DR. CHANG SIOW WEE
Institute of Biological Sciences
Faculty of Science
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Siow-Wee Chang is a senior lecturer in the Bioinformatics Programme at the Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) from Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. To date, she has published more than 30 papers in respectable journals and conference proceedings both locally and internationally. Her current research areas encompass artificial intelligence (AI), bioinformatics, medical informatics, data science and human-computer interaction. Siow-Wee Chang’s research interests covered multi-disciplinary topics bridging life sciences and computer sciences, focusing on disease diagnosis and prognosis prediction using AI approaches. Her work particularly addresses cardiovascular diseases, osteoarthritis, Alzheimer’s disease and cancer studies. Additionally, she also involved in flora and fauna studies, for example plant species and plant disease identification and marine species identification. These studies integrate the knowledge of biology, image analysis, machine learning and deep learning. The aims of these studies are to discover interesting patterns from the biological/medical data and elucidate the relationships between these data. Moreover, Siow-Wee Chang is also actively engaged in research related to omics profiling analysis, biomarker discovery and drug discovery & repurposing. Her studies utilized multi-omics approach, gene expression analysis, spatial transcriptomics, and AI methods. The goals of these studies are to identify potential disease biomarkers and discover drugs that can enhance the therapeutic process. She is also a member of the Malaysian Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (MaSBiC). |