J. Joshua Thomas is an Associate Professor at UOW Malaysia KDU Penang University College. He obtained his PhD (Intelligent Systems Techniques) from University Sains Malaysia, Penang, and master’s degree from Madurai Kamaraj University, India. He is working with deep learning algorithms, specially targeting on graph convolutional neural networks and bidirectional recurrent neural networks for drug target interaction and image tagging with embedded natural language processing. His work involves experimental research with software prototypes and mathematical modeling and design.