Curriculum Vitae

ASSOCIATE PROF. DR. KASTURI DEWI A/P VARATHAN

Associate Professor
  • Department of Information System
    Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology
  • kasturi
  • 0379677022

BIOGRAPHY

 

Kasturi Dewi Varathan, is currently an associate professor at the Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya, Malaysia. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the National University of Malaysia. Her main research focus is in the field of Data Analytics, Text Mining and Information Retrieval. Dr.Kasturi has published in several high-ranked journals and conferences. Her research on data analytics won several awards in international and national level competitions. Research institutions too have gained from her expertise. She has served as visiting scientist to the Information Systems Research Group of the Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, Switzerland as well as research fellow at the Institute of Visual Informatics, National University of Malaysia. She has been appointed as Adjunct Professor at Veltech University, India. Dr.Kasturi has also secured national and international grants. Some of the prominent grants that she has received are Applied Research Partnership Grant funded by ETH Zurich(Switzerland), People Exchange Grant funded by Swiss Education, Research and Innovation Grant(Switzerland) and Prototype Research Grant from the Ministry of Higher Education (Malaysia).  She is also a recipient of the prestigious Leadership in Innovation Fellowship award by the United Kingdom and Malaysian Government. 

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • DATA ANALYTICS
  • INFORMATION RETRIEVAL(DATA MINING, OPINION MINING, SENTIMENT ANALYSIS)
  • PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS (MACHINE LEARNING)

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

  • PhD, (Bidang Sistem Maklumat)
    Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
  • M.Comp.Sc(MIS)(UM), (MIS)
    Universiti Malaya (UM)
  • B.IT(Hons)(Uniten), (Information Technology)
    Universiti Tenaga Nasional

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

  • Committee Members
    01 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2027 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Programme Coordinator
    02 Jun 2021 - 19 Jan 2024 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Committee Members
    02 Jan 2022 - 17 Aug 2023 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Industrial Training Coordinator (Data Science)
    01 May 2021 - 30 Jun 2023 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Committee Member- Curriculum for Bachelor of Computer Science (Data Science)
    01 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2022 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Special Comittee Member for the Development and Validation of the Malaya Student's Future-Readiness Inventory (MSFRI)
    03 Feb 2021 - 30 Aug 2022 (University Malaya)
  • Committee Member- Curriculum Bachelor Programme
    22 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2021 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Committee Member for Bachelor of Computer Science (Data Science)
    01 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2021 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Advisory Panel for the Establishment of Malaysian Indian Community Research Center
    02 Feb 2021 - 31 Dec 2021 (University Malaya)
  • Head of Committee for Microcredentials Program
    07 Apr 2021 - 31 May 2021 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Task Force Member : Precision Intervention
    15 Mar 2021 - 16 Apr 2021 (University Malaya)
  • Committee Member- Mobilty Programme
    27 Aug 2018 - 26 Aug 2020 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Asean Data Science Exposition (ADSE) Committee Member
    01 Mar 2018 - 31 Oct 2019 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Penyelaras Kursus Teras dan Kursus Program
    01 Jan 2018 - 31 Aug 2019 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Committee Member for FCSIT International Mobility
    01 Sep 2018 - 31 Dec 2018 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Head of Committee of International Workshop on Data Analytics 2018
    01 Aug 2018 - 31 Oct 2018 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Committee Member for Masters in Digital Humanities
    20 Nov 2015 - 27 Aug 2018 (University Malaya)
  • Committee of IDAY2017
    17 Nov 2017 - 17 Nov 2017 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Committee Staff Development Workshop 2017
    10 Nov 2017 - 10 Nov 2017 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Committee Member for Competition Task Force
    01 Aug 2014 - 31 Dec 2016 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Special Committee Member for Big Data
    22 Dec 2014 - 21 Dec 2016 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Committee Member for UMExpert Project
    15 Dec 2014 - 14 Dec 2016 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Committee Member for Master in Data Science
    26 Feb 2015 - 31 Jul 2016 (University Malaya)
  • Committee Member of Malaysian Journal of Computer Science(MJCS)
    16 Mar 2015 - 13 Mar 2016 (Faculty)
  • Committee Member for MobileAppsTec Competition
    28 Nov 2014 - 27 Dec 2015 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Interviewer for Bachelor Degree Program of University of Malaya
    14 Mar 2014 - 13 Dec 2015 (University Malaya)
  • Committee Member
    23 Oct 2015 - 23 Oct 2015 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Secretary
    22 Oct 2015 - 22 Oct 2015 (University Malaya)
  • Academic Advisor
    06 Sep 2013 - 05 Sep 2015 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Committee Member MyAppsTech 2015
    20 Apr 2015 - 01 Jun 2015 (University Malaya)
  • Supervisor
    28 May 2014 - 31 Dec 2014 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Committee Member for Roadshow
    10 Nov 2014 - 09 Nov 2014 (University Malaya)
  • Committee Member for Soft Skill
    10 Sep 2013 - 09 Sep 2014 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Committee Member Roadshow FCSIT
    01 Aug 2012 - 31 Jul 2014 (University Malaya)
  • Panel Postgraduate Research Symposium
    26 Sep 2012 - 26 Sep 2012 (Department of Information System, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)

