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).