Publications & Awards

Papers

SCI/SCIE journals

Medard Edmund Mswahili, JunHa Hwang, Jagath C. Rajapakse, Kyuri Jo, Young-Seob Jeong, "Positional Embeddings and Zero-shot Learning using BERT for Molecular-Property Prediction," Journal of Cheminformatics, 2025 (Published: 05 February 2025, Volume 17, article number 17, (2025). 

Medard Edmund Mswahili, Young-Seob Jeong, "Transformer-Based Models For Chemical SMILES Representation: A Comprehensive Literature Review," Heliyon, Vol. 10, Issue 20, pp.1-18, October 30, 2024. (ISSN: 2405-8440, IF: 3.4, Publisher: CELL PRESS) [ACK: 중점연구소컴정연2020(50%)]

Medard Edmund Mswahili, Kyuri Jo, Seung Dong Lee, Young-Seob Jeong, "Multi type Features Graph Neural Networks for Cocrystals Prediction using API coformers Interactions," Current Medicinal Chemistry, Vol. 31, Issue 36, pp.5953-5968, 2024. (online publication date: May 22, 2024) [ACK: 중점연구소컴정연2020(50%), 소중(50%)] 

Medard Edmund Mswahili, Goodwill Erasmo Ndomba, Young Jin Kim, Kyuri Jo, Young-Seob Jeong (corresponding author), "Relational Graph Convolution Network with Multi Features for Anti-COVID-19 Drugs Discovery using 3CLpro Potential Target," Current Bioinformatics, Vol. 20, Issue 1, pp.18-30, 2025. (online publicationd date: March 8, 2024) [ACK: 중점연구소컴정연2020(50%)] 

Medard Edmund Mswahili, Goodwill Erasmo Ndomba, Kyuri Jo, Young-Seob Jeong, "Graph Neural Network and BERT Model for Antimalarial Drug Predictions Using Plasmodium Potential Targets," Applied Sciences, Vol. 14, Issue 1472, pp.1-17, February 11, 2024. [ACK: NRF2020(50%), NRF2023간호대(50%)] 

Young-Seob Jeong, Medard Edmund Mswahili, Ah Reum Kang, "File-level malware detection using byte streams," Scientific Reports, Vol. 13, Issue 8925, pp.1-7, June 1, 2023. [ACK: None] 

Paul Kim, In-Seo Lee, Ji-Yoon Kim, Medard E. Mswahili, Young-Seob Jeong, Woo-Jin Yoon, Ho-Seop Yun, Min-Jeong Lee, Guang J. Choi, "A study to discover novel pharmaceutical cocrystals of pelubiprofen with a machine learning approach compared," CrystEngComm, 2022, 24, 3938-3952; April 27, 2022. 

Min-Jeong Lee, Ji-Yoon Kim, Paul Kim, In-Seo Lee, Medard E. Mswahili, Young-Seob Jeong, and Guang J. Choi (corresponding author), "Novel Cocrystals of Vonoprazan: Machine Learning-Assisted Discovery," Pharmaceutics, Vol. 14(2), 429; February 16, 2022.

Medard Edmund Mswahili, Gati Lother Martin, Jiyoung Woo (corresponding author), Guang J. Choi, and Young-Seob Jeong (corresponding author), "Antimalarial Drug Predictions Using Molecular Descriptors and Machine Learning against Plasmodium Falciparum," Biomolecules, Vol. 11(12), 1750; November 24, 2021.

Medard Edmund Mswahili, Min-Jeong Lee, Gati Lother Martin, Junghyun Kim, Paul Kim, Guang J. Choi, and Young-Seob Jeong (corresponding author), "Cocrystal Prediction Using Machine Learning Models and Descriptors," Applied Sciences, Vol. 11(3), 1323; February 1, 2021.

