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Associate Professor in Computer Science

I'm an Associate Professor of Computer Science research in the School of Computer Science, part of the Faculty of Technology. I teach programming, statistics, computer science, data mining, and research methods to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

My research interests include the investigation of machine learning techniques for detecting anomalous patterns for knowledge discovery. Anomaly detection can reveal interesting patterns that are on the boundary between noise and useful discoveries. I also perform data analysis of medical and biostatistical information and constructing statistical models for prediction and interpretation. I work with medical professionals in the NHS and with staff in Health Sciences.

My other interests include drug repositioning using chemical similarity, drug side-effects, protein on and off-targets – again using computational methods such as complex network theory, clustering, and inferential statistics.

I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the British Computer Society.



Teaching and supervision

I teach computer science across a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate modules. I lead a number of modules including:

  • Data Science Fundamentals
  • Technology Management for Organisations
  • Business Analytics 

Research

My interests include data mining and knowledge discovery from databases, especially bioinformatics data. I'm also fascinated by the so-called "interestingness" measures which are used to uncover the most useful patterns from the data mining process.

I am also interested in drug repurposing using computational methods and various publicly available databases.

Potential topics for those wishing to undertake a PhD (computer-based):

I'm open to discussions with prospective students which include machine learning and data mining techniques:

  • Modifications to existing data mining algorithms in order to improve effectiveness or scope
  • Creation of intelligent hybrid systems, using a combination of machine learning techniques for a variety of applications
  • Text mining and sentiment analysis on a variety of topics
  • Analysis of drug/disease comorbidity data for pharmacovigilance
  • Complex networks (graph theory) of disease and connectivity patterns
  • Developing novel "interestingness" methods for anomaly detection and methods for the "interpretability" of machine learning models.
  • Developing novel methods for Explainable AI (XAI), a very important topic since deep learning and other methods ought to have their decisions made transparent i.e. why did they class a particular patient as either healthy or unhealthy or award a bank loan or decline to give one?


Over the past 20 years, I have published over 100 papers. These are in conjunction with University of Sunderland staff, several PhD, BSc, MSc students, and a wide range of external collaborators including academic, medical, commercial, and industrial partners.

Current PhD research students:

  • Bamidele Ajayi
  • David Grey
  • Guendalina Caldarini
  • Liz Gandy
  • Amer Hosy
  • Simin Baloochzadeh
  • Andrews Kyeremeh
  • Marek Sviderski
  • Yusuf Albasri


Past PhD research students:

  • Obruche Emueakporavwa
  • Victor Thompson
  • Tom Drange
  • Heather Garthwaite
  • Nabeel Khan
  • James Malone
  • Normon Solomon
  • Chih-Fong Tsai
  • Galal Omar
  • Muhammad Naveed Anwar
  • Walid El-Quirem
  • Usama Ben-Hamid
  • Jeff Evans
  • Nusirat Bello
  • Jill Jobson
  • Egwu Ilkenna
  • Thomas Cherian
  • Reza Modfi
  • Ashraf Saleh

Publications

Number of items: 121.

Article

McGarry, Kenneth (2023) Analyzing Social Media Data using Sentiment Mining and Bi-gram Analysis for the Recommendation of YouTube Videos. Information, 14 (7). ISSN E2078-2489

Connor, Jenny, Graham, Yitka, McGarry, Kenneth, Hayes, Catherine, Mehrotra, Pallavi and Cox, Julie (2023) Improving the quality and safety of radiology reporting: a prospective audit of discrepancies amongst consultant radiologists. iRadiology, 1 (1). pp. 103-108. ISSN 2834-2879

Wilson, Martin, McDonald, Sharon, Button, Dominic and McGarry, Kenneth (2022) It won't happen to me: Surveying SME attitudes to cybersecurity. Journal of Computer Information Systems. ISSN 2380-2057 (In Press)

Caldarini, Guendalina, Jaf, Sardar and McGarry, Kenneth (2022) A Literature Survey of Recent Advances in Chatbots. Information. ISSN 2078-2489

Saleh, Ashraf, Elkordy, Amal, Chaw, Cheng, McGarry, Kenneth and Essa, Ebtessam (2020) Insights into the Effect of Trehalose and Cyclodextrin Molecules on Dissolution Characteristics of Furosemide Lyophilised Powder. Open Access Journal of Pharmaceutical Research, 4. ISSN 2574-7797

Saleh, Ashraf, Elkordy, Amal, Chaw, Cheng, McGarry, Kenneth and Childs, Stephen (2020) Feasibility of Self-Emulsifying Drug Delivery System for Dissolution Enhancement of Indapamide. Global Drugs and Therapeutics, 5 (4). ISSN 2399-9098

