CURRICULUM VITAE

MALARVILI BALAKRISHNAN PERSONAL DATA

IC Number

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800626-14-5320

Sex

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Female

Date of Birth

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26 June 1980

Citizenship

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Malaysian

Marital Status

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Married

Place of Birth

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Wilayah Persekutuan, Kuala Lumpur

Research Interest Designation

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Physiological signal processing, Pattern Recognition with an emphasis on biomedical applications, Time-frequency signal analysis, Multi-modal signal processing, Computer aided medical diagnosis system, Biomedical data acquisition. Senior lecturer & IT Manager

Contact Address

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Faculty of Biomedical & Health Sciences Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81300 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia. Ph: +6 07 5535982 Fax: +6 07 5536222 Mobile: +6 012-3722964 malarvili@biomedical.utm.my www.biomedical.utm.my/bsp

EDUCATION

University Qualification

Year

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor.

Bachelor of Electric and Electronics Engineering Thesis: Feature Extraction of ECG Signals.

Jun 1998-Jun 2002

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor.

Master of Electrical Engineering (Biomedical Signal Processing) Thesis: Development of QT Dispersion Algorithm as a Predictor of Sudden Cardiac Death.

Aug 2002-Aug 2004

Perinatal Research Centre, Royal Brisbane Women Hospital, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia.

Doctor of Philosophy (Medical Sciences Engineering) Thesis: Combining Newborn EEG and HRV for Automatic Seizure Detection

Oct 2004-March 2008

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

IEEE (Graduate Member) BEM

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WORK EXPERIENCES Post Organisation/ Department Date

Tutor Department of Microelectronics and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. 81300 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.

Jun 2002- Sept 2005

Lecturer Department of Microelectronics and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. 81300 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.

Sept 2005-April 2008

Lecturer Faculty of Biomedical and Health Sciences Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81300 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.

May 2008-May 2009

Senior Lecturer Faculty of Biomedical and Health Sciences Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81300 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.

Jun 2009-

COMPUTER SKILLS Platforms: Windows 2000, 2003 Server and Professional, Windows XP (Pro and Home), Windows 7, Win 3.11/95/98, Dos 6.22, Citrix ICA, MS Exchange 2000 Hardware: HP, IBM, Dell, and Intel Based Server and Desktop Platforms, Cisco 2500 Switches, HP Laser Jets, Toshiba E-310 Color Copier, Toshiba and Sony Laptops Software: MS Office, Visio, Symantec: PC Anywhere, Antivirus, Utilities, Win fax; McAfee Virus Scan, Adobe: Acrobat, Illustrator, Photoshop, Partition Magic, Adware, Spyware, Malware, Virus-Removal, C/C++, Visual C++, Java, HTML, PSP, MySQL, CMS (Joomla), Matlab, PSpice, Assembler, Tanner Tools, Max+Plus2.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

IT Manager of FKBSK, UTM 2009-

i. Setup, install & configure network (LAN & WLAN) at FKBSK ii. Setup, install, configure & troubleshoot server BIOMEDICAL

iii. Design & maintain BIOMEDICAL website-Webmaster iv. Setup, install, configure, troubleshoot & maintain BIOMEDICAL mailing

server-Google Apps platform Head of Research Group, Biosignal Processing (BSP-RG)-Biotechnology Research

Alliance UTM i. Founded RG at UTM in 2010

Faculty Bulletin Editorial Group, FKBSK,UTM 2009-2011 Committee Member of Faculty Graduate Studies (JKPS), FKBSK 2009- Committee Member of Faculty Management (JKP), FKBSK 2009- Committee Member- Penilaian Teknikal, FKBSK UTM 2010-2011 Industrial Training Committee Member, FKBSK, UTM 2009-2010 Panel for Proposal Evaluation FRGS - Research Alliance in Biotechnology UTM Committee Member of EAC

_____________________________________________________________________________ SUBJECT TAUGHT

SEB 4223: Biomedical Signal Processing SEB 4123: Instrumentation and Measurement in Biomedical SWB3742: Problem Based Medical Measurement Laboratory

______________________________________________________________________________ PROJECT SUPERVISION

PhD- 5 Master- 2 Bachelor- 10

______________________________________________________ AWARDS

UTM-PTP Fellowship Award 2001 (Masters Program) Most Outstanding Award for the category of Science and Engineering;

IPTA Research & Development Exposition 2003, PWTC Kuala Lumpur.

1st Runner-Up for Conference on Manufacturing & Electronic Technology, COMET 2004, UTM.

UTM-SLAI Graduate Fellowship Award 2004 (PhD Program) Study Award 2011on Controlling Infectious Disease for NAM member

countries. This award was presented by The NAM Institute for the Empowerment of Women (NIEW), Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development.