AWARD AND STEWARDSHIP

  • Gold Award
    DIGIT360, DIGITAL INFORMATION INTEREST GROUP (DIGIT), AND INFORMATION SCIENCE STUDIES, COLLEGE OF COMPUTING, INFORMATICS, AND MATHEMATICS, UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA (UITM), 2024 (National)
  • Special Award for Personalized Buddy Recommendation System for Cardiac Rehab Patients
    DIGIT360, DIGITAL INFORMATION INTEREST GROUP (DIGIT), AND INFORMATION SCIENCE STUDIES, COLLEGE OF COMPUTING, INFORMATICS, AND MATHEMATICS, UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA (UITM), 2024 (National)
  • EXCELLENCE SERVICE AWARD
    University of Malaya, 2021 (University)
  • Best Strategic Thinking Award
    Medical Device Innovation Center, National Cheng Kung University, 2019 (International)
  • Leaders in Innovation Fellowship
    United Kingdom, Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Newton Fund Newton Fund and MIGHT, 2019 (International)
  • CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENT SERVICE
    University of Malaya, 2018 (University)
  • Gold, Comparative Review-Based Recommendation System, International Invention and Innovative Competition(INIIC2017)
    MNNF Publisher, 2017 (International)
  • Silver, Eliminating Fake Tweets, International Invention and Innovative Competition 2017(INIIC2017)
    MNNF Publisher, 2017 (International)
  • Gold, Spot the Spreaders, International Invention and Innovative Competition (INIIC2017)
    MNNF Publisher, 2017 (International)
  • Silver, International Intellectual Exposition 2017
    MALCOURSE, 2017 (International)
  • CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENT SERVICE
    University of Malaya, 2017 (University)
  • Silver, Tweet GST: Mining the Tweets, International Invention, Innovation and Design Exposition
    University Technology Mara, 2016 (International)
  • Silver, Tweet Filter: Retrieving Credible Tweets
    University Technology Mara, 2016 (International)
  • Gold, Dengue Outbreak Prediction System, International Invention, Innovation and Design Award
    University Tekology Mara, 2016 (International)
  • Mentor for the Winner, Big Data Challenge Competition
    KDU, 2016 (National)
  • Gold, International Young Inventors Award
    INNOPA, 2016 (International)
  • Anugerah Projek Akedemik Cemerlang
    FSKTM, 2015 (University)
  • The Best Project for Faculty Level, Anugerah Projek Akademik Cemerlang 2015
    Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, 2015 (Ptj/ Faculty)
  • Gold Medal at Eureka Innovation Exhibition 2015:- Facebook Users' Emotion Mining System
    UniKL MSI, 2015 (National)
  • Gold Medal at Eureka Innovation Exhibition 2015:- Securing Online Communication: Cyberbullying Detection On Twitter
    UniKL MSI, 2015 (National)
  • Best of Electrical & Electronics, ICT, Multimedia and Telecommunication Award at Eureka Innovation Exhibition 2015
    UniKL MSI, 2015 (National)
  • Best of the Best Award at Eureka Innovation Exhibition 2015
    UniKL MSI, 2015 (National)
  • Excuse Me, You Have Arrived App, Mobile Apps Development Technology, Exhibition and Competition 2015
    App Asia and FSKTM, 2015 (University)
  • Call N Message Scheduler, Mobile Apps Development Technology, Exhibition and Competition 2015
    App Asia and FSKTM, 2015 (University)
  • Gold, Real Time Meter Reader & Tracker (RTM Reader & Tracker), Mobile Apps Development Technology, Exhibition and Competition 2015
    App Asia and FSKTM, 2015 (University)
  • Gold,Business Reviews Alert, Mobile Apps Development Technology, Exhibition and Competition 2015
    App Asia and FSKTM, 2015 (University)
  • Gold Award, Intelligent Cyberguard System on Twitter
    Invention, Innovation & Design Exposition 2015, 2015 (International)
  • Facebook User's Emotion Mining System(Best Department Project)
    Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, 2014 (Ptj/ Faculty)
  • Silver Medal, Finding Career Through Personality Mining in Facebook
    Universiti Teknologi Mara, 2014 (International)
  • Gold Medal, Dengue Outbreak Intelligent Prediction System by Hybrid ANN-PSO-GA Model
    Universiti Teknologi Mara, 2014 (International)
  • Best Paper Award, Facebook Users' Emotion Mining System
    International Scholarly Conference on Emerging Technologies for Information Systems and Business Management, 2014 (International)
  • First Place, Website Design Competition
    Neraca Harmoni, 2012 (National)

