Publications

Lai, J. W., & Cheong, K. H*. (2024). Winning with Losses: The Surprising Success of Negative Strategies in Social Interaction Behavior. Physical Review Letters, 133(16), 167401.

Wen, T., Cheong, K. H.*, Lai, J. W., Koh, J. M., & Koonin, E. V. (2022). "Extending the lifespan of multicellular organisms via periodic and stochastic intercellular competition." Physical Review Letters, 128(21), 218101. 

Cheong, K. H.*, Wen, T., Benler, S., Koh, J. M., & Koonin, E. V. (2022). "Alternating lysis and lysogeny is a winning strategy in bacteriophages due to Parrondo's paradox." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(13), e2115145119. 

Cheong, K. H., & Jones, M. C. (2021). Swarm intelligence begins now or never. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(42), e2113678118. 

Cheong, K. H., Koh, J. M., & Jones, M. C. (2018). Multicellular survival as a consequence of Parrondo’s paradox. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(23), E5258-E5259. 

Parikh, B. H., Liu, Z., Blakeley, P., Lin, Q., Singh, M., Ong, J. Y., et. al. (2022). A bio-functional polymer that prevents retinal scarring through modulation of NRF2 signalling pathway. Nature Communications, 13(1), 2796. 

Wen, T., & Cheong, K. H.* (2024). Parrondo's paradox reveals counterintuitive wins in biology and decision making in society. Physics of Life Reviews.

Cheong, K. H.*, & Zhao, J. (2024). Adaptive strategy optimization in game-theoretic paradigm using reinforcement learning. Physical Review Research (Letter), 6(3), L032009.

Wen, T., Koonin, E. V., & Cheong, K. H.* (2024). How flexible parasites can outsmart their hosts for evolutionary dominance. Physical Review Research, 6(2), 023104.

Lai, J. W., & Cheong, K. H.* (2021). Chaotic switching for quantum coin Parrondo's games with application to encryption. Physical Review Research (Letter), 3(2), L022019. 

Zhao, X., Seah, I., Xue, K., Wong, W., Tan, Q. S. W., Ma, X., et. al. (2022). Antiangiogenic nanomicelles for the topical delivery of aflibercept to treat retinal neovascular disease. Advanced Science, 34(25), 2108360. 

Cheong, K. H.*, Wen, T., & Lai, J. W. (2020). Relieving cost of epidemic by Parrondo's paradox: A COVID-19 case study. Advanced Science, 7(24), 2002324. 

Cheong, K. H. (2020). Repurposing Vaccines in the Fight against COVID‐19. BioEssays, 42(11), 2000234. 

Cheong, K. H., & Jones, M. C. (2020). Introducing the 21st century's new four horsemen of the coronapocalypse. BioEssays, 42(7), 2000063. 

Cheong, K. H., Koh, J. M., & Jones, M. C. (2019). Black Swans of CRISPR: Stochasticity and Complexity of Genetic Regulation. BioEssays, 41(7), e1900032-e1900032. 

Cheong, K. H.*, Koh, J. M., & Jones, M. C. (2019). Paradoxical survival: examining the Parrondo effect across biology. BioEssays, 41(6), 1900027. 

Zhao, J., & Cheong, K. H.* (2023). "Obfuscating community structure in complex network with evolutionary divide-and-conquer strategy."IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 

Wang, L., Ma, L., Wang, C., Xie, N. G., Koh, J. M., & Cheong, K. H.* (2021). "Identifying influential spreaders in social networks through discrete moth-flame optimization." IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 25(6), 1091-1102. 

Wen, Tao, Cao, Jinde, & Cheong, K. H.* (2021). "Gravity-based community vulnerability evaluation model in social networks: GBCVE." IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 53(4), 2467-2479.  

Zhao, J., Wang, Z., Cao, J., & Cheong, K. H.* (2023). A self-adaptive evolutionary deception framework for community structure. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. 

Tan, Z. X., & Cheong, K. H.* (2017). Nomadic-colonial life strategies enable paradoxical survival and growth despite habitat destruction. Elife, 6, e21673.