2nd MSC Malaysia R&D Exchange Forum 2009

2nd MSC Malaysia R&D Exchange Forum 2009

Knowledge sharing in R&D on TelePresence and Video conferencing

Tuesday, 8 December, 2009

Venue: Royale Ballroom, The Royale Bintang Hotel, Kuala Lumpur

8.45 am Registration of Participants

9.10 am Welcoming Remarks

Ir. Prof. Dato' Dr. Chuah Hean Teik

President/CEO

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)

9.20 am Opening Remarks

Ms. Ng Wan Peng

Chief Operating Officer

Multimedia Development Corporation

9.30 am Panasonic HD Presence Communication System Development and Test Methodology

Mr. Eiichi Muramoto

Network Technology Leader

Immersive Communication Task Force, Corporate R&D

Panasonic Corporation Osaka

10.10 am ALM Technology for Multi-site HD Presence System and Standardization Activities

Dr.Ettikan Kandasamy

Principal Engineer

Panasonic R&D Centre Malaysia, Cyberjaya

10.50 am Tea Break

11.20 am Seamless AV Communication Utilizing Peer To Peer Technology & Challenges

Dr. Poo Kuan Hoong

Faculty of Information Technology

Multimedia University (MMU)

12.00 noon Panel Session

Moderator: Dr. Victor Tan (UTAR)

Panelist: Mr. Eiichi Muramoto

Dr. Ettikan Kandasamy

Dr. Poo Kuan Hoong

12.45 noon Networking Lunch

2.00 pm A TCP based High Definition Video Conferencing Platform.

Prof Dr.Sureswaran Ramadass

Director of the National Advanced IPv6 Centre of Excellence (NAV6),

IPv6 Domain Head for MYREN (Malaysian Research and Education Network)

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)

2.40pm Academic-Industrial Collaboration Forum: Industry academic collaboration: Experiences from ipVx-UTAR and NUS

Dr. Tommi Chen

CEO, ipVx Sdn Bhd.

3.20 pm Tea Break & Networking Session

3.50 p.m. Academic-Industrial Collaboration Forum: University – Industry Relationships - Bridging the Gap

Prof. Lee Sze Wei, Vice President (R&D and Commercialization),

Director of Institute of Postgraduate Studies & Research,

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)

4.30 pm Panel Session

Moderator: Dr. Liew Soung Yue (UTAR)

Panelist: Prof Dr.Sureswaran Ramadass

Dr. Tommi Chen

Prof. Lee Sze Wei

5.00 pm End of 2nd MSC Malaysia R&D Exchange Forum 2009

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Dr. Ettikan Kandasamy Karuppiah

Principal Engineer

Panasonic R&D Centre Malaysia, Cyberjaya

Ettikan KK., with Ph.D (in the area of Distributed Computing), MSc (Master of Computer Science) and Bachelor of Computer Science, all from University Science Malaysia, obtained in the year 1997, 1999 and 2005 respectively. He is currently with Advanced Technology Development Group (ATDG), Panasonic R&D Centre Malaysia located in Cyberjaya, Malaysia as Principal Engineer (cum General Manager of R&D Group) being responsible in IP Multimedia communications protocol research activities. He is responsible for initiating collaborative research activities with Corporate Lab partners and formulating research process/methodology. Beside the team leading/managing effort, he also directly involved in R&D activities with 12 JP/International patents were successfully applied in the Home Networking area & Network Processing. Recently under his leadership ATDG/PRDCM was awarded STAR grant for strategic research activities at ATDG as part of Panasonic corporate research lab. Currently he is actively participating in embedded system communication related areas at ATDG.

Mr. Eiichi Muramoto

Network Technology Leader

Immersive Communication Task Force, Corporate R&D

Panasonic Corporation Osaka

Mr. Eiichi Muramoto received his Engineering Master degree from Information Science from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST). His research interest includes areas in Networking, Group communication, End to End QoS, Internet Testbed Application.

