CCIS New Member: Dr Lee Chien Sing

Dear colleagues,

Let's welcome Dr Lee Chien Sing to CCIS. Below are short biography of Dr Lee. Feel free to contact Dr Lee for further collaboration opportunities.

Chien-Sing Lee’s research spans across instructional design, computer-supported collaborative learning, game-based learning, mobile learning, data mining and intelligent agents.

She has experimented with the use of service-oriented architectures to deliver personalized instruction and the use of knowledge management to not only organize knowledge but also to derive best practices from prior knowledge so that these best practices can be easily adapted to similar scenarios.

Another area of interest is interoperability through the Semantic Web due to her concern that best practices should be shared, adopted and adapted locally and globally to improve teaching and learning practices in half the time half the cost but with the highest effectiveness and efficiency.

Her latest experiments deal with scaffolding creativity through technology in learning environments.

CCIS New Member: Dr Chong Poh Kit

Dear colleagues,

Let's welcome Dr Chong Poh Kit to CCIS. Below are short biography of Dr Chong. Feel free to contact Dr Chong for further collaboration opportunities.

Dr Chong Poh Kit Chong Poh Kit was born in Malaysia in 1979. He received the B.Eng. degree in electronics from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, in 2001, the M.Eng.Sc. degree from Multimedia University (MMU), Cyberjaya, Malaysia, in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree in information and communications engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,Daejeon, Korea, in 2010.

He was a Research Scholar with MMU from 2001 to 2003 and a Network Software Engineer with Intel from 2003 to 2005 before embarking on his Ph.D. studies. He has also worked at Motorola and MIMOS as a senior staff engineer.

His current research interests include computing systems, and wireless and wired communications protocols.

Research Assistant Wanted

Research Assistant (RA) Wanted

Number of Vacancies: 2

Available at 

Faculty of Engineering and Science,
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) KL Campus,
Jalan Genting Klang, 53300 Kuala Lumpur

Project Title

Design and Development of 3D Urban Traffic Monitoring and Control System.

Project Leader

Dr. Tay Yong Haur (tayyh@utar.edu.my),
Department of Internet Engineering and Computer Science,
Faculty of Engineering and Science (FES), UTAR KL Campus.

Objective

To develop a 3D software system that is used for urban traffic monitoring and control.

Scope of Work

• To evaluate the 3D modeling framework
• To evaluate the 3D navigation devices, e.g. Leap Motion.
• To develop software on top of the 3D modeling framework;
• To work closely with research engineers from the industry.

Job Description

• Remuneration of RM1500-2500 per month for 12 to 18 months, depending on experience.
• The RA must help the project leader in all works associated with the research.
• The RA must work closely with the sponsored industry partner to complete the research project.
• The RA may register for Master Degree by research program (M. EngSc) with UTAR.

Requirements

• Passionate in computer programming, especially in C++
• Strong interest and/or has working experience in 3D modeling project / GPU
• Good English written and verbal communication
• Good analytical skills
• Self-motivated, requires minimal supervision, resourceful and willing to learn.
• Available to start working preferably on 1 November 2013.

Interested Candidate

If you are interested in the RA position advertised above, please email your CV directly to Dr. Tay Yong Haur (tayyh@utar.edu.my) as soon as possible. Feel free to write to Dr Tay for any further inquiry of the project.

Only short-listed candidates will be called for interview.

CCIS Talk: Technological Advancements in Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for High Performance Computing

In collaboration with MIMOS and NVIDIA Corporation, UTAR CCIS cordially invites you to the following talk:

Date: 20th September 2013 (Friday)
Time: 10AM - 11.30AM
Venue: DK1, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) Kuala Lumpur Campus, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Speakers: Dr. Simon Chong-Wee See, Chief Solution Architect, NVIDIA Corporation and Dr. Ettikan K. K., Principal Engineer, MIMOS Berhad Malaysia.
Admission: Free. Registration at http://goo.gl/Dup3Jn

Abstract
The current application of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for parallel computing tasks has shown excellent results in terms of speed-ups when compared against Central Processing Unit (CPU) processors. Rapid growth of data in terabytes & petabytes represents a huge challenge for multi-core & many-core based solution R&D. This talk describes these challenges and ongoing work in architecture design, software, and algorithms R&D to meet them.