________________________________________________________________________ RESEARCH GRANTS

 

New Academic Staff (with PhD), Vot 77950- Project leader ( Instantaneous Frequency Estimation Technique for Biomedical Signal based on Time-Frequency Approach)

FRGS, MOHE, Vot 78208 –Project leader (New Learning Algorithm Based Hidden Markov Model (HMM) As Stochastic Modelling For Pattern Classification)

FRGS, MOHE, Vot 78490-Project leader (Instantaneous Frequency Estimation Technique for Multicomponent Biomedical Signal based on Time-Frequency Approach)

GUP Tier 1, UTM RU- Project Leader (Automatic Detection of Asthmatic Patient Using Digital Processing of Capnogram)

GUP Tier 1, UTM RU Project Member (Anti-Diabetic Effect of EPA/DHA (Omega 3) In Vivo and In Vitro)

GUP Tier 2, UTM RU Project Member (Novel method of assessing compliance levels and task performance of incentive spirometry)

______________________________________________________________________________ CONSULTING & PROFFESIONAL ACTIVITIES

Technical Program Malaysian Liaison Committee, International Conference on

Information Science, Signal Processing and Their Application (ISSPA), 2010 Invited Speaker for International Translational Medicine Conference, Nov 3-

4, 2011, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. A series of MATLAB WORKSHOP WITH EMPHASIS ON BIOMEDICAL

SIGNAL PROCESSING were conducted for undergraduate, postgraduate and staff of UTM, Skudai and UTEM, Melaka.

Technical Reviewer for a number of International conference and journal with IF such as IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and EURASIP.

________________________________________________________________________ LANGUAGES Tamil: mother tongue English: fluently

Bahasa Melayu: fluently ____________________________________________________________________________ REFERENCE Prof. Dr. Jasmy Yunus Dean Faculty of Biomedical and Health Sciences Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81300 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia. jasmy@fke.utm.my Prof. Paul Colditz, Director, Perinatal Research Centre, Royal Brisbane Women Hospital The University of Queensland. colditz@uq.edu.au PUBLICATIONS Conference Manuscripts M. B. Malarvili, I Kamarulafizam, S Hussain, D Helmi, “Heart Sound Segmentation

Algorithm Based on Instantaneous Energy of Electrocardiogram”, The 30th Annual Conference of Computers in Cardiology 2003. Thessalonoki, Greece.

M. B. Malarvili, Sh. Hussain, Ab. Rahim Ab. Rahman, I Kamarulafizam, “ ECG Baseline

Removal Using Adaptive Filtering”, Proceedings of Multimedia University (MMU) International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies Conference. 2003. PJ Hilton Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

M. B. Malarvili, S. Hussain, “Development of a Prototype Intelligent Diagnostic Systems of Heart Diseases Based on the ECG Waveform”, IPTA Research and Development Exposition 2003. PWTC Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

M. B. Malarvili, M Najeb, I Kamarulafizam, Sh. Hussain, , “ Two Channel Acquisition

System for Heart Sound Segmentation Algorithm Nased on Instantaneous Energy of Electrocardiogram”, Proceedings of Conference on Manufacturing & Electronic Technology, COMET 2003 UTM Skudai.

M. B. Malarvili, Sh. Hussain, Ab. Rahim, I Kamarulafizam “Development of 12 Lead QT

Dispersion Algorithm”, Technical Postgraduate Sympossium 16th - 17th December 2003, TECHPOS’03, Crystal Crown Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

M. B. Malarvili, S. Hussain. “Analysis of QT Dispersion for Myocardial Infarction”.

BioMed 2004 - Kuala Lumpur International Conference on Biomedical Engineering Sept. 2004.

M .B. Malarvili, H. Hassanpour, M. Mesbah and B. Boashash, “A histogram-based

electroencephalogram spike detection,” Proceedings of 8th International Symposium on Signal Processing and its applications, pp. 207-210, Sydney, Australia, August 2005.

M. B. Malarvili, M. Mesbah and B. Boashash, “Time-frequency analysis of heart rate

variability for neonatal seizure detection,” Journal of Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine (APESM), (CD ROM), October 2005.

M. B. Malarvili, M. Mesbah and B. Boashash, “'Time-Frequency Distribution Moments of

Heart Rate Variability for Neonatal Seizure Detection”. 31st International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 3, pp. 149-152, France, 2006.

M. B. Malarvili, L. Rankine, M. Mesbah, B. Boashash, “Extraction of the Heart Rate

Variability Components Using a New Time-Frequency based Instantaneous Frequency Estimation Technique,” Journal of Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine (APESM), (CD ROM), vol 29, No 4, pp. 375, December 2006.

M. B. Malarvili, L. Rankine, M. Mesbah, B. Boashash, “Heart Rate Variability

Characterization using a Time-Frequency based Instantaneous Frequency Estimation Technique,” Proceedings of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), Vol.15, pp.432-436, 2006.

M. B. Malarvili, L. Rankine, M. Mesbah, B. Boashash, “Time- Frequency Based Renyi

Entropy of Heart Rate Variability for Newborn Seizure Detection” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (CD ROM) , Sharjah, UAE, February 2007.

M. B. Malarvili, V. Sucic, M. Mesbah, B. Boashash, “Rényi entropy of quadratic TFD: effects of signal parameters”, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (CD ROM), Sharjah, UAE, February 2007.

M. B. Malarvili, M. Mesbah and B. Boashash, “HRV Feature Selection for Neonatal Seizure Detection: A Wrapper Approach,” Proceedings Of Ieee International Conference On Signal Processing And Communications (ICSPC 2007), pp. pp. 864-867, Dubai, UAE.