Dr. Poo Kuan Hoong

Lecturer, Faculty of Information Technology

Multimedia University

Dr. Poo Kuan Hoong received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, and both his M.IT. and B.Sc. degrees from the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia.

His current research interest area spans peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and Distributed Systems. He is also interested in algorithm design and performance modeling of various distributed systems based on a variety of theories, including optimization, graph theory, and network coding. He is also interested in extensive measurement and statistical study of large-scale Internet systems, to explore problems and derive insights towards their improvement.

Dr. Tommi Chen

Chief Executive Officer

ipVx Sdn Bhd

Dr. Tommi Chen has been an early internet pioneer in Asia setting up the first ISP in the region in 1991. In Singapore he is best known as founder of Pacific Internet and is credited as the 'father' of the internet for his work as a pioneer and catalyst for internet developments in Singapore. In 1995, he was invited by Telekom Malaysia to set up its ISP, TMNet. He was also once in research leading the R&D team for networking at the National University of Singapore and later becoming Deputy Director in charge of IT planning at the University.

Today Tommi is Chief Executive of ipVx Sdn Bhd. The company specializes in setting up ICT infrastructure and providing outsource services for data centres, internet service providers and large corporate clients. His forte is the internet, understanding its business implications and the service provider business. His strength is in his ability to create strong technological implementation capability and is known in the industry for his strategic insight in the internet service provider industry.

Prof Dr.Sureswaran Ramadass

Director of the National Advanced IPv6 Centre of Excellence (NAV6),

IPv6 Domain Head for MYREN (Malaysian Research and Education Network)

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)

Dr. Sureswaran obtained his BsEE/CE (Magna Cum Laude) and Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Miami in 1987 and 1990 respectively. He obtained his PhD from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in 2000.

Dr. Sureswaran's career included being a senior member of the technical staff of the research team of MODCOMP, Florida. MODCOMP was a company focused on the research, development and deployment of real-time operating systems. MODCOMP's customers included Jet Propultion Labs (JPL) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for their remote space vehicles. Dr. Sureswaran later joined ICON Business System, Inc (Florida) as Senior Consultant in 1991. He was subsequently promoted to Vice President Engineering and was responsible for the entire engineering and R&D divisions of ICON.

Dr. Sureswaran's achievements include being awarded the Malaysian Innovation Award by the Prime Minister in 2007. Dr. Sureswaran was also the founder and headed the team that successfully took MLabs Systems Berhad, a high technology video conferencing company to a successful listing on the Malaysian Stock Exchange in 2005.

Dr. Sureswaran is currently one of the four steering committee members and the IPv6 Domain Head for MYREN (Malaysian Research and Education Network). He is also currently the Chairman of the Asia Pacific IPv6 Task Force (APV6TF). Dr. Sureswaran's is also a Primary Member of APAN as well as the Head of APAN Malaysia (Asia Pacific Advanced Networks).

Dr. Sureswaran is currently a Director of the Japanese AI3 project and is also the Head of the AI3 (Asian Internet Interconnections Initiative) for Malaysia. Dr. Sureswaran was also appointed as an advisor to the Japanese government's Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecomm. (MPHPT).

Dr. Sureswaran has published over 70 research papers and 7 patents. He has written chapters and provided materials for 4 books. He has also been a program committee member for numerous international conferences and has reviewed papers for over 30 international and national level conferences.

Dr. Sureswaran has received over USD 8 million in research funding and grants from

numerous organizations in the 16 years that he has been with the university.

Prof. Dr. Lee Sze Wei

Vice President (R&D and Commercialization)

Director of Institute of Postgraduate Studies & Research

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)

Prof. Dr. Lee Sze Wei obtained his BEng (Hons) in Electronics and Optoelectronics, MPhil., and PhD from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK in 1995, 1996, and 1998 respectively. He specializes in telecommunication engineering and has been involved in various industry-university collaborative research projects and providing training programmes to the industry aimed at updating and upgrading the knowledge and skill of technologists and engineers in the industry.