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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)

1)   Title: Platform For Ocean Knowledge Management

       Role: Principal Investigator

       Application Area: Knowledge Management

       Sponsor/Funding Agency: CANARIE

       Duration:  Jan 2009 – December 2011

 

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

       Role: Co-Principal Investigator

       Application Area: Knowledge Management and Health Informatics

       Sponsor/Funding Agency: Green Shield Foundation Canada

       Duration:  July 2008 – Sept 2011

 

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

                Adaptive Web Services

       Role: Principal Investigator

       Application Area: Knowledge Management

       Sponsor/Funding Agency: NSERC Discovery Grant

       Duration:  May 2007 – May 2012

 

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

                 Survivors

       Role: Principal Investigator

       Application Area: Knowledge Management and Health Informatics

       Sponsor/Funding Agency: CIHR

       Duration:  April 2010 – April 2011

 

5)   Title: Cruise Control: Development of a Community Research Alliance

       Role: Co-Investigator

       Application Area: Health Informatics

       Sponsor/Funding Agency: NSHRF

       Duration:  May2010 – April 2011

 

6)   Title: CarePlan: Personalized Lifelong Patient Care

       Role: Principal Investigator

       Application Area: Knowledge Management and Health Informatics

       Sponsor/Funding Agency: Agfa Healthcare, Canada

       Duration:  Sept. 2005 – Dec 2010

 

7)   Title: Paediatric Pain Management in Urban and Rural Thailand

       Role: Co-Applicant

       Application Area: Knowledge Management and Health Informatics

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

                                                       International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada

       Duration:  August. 2006 – June 2011

 

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

       Role: Co-Investigator

       Application Area: Knowledge Management

       Sponsor/Funding Agency: Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR)

       Duration:  Dec 2008 – June 2009

 

9)   Title: Knowledge Management Solutions for PractimaxTM EHR System

       Role: Principal Investigator

       Application Area: Knowledge Management & Health Informatics

       Sponsor/Funding Agency: Nova Scotia Govt.

       Duration:  Feb 2009 – May 2009

 

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

       Role: Principal Investigator

       Application Area: Health Informatics & Data Mining

       Sponsor/Funding Agency: Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation (NSHRF)

       Duration: Oct. 2003 – Sept 2008

 

11)   Title: Neighborhood: Personalized Care Pathways for Prostate Cancer

       Role: Co-Principal Investigator

       Application Area: Health Informatics

       Sponsor/Funding Agency: National Cancer Institute, Canada

       Duration:  March. 2007 – Dec 2007

 

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

                  Retrieval

       Role: Principal Investigator

       Application Area: Healthcare Knowledge Management

       Sponsor/Funding Agency: Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation (NSHRF)

       Duration:  Sept. 2005 – Sept 2007

 

13)   Title: Concept Mapping and Semantic Modelling on Peer-to-Peer Networks

       Role: Co-Applicant

       Application Area: Knowledge Management

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

       Duration:  Sept. 2004 – Sept 2007

 

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

                 Operationalization

        Role: Principal Investigator

        Application Area: Knowledge Management

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: NSERC[1] Discovery Grant

        Duration: July 2003 – June 2007

 

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

                  Large Scale Data Sets

        Role: Co-Applicant with 6 other investigators

        Application Area: Health Informatics & Data Mining

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI)

Projects Undertaken at Universiti Sains Malaysia (1995-2001)

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

                 Business

        Role: Co-Applicant with 4 other investigators

        Application Area: Health Informatics

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: IRPA- Top Down Strategic Grant

        Duration: Dec 2001 – Dec 2004

 

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

        Role: Co-Principal Investigator

        Application Area: Knowledge Management

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: IRPA- Long Term Grant

        Duration: Oct. 2000 – March 2003

 

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

                  Data-Driven Services

        Role: Principal Investigator

        Application Area: Data Mining

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: IRPA-Long Term Grant

        Duration: Oct. 2000 – March 2003

 

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

                  Exercise Monitoring

        Role: Co-Principal Investigator

        Application Area: Health Informatics

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

        Duration: May 1999 - April 2001

 

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

                  Portal

        Role: Co-Applicant with 4 other investigators

        Application Area: E-Commerce

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: Technotronics Sdn Bhd., Malaysia

        Duration: September 2000 – March 2001

 

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

        Role: Co-Applicant with 2 other investigators

        Application Area: Health Informatics

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: World Health Organisation (WHO)

