MAO Kezhi
Associate Professor of School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering


Phone: 6790 4284, Fax: 6793 3318
Office: S2.1-B2-14
Email: ekzmao@ntu.edu.sg

Biography

Dr Mao received his BEng, MEng and PhD from Jinan University, Northeastern University and Sheffield University in 1989, 1992 and 1998, respectively. He started his academic career as a Lecturer at Northeastern University in 1992. Sponsored by Overseas Research Student Awards of Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of UK, Dr Mao went to University of Sheffield to study for his PhD in June 1995 and completed in March 1998. He was a Research Associate at University of Sheffield from April 1998 to September 1998, a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University from September 1998 to May 2001. Dr Mao has been a faculty member of School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering since June 2001, and now he is an Associate Professor.

Research Interest

Computational Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Medical Image Processing and Analysis, Bioinformatics.

Selected Research Projects

  • Medical Image Informatics for Pathology
  • Gene Microarray Data Analysis

Selected Publications

  • K.Z. Mao, P. Zhao and P.-H. Tan, Learning-based Method for P53 Immunohistochemically Stained Cell Image Segmentation, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, to appear, 2006.
  • K.Z. Mao, Unsupervised Feature Selection Based on Identification of Critical Variables of Principal Components, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B, USA, 35 (2), pp339-344, 2005.
  • X. Zhou, K.Z. Mao, LS Bound-based Gene Selection for Microarray Data, Bioinformatics, UK, 21 (8), pp1559-1564, 2005.
  • K.Z. Mao, G.B. Huang, Neuron Selection for RBF Neural Network Classifier Based on Data Structure Preserving Criterion, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, USA, 16(6), pp1531-1540, 2005.
  • K.Z. Mao, Feature Subset Selection for Support Vector Machines Through Discriminative Function Pruning Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B, USA, 34 (1), pp60-67, 2004.