Biography

I have been a UTM staff since 1989 and has been appointed as a Professor since March 2010.  I have served UTM in different aspects – teaching, research, administration, and other professional services.

In terms of research, I have designed new algorithms to improve the effectiveness of searching and mining new knowledge from various kinds of datasets, including unstructured, semi-structured and structured databases. I have been awarded as a Top Research Scientist Malaysia in 2020 by the Academy of Science, Malaysia.  I have been involved in 55 research projects with a total amount of more than RM4.5 million.  I am the principal investigator of 31 research projects.   To date, I have published 404 papers.  299 of the papers are indexed under Web of Science or Scopus.   My current h-index is 23.  The output of my research has been incorporated into a number of software such as UTMChem Workbench, KimiaSpace and NADI Natural Products Database System to support drug design and drug optimisation process, UTMCLPD Cross Language Plagiarism Detection System to summarise documents and check for plagiarism and Oricheck for cross-language idea similarity checking and plagiarism detection.  Among the research and innovation awards that I have received are the PECIPTA 2011 Gold Medal award for the UTMCLP cross-language semantic plagiarism detection system, the I-inova 2010 Gold Medal award for the Islamic Ontology-based Quran search engine, BioInnovation 2011 Bronze Award for UTMChem Workbench Molecular Database System, iPhex Gold Medal Award for innovation in teaching and learning, UTM 2011 Best Research Award, UTM 2014 Best Research Award and the INATEX Distinction Award (1998). 43 PhD students have graduated under my supervision.  My innovation in big data, data warehousing and mobile applications has benefited industry such as Johor Corporations, Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Ptd. Ltd., Malaysia Higher Education Ministry and Companies Commission of Malaysia (SSM).  I have 3 patent granted, 27 patent filings and 54 copyrights.  I was a fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science.  I am the Head of the Malaysian Big Data Research Consortium under the Ministry of Higher Education.

In terms of administration, I have served the Deputy Dean (Research and Postgraduate Studies) at Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems from 2005-2011 and the Deputy Dean (Research and Innovation) at the Faculty of Engineering from 2018-2021. I have introduced many new initiatives under my tenure such as FE Gold mentorship program, UTM Engineering-Industry Innovation Day, MyRA QuickWin, Community Seed Grant and Higher Education Teaching and Management Grant.   I am also a UTM Senate member since 2014 until now.  I have served under various university committee such as University Accreditation Committee, University Policy and Entity Committee, Senate Standing Committee on Examination and Award, Senate Standing Committee on Curriculum and Quality and Senate Standing Committee on Research and Innovation.

If you are interested in her area of expertise, please contact her at +607 5538726 or email her at naomie@utm.my. Thank you for your interest.

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