Khan, Nabeel, McGarry, Kenneth, Naqvi, Atta, Iqbal, Muhammad and Haider, Zaki (2020) Pharmacist's viewpoint towards their professional role in healthcare system: A survey of hospital settings of Pakistan. BMC Health Services Research, 20 (610). ISSN 1472-6963

McGarry, Kenneth, Nelson, David and Ashton, Mark (2020) A method to explore the connectivity patterns of proteins and drugs for identifying disease communities. SN Computer Science, 137. ISSN 2661-8907

McGarry, Kenneth, Ashton, Mark, Gong, Yu and Hosny, Amer (2020) The development of a predictive model to identify potential HIV-1 attachment inhibitors. Computers in Biology and Medicine. ISSN 0010-4825

Khan, Abdul Nabeel, McGarry, Kenneth and Holden, Keith (2020) Doctor’s perceptions, expectations and experiences regarding the role of the Pharmacist in hospital settings of Pakistan. International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy. ISSN 2210-7703

Ahmed, Imran, Geethanath, Ruppa, Abu-Harb, Mohammed, Onwuneme, C, McGarry, Kenneth and Hinshaw, Kim (2019) Intrapartum antibiotics for prolonged rupture of membranes at term to prevent Group B Streptococcal sepsis. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. ISSN 0144-3615

Naqvi, Atta, Zehra, Fatima, Khan, Nabeel, Ahmed, Rizwan and McGarry, Kenneth (2019) Report: Interactions and conflicts of interests between prescribers and medical sales representatives (MSRs) regarding prescribing and drug promotion practices in Karachi, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 32 (2). pp. 687-695. ISSN 1011-601X

McGarry, Kenneth, Graham, Yitka, McDonald, Sharon and Rashid, Anuam (2018) RESKO: Repositioning drugs by using side effects and knowledge from ontologies. Knowledge-Based Systems, 160. pp. 34-48. ISSN 0950-7051

Garthwaite, Heather, Stewart, James, King, Kathryn, McGarry, Kenneth and Wilkes, Scott (2018) Ultrasound monitoring during first-cycle treatment with clomifene citrate: a national survey of compliance with NICE. Human Fertility. ISSN 1464-7273

McGarry, Kenneth (2018) Perforated diverticulitis: To anastomose or not to anastomose? A systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Surgery, 58. pp. 11-21. ISSN 1743-9191

McGarry, Kenneth and Mcdonald, Sharon (2018) Complex network theory for the identification and assessment of candidate protein targets. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 97. pp. 113-123. ISSN 0010-4825

Saleh, Ashraf, McGarry, Kenneth, Chaw, Cheng and Elkordy, Amal (2018) Feasibility of using gluconolactone, trehalose and hydroxy-propyl gamma cyclodextrin to enhance bendroflumethiazide dissolution using lyophilisation and physical mixing techniques. Pharmaceutics, 10 (1). pp. 1-16. ISSN 1999-4923

Rolph, Lauren and McGarry, Kenneth (2017) Combination of clozapine with an atypical antipsychotic: a meta-analysis. Mental Health Review, 22 (4). pp. 277-288. ISSN 1361-9322

Beck, Daniel, El-Assal, K, McGarry, Kenneth and Wride, N (2017) Switching to preservative-free latanoprost: impact on tolerability and patient satisfaction. Clinical Ophthalmology, 11. pp. 557-566. ISSN 1177-5483

Khan, Nabeel, Naqvi, Atta, Ahmad, Rizwan, Ahmed, Farrukh, McGarry, Kenneth, Fazlani, Raafia and Ahsan, M (2016) Perceptions and Attitudes of Medical Sales Representatives (MSRs) and Prescribers Regarding Pharmaceutical Sales Promotion and Prescribing Practices in Pakistan. Journal of Young Pharmacists, 8 (3). pp. 244-250. ISSN 0975-1483

Horridge, Karen, McGarry, Kenneth, Williams, Jane and Whittlingum, Gabriel (2016) Prospective pilots of routine data captures by paediatricians in clinics and validation of the disability complexity scale. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 58 (6). pp. 12-19. ISSN 1469-8749

Horridge, Karen, Harvey, Carl, McGarry, Kenneth, Williams, Jane, Whittlingum, Gabriel, Busk, Mary, Fox, Suzanne, Baird, Gillian and Spencer, Andy (2016) Quantifying multi-facted needs in a district disability clinic population: analysis of data captured at point of care and development of a disabilities terminology set and disabilities complexity scale. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 58 (6). pp. 570-580. ISSN 1469-8749

