"A tabular presentation of data is often the heart or, better, the brain of a scientific paper" - Peter Morgan

"Reporting on science and writing about it are like attending a never-ending graduate school of unlimited diversity" - David Perlman
Dr. Ho Sin Ban
(Lecturer, Programme Coordinator for B. Comp. Sc. (Hons), and
Academic & Corporate Planning (ACP) Committee member)

Room: FIT_BR3018
Faculty of Information Technology,
Multimedia University,
Jalan Multimedia,
63100 Cyberjaya, Selangor,
Malaysia.

Tel : 603-8312 5836
Fax : 603-8312 5264
email : sbho AT mmu DOT edu DOT my

Academic Qualifications
  • Ph.D. in Information Technology (IT)
  • M.Sc. in Computer Science at University of Science Malaysia (USM), August 1999
  • B.Sc.(Hons) in Computer Science at University of Science Malaysia (USM), July 1998, obtained First Class with Honours
Research & Development Areas
  • Framework Documentation , Empirical Software Engineering, Pedagogy, Patterns, Minimalism, Contolled Experiments, Statistical Research Methodology, Key Exchange Protocol, High Performance Computing, Cryptography, Software Maintenance and Evolution, Software Practice and Experience
  • Looking for collaboration but not limited to the above areas
Awards
  1. Book Prize ~ Best Student in Computer Science Undergraduates, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, May 1995.
  2. Golden Award ~ Best Student in Sports and Academic by Desasiswa Harapan, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Feb 1996.
  3. Excellence Award ~ Outstanding Industrial Trainee by IBM (M) Corporation, April 1997.
  4. National Award of Excellent IT Student from Malaysian National Computer Confederation, May 1999.
  5. Firewall ~ Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA), Aug 2001.
  6. Certificate of Appreciation for 14 hours Professional Development Programme on Grid Computing, Jan 2005.
Teaching and Professional Experiences
  1. Attachment teacher at high school (English). (1993)
  2. Attachment teacher at primary school for Dr. Tan's project during the university term break. (1994-1996)
  3. Industrial trainee at IBM Corporation (1997).
  4. Research officer at Computer-Aided Translation Unit (UTMK), USM, Penang (1998).
  5. Analyst Programmer in the consumer banking applications section and IT Security officer in the strategy & architecture department of Malayan Banking Berhad, Kuala Lumpur (1999-2002).
  6. Supervising final year Computer Science and Information Technology (IT) students at the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT) in MMU (2003 - to date)
  7. Assisting/supervising postgraduate students involved in the research projects at FIT (2008 - to date)
  8. Conducting lectures and tutorials on "Discrete Structures", and "Object-Oriented Programing" to undergraduate Computer Science and IT students (2003 - 2008)
  9. Conducting lectures and tutorials on "Software Engineering" to undergraduate Computer Science and IT students (2004 - to date)
  10. Conducting "Software Requirements Engineering" course to postgraduate students pursuing their Master degree by course work in SESA (Software Engineering and Software Architecture) at the Faculty of Information Technology in MMU (2008 - 2009)
Miscellaneous Academic Experience
  1. Reviewer for papers, IEEE Software, Regular Journal Type, Publisher: IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2006.
  2. Examiner for MComp.Sc. Thesis titled "Designing and Implementing a Security System with Digital Signature" (2009).
  3. Internal Examiner for various Final Year Project reports (2003-date).
Miscellaneous Appointments
  1. Member of Credit Transfer Committee, Faculty of Information Technology, (2003-date)
  2. Member of Industrial Training Committee, Faculty of Information Technology, (2003-2008)
  3. Member of the M.IT(Master in Information Technology)-M.CS (Master in Computer Science) Committee, Faculty of Information Technology, (2007-date)
  4. Member of Teaching Workload Committee, Faculty of Information Technology, (2008-date)
  5. Programme Coordinator of the Bachelor of Computer Science (Hons), (2008-date)
  6. Member of the Academic and Corporate Planning (ACP) Committee, (2009 January-date)
Research Grants
  1. A Data Mining Framework for Virtual Organizations (VOs) using Grid Computing Technology, IRPA (RM71,884), 2005-2009 (Project Leader)