PUBLICATIONS

Article in Journal
WoS
  1. Quaderi, Shah Jafor Sadeek; Varathan, Kasturi Dewi (2024). Identification of significant features and machine learning technique in predicting helpful reviews, PEERJ COMPUTER SCIENCE. 10. doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.1745
  2. Santhiran, Rajeswary; Varathan, Kasturi Dewi; Chiam, Yin Kia (2024). Feature extraction from customer reviews using enhanced rules, PEERJ COMPUTER SCIENCE. 10. doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.1821
  3. Teng, Teoh Hwai; Varathan, Kasturi Dewi; Crestani, Fabio (2024). A comprehensive review of cyberbullying-related content classification in online social media, EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS. 244. doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2023.122644
  4. Zayet, Tasnim M. A.; Ismail, Maizatul Akmar; Varathan, Kasturi Dewi (2024). Aspect Extraction in Domain Lexicon Generation: A New Frequency-Based Approach, IEEE ACCESS. 12, 138972-138984. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3442930
  5. Teng, Teoh Hwai; Varathan, Kasturi Dewi (2023). Cyberbullying Detection in Social Networks: A Comparison Between Machine Learning and Transfer Learning Approaches, IEEE ACCESS. 11, 55533-55560. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3275130
  6. Lee, Wan Ling; Lim, Zi Jing; Tang, Li Yoong; Yahya, Nor Aziyan; Varathan, Kasturi Dewi; Ludin, Salizar Mohamed (2022). Patients' Technology Readiness and eHealth Literacy Implications for Adoption and Deployment of eHealth in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond, CIN-COMPUTERS INFORMATICS NURSING. 40(4), 244-250. doi:10.1097/CIN.0000000000000854
  7. Yuan, Choo Jia; Varathan, Kasturi Dewi; Suhaimi, Anwar; Ling, Lee Wan (2022). PREDICTING RETURN TO WORK AFTER CARDIAC REHABILITATION USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS, JOURNAL OF REHABILITATION MEDICINE. 55. doi:10.2340/jrm.v54.2432
  8. Choong, E. J., & Varathan, K. D. (2021). Predicting judging-perceiving of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) in online social forum. Peerj, 9, 27. doi: 10.7717/peerj.11382
  9. Managuran, K. D., Varathan, K. D., & Al-Garadi, M. A. D. (2021). CAN MUSIC LIKES IN FACEBOOK DETERMINE YOUR PERSONALITY? Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, 34(1), 61-81. doi: 10.22452/mjcs.vol34no1.4
  10. Nejad, F. Y., & Varathan, K. D. (2021). Identification of significant climatic risk factors and machine learning models in dengue outbreak prediction. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 21(1), 12. doi: 10.1186/s12911-021-01493-y
  11. Seng, Z., Kareem, S. A., & Varathan, K. D. (2021). A Neighborhood Undersampling Stacked Ensemble (NUS-SE) in imbalanced classification. Expert Systems with Applications, 168, 17. doi: 10.1016/j.eswa.2020.114246
  12. Yazdani, A., Varathan, K. D., Chiam, Y. K., Malik, A. W., & Ahmad, W. A. W. (2021). A novel approach for heart disease prediction using strength scores with significant predictors. Bmc Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 21(1), 16. doi: 10.1186/s12911-021-01527-5
  13. Zayet, T. M. A., Ismail, M. A., Varathan, K. D., Noor, R. M. D., Chua, H. N., Lee, A., . . . Singh, S. K. J. (2021). Investigating transportation research based on social media analysis: a systematic mapping review. Scientometrics, 126(8), 6383-6421. doi: 10.1007/s11192-021-04046-2
  14. Zian, S., Kareem, S. A., & Varathan, K. D. (2021). An Empirical Evaluation of Stacked Ensembles With Different Meta-Learners in Imbalanced Classification. Ieee Access, 9, 87434-87452. doi: 10.1109/access.2021.3088414
  15. Idris, N. M., Chiam, Y. K., Varathan, K. D., Ahmad, W. A. W., Chee, K. H., & Liew, Y. M. (2020). Feature selection and risk prediction for patients with coronary artery disease using data mining. Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 58(12), 3123-3140. doi: 10.1007/s11517-020-02268-9
  16. Amin, M. S., Chiam, Y. K., Varathan, K. D. (2019). Identification of significant features and data mining techniques in predicting heart disease. Telematics and Informatics, 36, 82-93. doi:10.1016/j.tele.2018.11.007
  17. Al-Garadi, M. A., Varathan, K. D., Ravana, S. D., Ahmed, E., Mujtaba, G., Khan, M. U. S., Khan, S. U. (2018). Analysis of Online Social Network Connections for Identification of Influential Users: Survey and Open Research Issues. Acm Computing Surveys, 51(1), 37. doi:10.1145/3155897
Others
  1. Santhiran, R., Varathan, K. D., & Chiam, Y. K. (2024). Feature extraction from customer reviews using enhanced rules. PeerJ Computer Science, 10, e1821.
  2. Teng, T. H., Varathan, K. D., & Crestani, F. (2023). A Comprehensive Review of Cyberbullying-related Content Classification In Online Social Media. Expert Systems with Applications, 122644.
