Dr Ponnie Clark

PhD Information Systems, M.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Mathematics
Senior Lecturer

Email: ponnie.clark@nd.edu.au

  • Biography

    Dr Ponnie Clark has over 20 years of academic experience in teaching and research. She has published over 110 peer-reviewed articles and industry reports. She has  participated in many industry research funded projects. Her expertise and research interests include Data Science, Blockchain, and Artificial Intelligence. She has successfully supervised to completion 12 PhDs and 2 Masters by Research. She has taught various undergraduate and postgraduate courses and currently teaches in the Mathematics and Data Analytics disciplines.

  • Teaching Areas

    • Mathematics
    • Data Analytics

  • Research Interest and Current Projects

    • Data Science
    • Blockchain
    • Artificial Intelligence

  • Books

    • Abu-Salih, B. & Wongthonghtham, P., Zhu, D., Chan, KY, Rudra, A., Social Big Data Analytics, Springer-Verlag, 2021. (ISBN 978-981-336-651-0)
    • Forbes, E. D., Wongthongtham, P., Terblanche, C., Pakdeetrakulwong, U., Ontology Engineering Applications in Healthcare and Workforce Management Systems, Springer-Verlag, 2017. (ISBN 978-3-319-65011-1)
    • Hadzic, M., Wongthongtham, P., Chang, E. & Dillon, T.S., Ontology-based Multi-agent Systems, Springer-Verlag, Germany, 2009. (ISBN 978-3-642-01903-6)

  • Book Chapters

    Selected Book Chapters (the last 5 years, 2017 onwards):

    • Cordes, D. L., Wongthongtham, P., & Morrison, G., ‘Transforming Urban Slums: Pathway to Functionally Intelligent Cities in Developing Countries’, In Z. Mahmood (Ed.), Developing and Monitoring Smart Environments for Intelligent Cities, pp. 130-170, IGI Global, 2021.
    • Salih, B. A., Bremie, B., Wongthongtham, P., Duan, K., Issa, T., Chan, K.Y., 'Social Credibility incorporating Semantic Analysis and Machine Learning: A Survey of the State-of-the-Art and Future Research Directions', In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 927, Springer, 2019.
    • Wongthongtham, P., Kaur, J., Potdar, V., Das, A., ‘Big Data Challenges for the Internet of Things (IoT) Paradigm’, In Connected Environments for the Internet of Things, edited by Zaigham Mahmood. Springer, 2017.

  • Journal Articles and Proceedings

    Selected Journal Articles (the last 5 years, 2017 onwards):

    • Wongthongtham, P., Marrable, D., Abu-Salih, B., Liu, X., & Morrison, G. (2021). Blockchain-enabled Peer-to-Peer energy trading. Computers and Electrical Engineering, 94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2021.107299
    • Abu-Salih, B., Alsawalqah, H., Elshqeirat, B., Issa, T., Wongthongtham, P., & Premi, K. K. (2021). Toward a knowledge-based personalised recommender system for mobile app development. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 27(2), 208-229. https://doi.org/10.3897/jucs.65096
    • Abu-Salih, B., Al-Tawil, M., Aljarah, I., Faris, H., Wongthongtham, P., Chan, K. Y., & Beheshti, A. (2021). Relational Learning Analysis of Social Politics using Knowledge Graph Embedding. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 35(4), 1497- 1536. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10618-021-00760-w
    • Abu-Salih, B., Chan, K. Y., Al-Kadi, O., Al-Tawil, M., Wongthongtham, P., Issa, T., Saadeh, H., Al-Hassan, M., Bremie, B., & Albahlal, A. (2020). An Approach for Time-aware Domain-based Social Influence Prediction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2001. 07838.
    • Chan, K. Y., Kwong, C. K., Wongthongtham, P., Jiang, H., Fung, C. K. Y., Abu-Salih, B., Liu, Z., Wong, T. C., & Jain, P. (2020). Affective design using machine learning: a survey and its prospect of conjoining big data. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 33(7), 645-669.
      Chang, E., Chan, K. Y., Clark, P., & Potdar, V. (2020). Guest Editorial: Blockchain and AI Enabled 5G Mobile Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 16(11), 7067-7069. https://doi.org/10.1109/tii.2020.2983764
    • Abu-Salih, B., Wongthongtham, P., Chan, K. Y., & Zhu, D. (2019). CredSaT: Credibility ranking of users in big social data incorporating semantic analysis and temporal factor. Journal of Information Science, 45(2), 259-280.
    • Abu-Salih, B., Wongthongtham, P., & Chan, K. Y. (2018). Twitter mining for ontology-based domain discovery incorporating machine learning. Journal of Knowledge Management.
    • Forbes, D. E., Wongthongtham, P., Terblanche, C., & Pakdeetrakulwong, U. (2018). Ontology Engineering Applications in Healthcare and Workforce Management Systems.
    • Potdar, V., Joshi, S., Harish, R., Baskerville, R., & Wongthongtham, P. (2018). A process model for identifying online customer engagement patterns on Facebook brand pages. Information Technology & People.
    • Wongthongtham, P., Chan, K. Y., Potdar, V., Abu-Salih, B., Gaikwad, S., & Jain, P. (2018). State-of-the-Art Ontology Annotation for Personalised Teaching and Learning and Prospects for Smart Learning Recommender Based on Multiple Intelligence and Fuzzy Ontology. International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, 20(4), 1357-1372. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40815-018-0467-6
    • Wongthongtham, P., Chan, K. Y., Potdar, V., Abu-Salih, B., Gaikwad, S., & Jain, P. (2018). State-of-the-art ontology annotation for personalised teaching and learning and prospects for smart learning recommender based on multiple intelligence and fuzzy ontology. International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, 20(4), 1357-1372.
    • Wongthongtham, P., & Salih, B. A. (2018). Ontology-based approach for identifying the credibility domain in social Big Data. Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, 28(4), 354-377.

  • Conference Papers

    Selected Conference Proceedings (the last 5 years, 2017 onwards):

    • Lane, M., Hui, W., Murcia, K., & Wongthongtham, P. (2019). Diversity Implications of Online Learning of Coding, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Educational Technologies 2019
    • Abu-Salih, B., Bremie, B., Wongthongtham, P., Duan, K., Issa, T., Chan, K. Y., Alhabashneh, M., Albtoush, T., Alqahtani, S., Alqahtani, A., & Others. (2019). Social credibility incorporating semantic analysis and machine learning: A survey of the state-of-the-art and future research directions Workshops of the International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications
    • Kaur, J., Wongthongtham, P., Abu-Salih, B., & Fathy, S. (2018). Analysis of scientific production of IoE big data research 2018 32nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA),
    • Nabipourshiri, R., Abu-Salih, B., & Wongthongtham, P. (2018). Tree-based Classification to Users' Trustworthiness in OSNs Proceedings of the 2018 10th International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering,

  • Grants

    • Layer-One.X, Blockchain Scalability and Interoperability Framework, 2021, $180,000 from Alphabright Digital Pty Ltd
    • Smart Stormwater Management, 2020, $150,000 from Main Roads WA Innovation & Research funds
    • Cost-benefit analysis of carbon emission from the upscaling of Blockchain based P2P energy trading, 2018, $30,000 from CRC for Low Carbon Living

  • Awards and Honours

    • 2019 Emerald Literati Award, Excellence for Outstanding and Highly Commended paper (outstanding paper published by Emerald in 2018)
    • 2009 Curtin Awarded Book of the Year