Nanyang Technology University

Academic Profile
Assoc Prof Mao Kezhi 

Associate Professor 
Division of Control & Instrumentation 
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering 
College of Engineering 



Email: EKZMAO@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)6790 4284 
Office: S2.1-B2-14 
Education
  • PhD University of Sheffield 1998
  • ME Northeastern University 1992
  • BE Shandong Univ of Building Materials 1989
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 Interests
Computational Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Medical Image Processing and Analysis, Bioinformatics
Research Grant
  • Asian Office Aerospace Research and Development (2013-2014) [by Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD)]
  • Ministry of Defense (2013-2015) [by Ministry of Defense (MINDEF)]
Current Projects
  • Automatic Knowledge Extraction from Unstructured Open Sources (AKEOS)
  • Fusion and Sense Making of Heterogeneous Sensor Network and Other Sources
Selected Publications
  • Guoqi Li, Changyun Wen, Zheng Guo Li, Aimin Zhang, Feng Yang and K.Z. Mao. (2013). Model-Based Online Learning With Kernels. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 24(3), 356 - 369.
  • Feng Yang and K.Z. Mao. (2013). Improving Robustness of Gene Ranking by Multi-criterion Combination with Novel Gene Importance Transformation. International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, 7(1), 22-37.
  • Feng Yang and K.Z. Mao. (2011). Robust Feature Selection for Microarray Data Based on Multi-criterion. IEEE-ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 8(4), 1080-1092.
  • K.Z. Mao and Wenyin Tang. (2011). Recursive Mahalanobis Separability Measure for Gene Subset Selection,. IEEE-ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 8(1), 266-272.
  • Y. Teng, H.S. Ang, K.Z. Mao, J. Lui, J. Lin, L.-L. Yue, H.L. Loh, G. Chiang, G. Yip and P.H. Tan. (2009). Glomerular Basement Membrane Thickness in An Asian Population Using a Novel Image Analysis Software. Pathology, 41(4), 342-347.
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