Curriculum Vitae as at December 2010 EDUCATION Ph.D Computer Science (specialization Cognitive Science), University Montpellier II Sciences and Techniques, Montpellier, France. (04/03-01/06) Awarded with Distinction from Informatics Department. Dissertation: Activity States: A theoretical framework for the analysis of actual human communications on the Web. Keywords: Agent communication, Logical theories on Learning and Communication, Activity theory, Situated cognition, Conversation Analysis, BuddySpace Instant Messaging, FlashMeeting videoconferencing. Advisors: Professor Stefano A. Cerri and Associate Professor Michel Liquiere. External examiners: Dr. William J. Clancey (Chief Scientist, Human Centered Computing ,Intelligent Systems Division, NASA Ames Research Center) and Professor Amal Seghrouchni El-Fallah (Head of Multiagent System Team and Professor at University of Paris 10, Paris, France) MSc. Computer Science (specialization Machine Learning), University Montpellier II Sciences and Technique, Montpellier, France. (01/01-06/02) Graduated with Cum laude from Informatics Department. Dissertation: Structural Rule Extraction: A Formal and Experimental Approach. Keywords: Galois Lattice, Genetic Algorithm, Data Mining, Machine Learning. Advisors: Professor Stefano A. Cerri and Associate Professor Michel Liquiere. BSc. Computer Science (specialization Software Engineering), University Technology Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia. (06/96- 06/00) Graduated from the Department of Software Engineering. Dissertation: Neural Networks for User Authentication. Keywords: Artificial Neural Networks, Biometrics, Keystroke Dynamics. Advisor: Professor Abdul Manan. RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Advanced Analysis and Modeling Cluster (ADAM), MIMOS Berhad, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 12/2010-Present Holds position as Senior Researcher. GRACE Center, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. 1/10/2009-11/2010 Holds position as an Assistant Professor. Information Systems Architecture Research Division, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. 21/12/2006-09/2009 Organization background: Information Systems Architecture Research Division' deals with the research issues in software/hardware architectures of computers and networks, and their system implementation. Post-doctoral researcher under Professor Shinichi Honiden, Director of Information Systems Architecture Research Division. National University of Singapore, Computer Department, Program for Research Into Intelligent System (PRIS), Singapore. 01/02-06/02 Organization background: The PRIS program was a 3 year schedule program between the Ministry of Education, Singapore and School of Computing, National University of Singapore. It is aimed in developing technology under a single stream, namely Hybrid System to handle problems from fields of Finance, Education and Logistics. Research Assistant. Assisted in the implementation of rule extraction regression neural network algorithm. Pivota.com, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. 06/01-12/01 Organization background: The company implements e-commerce platforms for business and strategic partners to facilitate B2B and B2C e-business. Marketing and E-Commerce Executive. Defined and conceptualized e-commerce strategies for marketing partners, valued added partners and technology partners. Also researched and collaborated with the internal development team for designing a fraud prevention system for SkyBonus.com platform. AISDEL (Artificial Intelligence System Development Laboratory-HITACHI) of JICA, Japan and SIRIM (Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia), Malaysia. 06/99-09/99 Organization background: The laboratory is developed under the transfer technology of Japanese Artificial Intelligence experts from the HITACHI Laboratory and under the collaboration between SIRIM and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Research Assistant. Assisted into investigating radial basis function architecture and back-propagation algorithm. The goal was to analyze which algorithm was more efficient for face recognition. TEACHING EXPERIENCE June-August, 2009. Co-mentor Masters internship student Samuel Mendes from LIRMM-University Montpellier II, France on implementing Activity States Framework for conflict detection. August, 2007. Co-mentor PhD internship student Maxim Makatchev, from Robotics Department, Carnegie Mellon University on categorizing conversations into context using machine learning. GRANTS AND AWARDS
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Member of the Cognitive Science Society. Member of the EvoWeb (European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES • Visiting research associate at the Department of Computing, Open University under Agile Alliance Research program funding. In collaboration with Professor Helen Sharp and Professor Hugh Robinson, from Empirical Studies of Software Development research group. From January-Jun 2009. • Invited panelist for Women and Technologies, Research and Innovation. 20 World Computer Congress (WCC) 2008 Hosted Conference, 7-10 September, Milan, Italy, 2008. • Visiting researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), Open University under ProLearn funding-Network for Excellence financed by the IST (Information Society Technology -Contract number 507310) programme of the European commission funding. Collaborated with Professor Peter Scott (Director of KMi) Dr Elia Tomadaki, Dr Kevin Quick, and Chris Valentine from the FlashMeeting group on analyzing online communications of learning communities on FlashMeeting Videoconferencing system. From October-December 2007. • Visiting researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), Open University under National Institute of Informatics Memorandum of Understanding funding. Collaborated with Professor Marc Eisenstadt (Chief Scientist of KMi), Professsor Peter Scott, Dr. Elia Tomadaki on analyzing communications of online learning communities on FlashMeeting Videoconferencing system. From August-September 2007. • Participant of 29 Annual Cognitive Science Meeting, Nashville, Tennesse, 2007. • Participant of the 6 International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Using and Modeling CONTEXT, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007. • Selected participant in the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (PSLC) summer school. Under mentoring of Professor Kenneth R. Koedinger, Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCI), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh. Collaborated together with Dr. Ryan S.J.D Baker, HCI, CMU and Assistant Professor Geraldine Clarebout, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium on a project “Help Seeking Model”. The project was on analyzing communication of students’ interaction with PSLC’s intelligent tutoring system. 18-22 June, 2007. • Participant of the Doctoral Mentoring Program in Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2005. • Participant of the 27 Annual Cognitive Science Meeting, Stresa, Italy, 2005. • Participant of the Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) Conference, Brazil, 2004. • Participant of the Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation Conference in Chicago, United States, 2003. • Participant of the National Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Malaysia, 2000. • Participant of the First Proceedings on the First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Industry, Malaysia, 1999. • Participant of the New World Intelligence, A New Paradigm of AI conducted by Prof. Dr Noboyuki Otsu, Director of Machine Understanding Division, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan, in Malaysia, 1999. NATURAL LANGUAGES Malay -mother tongue English - fluent French -fluent Japanese – survival skills |