Steadman, Sarah, Ahmed, Imran, McGarry, Kenneth and Rasia, S (2016) Is screening for urine infection in well infants with prolonged jaundice required? Local review and meta-analysis of existing data. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 101. ISSN 1468 2044

McGarry, Kenneth, Rashid, Anaum and Smith, Hannah (2016) Computational Methods for Drug Re-positioning. Drug Target Review, 3. pp. 31-33. ISSN 2059-1349

Graham, Yitka, Mansour, D., Small, P.K., Hinshaw, Kim, Gatiss, S., Mahawar, K.K., McGarry, Kenneth and Wilkes, Scott (2016) A survey of bariatric surgical and reproductive health professionals' knowledge and provision of contraception to reproductive-aged bariatric surgical patients. Obesity Surgery, 26 (8). pp. 1918-1923. ISSN 0960-8923

Graham, Yitka, Mansour, D., Hinshaw, Kim, Wilkes, Scott, Mahawar, K., Gatiss, S., McGarry, Kenneth and Small, P.K. (2015) Comparing Knowledge and Provision of Contraceptive Care by Bariatric Surgical and Sexual and Reproductive Health Practitioners. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, 11 (6). S131-S131. ISSN 1550-7289

Al-Qerem, Walid, Pullen, Robert, McGarry, Kenneth and Ling, Jonathan (2015) Reported prevalence of allergy and asthma in children from urban and rural Egypt. Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health, 9. pp. 613-620. ISSN 1873-9318

Sharpe, Abigail, Waring, Gareth, Rees, Jon, McGarry, Kenneth and Hinshaw, Kim (2015) Caesarean section at maternal request - the differing views of patients & health care professionals: a questionnaire based study. European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 192 (1). pp. 54-60. ISSN 0301-2115

Evans, Jeffrey, McGarry, Kenneth and Smith, Peter (2015) Investigating the rate of company compulsory liquidation in the UK via Bayesian inference and frequentist statistical methods. Journal of Business & Economic Policy, 2 (1). ISSN 2375-0766

Omar, Galal, Shamssain, Mohammad and McGarry, Kenneth (2015) Monitoring histological changes in oral mucosa using AgNORs as biomarkers for oxygenic stress in smokers and COPD patients. IOSR Journal Of Pharmacy, 5 (4). pp. 24-29. ISSN 2250-3013

Ke, Shih-Wen, Tsai, Chi-Fong and McGarry, Kenneth (2015) LocalContent: a personal scientific document retrieval system. The Electronic Library incorporating Library Computing, 33 (3). ISSN 0264-0473

Khan, Nabeel, Abbas, Atta, McGarry, Kenneth and Shahid, Sadaf (2014) Perceptions and experiences of physicians regarding integration of clinical pharmacists in health practices: A survey of hospitals of Karachi,. International Journal of Allied Medical Sciences and Clinical Research, 2 (3). pp. 222-234. ISSN 2347- 6567

McGarry, Kenneth and Daniel, Ukeme (2014) Data Mining Open Source Databases for Drug Repositioning using Graph Based Techniques. Drug Discovery World, 16 (1). pp. 64-71. ISSN 1469-4344

McGarry, Kenneth (2013) Discovery of functional protein groups by clustering community links and integration of ontological knowledge. Expert Systems with Applications. ISSN 0957-4174

Bello, Nusirat, Winit -Watjana, Win, Baqir, wasim and McGarry, Kenneth (2012) Disclosure and adverse effects of complementary and alternative medicine used by hospitalized patients in the North East of England. Pharmacy Practice, 10 (3). pp. 125-135. ISSN 1886-3655

Omar, Galal, Shamssain, Mohammad and McGarry, Kenneth (2011) Association between nuclear organizer regions lung function and respiratory symptoms in COPD patients. Respirology, Special Issue: 16th Congress of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology, November 3-6, 2011, Shanghai International Convention Center, Shanghai, China, 16. p. 98. ISSN 1440-1843

Al-Qerem, Walid, McGarry, Kenneth, Neshat-Omidvaran, Leila and Shamssain, Mohammad (2010) Effects of Traffic Air Pollution on Respiratory Health and Allergies in Schoolchildren. Pediatric Research, 68. p. 134. ISSN 0031-3998

McGarry, Kenneth (2007) A multi-layered approach to protein data integration for diabetes research. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 41 (2). pp. 129-143. ISSN 09333657

Solomon, Norman, Oatley, Giles and McGarry, Kenneth (2007) A Fast Multivariate Nearest Neighbour Imputation Algorithm. Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science, 2166 (1). pp. 940-948. ISSN 2078-0958

Oatley, Giles, McGarry, Kenneth and Ewart, Brian (2006) Offender network metrics. WSEAS Transactions on Information Science & Applications, 3 (12). pp. 2440-2448.