  3. Lee, W. L., Lim, Z. J., Tang, L. Y., Yahya, N. A., Varathan, K. D., & Ludin, S. M. (2022). Patients' Technology Readiness and eHealth Literacy: Implications for Adoption and Deployment of eHealth in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond. CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 40(4), 244-250.
  4. Yuan, C. J., Varathan, K. D., Suhaimi, A., & Ling, L. W. (2022). Predicting Return to Work after Cardiac Rehabilitation. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, jrm00348-jrm00348.
  5. Nejad. F.Y., Varathan K.D (2021). Identification of Significant Climatic Risk Factors and Machine Learning Models in Dengue Outbreak Prediction. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.
  6. Seng, Z., Kareem, S. A., & Varathan, K. D. (2020). A Neighborhood Undersampling Stacked Ensemble (NUS-SE) in imbalanced classification. Expert Systems with Applications, 114246. (Q1)
  7. Seng, Z., Kareem, S. A., & Varathan, K. D.(2021). An Empirical Evaluation of Stacked Ensembles with Different Meta-Learners in Imbalanced Classification. IEEE Access (Q1).
  8. Yazdani, A., Varathan, K.D., Chiam, Y.K., Malik A.W., Wan Ahmad W.A.(2021) . A novel approach for heart disease prediction using strength scores with significant predictors. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 21, 194. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-021-01527-5
  9. Zayet T., Ismail M.A., Varathan K. D. etc.(2021).Investigating Transportation Research Based on Social Media Analysis: A Systematic Mapping Review. Scientometrics.
  10. Idris, N. M., Chiam, Y. K., Varathan, K. D., Ahmad, W. A. W., Chee, K. H., & Liew, Y. M. (2020). Feature selection and risk prediction for patients with coronary artery disease using data mining. Medical & biological engineering & computing, 58(12), 3123-3140.
  11. Manugaran, K.D, Varathan, K.D. Can Music Likes in Facebook Determines your Personality?. Malaysian Journal of Computer Science.
  12. Shah Jafor, Varathan K.D. (2020). Identifying Helpful Reviews from User Generated Data: The Issues and Challenges. Seminar on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management (SIRKM2020).
  13. Al-Garadi, M. A., Varathan, K. D., Ravana, S. D., Ahmed, E., Mujtaba, G., Khan, M. U. S., & Khan, S. U. (2018). Analysis of Online Social Network Connections for Identification of Influential Users: Survey and Open Research Issues. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 51(1), 16. (Q1)
  14. Santhiran, R., & Varathan, K. D. (2018). Feature Based Ranking Approaches in Opinion Mining: A Systematic Review. Advanced Science Letters, 24(3), 1881-1884.
  15. Ting, T. L., & Varathan, K. D. (2018). Job recommendation using Facebook personality scores. Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, 31(4), 311-331.
  16. Adewole, K. S., Anuar, N. B., Kamsin, A., Varathan, K. D., & Razak, S. A. (2017). Malicious accounts: dark of the social networks. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 79, 41-67.
  17. Al-garadi, M. A., Varathan, K. D., & Ravana, S. D. (2017). Identification of influential spreaders in online social networks using interaction weighted K-core decomposition method. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 468, 278-288.
  18. Varathan, K. D., Giachanou, A., & Crestani, F. (2017). Comparative opinion mining: a review. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(4), 811-829.
  19. Al-Garadi, M. A., Khan, M. S., Varathan, K. D., Mujtaba, G., & Al-Kabsi, A. M. (2016). Using online social networks to track a pandemic: A systematic review. Journal of biomedical informatics, 62, 1-11.
  20. Mohammed Ali Al Garadi, Kasturi Dewi Varathan, Sri Devi Ravana. Cybercrime Detection in Online Communications: The Experimental Case of Cyberbullying Detection in the Twitter Network. Computers and Human Behavior.(Q1)
  21. Mohammed Ali Al Garadi, Kasturi Dewi Varathan, Sri Devi Ravana, Ejaz Ahmed, Victor Chang(2016). Identifying the influential spreaders in multilayer interactions of online social networks. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems(Q1)
  22. Felestin Yavari Nejad and Kasturi Dewi Varathan. 2014. Dengue Prediction System using Artificial Neural Network Model and Genetic Algorithm: A Review.(Accepted for Publication)
  23. Kala Devi Managuran and Kasturi Dewi Varathan. Personality Mining Based on Likes Using Facebook Data: A Review.(Accepted for Publication)
  24. Kasturi Dewi Varathan, Noor Fahrahin Abdul Hamid & Chiam Yin Kia. Facebook Filter: Create Awareness among Users.(Accepted for Publication)
  25. Liew Choong Hon, Kasturi Dewi Varathan. 2015. Cyberbullying Detection in Twitter, International Journal of Information Systems and Engineering(IJISE)
  26. Muhammad Ali Al-Garadi, Kasturi Dewi Varathan. Mining Social Media for Crime Detection:- Review. (Accepted for Publication)
  27. Nastaran Jamialahmadi, Kasturi Dewi Varathan and Tutut Herawan. 2014. Skill Ontology for Recruitment System. (Accepted for Publication)
