Department of Mathematical & Actuarial Sciences
Faculty of Engineering and Science

Dr. Goh Yong Kheng

Teaching
Subjects that I am teaching in this Jan 2013 trimester
UECM3033 Numerical Methods

UCCM3003 Partial Differential Equations
UCCM3603 Mathematical Methods in Physics II
UCCM2023 Ordinary Differential Equations
UCCM3303 Cryptology
UECM1703 Introduction to Scientific Computing
UECM3763 Computational Finance

Research Interests
Bioinformatics
Statistical Physics
High Performance Computing
Radar Meteorology

Education

Experience

Awards

1. E-Science Fund, October 2007, by MOSTI, Malaysia, for supporting research in "Computational functional genomic of palindrome-like RNA".

2. Travelling grant, September 2007, by International Centre of Theoretical Physics, Trieste for attending the 4th European Conference on Severe Storm, Trieste, Italy.

3. C. R. Barber Trust Fund, June 2003,by Institute of Physics, UK for attending Unifying Concept in Granular Media and Glasses,Capri, Italy.

4. ORS (Oversea Research Students Awards), 2001-2003, by Universities UK for studying PhD at Imperial College London.

5. Book Prize, Sept 1999, by Faculty of Science, University Malaya, Malaysia for obtaining first class in BSc (Physics) degree.

6. JPA Scholarship, 1996-1999, by Public Service Department (JPA), Malaysia for studying BSc (Physics) in University of Malaya, Malaysia.

Publications & Talks

Publications

1. Y. K. Goh and R. L. Jacobs, 'Coarsening dynamics of granular heaplets in tapped granular layers' - New J. Phys. 4, 81.1-81.9 (2002), (refereed)

2. PhD Thesis, Imperial College 'Pattern Formation in Granular Layers: Vibrated, Tapped and Shaken' , (2003)

3. Y. K. Goh and R. L. Jacobs, 'The onset of instabilities on shaken granular layers', Granular Matter, 6, 39-46, (2004), (refereed)

4. Y. K. Goh and R. L. Jacobs, 'Dynamics of granular heaplets: a phenomenological model', Computational Science - ICCS2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, vol. 3037, 332-339, (2004), (refereed)

5. Y. K. Goh and A. R. Holt, 'Analysis of Three Dimensional Wind Field from Two Operational Doppler Radars', Proceeding of ERAD 2004, vol. 2, 35-40, 6 pages, (2004).

6. G. Haase, K. Salonen, P. Kållberg, M. Lindskog, Y. K. Goh, P. P. Alberoni and N. Gustafsson, 'Processing and Assimilation of Doppler Radar Wind Data: A Case Study', (paper submitted to NHESS, 6 pages)

7. Y. K. Goh, 'An Information Theoretic Coding Measure for Hairpin RNAs', J. of Sci. & Tech. in the Tropics, vol. 1, no. 1, page 131 – 134, (2005)

8. Y. K. Goh, A. R. Holt and P. P. Alberoni, ‘Radar Wind field retrieval over the Po Valley’, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., vol. 6, 285 – 291, (2006)

Reports

1. Y. K. Goh and A. R. Holt, 'Progress in extraction of information from Doppler winds', CARPE DIEM 18 months management report.

2. Y. K. Goh, G. Haase and A. R. Holt, 'Progress in extraction of information from Doppler winds', CARPE DIEM 2nd Annual report.

3. Y. K. Goh and A. R. Holt, 'Progress in extraction of information from Doppler winds', CARPE DIEM 30 months management report.

Talks/Presentations

1. Windfield reconstruction over convective storms by using along-track technique. Presented European Conference on Severe Storm, September 2007, Trieste, Italy

2. Scavenging DNA junk: Characterizing the non-coding RNAs. Presented in International Statistics Conference, December 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

3. Dual Doppler Wind Retrieval from two operational Doppler radars. Presented in 3^rd European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology, September 2004, Visby.

4. Dual Doppler Wind Retrieval from two operational Doppler radars. Presented in Departmental Seminar, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Essex, September 2004

5. Improving radar Doppler wind information extraction. Presented in European Workshop on New Tools for Flood Forecasting and Warning, June 2004, Unitas, Helsinki.

6. Dual Doppler Wind Retrieval: Howto?. Presented in Departmental Seminar, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Essex, March 2004.

7. Dynamics of granular heaplets. Presented in ICCS2004, June 2004, AGH University, Krakow.

8. Pattern formation in shaken granular layers. Presented in Patterns, Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications (PANDA), June 2002, University of Surrey, U. K.

9. A study on Yilmaz Gravitation. Presented in VI Vietnam School on Physics, December 1999, Vung Tau, Vietnam.

Poster Presentations

1. Progress in Dual Doppler Radar Wind Retrieval from Operational radars, Presented in Royal Meteorological Society (RMS) Conference 2003, September 2003, Norwich, UK.

2. Pattern formation in granular layers: phenomenological approach and simulations. Presented in Unifying Concept in Granular Media and Glasses (UCGMG), June 2003, Capri, Italy.

3. Tapped Granular Layers: granular heaplets and its dynamics. Presented in 7^th Granada Seminar on Computational and Statistical Physics, September 2002, Granada, Spain.

last update:  16/01/12