Meeting With Dr. Yakub Sebastian at CDU

Meeting With Dr. Yakub Sebastian at CDU
July 17, 2025
Dr Yakub Sebastian's main research interest is in data science, information retrieval, text mining, and network theory. He is an active advocate of the field Literature-Based Discovery, a specific branch of information retrieval whose goal is to improve computational approaches to hypothesis generation and novel knowledge discovery from multi-modal data sources. Aside from these, he shows interest in scientometrics and science mapping. Dr Sebastian was awarded Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science by Monash University and is currently a Guest Associate Editor for journal Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics (Text Mining and Literature-Based Discovery section).