McGarry, Kenneth, Garfield, Sheila and Morris, Nick (2006) Recent trends in knowledge and data integration for the life sciences. Expert Systems, 23 (5). pp. 330-341. ISSN 0266-4720

Tsai, C-F, McGarry, Kenneth and Tait, John (2006) CLAIRE: A modular support vector image indexing and classification system. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 24 (3). pp. 353-379. ISSN 1046-8188

Malone, James, McGarry, Kenneth, Wermter, Stefan and Bowerman, Chris (2006) Data mining using rule extraction from Kohonen self-organising maps. Neural Computing & Applications, 15 (1). pp. 9-17. ISSN 0941-0643

McGarry, Kenneth, Malone, James and Bowerman, Chris (2006) Automated Trend Analysis of Proteomics Data Using Intelligent Data Mining Architecture. Expert Systems with Application, 30 (1). pp. 24-33. ISSN 09574174

Tsai, C-F, McGarry, Kenneth and Tait, John (2006) Qualitative evaluation of automatic assignment of keywords to images. Information Processing and Management, 42 (1). pp. 136-154. ISSN 0306-4573

McGarry, Kenneth (2005) A survey of Interestingness Measures for Knowledge Discovery. Knowledge Engineering Review, 20 (1). pp. 39-61. ISSN 02698889

McGarry, Kenneth, Wermter, Stefan and MacIntyre, John (2001) The extraction and comparison of knowledge from local function networks. International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, 1 (4). pp. 369-382.

McGarry, Kenneth, Wermter, Stefan and MacIntyre, John (1999) Hybrid neural systems: from simple coupling to fully integrated neural networks. Neural Computing Surveys, 2 (1). pp. 62-93. ISSN 1093-7609

Adgar, Adam, Cox, Chris, Emmanouilidis, Christos, MacIntyre, John, Mattison, peter, McGarry, Kenneth, Oatley, Giles and Taylor, Odin (1998) The application of adaptive systems in condition monitoring. International Journal of Condition Monitoring and Engineering Management, 1. pp. 13-17.

Book Section

Ajayi, Bamidele, Barakat, Basel, McGarry, Kenneth and Abukeshek, Mays (2024) Exploring the Application of Transfer Learning in Malware Detection by Fine-tuning Pre-Trained Models on Binary Classification to New Datasets on Multi-class Classification. In: 2024 29th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). IEEE, pp. 1-6. ISBN 979-8-3503-6088-2

Prusakiewicz, Chris and McGarry, Kenneth (2023) Quantitative Approach of Geospatial Sentiment Analysis to Reveal Opinions on the War in Ukraine. In: Artificial Intelligence XL 43rd SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2023, Cambridge, UK, December 12–14, 2023, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science . Springer Nature, pp. 293-306. ISBN 978-3-031-47993-9 (In Press)

McGarry, Kenneth (2022) Hidden Markov Models for Surprising Pattern Detection in Discrete Symbol Sequence Data. In: Artificial Intelligence XXXIX: 42nd SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2022, Cambridge, UK, December 13–15, 2022, Proceedings. Springer Nature, pp. 180-194. ISBN 978-3-031-21440-0

Anwar, Muhammad Naveed, Oakes, Michael and McGarry, Kenneth (2011) Chi-squared, Yule's Q and Likelihood Ratios in Tabular Audiology Data. In: Electrical Engineering and Applied Computing. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (90). Springer, Netherlands, pp. 365-376. ISBN 9789400711921

Anwar, Muhammad Naveed, Oakes, Michael and McGarry, Kenneth (2010) Chi-squared and associations in tabular audiology data. In: Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering 2010; WCE 2010, June 30 - July 2, 2010, London, U.K. Lecture notes in engineering and computer science, 1 (2183). Newswood Ltd and International Association of Engineers, pp. 346-351. ISBN 9789881701299

Malone, J, McGarry, Kenneth and Bowerman, Chris (2004) Using an Adaptive Fuzzy Logic System to Optimise Knowledge Discovery in Proteomics. In: RASC 2004: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing. Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, pp. 80-85. ISBN 978-1842331101

McGarry, Kenneth and Malone, J (2004) Analysis of rules discovered by the data mining process. In: Applications and Science in Soft Computing Series: Advances in Soft Computing. Springer-Verlag, pp. 219-224. ISBN 978-3-540-40856-7

Tsai, C-F, McGarry, Kenneth and Tait, John (2003) Image classification using hybrid neural networks. In: Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval. Association for Computing Machinary, New York, pp. 431-432. ISBN 1-58113-646-3

Conference or Workshop Item

Badmus, A, McGarry, Kenneth, Baglee, David and Eliot, Neil (2024) IoT-based Analysis of Environmental and Motion Data for Comfort and Energy Conservation in Optimizing HVAC Systems. In: The 25th International Conference on Internet Computing & IoT, 22-25 Jul 2024, Las Vegas, USA. (In Press)

Vidler, Tony, McGarry, Kenneth and Baglee, David (2023) Text Mining Legal Documents for Clause Extraction. In: The 19th International Conference on Data Science (ICDATA'23), 24-27 Jul 2023, Las Vegas, USA.