  28. Saravanan Thankarajah & Kasturi Dewi Varathan. 2014. Factors Influencing the Turnover in IT based Organizations.(Accepted for Publication)
  29. Ng Sok Yee & Kasturi Dewi Varathan. Facebook Users' Emotion Mining System.
  30. Sri Devi Ravana, Nisha Gurusamy & Kasturi Dewi Varathan. Autism and the Need for Special User Interface Design for Web Surfacing.
  31. Varathan, K. D., Sembok, T. M. T., Kadir, R. A., & Omar, N. (2014). Semantic indexing for question answering system. Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, 27(4), 261-274.
  32. Yusof, R.J.R, Zainudin, R., Baba, M.S., Yusoff, Z.M., Jomhari N. 2012. Visualizing Qur'anic words with parallel plot. Malaysian Journal of Computer Science (ISSN 0127- 9084), Volume 25, Issue 2, 2012, pp 90-106. (ISI/SCOPUS Cited Publication)
  33. Kasturi Dewi Varathan, Tengku Mohd. Tengku Sembok, Rabiah Abdul Kadir. Automatic Lexicon Generator: An Algorithm, Malaysian Journal of Computing
Chapter in Books
  1. Kasturi Dewi Varathan, Mohammad Ali. 2013. Mining Social Media for Crime Detection. UM Press
Article in Proceeding
  1. Q.H Tan & K.D Varathan. The Effect of COVID-19 on the Sentiment and Relationships of University Students. Second International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (2nd IC2SE)
  2. Kasturi Dewi Varathan, Anastasia Giachanou, Fabio Crestani. 2016. Temporal Analysis of Comparative Opinion Mining. 18th International Conference on Asia Pacific Digital Libraries.
  3. Liew Choong Hon, Kasturi Dewi Varathan. 2015. Cyberbullying Detection on Twitter, 4th International Conference on Emerging Technologies for Information Systems.
  4. Felestin Yavari Nejad and Kasturi Dewi Varathan. 2014. Dengue Prediction System using Artificial Neural Network Model and Genetic Algorithm: A Review. Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Science & Computational Mathematics, pg.155- 159
  5. Kala Devi Managuran and Kasturi Dewi Varathan. 2014. Personality Mining Based on Likes Using Facebook Data: A Review. Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Science & Computational Mathematics, pg.167-171
  6. Kasturi Dewi Varathan, Noor Fahrahin Abdul Hamid and Chiam Yin Kia. 2014. Facebook Filter: Create Awareness among Users. Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Science & Computational Mathematics, pg.43-47
  7. Kasturi Dewi Varathan, Nurhafizah Talib. Suicide Detection System Based on Twitter
  8. Mohammed Ali Al-garadi and Kasturi Dewi Varathan. 2014. Mining Social Media for Crime Detection: Review. Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Science & Computational Mathematics, pg.48-54
  9. Nastaran Jamialahmadi, Kasturi Dewi Varathan and Tutut Herawan. 2014. Skill Ontology for Recruitment System. Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Science & Computational Mathematics, pg.63-68
  10. Ng Sok Yee, Kasturi Dewi Varathan. Facebook Users' Emotion Mining System. 3rd International Conference on Emerging Technologies for Information Systems.(Best Paper Award)
  11. Saravanan Thankarajah and Kasturi Dewi. 2014. Factors Influencing the Turnover in IT based Organizations. Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Science & Computational Mathematics, pg.315-319
  12. Thiam Li Ting and Kasturi Dewi Varathan. 2014. Personality Mining & Job Matching in Facebook. Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Science & Computational Mathematics, pg.55-62
  13. Kasturi Dewi Varathan, Thiam Li Thing. 2013. Mining Facebook in Identifying Software Engineering Students' Personality and Job Matching. Proceeding of the Asian Conference on Society, Education and Technology, pg.290-
  14. Kasturi Dewi Varathan, Tengku M. T. Sembok, Rabiah Abdul Kadir, Nazlia Omar: Skolem preprocessing using WordNet and lexicon in building effective knowledge representation. ICEEI 2011: 1-5
  15. Kasturi Dewi Varathan, Tengku Mohd Tengku Sembok, Rabiah Abdul Kadir, Nazlia Omar. Building Knowledge Representation for Multiple Documents Using Semantic Skolem Indexing. Proceeding of International Conference on Software Engineering and Computer Systems 2011.
  16. Kasturi Dewi Varathan, Tengku Mohd. Tengku Sembok, Rabiah Abdul Kadir, Nazlia Omar. Retrieving Answers from Multiple Documents Using Skolem Indexing. Proceeding of International Conference on Semantic Technology and Information Retrieval 2011
  17. Kasturi Dewi Varathan, Tengku Mohd. Tengku Sembok, Rabiah Abdul Kadir. Automatic Lexicon Generator for Logic Based Question Answering System. Proceeding of Second International Conference on Computer Engineering and Applications 2010
  18. Kasturi Dewi Varathan, Tengku Mohd.Tengku Sembok, Rabiah Abdul Kadir. Automatic Lexicon Generator. Proceeding of International Conference on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management 2010