Distinguished Speakers:

Dr. Simon Chong-Wee See, Chief Solution Architect, NVIDIA Corporation

Dr Simon See is currently the director and chief architect of NVIDIA Asia Pacific Professional Solution Group. He is also an adjunct professor at the Shanghai Jiaotong University in China and King-Mong Kung Technical University in Thailand. In addition, Dr. Simon is the chief scientific advisor to BGI (China). Dr Simon graduated from the University of Salford with a Doctorate’s degree in applied mathematics/engineering. Prior to NVIDIA, he worked at DSO National Lab, IBM, SGI and Sun Microsystems. His research interest includes computer architecture and systems, simulation and applied mathematics. He has published over 70 peer reviewed papers.

Dr. Ettikan K. K., Principal Engineer, MIMOS Berhad Malaysia.

Ettikan KK, (PhD in the area of Distributed Computing) is the Principal Researcher and Director of Accelerative Technology Lab of ICT Division @MIMOS. Current research interest includes Big/Media Data Processing, Algorithms Design & Optimization, Multi-processors, GPGPU & FPGA and Network Processing. Previously he was attached with Panasonic R&D {Panasonic Corporate Research Arm} as Principal Engineer and Group Manager of Panasonic Kuala Lumpur Lab with R&D responsibility in IP, AV, distributed and embedded communications protocols in the Home Networking/Network Processing products. Prior to Panasonic, he was with Intel Communication Group responsible for Network Processor related R&D. He has numerous international patents, publication and directly involved in world commercial product developments in those organizations. (http://ettikan.org).

Participation is free. Kindly register at the following link or scanning the QR code with your smartphone.

http://goo.gl/Dup3Jn

Please contact pkchong@utar.edu.my for further details.

Technopreneur Open Day @ Kuala Lumpur 2013

Technopreneur Open Day @ Kuala Lumpur is an event organized by MAD Incubator in support of MSC Malaysia. MAD Incubator was the organizer for D.A.R.E. BizStart 2011 event too. http://utarccis.blogspot.com/2011/09/dare-bizstart-2011.html

Event details as below:

Date: 19 September 2013 (Thursday)
Time: 9am to 6pm
Venue: Auditorium Enterprise 4, Technology Park Malaysia
Admission Fee: FREE

Hurst Lecture Series: A Conversation with Eric Schmidt

Title: Hurst Lecture Series: A Conversation with Eric Schmidt
Event: Hurst Lecture Series, Aspen Institute, Colorado
Date: 16 July 2013

In this 1 hour talk, Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, shared his views on various topics, from global economy, future technology in medicine, transportation, education, e-commerce, privacy issues, data mining, patent war, etc. In this talk, he predicted that AI will pass the Turing Test in 5 years!

Research Assistant Wanted for Computer Vision Project

RESEARCH ASSISTANT (RA)

Number of Vacancies: 1

Available at 

Faculty of Engineering & Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)

KL Campus, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur

Project Title
Computer vision algorithm and software development for the application of urban traffic monitoring.

Project Leader
Associate Professor Dr. Tay Yong Haur (tayyh@utar.edu.my),
Department of Internet Engineering and Computer Science,
Faculty of Engineering and Science (FES), UTAR KL Campus.

Objective
To involve in the software development and continuous algorithm improvement of a computer vision-based software product for urban traffic monitoring.

Scope of Work

•          To evaluate the performance of the existing algorithm;
•          To recommend improvement on the existing algorithm;
•          To develop and evaluate an improved computer vision algorithm;
•          To integrate the improved algorithm into the software package;
•          To perform software development to enhance the overall software package
•          To work closely with research engineers from the industry.

Job Description

•          Remuneration of RM1500-2500 per month for 12 months, depending on experience.
•          The RA must help the project leader in all works associated with the research.
•          The RA must work closely with the sponsored industry partner to complete the research project.
•          The RA may register for Master Degree by research program (M. EngSc) with UTAR.

Requirements

•          Passionate in computer programming, especially in C++
•          Strong interest and/or has working experience in image processing / pattern recognition project / GPU
•          Good English written and verbal communication
•          Good analytical skills
•          Self-motivated, requires minimal supervision, resourceful and willing to learn.
•          Available to start working preferably on 1 July 2013.

If you are interested in the RA position advertised above, please email your CV directly to Dr. Tay Yong Haur (tayyh@utar.edu.my) as soon as possible. Feel free to write to Dr Tay for any further inquiry of the project.

Only short-listed candidates will be called for interview.