Academic Activities:

2012

Conferences and Workshops:

Attend 2012 SEABIS Edinburgh Meeting

Attend 2012 SEABIS Stirling Meeting

Program Committee Member of UKCI 2012

Program Committee Member of ICARIS2012

Program Committee Member of FCST 2012



Paper Review:

Review a paper submitted to Artificial Intelligence (AIJ) (with Prof. George Coghill)

Review two papers submitted to IEEE Transaction on Fuzzy Systems (IEEE TFS)

Review three papers submitted to ICARIS2012



Presentation:

1. Seminar Talk for the E.R.I.C group in University of Lyon 2.

Title: Qualitative and Semi-quantitative Approaches to Systems Biology

Location: University of Lyon 2, France

Date: March 2012

2. Presentation on 2012 SEABIS Stirling Meeting.

Title: Qualitative and Semi-quantitative Approaches to Systems Biology

Location: University of Stirling, Scotland, UK

Date: May 2012

2011

Paper Review:

Invited Reviewer for a paper submitted to AISS (Advances in Information Sciences and Service Sciences)

Invited Reviewer for a paper submitted to IJCAT (International Journal of Advancements in Computing Technology)

Invited Reviewer for a paper submitted to JHER (Journal of Hydro-environment Research)

Invited Reviewer for two papers submitted in JCIT (Journal of Convergence Information Technology)

Invited Reviewer for two papers submitted to FCST 2011

Training Workshop:

Building a Successful International Research Career, Trippenhuis, Amsterdam, 19-21 January 2011

(Funded by British Council and DAAD)

Conferences and Workshops:

Program Committee Member of UKCI 2011

Program Committee Member of FCST2011 (Bio-informatics, Bio-inspired Computing and Bio-inspired Networking Track)

Local coordinator and session chair of the 4th CLSS-UK North Britain Life Science Symposium (2011)

Presentation:

Paper presentation for UKCI 2011



2010

Paper Review:

Invited Reviewer of the journal Informatica

Invited Reviewer of IJAR (International Journal of Approximate Reasoning)

 

Conferences and Workshops:

Program Committe Member of 2007,2008, 2009, 2010 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI)

Program Committe Member of WBSB2010 ( workshop on Bioinformatics and systems biology) in Changchun, China

Program Committe Member of FCST 2010 in Bioinformatic section, Changchun, China

 

Presentations:

1. Theme: Biomedical and E-Health Abstractions and Modelling: Engineering and Research (BEAMER)

Organiser: SISCSA, SULSA, SBF

Title: Qualitative Model Learning Approaches to Understanding Biological Systems

Location: Royal Society of Edinburgh, Welcome Rooms

Date: 18th June 2010

 

2. Theme: SICSA-CSE /  NRP Joint Workshop in Complex Systems Engineering

Organiser: Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance/ Northern Research Partnership

Title: Immune-inspired Approaches to Qualitative Model Learning

Location: Robert Gordon University

Date: 30th April 2010

 

3. Computer Science Departmental Seminar, University of Aberdeen

Title: Qualitative and Semi-quantitative approaches to Systems Biology.

Location: MT6, Meston Building, University of Aberdeen

Date: 1st December, 2010

 

Poster Contributions:

ICSB 2010 (See the Conference Abstract Book) :

Qualitative and Semi-quantitative Modelling of Combinatorial Stress Responses in Candida albicans and Candida glabrata

 

2009

 

Member of FEBS (Federation of European Biochemical Societies)2009-2010

Advisor of the Aberdeen team for IGEM 2009 (Aberdeen team won a gold medal!)

 

Training Course:

FEBS-SysBio2009: The 3rd FEBS Advanced Lecture Course on Systems Biology: From Molecular Biology to Biological Function

March 7-13, 2009 Alpbach, Austria More Details

 

Poster Contribution:

1. Qualitative Reconstruction of the Detoxification Pathway of Methylglyoxal , IET BioSysBio 2009, 23-25 March 2009, Cambridge, UK .

2.Qualitative Modeling of Combinatorial Stress Responses in Candida albicans and Candida glabrata, MMEMS workshop, Evolution of Stress Responses, September 2009, Aberdeen, UK.

3. Qualitative Modeling of Combinatorial Stress Responses in Candida albicans and Candida glabrata, Dynamics in Systems Biology Conference, September 2009, Aberdeen, UK.

 

Presentations:

1. ICARIS 2009, paper presentation. York, UK

2. CLSS-UK 2009, Qualitative Approaches to Systems Biology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. 4, July, 2009

3. Invited talk, Modelling Combinatorial Responses In Stress Pathways, Jilin University, Changchun, China, Octobor, 2009

4. Invited talk, Modelling Combinatorial Responses In Stress Pathways, Northeastern Normal University, Changchun, China, October, 2009

2008

Presentations:

Theme: Aberdeen Systems Biology Symposium,

Title: Learning Qualitative Models of the Detoxification Pathway of Methylglyoxal

Location: University of Aberdeen

 

2007

Member of ACM SIGEVO 2007-2008

Presentation:

1.QR-2007 workshop, paper presentation, University of Wales, UK

2. UKCI 2007 workshop, paper presentation, Imperial College London, UK

 

2006

Referee of EJOR

Presentation:

1. Invited Talk, Evolutionary Approaches for learning Fuzzy Qualitative Models of Hybrid Biological Systems, Jilin University, Changchun, China, 2006