M. B. Malarvili, M. Mesbah and B. Boashash, “HRV Feature Selection based on

Discriminant and Redundancy Analysis for Neonatal Seizure Detection,” Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing, (ICICS 2007), pp. 1-5, Singapore, Dec 2007.

M B. Malarvili, M. Mesbah, B. Boashash, “Newborn seizure detection based on fusion of multi-channel EEG,” Procedings of the 5th International Workshop on Signal Processing and it’s Application (WOSPA 08), Sharjah, UAE, March 2008.

M B. Malarvili, M. Mesbah, “Combining Newborn EEG and HRV Information for Automatic Seizure Detection”, Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Vancouver, Canada, August 2008.

T. K Tan, M. B. Malarvili, “Analysis of Capnography for Ashmatic Patients,” The

International Conference on Signal & Image Processing Applications 2009 (ICSIPA 2009), Kuala Lumpur 2009.

T. K Tan, A. H. Teo, M. B. Malarvili, “Feature Extraction of Capnogram for Ashmatic Patients,” The 2nd International Conference on computer and Electrical Engineering (ICCEE 2009), Dubai, December 2009.

Wan Mahani Hafizah Wan Mahmud, M.B. Malarvili, “Comparative Analysis of

Preprocessing Techniques for Quantification of Heart Rate Variability”, submitted to The International Conference on Computer, Electrical, and Systems Science, and Engineering, Kuala Lumpur 2010.

N. Aimie-Salleh and M. B. Malarvili, "Study of relationship between heart rate variability and autonomic function using cold pressor test for Malaysian population," in IEEE Colloquium on Humanities, Science and Engineering (CHUSER), 2011, pp. 351-354.

N. Aimie-Salleh and M. B. Malarvili, "Spectral analysis of HRV in the assessment of autonomic function on normal subject," in IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICoBE), 2012, pp. 263-266.

Journal Manuscripts M.B. Malarvili, S. Hussain, Ab. Rahim Ab. Rahman, Dato Prof Dr. Khalid Yusof.

“Development of Automated 12-Lead Qt Dispersion Algorithm For Sudden Cardiac Death,” The Internet Journal of Medical Technology 2005, vol. 2, No.2,

M. B. Malarvili, Mostefa Mesbah, and Boualem Boashash, “Time-Frequency Analysis of

Heart Rate Variability for Neonatal Seizure Detection,” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2007, Article ID 50396, 10 pages, 2007. doi:10.1155/2007/50396

M. B. Malarvili, M. Mesbah and B. Boashash, “Neonatal Seizure Detection based on

Heart Rate Variability IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Accepted 2 Jun 2009, TBME-00876-2008-.R2, In Press. (IF: 2.496)

M. B. Malarvili, M. Mesbah and B. Boashash, “ A Multi-channel based Neonatal Seizure

Detection,” submitted to Elsevier-Information Fusion. N. Aimie-Salleh and M. B. Malarvili, “Time Frequency Analysis of Heart Rate Variability

during Autonomic Function Test as an Early Detection Tool for Autonomic Dysfunction,” Special Issue on Advances in Nonstationary Electrophysiological Signal Analysis and Processing, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing , 2012. (IF: 1.12)

M. B. Malarvili, M. Mesbah, Paul Colditz, B. Boashash, “Automatic Seizure Detection

based on Combination of Newborn Multi-channel EEG and HRV Information,”Special Issue on Advances in Nonstationary Electrophysiological Signal Analysis and Processing, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing , 2012. (IF: 1.12)

Book Chapters M. Mesbah, B. Boashash, MB Malarvili, “Heart Rate Variability Time-Frequency Analysis for Newborn Seizure Detection”, in A. Nait-Ali (ed.), Advanced Biosignal Processing, pp. 95-121, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009

Most Outstanding Award for the category of Science and Engineering; IPTA Research & Development Exposition 2003, PWTC Kuala Lumpur.

1st Runner-Up for Conference on Manufacturing & Electronic Technology, COMET 2004, UTM.

Study Award 2011on Controlling Infectious Disease for NAM member countries. This award was presented by The NAM Institute for the Empowerment of Women (NIEW), Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development.

Invited Speaker for International Translational Medicine Conference, Nov 3-4, 2011, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

PROJECT: Development of Automated 12-Lead QT Dispersion Algorithm For Sudden Cardiac Death

• Collaborator: Dato Prof Dr. Khalid Yusof, UiTM, Malaysia

PROJECT: Combining Newborn EEG and HRV Information for Automatic Seizure Detection

• Collaborator: Prof Paul Colditz, UQ, Australia

PROJECT: The Investigationon Effects of Acupuncture Stimulation on Autonomic Nervous Function using Analysis of Heart Rate Variability

• Collaborator: Dr. Kim Yun Jin, Korea

PROJECT: Automatic Detection of Asthmatic Patient Using Digital Processing of Capnogram

• Collaborator: Dr. Teo Aik Howe; Physician at Emergency Department, Penang Hospital, Malaysia