Nelson, David, McGarry, Kenneth and Proud, Mark (2023) USING ORACLE QUERY PLAN FOR AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT OF SQL. In: 17th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, 6-8 March 2023, Valencia, Spain.

Goh, Theng, Ho, Kah, Teow, Yeit and McGarry, Kenneth (2023) Influence of rGO/MWCNTs on antifouling properties of nanocomposite membrane: Statistical analysis. In: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY: ICSEAT, 16–17 Jun 2022, Kota Damansara, Malaysia.

McGarry, Kenneth (2022) Graph theoretic and stochastic block models integrated with matrix factorization for community detection. In: The 21st UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, 7 - 9 September 2022, University of Sheffield.. (In Press)

Heritage, John, McDonald, Sharon and McGarry, Kenneth (2017) Integrating association rules mined from health-care data with ontological information for automated knowledge generation. In: The 17th Annual UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI-2017), 6-8 Sep 2017, Cardiff.

McGarry, Kenneth and Assamoha, Ennock (2017) Data integration with self-organising neural network reveals chemical structure and therapeutic effects of drug ATC codes. In: The 17th Annual UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI-2017), 6-8 Sep 2017, Cardiff.

Khan, Nabeel, McGarry, Kenneth and Holden, Keith (2017) The prevalence of poly-pharmacy and its negative outcomes: A survey of leading health care settings of Pakistan. In: The Great North Pharmacy Research Conference 2017, 21 Jul 2017, University of Sunderland. (Unpublished)

McGarry, Kenneth and McDonald, Sharon (2017) Computational methods for text mining user posts on a popular gaming forum for identifying user experience issues. In: British HCI 2017 Conference Digital Make Believe, 3-6 Jul 2017, Sunderland, UK.

Batten, R, Probert, L, Omar, E, Wright, D, Platt, P, McGarry, Kenneth and Atchia, I (2017) Ultrasonic Evaluation of Joint Involvement in Established RA: Active Synovitis Predicts Switching in Suspected Biologic Failure. In: British Society Rheumatology Conference 2017, 25-27 April 2017, ICC, Birmingham. (Unpublished)

Rujirapapipat, Suthinan, McGarry, Kenneth and Nelson, David (2016) Bioinformatic analysis using complex networks and clustering proteins involved with Alzheimer's disease. In: 16th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, UKCI-2016, 7-9 Sep 2016, Lancaster University.

McGarry, Kenneth, Emery, Kirsty, Varnakulasingam, Vithusa, McDonald, Sharon and Ashton, Mark (2016) Complex network based computational techniques for edgetic modelling of mutations implicated with human diseases. In: 16th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, UKCI-2016, 7-9 Sep 2016, Lancaster University.

Saleh, Ashraf, Chaw, Cheng, McGarry, Kenneth and Elkordy, Amal (2016) Self-emulsifying drug delivery systems (SEDDS) to improve dissolution of bendroflumethiazide. In: The 7th APS International PharmSci 2016; Pharmaceutical Sciences: Improving World Health, 5 – 7 Sep 2016, Technology and Innovation Centre, Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. (Unpublished)

Horridge, K, Harvey, C, McGarry, Kenneth, Williams, J, Whitlingum, G, Busk, M, Fox, S and Rahman, F (2016) A proposed disability complexity scale to describe the multi-facted needs of disabled children and young people. In: International Conference on Cerebal Palsy and other childhood-onset disabilities, 1 - 4 Jun 2016, Stockholm, Sweden.

Ashwell, Simon and McGarry, Kenneth (2016) A regional root cause analysis of major diabetes-related lower limb amputations in the North East of England. In: 16th Malvern Diabetic Foot Conference., 18-20 May 2016, Malvern Theatres, Malvern, Worcestershire. (Unpublished)

Dawson, Peter, Jobson, Jill, Carter, Noel, Treumann, A., McGarry, Kenneth and Anderson, Rosaleen (2016) Investigating the protein differences between cystinotic and non-cystinotic cells. In: International Cystinosis Conference, 30 June - 3 July 2016, Valencia, Spain. (Submitted)

Graham, Yitka, Mansour, D., Small, P.K., Hinshaw, Kim, Gatiss, S., Mahawar, K.K., McGarry, Kenneth and Wilkes, Scott (2016) Comparing knowledge and provision of contraceptive care by bariatric surgical and sexual and reproductive healthcare practitioners. In: British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society 7th Annual Scientific Meeting, 27-29 Jan, Cardiff, UK. (Unpublished)

McGarry, Kenneth, Slater, Nicole and Ammaning, Angela (2015) Identifying candidate drugs for repositioning by graph based modeling techniques based on drug side-effects. In: 15th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2015), 7 - 9 Sep 2015, University of Exeter.

McGarry, Kenneth and Daniel, U. (2014) Computational Techniques for Identifying Networks of Interrelated Diseases. In: The 14th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, UKCI-2014, 8 - 10 September 2014, Bradford, UK. (Submitted)

Saleh, A., Elkordy, Amal and McGarry, Kenneth (2014) Dissolution Enhancement of Bendroflumethiazide Using Gluconolactone, gamma-cyclodextrin, Trehalose. In: APS PharmSci2014: The Science of Medicines, 8 - 10 Sep 2014, Univerity of Hertfordshire, Hatfield. (Unpublished)

McDonald, Sharon, McGarry, Kenneth and Willis, L M (2013) Thinking-aloud about web navigation: the relationship between think-aloud instructions, task difficulty and performance. In: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 30 Sep - 4 Oct 2013., San Diego, California, USA.

Jobson, Jill, Carter, Noel, McGarry, Kenneth, Treumann, A and Anderson, Rosaleen (2013) A Quantitative Proteomic Investigation of Cystinotic Fibroblasts and Proximal Tubule Epithelial Cells using SILAC. In: Cystinosis Research Network Conference, 18 - 20 Jul 2013, Washington D.C., USA.

Baqir, Wasim, Barrett, S, Horsley, W, Jones, Kelvin, O'Dolan, R, Birchnall, K and McGarry, Kenneth (2012) Pharmacy assistant supported medicine administration: reducing unacceptable omitted doses. In: Royal Pharmaceutical Society Annual Conference 2012, 9th - 10th September 2012, ICC Birmingham, UK.

Jobson, Jill, Carter, Noel, McGarry, Kenneth, Treumann, A and Anderson, Rosaleen (2012) A Quantitative Proteomic Comparison of Cystinotic and Control Fibroblasts. In: 7th International Cystinosis Conference, 28 June – 01 July 2012, Marriott Charles de Gaulle Hotel, Paris, France.

Jobson, Jill, Carter, Noel, McGarry, Kenneth, Treumann, Achim and Anderson, Rosaleen (2011) Proteomic investigation of cystinotic cells and the effects of cysteamine treatment. In: Cystinosis Foundation UK Conference, 24 Sept 2011, Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester, UK.. (Unpublished)

Jobson, Jill, Carter, Noel, McGarry, Kenneth, Treumann, Achim and Anderson, Rosaleen (2011) Proteomic investigation of cystinotic cells and the effects of cysteamine treatment. In: Cystinosis Research Network 2011 Family Conference, 14 July 2011, Hotel Nikko, San Francisco, CA. (Unpublished)

Bello, Nusirat, Winit -Watjana, Win, Baqir, Wasim and McGarry, Kenneth (2011) Perceived side-effects and potential interactions of complementary and alternative medicine used by hospital in-patients in the North East of England. In: Prescribing and Research in Medicines Management (PRIMM), Mid-year Meeting 2011, 24th June 2011, Friends House, London. (Unpublished)

Al Qerem, W, McGarry, Kenneth, Neshat-Omidvaran, Leila and Shamssain, Mohammad (2010) Association between air pollution, allergic symptoms, and hospital admissions in a group of Egyptian schoolchildren. In: European Respiratory Society Conference, 18-22 Sep 2010, Barcelona.

Omar, Galal, McGarry, Kenneth and Shamssain, Mohammad (2010) Association between lung function, respiratory symptoms and the argyrophilic nuclear organizer regions from oral mucosa in smokers. In: European Respiratory Society Conference, 18-22 Sep 2010, Barcelona.

Elmariami, Muftah, McGarry, Kenneth and Shamssain, Mohammad (2010) Association between Respiratory Viruses and Exacerbations in Copd Patients. In: European Respiratory Society Conference (Thematic Poster Session), 18-22 September 2010, Barcelona.

Anwar, Muhammad Naveed, Oakes, Michael and McGarry, Kenneth (2010) Chi-squared and associations in tabular audiology data. In: International Conference of Data Mining and Knowledge Engineering (ICDMKE2010), 30 Jun - 2 Jul 2010, London. (Unpublished)

Ebhabha, V, McGarry, Kenneth and Elkordy, Amal (2009) The effects of surfactants on hydrophobic drug dissolution and their statistical analysis. In: The British Pharmaceutical Conference, 6-9 Sept 2009, Manchester. (Unpublished)

McGarry, Kenneth, Bartlett, Kim and Pourfarzam, Morteza (2008) Exploratory data analysis for investigating GC-MS biomarkers. In: 3rd IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics, 15-17 Oct 2008, Melbourne, Australia. (Unpublished)

McGarry, Kenneth, Sarfraz, M and MacIntyre, John (2007) Integrating Gene Expression Data from Microarrays using the Self-Organising Map and the Gene Ontology. In: 2nd IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB2007), 1 - 2 Oct 2007, Singapore.

Solomon, Norman, Oatley, Giles and McGarry, Kenneth (2007) A Dynamic Method for the Evaluation and Comparison of Imputation Techniques. In: International Conference of Computational Statistics and Data Engineering, 2-4 July, 2007, London, U.K.

McGarry, Kenneth, Garfield, Sheila and Wermter, Stefan (2007) Auto-Extraction, Representation and Integration of a Diabetes Ontology Using Bayesian Networks. In: Twentieth IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, 20-22 June 2007, Maribor, Slovenia.

McGarry, Kenneth, Garfield, Sheila, Morris, Nick and Wermter, Stefan (2007) Integration of Hybrid Bio-Ontologies using Bayesian Networks for Knowledge Discovery. In: Third International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning, 6-12 January 2007, Hyderabad, India.

McGarry, Kenneth, Loutfi, Mohamed and Moscardini, Alfredo (2007) Stochastic Simulation of the Regulatory Pathways involved in Diabetes using Petri-nets. In: International Conference on Computer Theory and Applications (ICCTA2007), 1 - 2 Oct 2007, Alexandria, Egypt.

McGarry, Kenneth, Morris, N and Freitas, A (2006) The Integration of Heterogeneous Biological Data using Bayesian Networks. In: The Twenty-sixth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 11 - 13 Dec 2006, Cambridge, UK.

McGarry, Kenneth and Wermter, Stefan (2005) Training without data: knowledge insertion into RBF networks. In: Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-05), August 2005, Edinburgh.

Malone, J, McGarry, Kenneth and Bowerman, Chris (2005) Intelligent hybrid Spatio-temporal mining for knowledge discovery on proteomics data. In: Symposium on Knowledge Representation for Bioinformatics, 15 Jun 2005, Helsinki University of Technology.

Malone, J, Elshaw, Mark, McGarry, Kenneth, Bowerman, Chris and Wermter, Stefan (2005) Spatio-Temporal Neural Data Mining Architecture in Learning Robots. In: International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 31Jul - 4 Aug 2005, Montreal, Canada.

Tsai, C F, McGarry, Kenneth and Tait, John (2004) Automatic Metadata Annotation of Images via a Two-Level Learning Framework. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Web, in conjunction with ACM SIGIR’04, 25-29 Jul 2004, Sheffield, UK.

Malone, James, McGarry, Kenneth and Bowerman, Chris (2004) Performing trend analysis on spatio-temporal proteomics data using differential ratio data mining. In: Proceedings of the 6th EPSRC Conference on Postgraduate Research in Electronics, Photonics, Communications and Software (PREP 2004), 5-7 Apr 2004.

Addison, Dale, McGarry, Kenneth, Wermter, Stefan and MacIntyre, John (2004) Stepwise Linear Regression Dimensionality Reduction in Neural Network Modelling. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 16-18 February 2004, Innsbruck, Austria.

Malone, J, McGarry, Kenneth and Bowerman, Chris (2004) Trend Analysis On Spatio-Temporal Proteomics Data Using Differential Ratio Data Mining. In: Proceedings of the 6th EPSRC Conference on Postgraduate Research in Electronics, Photonics, Communications and Software (PREP 2004), 5-7 Apr 2004, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK.

Tsai, C.F., McGarry, Kenneth and Tait, John (2003) Using Neuro-Fuzzy Techniques Based on a Two-Stage Mapping Model for Concept-Based Image Database Indexing. In: 5th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering, 10-12 December 2003, Taichung, Taiwan.

McGarry, Kenneth (2002) The Analysis of Rules Discovered by the Data Mining Process. In: 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing (RASC-02), 12 -13 Dec 2002, Nottingham-Trent University.

