica which could be relevant to a variety of applications including machine translation, automatic knowledge acquisition from text and electronic publishing. This project had a value of 2.5 million ECU's.

Collaborators: Triumph Adler, Phillips and University of Heidelberg (Germany)

[1] NSERC (National Science & Engineering Research Council) Canada

[2] IRPA (Intensified Research in Priority Areas) is a Ministry of Science & Technology sponsored program for the advancement of R&D activities within Malaysia.

		Grant Funded Research Projects