RESEARCH PROJECT

National
  1. 2022 - 2024, Prototype Research Grant Scheme (PRGS)
    Ai-enabled Application For Personalization And Monitoring Of Fitness Among Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  2. 2022 - 2024, RU Geran - UMCares
    Mental Health Awareness Program For School Students And Teachers Using Mobile Apps ( Co-Researcher)
  3. 2020 - 2023, RU Geran - Fakulti Program
    Enhancing The Reliability Of Search Engine Performance Measurement For Retrieving Covid-19 Scholarly Literature In Rapidly Evolving Crisis Scenario ( Co-Researcher)
  4. 2020 - 2023, Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS)
    A Hybrid Software Process Model For Ai-enabled Healthcare Systems ( Co-Researcher)
  5. 2019 - 2022, Others MOHE - Top 100 (IIRG)-SAH
    Learning Analytics For Smart Education ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  6. 2012 - 2015, Flagship - SBS (Equitable Society)
    Mining Social Media In Preparing Student For Job Market ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  7. 2014 - 2017, Geran Penyelidikan Universiti Malaya (UMRG)
    Evaluation of Image Processing and Simulation Software Framework for the Diagnosis and Outcome Prediction of Myocardial Infarction ( Consultant)
  8. 2013 - 2016, Exploratory Research Grant Scheme (ERGS)
    Exploring Feasibility of Enhancing the Realibility of Information Retrieval Performance Measurements in Large Scale Experimental Evaluation ( Consultant)
  9. 2013 - 2015, High Impact Research (HIR)
    Effective and Reliable Evaluation Methodologies for Information Retrieval Systems ( Consultant)
  10. 2014 - 2015, ETH Zurich
    Detecting and Tracking Emotion Expressions in Comparative Opinions ( Consultant)
  11. 2012 - 2014, Geran Penyelidikan Universiti Malaya (UMRG)
    Effective Information Retrieval Techniques for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder ( Consultant)
  12. 2013 - 2014, Geran Penyelidikan Universiti Malaya (UMRG)
    Mining Social Media for Crime Detection ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  13. 2012 - 2013, Flagship ICT & Education
    Mining Social Media in Preparing Students for Job Market ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  14. 2012 - 2013, Flagship
    Design and Integration of Effective Wikis in Technology Enhanced Learning Environment ( Consultant)
  15. 2003 - 2004, Short Term Research Fund (Vote F)(PJP)
    Information Technology in Problem Based Learning. ( Principal Investigator(PI))
University
  1. 2020 - 2023, Private Funding
    The Impact Of Mhealth Technology On Cardiovascular Secondary Prevention Outcomes In Participants Of Home-based Cardiac Rehabilitation Program ( Co-Researcher)

