Syed Sibte Raza Abidi
 

   Associate Professor

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I am a faculty member at the Faculty of Computer Science in Dalhousie University. I hold an adjunct professor position at the School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang (Malaysia). I am also the director of the health informatics graduate program.

I teach courses about knowledge management, artificial intelligence, and specialized topics in health informatics such as healthcare knowledge management and healthcare data mining.  I am also the honours advisor for the Bachelors of Computer Science program.

I lead the NICHE (kNowledge management and Information Customizations in Healthcare Enterprises)  research group. My research interest span across three areas: (1) Knowledge Management; (2) Intelligent Information Personalization; and (3) Health Informatics. I am particularly interested in developing a knowledge creation and sharing framework for capturing and disseminating the different modalities of knowledge within an enterprise; using intelligent techniques to customize web-based services and information content as per a user-model; and applying data- and knowledge-driven intelligent systems to provide innovative healthcare services for both practitioners and patients. You can get an idea of my research by going through my research publications (see publications tab). My research projects have been funded by both government agencies and private organization, such as National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canadian Foundation of Innovation (CFI) and Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation (NSHRF). Prior to joining Dalhousie my research was funded by  European Strategic Program for Research in Information Technology (ESPRIT), WHO, UN, Malaysian Govt.’s program on Intensified Research in Priority Areas (IRPA).

My research work led to the prestigious VHK International Award for Innovation in Medical Informatics in Hannover, 2000, for my work on the intelligent composition and dissemination of personalized healthcare information. Also, I have received four Best Paper awards at:

Prior to joining Dalhousie University, I worked in Malaysia at Universiti Sains Malaysia (1995-2001) and in England at University of Surrey (1993-1994).

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