International Conference (well-known, prestigious, & top-tier)

Gati L Martin, Medard E Mswahili, Young-Seob Jeong (corresponding author), Jiyoung Woo, "SwahBERT: Language Model of Swahili," in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Seattle, Washington,  pp.314-324, July 10-15, 2022. (presentation: July 13) [ACK: NRF2020,BK21] 

Korea Journal Central (KJC) - KCI

Byung-Il Yun, Dahye Kim, Young-Jin Kim, Medard Edmund Mswahili, Young-Seob Jeong, "Improving the Classification of Population and Housing Census with AI: An Industry and Job Code Study," Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information, Vol. 28, Issue 4, pp.21-29, April 28, 2023. [ACK: NRF2020] 

Young-Seob Jeong, Chaegyun Lim, SeungDong Lee, Medard Edmund Mswahili, Goodwill Erasmo Ndomba, Ho-Jin Choi, "Rule-based Normalization of Relative Temporal Information," Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information, Vol. 27, No. 12, pp.41-49, December 30, 2022. [ACK: 국립대2022] 

International Conference

Chae-Gyun Lim, Ho-Jin Choi, Medard Edmund Mswahili, Goodwill Erasmo Ndomba, Young-Seob Jeong, "Machine Feeling by Knowledge Acquisition with Emotion Map," to be appeared in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp), Bangkok, Thailand, February 18-21, 2024.(presentation: February 20) [ACK: NRF2020(50%), NRF소설(50%)] 

Young-Seob Jeong, EunJin Kim, Junha Hwang, Medard Edmund Mswahili, and YoungJin Kim, "Language Model for Statistics Domain", in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Industries (AI4I 2022), California, USA, pp.54-54, September 19-21, 2022. (presentation: September 20) [ACK: 소중] 

Medard Edmund Mswahili,  YoungJin Kim, Young-Seob Jeong (corresponding author), and Junha Hwang, "Graph Neural Network Models for Chemical Compound Activeness Prediction For COVID-19 Drugs Discovery using Lipinski’s Descriptors", in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Industries (AI4I 2022), California, USA, pp.20-21, September 19-21, 2022. (presentation: September 19) [ACK: 소중] 

Medard E. Mswahili, Gati L. Martin, Young-Seob Jeong, and Jiyoung Woo (corresponding author), "Chemical Compound Activeness Prediction Models For COVID-19 Drug Discovery using Machine Learning and Lipinski's Descriptors" in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on ICT for Smart Health & Home (ICT4sHealth & Home), High1 Hotel & Resort, Jeongseon-gun, South Korea, pp. 11-15, December 21-23, 2021. (presentation: December, 22) 

Jun Young Lee, Gati Lother Martin, Medard Edmund Mswahili, and Young-Seob Jeong (corresponding author), "Prediction of Stroke Patients Using Random Forest Models," in Proceedings of the 3rd Engineering in Biomedical and Rehabilitation Conference, Jeju, South Korea, pp. 26-28, June 27-30, 2021. (presentation: June, 28) 

Gati L. Martin, Medard E. Mswahili, Dahye Kim, and Young-Seob Jeong (corresponding author), "Deep Learning in Pharmaceutical Formulations," in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on ICT for Smart Health & Home (ICT4sHealth & Home), Jeju, South Korea, pp. 123-126, December 20-23, 2020. (presentation: December, 21) 

Awards

Springer Nature, Reviewer Certificate Award, In recognition of the contribution to manuscript for Scientific Reports,  November 07th, 2024.

Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing, In recognition of an outstanding contribution to the quality of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Research International, December 14th, 2021.

The outstanding paper award, The 5th International Conference on ICT for Smart Health & Home (ICT4sHealth & Home), December 21-23, 2021.

The outstanding paper award, The 4th International Conference on ICT for Smart Health & Home (ICT4sHealth & Home), December 20-23, 2020. 

Open data

Formation of  cocrystals from API and Coformers [Data]

Drug discovery  and development (Prediction on novel antimalaria drugs)[Data]