ACADEMIC/PROF. SERVICES

Evaluation
  1. (2023) Disinformation Propagation Trend Analysis and Identification Based On Social Situation Analytics and Multilevel Attention Network, International, (Reviewer)
  2. (2022) Heart Disease Prediction Using Semla, International, (Reviewer)
  3. (2022) Rumor Source Identification in Social Network Based On Probability Rumor Centrality Method, International, (Reviewer)
  4. (2022) Judge in The Global Undergraduate Awards 2022, International, (External Evaluator)
  5. (2021) Reviewed Journal Articles from International Journal of General Systems, International, (Reviewer)
  6. (2021) Reviewed Journal Articles from IEEE Transactions and Computational Social Systems, International, (Reviewer)
  7. (2021) Reviewed Journal Articles from IEEE Access, International, (Reviewer)
  8. (2021) Reviewed Journal Articles from The Journal of The Association for Information Science and Technology, International, (Reviewer)
  9. (2018) Internal Examiner for MDS Project , (Internal Examiner)
  10. (2018) Committee Member for Malaysian Journal of Computer Science , (Committee Member )
  11. (2010) Research Report(Master by Coursework), (Internal Examiner)
Contribution to external organisation
  1. (2021) General Co-Chair for Seminar On Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management, International, (Resource Person)
  2. (2019) Workshop on Data Analytics, FSKTM Mobility Programme
  3. (2019) Workshop on Python for Data Science, FSKTM Mobility Programme
  4. (2019) Technical Committee for International Conference on Applied Computing 2020, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
  5. (2019) Programme Committee for The 3rd International Conference on Recent Trends in Image Processing & Pattern Recognition, Marathwada University
  6. (2018) Committee Member for Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, University of Malaya
  7. (2018) Instructor in International Workshop on Data Analytics 2018, Department of Information Systems, FCSIT, University of Malaya
  8. (2018) Instructor for Python for Data Analytics 1st Batch (29th-30th January 2018), FSKTM Technovation
  9. (2018) Instructor- Python for Data Analytics 2nd Batch (7-8th February 2018), FSKTM Technovation
  10. (2017) Reviewer for External Grant Proposal, University, (Expert Advisor)
  11. (2016) Visiting Fellow of Institute of Visual Informatics, UKM, National, (Research Fellow/Associate)
  12. (2015) Visiting Scientist to The Information Systems Research Group of The Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, Switzerland, International, (Research Fellow/Associate)

SUPERVISION

Postgraduate Student
PhD/ Doctoral
  1. (2024) EFFECT OF HYBRID PHASE 2 CARDIAC REHABILITATION PROGRAMME ON HEALTH OUTCOME TO PATIENT WITH CORONARY HEART DISEASE, HASFENA BINTI LAMDIN
  2. (2024) Big Data Analytics (BDA) FOR DIGITAL GOVERNMENT, MOHIDIN MUS
  3. (2024) DEPRESSION DETECTION ON TWITTER USING ENHANCED BOOSTING ALGORITHM, MUHAMMAD SADIQ ROHEI
  4. (2024) A Code-Mixing Transliteration Model to Improve Hate Speech Detection in the Saudi Dialect Tweets, ALHAZMI ALI HAMOUD H
  5. (2024) Analysis of Cryptography Techniques in Cloud Computing, MOHAMMED RAFEET
  6. (2024) CUSTOMER RETENTION MANAGEMENT BY PREDICTING CUSTOMER TURNOVER USING MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM AND PROBABILISTIC DEEP LEARNING, CHOW WAI KHAY
  7. (2024) Prediction of Preferred Travel Plans using Social Media Data, LIM KEVIN
  8. (2024) Explicit Feature Extraction from Customer Reviews Using Enhanced Heuristics Pattern-based Algorithm, RAJESWARY A/P SANTHIRAN
  9. (2023) Context-Based Model for Domain Specific Lexicon Building, TASNIM M. A. ZAYET
  10. (2022) Research on trajectory outlier detection and prediction based on deep learning, JINSHEN DOU
  11. (2021) THE APPLICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING IN MEDICAL FIELD IN THE ERA OF BIG DATA, YUE YIXIN
  12. (2020) A NEIGHBOURHOOD UNDERSAMPLING STACKED ENSEMBLE WITH H-MEASURE MAXIMIZING META-LEARNER FOR IMBALANCED CLASSIFICATION, SENG ZIAN
  13. (2016) Comparative Opinion Mining, Rajeswary Santhiran
  14. (2016) Effective Methods to Detect Cyberbullying and Influential Spreaders in an Online Social Network, MOHAMMED ALI DERHEM AL-GARADI
  15. (2015) Opinion Mining, Rames A/L Mariapan
  16. (2013) Effective Methods to Detect Cyberbullying and Influential Spreaders in an Online Social Network, Mohammad Ali Al-Garadi
  17. (2012) Predicting Dengue Outbreak Using Artificial Neural Network Model, Felestin Yavari Nejad
Master
  1. (2023) Predicting Cardiac Risk Stratification Using Machine Learning Techniques, SHARON CHAN SUET YAN
  2. (2022) Predicting Dengue Outbreak using a Data Mining Technique, FAYSHAL AHMED
  3. (2021) PREDICTING HELPFUL REVIEWS FROM USER GENERATED DATA USING RANDOM FOREST TECHNIQUE, SHAH JAFOR SADEEK QUADERI
  4. (2021) Propaganda Analysis of User’s Opinions on Social Media Using Multi-Granularity Neural Network, Faez nortrina binti zainordin
  5. (2020) Selection of Features and Data Mining Techniques for Predicting Risk Level of Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Patient in Malaysia, NASHREEN BINTI MD IDRIS
  6. (2019) A Process Model for Designing Performance Dashboard Using Visualization Techniques, MUHAMMAD NASIM
  7. (2017) Weighted Association Rule Mining for Heart Disease Prediction, ARMIN YAZDANI
  8. (2016) Topics Retrieval in Opinionated Text, Wang Li
  9. (2016) Data Mining for Cardiovascular Disease, Shafenoor Amin
  10. (2016) A model to predict risks of cardiovascular diseases based on medical feature selection, Armin Yazdani
  11. (2016) Identifying Significant Features and Data Mining Techniques in Predicting Cardiovascular Disease, MD. SHAFENOOR AMIN
  12. (2016) Ranking of Tweets based on Credibility Factors, PRADEESH
  13. (2015) Personality Based Job Recommender System Using Facebook Data, THIAM LI TING
  14. (2015) Evaluating Architecture of Software Application Systems using Architecture-Centric Lightweight Evaluation Method, MUHAMMAD EBAD MASOOD
  15. (2014) Ranking of Tweets Based on Credibility Factors, Pradeesh Parameswaran
  16. (2014) A Semantic Skill Matching Technique for Recruitment, Nastran Jamialahmadi
  17. (2013) Personality Mining and Job Matching in Facebook, Thiam Li Ting
  18. (2013) Mining Likes in Facebook, Kala Devi
  19. (2012) Evaluating Quality Properties of a social-based system for SE students using Tiny Architecture Review Approach, Muhammad Ebad Masood
  20. (2011) E-Learning, Alan Foo Kim San
  21. (2007) Online Technical Support Management System for Education General Directorate, North Eastern Sultanate of Oman, Khalid Al Sinawi (University of Malaya (UM))

