Research

Research Interests and Experience:

My current works revolve around artificial intelligence and machine learning, for problems in text mining, recommender systems, and optimization. The approaches I am interested include deep neural network, deep reinforcement learning, multi-objective optimization. The domains that I am interested in are education, health, agriculture, and biodiversity.

Ongoing Research Projects:

  1. Interactive Machine Learning based on Deep Reinforcement Learning and Generative Adversarial Network Hybrid for Digital Twin, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), United States, 2021-2024

  2. Digitalisation and Internet of Things Programme for Biodiversity, Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM), Malaysia 12th Plan, 2022-2025

  3. Digital Twin Prototype for Integrated Multi-Enterprise Agricultural Monitoring Mechanism, Geran Putra Berkumpulan (Program Strategik TNC), 2022-2023

  4. Back to Work Better, APEC-Science Leadership Fellowship Program, National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Thailand, 2021-2022

  5. Artificial Intelligence for Personalized Learning, Malaysia Task Force for Artificial Intelligence Roadmap Implementation

  6. Artificial Intelligence for Education in Enhancing Education for Human Capital Development through Establishing Future Learning Ecosystem, Malaysia Research University Network Grant, Ministry of Education Malaysia (Lead Sub project), 2018-2021 project website

  7. Multimodal Hierarchical Fusion Feature Model Incorporating Attention Mechanism with Word Level Alignment, Fundamental Research Grant Scheme, Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (Co-researcher), 2020-2023


Completed Research Projects:

  1. Deep Recurrent Q-Network Approach for Multi Objective Markov Decision Process in Partially Observable Environment, United Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), United States, (Principal Researcher), 2018-2021

  2. Impact Study on the Integration of Welfare Bantuan Sara Hidup (BSH) Delivery Database (Lead Sub project), Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia (LHDN), 2020-2021

  3. Analytics Dashboard for Government Financial Aid System, (Lead Sub project), Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia (LHDN), 2021

  4. Multicriteria Optimization Decision Model to lmprove Operational Efficiency of Social Welfare Case Management, Fundamental Research Grant Scheme, Ministry of Education, Malaysia (Co-researcher), 2019-2021

  5. Conceptualising a Linguistic and Rhetorical Move Prototype of Best Practices in Medical Learners’ Oral Case Presentation, Fundamental Research Grant Scheme, ,Ministry of Education Malaysia (Co-researcher), 2019-2021

  6. Artificial Intelligence in Business Intelligence for Improving Food and Beverages Customer Service, Innovation Grant, Universiti Putra Malaysia (Co-researcher), 2018-2019

  7. Envisioning Putra Future Classroom for UPM Smart Campus: Early Prediction of At-Risk Students using Learning Analytics, Innovation in Teaching and Learning Grant, Universiti Putra Malaysia (Co-Researcher), 2018-2021

  8. Envisioning Putra Future Classroom Ecosystem For Upm Smart Campus: Development Of Transformative Curriculum Management System For Customized T&L Based On Content Knowledge, Task-Based Pedagogy, User Needs And Experiences, Innovation in Teaching and Learning Grant, Universiti Putra Malaysia (Co-Researcher), 2018-2021

  9. Integrating Interprofessional Simulation-based Obesity Education into the Virtual World for Health Profession Students, Innovation in Teaching and Learning Grant, Universiti Putra Malaysia (Co-Researcher), 2018-2021

  10. Strategic Integrated Measure on Advocating IDEAS2: A Comprehensive Fundamental, Technical and Public Health Approaches, Malaysia Research University Network Grant, Ministry of Education Malaysia (Co-researcher), 2019-2021

  11. Development of Teaching and Learning Innovation Guideline based on Best-Practices Analysis Towards the Transformation of Teaching and Learning Delivery, Innovation in Teaching and Learning Grant, Universiti Putra Malaysia (Principal Researcher), 2018-2019

  12. Kajian Penyeragaman Saluran Kemasukan Ke Universiti Bagi Program Sarjana Muda, Ministry of Education Malaysia (Co-researcher), 2019

  13. Kajian, Pemurnian dan Penyelarasan Pelaksanaan Dasar e-Pembelajaran Negara 2.0 (DePAN 2.0) di IPTA,, Ministry of Education Malaysia (Co-researcher), 2019

  14. Self Adaptive Model to Improve Disambiguation of Linguistics and Conceptual Mapping in Semantic Question Answering, Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (Principle Researcher), 2013-2018

  15. National Integrated Information Security Threat Factor Profiling, Cybersecurity Malaysia (Consultant), 2016-2018

  16. Evolving Multi-Granular Temporal Abstraction Method to Improve Clinical Data Analysis, Inisiatif Putra Muda, (Principle Researcher), 2013-2015

  17. VKer: Visualization of Knowledge Recap, Research University Grant Sheme (Principle Researcher), 2011-2013

  18. Conversational system for museum tour planning personalization and recommendation, Research University Grant Scheme (Principle Researcher), 2012-2014

  19. Online Reputation Meter, Market Validation Grant (Principle Researcher), 2013-2015

  20. Hybrid Kernel and Sentiment Analysis Methods for Accurate Stock Anticipation in Financial News, Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (Co-Researcher), 2014-2016

  21. Natural Language Interface to Quran Ontology: Towards a new Quranic education platform in Malaysia, eScienceFund (Co-Researcher), 2012-2014

  22. Towards Crime Analysis using Sentiment Mining to Forecast Future Occurrences in Crime Series, Exploratory Grant Scheme (Co-Researcher), 2012-2014

  23. Logical Semantic Structured Language Model for Knowledge-Based Society, Long-term Grant Scheme (Co-Researcher), 2011-2014

  24. Collaborative formal and non-formal education re-engineering youth development in the marginalized communities towards employability (Co-Researcher), 2013-2016

  25. Semantic Concepts Extraction in Sports Video, Research University Grant Sheme (Co-Researcher), 2012-2014

  26. An Enhanced Light-weight Ontology Competency Checker, Prototype Research Grant Scheme (Co-Researcher), 2012-2014


Copyrights:

  • A Translation Engine from Natural Language Question to Semantic Query (SPARQL), 2014

  • Sentimetrics Engine and Reputation Meter application, 2014

  • Multi Agent based Recommender System, 2014

  • Framework of Medical Information Retrieval System, 2011

  • IMS: Intelligent Medical Search System, 2011

  • FTCat: Fuzzy Text Categorizer, 2011

  • Framework of Semantic based Fuzzy Text Classifier (FTCat), 2011

  • Semantic Representative Text Learning with Evolving Fuzzy Grammar Algorithm, 2011

  • Semantic based Fuzzy Text Classifier (FRTC), 2011