Mohammad Asif Khan

Dr Khan is interested in the area of biological data warehousing and applications of data science to the study of immune responses, vaccines, viruses, venom toxins, drug design, and disease biomarkers. He has thus far published more than 75 research/review journal articles, conference articles/abstracts, book chapters, books, and over 58 posters presented at numerous scientific platforms. Over the years, he has developed several novel bioinformatics methodologies, tools, and specialized databases, and currently has three patents granted. He is also heavily involved in imparting bioinformatics/data science education to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Besides a heavy focus on research and education, he is particular in giving back to the community through involvement as a reviewer for numerous journals, conferences, and funding agencies, and has donned various important roles in the organization of several local and international bioinformatics conferences, meetings and workshops.

Affiliations:

• Beykoz Institute of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Bezmialem Vakıf University, Turkey
• School of Data Sciences, Perdana University, Malaysia

Education:

• 2006-2010 PhD, National University of Singapore
  
• 2003-2005 MSc, National University of Singapore
• 1999-2003 BSc, National University of Singapore

Research Interests:

ViralInformatics, ChemInformatics-based drug design, Disease Biomarker Informatics, Platform development for biology, VaccineInformatics, ImmunoInformatics, ClinicalInformatics, Data warehousing for biology

Awards / Honors:

• Meritorious Service Award by APBioNET, in recognition of commendable service provided to APBioNET and InCoB on an on-going basis – InCoB 2016; Sept 21-23, 2016; Singapore.
• Best Paper Award (Gold; BMC Medical Genomics), 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2017), Shenzhen, China, Sept 20-22, 2017.
• Best Paper Award (Gold; BMC Genomics), 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2017), Shenzhen, China, Sept 20-22, 2017.
• Certificate of Appreciation in recognition for outstanding contribution as the organizing committee for Asia Pacific Research Platform (APRP) Working Group at Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN): connecting data, application and people. APAN48, Putrajaya, Malaysia, 24 July 2019.
• International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers, Program by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK).