Razib Othman

Contact Info

Razib M. Othman
Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics
Department of Software Engineering
Faculty of Computer Science and Information System
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
81310 UTM Skudai, MALAYSIA
Tel: +607-55-32358
Fax: +607-55-65044
E-mail: razib@fsksm.utm.my

Education

• expected 2006, PhD (Computer Science), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
• 2003, MSc (Computer Science), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
• 1999, BSc (Computer Science), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Research Interests

1. Gene Ontology
2. Ontology Clustering
3. Ontology Search
4. Protein Homology Detection

Awards

1. Gold Medal, 34th International Exhibition of Invention New Techniques and Products, Geneva, Switzerland
2. Best Invention of the Pacific Rim Award, 22nd Invention and New Product Exposition, Pittsburgh, USA
3. Silver Medal (Engineering Category), 22nd Invention and New Product Exposition, Pittsburgh, USA
4. Silver Medal (Design Technical Category), 22nd Invention and New Product Exposition, Pittsburgh, USA
5. Bronze Medal (Automotive Category), 22nd Invention and New Product Exposition, Pittsburgh, USA
6. Bronze Medal (Computer Software Category), 22nd Invention and New Product Exposition, Pittsburgh, USA
7. Gold Medal, 5th Malaysia Technology Expo, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
8. Gold Medal, 3rd Public Institutions of Higher Learning Research and Development Expo, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Publications

1. Othman R.M., Deris D., Illias R.M., Alashwal H.T., Hassan R., and Mohamed F. (May 2006). Incorporating Semantic Similarity Measure in Genetic Algorithm: An Approach for Searching the Gene Ontology Terms. Int'l J. Computational Intelligence 3(3): 257-266.
2. Othman R.M., Deris D., Illias R.M., Zakaria Z., and Mohamad S.M. (Apr 2006). Automatic Clustering of Gene Ontology by Genetic Algorithm. Int'l J. Information Technology 3(1): 37-46 (refer to [GO Bibliography]).