  2. Pattern Extraction and Concept Clustering in Linguistic Terms from Mined Images, IRPA (RM54,808), 2003-2005 (member)
  3. Dynamic Job Grouping-Based Scheduling for Grid Application, eScience (RM79,996), 2006-2009 (member)
PUBLICATIONS
Journals and Conferences
  • CyberStock: An Information System for Stock-Broker. National Conference on Research and Development in Computer Science and its Applications (REDECS '97), USM, Penang, Malaysia, 27-29 Nov 1997.
  • Modeling and Simulations of Pedagogical Framework Documentation: An Empirical Study for Prototyping in A Rapid Application Development Environment. AIUB Journal of Business and Economics (AJBE), Vol. 3, No. 2, August 2004, 1–22. ISSN: 1683-8742.
  • An Empirical Investigation for Different Sequences of Pedagogical Framework Documentation in RAD. Proceedings of 8th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA 2004) (pp. 253–258), 9-11 November 2004, Cambridge, MA, USA. Anaheim, CA: ACTA Press. ISBN: 0-88986-425-X, ISSN: 1482-7905.
  • Framework Documentation with Patterns: Characteristics and Opportunities from Five Series of Controlled Experiments. Proceedings of International Science Congress (ISC 2005) Golden Jubilee (Article ICT 07, pp. 332), 3-6 August 2005, Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Malaysian Scientific Association (MSA).
  • Pedagogical Framework Documentation in Rapid Application Development: A Modular Approach, Global Software Group (GSG) Malaysia Technology Fair [Online] (Paper No. 01), 27–29 September 2005, Cyberjaya, Malaysia. Available: Motorola intranet: compass.mot.com/web/gsgmytechfair/paper+abstract.
  • Modeling of Patterns and Different Learning Styles for Pedagogical Framework Documentation. Proceedings of the 7th MMU International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies 2006 (M2USIC 2006) (TS4E-2, pp. 507–512), 16-17 November 2006, PJ Hilton, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Cyberjaya and Malacca, Malaysia: Multimedia University.
  • An Empirical Assessment of the Use of Patterns in Teaching the Swing Framework. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2007) (pp. 413–416), 15-17 August 2007, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom: The Hong Kong Web Society.
  • An Empirical Investigation of Methods for Teaching Design Patterns Within Object-Oriented Frameworks. International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, Vol. 6, No. 4, December 2007, 701–722. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company. ISSN: 0219-6220.
  • Classification of Liver Diseases MRI Images using First-Order Statistics – Grid Computing Approach. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Human System Interaction (HSI 2008) (Regular Session R9), 25-27 May 2008, Krakow, Poland. IEEE Catalog Number: 08SEX1995C.
  • Comparison of Different Documentation Styles for Frameworks of Object-Oriented Code. Behaviour and Information Technology, Vol. 28, No. 3, May 2009, 201-210. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis Ltd. ISSN: 0144-929X.

THESES

  1. Ho Sin Ban, Distributed Processing Servers (DPS) Model with CORBA Technology, Dissertation submitted in fulfillment of the Master degree, 1999.
  2. Ho Sin Ban, Framework Documentation with Patterns: An Empirical Study, Thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (by Research), 2008.

POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION
Ph.D. by Research
  1. Hee Wei Loon, (co-supervision), 2005 (in progress)
    Maximized Knowledge and Performance in Pedagogical Framework Documentation by using Use Case Maps - A Research Approach

M.Sc. by Research

  1. Razieh Mokhtarnameh, 2007 (in progress ~ successfully presented Proposal Defense on February 29, 2008)
    Lightweight Security for Grid Information System
  2. Ahmed Sameen, 2009 (in progress ~ successfully registered on June, 2009)
    Potential usage of a learner model towards better programming language documentation


Memberships of Various Societies
  • Member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers)
  • Member of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
  • Member of the Malaysian Scientific Association (MSA)
Language Skills

English, Malay, Cantonese, Mandarin, Hockian, Japanese (fair), and German (fair)

 

  
 
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