McGarry, Kenneth, Martin, A, Addison, Dale and MacIntyre, John (2002) Data Mining and User Profiling for An E-Commerce System. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery. In: 1st International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery: Computational Intelligence for the E-Age, 18 - 22 Nov 2002, Singapore.

Addison, Dale, Wermter, Stefan, McGarry, Kenneth and MacIntyre, John (2002) Methods for Integrating Memory into Neural Networks Applied to Condition Monitoring. In: 6th IASTED International Conference Artificial Intelligence & Soft Computing (ASC 2002),, 17-19 Jul 2002, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

McGarry, Kenneth and MacIntyre, John (2002) Knowledge Transfer between Neural Networks. In: Sixteenth European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, (EMCSR),, 2 - 5 Apr 2002, Vienna, Austria.

McGarry, Kenneth and MacIntyre, John (2001) Data mining in a vibration analysis domain by extracting symbolic rules from RBF neural networks. In: 14th International Congress on Condition Monitoring and Engineering Management, 4-6 Sep 2001, Manchester, UK.

MacIntyre, John, McGarry, Kenneth and Wermter, Stefan (2001) Knowledge Extraction from Local Function Networks. In: Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

McGarry, Kenneth (2001) Architectures for knowledge transfer between neural networks. In: The UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, 10-12 Sep 2001, Edinburgh, UK.

McGarry, Kenneth, MacIntyre, John and Addison, Dale (2001) Integrating RBF networks with domain knowledge. In: International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 14 -19 Jul 2001, Washington DC, USA.

McGarry, Kenneth and MacIntyre, John (1999) The fusion of neuro-symbolic knowledge within an adaptive hybrid system. In: International Conference on Data Fusion, 5-7 Oct 1999, Stratford-upon-Avon.

McGarry, Kenneth, Tait, John, Wermter, Stefan and MacIntyre, John (1999) Rule extraction from radial basis function networks. In: 9th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, 7-10 Sep 1999, Edinburgh, UK.

Adgar, Adam, Emmanouilidis, Christos and McGarry, Kenneth (1999) Combination of modelling techniques for fault diagnosis of rotating machinery using vibration analysis. In: 12th International Congress on Condition Monitoring and Engineering Management, 6-8 Jul 1999, University of Sunderland.

MacIntyre, John, Emmanouilidis, Christos, Adgar, Adam and McGarry, Kenneth (1999) The VISION project: a European collaboration on vibration analysis. In: 12th International Congress on Condition Monitoring and Engineering Management, 6-8 Jul 1999, University of Sunderland.

McGarry, Kenneth, Wermter, Stefan and MacIntyre, John (1999) Knowledge extraction from radial basis function networks and multi-layer perceptrons. In: International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 10-16 Jul 1999, Washington DC , USA. (Unpublished)

McGarry, Kenneth and MacIntyre, John (1999) Knowledge extraction and insertion from radial basis function networks. In: IEE Colloquium on Applied Statistical Pattern Recognition, 20 Apr 1999, Birmingham, UK. (Unpublished)

McGarry, Kenneth and MacIntyre, John (1999) Hybrid diagnostic system based upon simulation and artificial intelligence. In: Condition monitoring '99: International Conference on Condition Monitoring, 12-16 Apr 1999, University of Wales, Swansea.

Book

Naqvi, Atta Abbas and McGarry, Kenneth (2014) Polypharmacy in Pakistan. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. ISBN 3659565067

Freitas, Alex, McGarry, Kenneth and Correa, Elon (2007) Integrating Bayesian networks and Simpson's paradox in data mining. Causality and Probability in the Sciences. . College Publications, United Kingdom, University of Kent. ISBN 1-904987-35-4

This list was generated on Sat Dec 21 17:51:07 2024 GMT.
  • Data analysis (predictive modelling)
  • Medical statistics (basic analysis, meta-analysis, survival analysis)
  • Bioinformatics (sequence analysis, proteomics)
  • Data mining (classification, clustering, association rules)
  • Machine learning (Bayesian networks)
  • Big Data
  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Fellow of the British Computer Society


Recent professional activities:

  • Member of the Editorial Board for Neural Computing and Applications Journal

Reviewer for the following journals:

  • PLOS ONE
  • Expert Systems
  • Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems
  • Neural Computing Applications
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
  • Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
  • Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing
  • Int J. on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT)

Reviewer for UK Research Councils:

  • BBSRC Tools & Resources fund
  • EPSRC
  • MRC grants
  • NIHR grants
  • Diabetes UK

Reviewer for Overseas Research Councils:

  • USA NSF grants
  • Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology

For details of publications and other information see my Orcid record.

Last updated 18 December 2024