        Duration: January 2000 - December 2000

 

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

                  Solutions

        Role: Co-Principal Investigator

        Application Area: E-Learning

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: A-Pac Multimedia Sdn Bhd., Malaysia

        Duration: July 2000 – October 2000

 

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

                  Environment

        Role: Principal Investigator

        Application Area: Health Informatics

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: IRPA-Short Term Grant

        Duration: August 1998 - December 1999

 

9)    Title: The Design & Development of a Data Mining Workbench

        Role: Principal Investigator

        Application Area: Data Mining

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: IRPA-Short Term Grant

        Duration: August 1998 - December 1999

 

10)   Title:  Web Based Personalised Fitness Monitoring System

        Role: Principal Investigator

        Application Area: Health Informatics

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: IRPA-Short Term Grant

        Duration: August 1998 - December 1999

 

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

                  Environment

        Role: Co-Applicant with 4 other investigators

        Application Area: Neural Networks

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: IRPA-Long Term Grant

        Duration: August 1996 – August 1998

 

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

        Role: Co-Applicant with 2 other investigators

        Application Area: E-Commerce

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: IRPA-Short Term Grant

        Duration: July 1997 - June 1998

 

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

        Role: Co-Principal Investigator

        Application Area: Databases and AI

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: IRPA-Short Term Grant

        Duration: October 1996 - September 1997

 

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

        Role: Principal Investigator

        Application Area: Health Informatics

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: IRPA-Short Term Grant

        Duration: October 1996 - September 1997

 

15)   Title: The Design and Development of UN-TRAINS Database

        Role: Principal Investigator

        Application Area: Health Informatics

        Sponsor/Funding Agency:  UNCTAD, Geneva

        Duration: February 1997 – May 1997

 

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

        Role: Principal Investigator

        Application Area: Health Informatics

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: IRPA-Short Term Grant

        Duration: April 1996 – March 1997

 

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

                  Data Export

        Role: Principal Investigator

        Application Area: Databases and AI

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: IRPA-Short Term Grant

        Duration: February 1996 - April 1997

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.

 1)    Title: The Design and Development of a Virtual Corpus Manager

        Role: Principal Investigator

        Application Area: Artificial Intelligence (Natural Language Processing)

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: ESPRIT (Translator’s WorkBench II & MULTILEX)

        Collaborators: Triumph Adler, Siemens, Philips, Daimler-Benz and

                                 Universities of Heidelberg, Munster (Germany) and Catalonia (Spain)       

        Duration: July 1993 - December 1994

 

2)    Title: Neural Network Based Text Stylometry Analyser

        Role: Co-Principal Investigator

        Application Area: Neural Networks & Natural Language Processing

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: ESPRIT (Translator’s WorkBench II & MULTILEX)

        Duration: July 1993 - December 1994

 

3)    Title: The Design and Development of a Lexicon Distiller

        Role: Principal Investigator

        Application Area: Natural Language Processing

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: ESPRIT (Translator’s WorkBench II)

        Collaborators: Triumph Adler, Siemens, Daimler-Benz and

                                 Universities of Heidelberg (Germany) and Catalonia (Spain)       

        Duration: April 1993 - September 1994

 

4)    Title: Design and Development of a Parallel Text Alignment Tool

        Role: Co-Applicant with 2 other investigators

        Application Area: Natural Language Processing

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: ESPRIT (Translator’s WorkBench II)

        Collaborators: Triumph Adler, Siemens, Daimler-Benz and

                                 Universities of Heidelberg (Germany) and Catalonia (Spain)       

        Duration: Jan 1994 – June 1994

 

5)    Title: Design and Development of a Word Association Analyser Tool

        Role: Co-Applicant with 2 other investigators

        Application Area: Natural Language Processing

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: ESPRIT (MULTILEX)

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

        Duration: September 1993 – February 1994 

 

6)    Title: Information REtrieval using NEural networks - IRENE

        Role: Principal Investigator

        Application Area: Neural Networks and Information Retrieval

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: European Space Agency

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

        Duration: July 1993 - December 1993

 

7)    Title:  The Design and Development of a Connectionist Workbench

        Role: Principal Investigator

        Application Area: Neural Networks and Information Retrieval

        Sponsor/Funding Agency: ESPRIT (MULTILEX)

        Collaborators: Triumph Adler and University of Munster (Germany)      

        Duration: January 1993 – December 1993

[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.

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