Research

Research Interest: Computational Intelligence for –

1) Computational Neuroscience, Brain Functional Connectivity Study, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Schizophrenia
2) Gene Expression, Cancer Expression Data, Pathway Analysis

• “Explainable Deep Learning for Personalized Prediction of Brain Behaviour and Neuropsychiatric Disorders from Brain Connectivity Networks”
  PhD Scholar @ School of Information Technology, Monash University Malaysia
  October 2022 – April 2026
  Supervisory Team: A/Prof Ting Chee Ming (Main), A/Prof David Dowe, A/Prof Adeel Razi, Prof Raphaël Phan
• “Identifying Neuropsychiatric Disorders from Brain Functional Networks Using Deep Learning”
  Research Assistant @ School of Information Technology, Monash University Malaysia
  April 2021 – September 2021
  Supervisor: A/Prof. Ting Chee Ming
• “Convolutional Autoencoder Producing Latent Representation For Functional Connectivity Study of Autism Spectrum Disorder”
  Undergraduate Student Researcher @ Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
  September 2019 – January 2020
  Director of Research: Dr. John Suckling
• “Elastic SCAD SVM Cluster For The Selection of Informative Functional Connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorder Classification”
  Undergraduate Final Year Project @ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
  February 2019 – August 2020
  Supervisor: Dr. Weng Howe Chan

Indexed Journal

• S.Y. Yap and W.H. Chan (2021) ‘Elastic SCAD SVM Cluster for The Selection of Significant Functional Connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorder Classification’, Academia of Fundamental Computing Research, 1(2), pp. 1–8. Available at: http://excelligentacademia.com/journal/index.php/AFCR/article/view/49.

Conference Publications

• S.Y. Yap and W.H. Chan, “Poster: Elastic SCAD SVM Cluster For The Selection Of Informative Functional Connectivity In Autism Spectrum Disorder Classification”. The 19th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2020), 2020. Conference proceedings available at:https://incob.apbionet.org/incob20/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Abstract-Book-InCoB-2020_FinalVersion.pdf
• S.Y. Yap, W.H. Chan, H.W. Nies and A.A. Samah, “Identification of Informative Functional Connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorder using Penalized SVM Cluster”. International Conference on Applied Computing 2021. Conference website: https://engineering.utm.my/computing/alias/icac-home/

• “A Penalized SVM based cluster method for identifying significant region of interests in fMRI data. “
  Ref No: L Y2020006347
  Funding Type: Fundamental Research Grant Scheme
  Funding Source: Ministry of Education, Government
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