TEACHING

Master
  1. (2021) WQD7003 - Data Analytics
  2. (2021) WQD7003 - Data Analytics
  3. (2021) WQD7003 - Data Analytics
  4. (2020) WQD7003 - Data Analytics
  5. (2018) WQD7003 - Data Analytics
  6. (2017) WQD7003 - Data Analytics
  7. (2008) WXGA6107 - Database Technology
Bachelor
  1. (2021) WIE3010 - Data Visualization
  2. (2021) WIE2002 - Open Source Programming: Applications and Technology
  3. (2021) WIX3002 - Social Informatics
  4. (2021) WIE3010 - Data Visualization
  5. (2021) WIX3002 - Social Informatics
  6. (2020) WIB2005 - Open Source Programming: Application and Technology
  7. (2020) WIE2002 - Open Source Programming: Applications and Technology
  8. (2020) WIE3010 - Data Visualization
  9. (2020) WIX3002 - Social Informatics
  10. (2020) WMES2111 - Open Source Programming
  11. (2019) WIB2005 - Open Source Programming: Application and Technology
  12. (2019) WIE2002 - Open Source Programming: Applications and Technology
  13. (2019) WIE3010 - Data Visualization
  14. (2019) WMES2111 - Open Source Programming
  15. (2018) WIB2005 - Open Source Programming: Application and Technology
  16. (2018) WIE2002 - Open Source Programming: Applications and Technology
  17. (2018) WIE3010 - Data Visualization
  18. (2018) WMES2111 - Open Source Programming
  19. (2017) WIB2005 - Open Source Programming: Application and Technology
  20. (2017) WIE2002 - Open Source Programming: Applications and Technology
  21. (2017) WMES2111 - Open Source Programming
  22. (2016) WIB2005 - Open Source Programming: Application and Technology
  23. (2016) WIE2002 - Open Source Programming: Applications and Technology
  24. (2016) WMES2111 - Open Source Programming
  25. (2013) WMES2111 - Open Source Programming
  26. (2013) WMET1105 - Information Technology (it) Services Integration
  27. (2012) WMES2271 - Database Administration
  28. (2012) WMES3110 - Intelligent Agent in Information Systems
  29. (2011) WMES3107 - Information System Auditing
  30. (2010) WMES2111 - Open Source Programming
  31. (2008) WMES3103 - Information Retrieval
  32. (2007) Internet Programming
  33. (2007) WXES2170 - Data Base Lab

PATENT/IPR

  • METHOD OF IDENTIFYING INFLUENTIAL NODES IN A NETWORK
    Patent (International)