Razib Othman

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. Clustering and Searching of Gene Ontology
2. Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions
3. Annotation of Anonymous Protein Sequence Data
4. Classification of Gene Expression Data

Awards

1. Gold Medal, 34th International Exhibition of Invention New Techniques and Products, Geneva, Switzerland.
2. The 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. Young Researcher 2005 bestowed by Malaysian Association of Research Scientists (MARS).
8. Gold Medal, 5th Malaysia Technology Expo, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
9. Gold Medal, 3rd Public Institutions of Higher Learning Research and Development Expo, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
10. The Best Invention, 8th Industrial Art and Technology Exhibition, Skudai, Malaysia.
11. Gold Medal (ICT/Manufacturing-Machinery-Idustrial Process Category), 8th Industrial Art and Technology Exhibition, Skudai, Malaysia.

Publications

1. Othman R.M., Deris S., and Illias R.M. (Jul 2006). UTMGO: A Tool for Searching a Group of Semantically Related Gene Ontology Terms and Application to Annotation of Anonymous Protein Sequence. Int'l Journal Biomedical Sciences 1(2): 111-119 [GO Bibliography].
2. Alashwal H.T., Deris S., and Othman R.M. (Jul 2006). One-Class Support Vector Machines for Protein-Protein Interactions Prediction. Int'l Journal Biomedical Sciences 1(2): 120-127.
3. Othman R.M., Deris S., 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 Journal Computational Intelligence 3(3): 257-266 [GO Bibliography].
4. Othman R.M., Deris S., Illias R.M., Zakaria Z., and Mohamad S.M. (Apr 2006). Automatic Clustering of Gene Ontology by Genetic Algorithm. Int'l Journal Information Technology 3(1): 37-46 [GO Bibliography].
5. Alashwal H.T., Deris S., and Othman R.M. (Apr 2006). Comparison of Domain and Hydrophobicity Features for the Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions Using Support Vector Machines. Int'l Journal Information Technology 3(1): 18-24.
6. Zafar M.F., Mohamad Z., and Othman R.M. (Jan 2006). Writer Independent Online Handwritten Character Recognition Using a Simple Approach. Information Technology Journal 5(3): 476-484.
7. Zafar M.F., Mohamad Z., and Othman R.M. (Dec 2005). Online Handwritten Character Recognition: An Analysis of Counter-Propagation Neural Net. Trans Engineering, Computing, and Technology 10(1): 232-237.
8. Alashwal H.T., Deris S., and Othman R.M. (Jun 2006). Proteins Interactions from Protein Sequence Features Using Support Vector Machines. Accepted at the Int'l Conf Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'06), Las Vegas, USA.
9. Alashwal H.T., Deris S., and Othman R.M. (Jun 2006). Support Vector Machines for Predicting Protein-Protein Interactions Using Domains and Hydrophobicity Features. In Abstract Book Int'l Conf Computing & Informatics (ICOCI'06), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 31.
10. Zafar M.F., Mohamad Z., and Othman R.M. (Apr 2006). Neural Nets for On-line Isolated Handwritten Character Recognition: A Comparative Study. In Proc IEEE Int'l Conf Engineering of Intelligent Systems (ICEIS'2006), Islamabad, Pakistan. pp 30-35.
11. Mohamad Z., Zafar M.F., and Othman R.M. (Apr 2006). On-Line Cursive Handwriting Recognition: A Survey of Methods and Performances. In Proc 4th Int'l Multiconf Computer Science & Information Technology (CSIT'06), Amman, Jordan. pp 70-84.

Software

UTMGO: A Tool for Searching a Group of Semantically Related GO Terms and Annotation of Anonymous Protein Sequence.

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