Scholar
Lay-Ki Soon
Google Scholar ID: SiVW3HkAAAAJ
Associate Professor, Monash University Malaysia
Citations & Impact
Citations
514
H-index
11
i10-index
13
Publications
20
Co-authors
37
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- She has graduated seven Ph.D. students and three Master's students. One of her Master's students was awarded the MMU Best Master Thesis Award in 2015. She has led two projects funded by the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) under the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) Malaysia in 2014 and 2017, focusing on aspect-based sentiment analysis and cyberbullying detection respectively. Currently, she is leading an FRGS-funded project approved in 2022, which focuses on advanced techniques for relation extraction from conversational texts. She is also part of a team investigating misinformation on social media, supported by FRGS.
Research Experience
- Prior to joining Monash University Malaysia, she served as a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Computing and Informatics (FCI) within Multimedia University (MMU). She held the position of Deputy Dean (Research and Innovation) of FCI, MMU from March 2016 to August 2018. She also worked as a Research Fellow at Telekom Malaysia R&D, contributing significantly to the call data records database optimization project.
Education
- Ph.D. (Engineering) in Web Engineering from Soongsil University, Korea.
Background
- Main research interests include applied natural language processing and data management. She teaches Databases, Business Intelligence, and Data Warehousing at Monash University. Since November 2018, she has been the Associate Head (Graduate Research) of the School of Information Technology.
