CCIS Talk: Be an Online Entrepreneur: Google has the Answers

You are cordially invited to attend the following talk:

Title: Be an Online Entrepreneur: Google has the Answers (An Overview of Google’s Online Business Professionals Program)
Date: 26 November 2012 (Monday)
Time: 1pm – 3pm
Venue: 6th floor meeting room (West), SA Block, FES, UTAR KL campus.
Abstract:
Internet technologies have the potential to drive macro-economic performance in both mature and developing economies and benefit all levels of society. It is Google’s mission to get users online by enabling an accessible, relevant and sustainable Internet ecosystem. Google as largest Internet company in the world is envisioned to groom more Google technologies-savvy technopreneurs from among developing countries such as Malaysia via its maiden “Google Web Academy” program.


This talk is an overview for the “MyUniAlliance – Google Web Academy” training program on Google Web technologies by Google, MDeC and iTrainn which covers topics such as follows:

(Note: You are encouraged to bring your own laptop with WIFI capability)

Speakers:

Dr. Victor Tan Hock Kim

Dr. Victor Tan is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In September 2012, he has been certified as a Google Online Professional.

Mr. Simon Lau Boung Yew

HOD, Department of Internet Engineering and Science, Faculty of Engineering and Science, UTAR
Simon Lau is a lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Engineering and Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses, specialising in software engineering and Web technologies. In September 2012, he has been certified as a Google Online Professional.

Mr. Daniel Tan Ming Chuan

Year 3 Software Engineering Student, UTAR Google Student Ambassador
Daniel is UTAR Year 3 Software Engineering Student and also a Google Student Ambassador for UTAR year 2012 to 2013.

CCIS Talk: I want to be a Techopreneur: The Why, What, Where, How, When and Who by Cheong Yuk Wai

You are cordially invited to attend the following talk:

Title: I want to be a Techopreneur: The Why, What, Where, How, When and Who.
Date: 12 November 2012 (Monday)
Time: 1pm - 2.30pm
Venue: SE105 SE106, FES, UTAR KL campus, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur.
Speaker: Cheong Yuk Wai, CEO, MyBiz Solutions Sdn Bhd.
Abstract:
In this presentation, the speaker will answer the most common questions a technopreneur will need to ask during the entire journey from product idea, research and development, product prototype, pilot to commercialisation.  He will share real-life experiences and lessons learnt so that budding technopreneurs can avoid some of the pitfalls and enjoy a smoother and more meaningful journey of an innovator and marketer.

Biography of the Speaker:

Mr Cheong Yuk Wai is a technopreneur with 30 years of experience in business management, consultancy and technology development and deployment.  He is recognized as a business visionary and has served as an industry leader in the following capacities:

• Council Member of National IT Council (NITC) 1998-2001, appointed by previous PM (Tun Dr Mahathir)
• Committee Member of eCommerce Advisory Board, Mastercard International 1994-1997
• Web Shaper for MSC, 1995 to 1997
• Member of Sub-committee of World Enterprise Factory under World Economic Forum, Dot Force Taskforce for Bridging Digital Divide 2001-2003.
• Vice President, Architecture Standards and Best Practices, International Association of Software Architects (IASA), 2007 to 2010
• Member of Technical Committee on eCommerce (TC-4), a Standards Development Committee under SIRIM, 2007 to 2010
• Adjunct Faculty member of University of Tuanku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), industry expert for ICT and Psychology industrial training programmes, 2004 to current

Mr Cheong has over 15 years of experience in the design, development, implementation and operations of eProcurement and Total Spend Management.  Some of the industry leaders who are Mr Cheong’s clients include:

• PETRONAS Group of Companies (Oil & Gas)
• UEM Group of Companies (Construction)
• UMW Group of Companies (Manufacturing and Assembly)
• Axiata (Telecommunications)
• Maybank (Banking and Insurance)
• Sime Darby (Plantation, Healthcare, Property and Automotive)

Mr Cheong was part of the senior management team in Andersen Consulting Malaysia (Accenture).  He was instrumental in helping AC get recognized for their high quality of professional services.  Some industry awards bestowed to AC, when he was the Methodologist as well as head of Quality Management, include:

• 1st professional services organisation in the region to be ISO 9001 certified for Quality System 1993 and Quality Management System 1994
• AIM Award for Excellence in Operations Management 1994
• SIRIM Excellence Award for Quality Practices 1993.

CMS Talk: A Sustainable Model for Fleet Management under Uncertainty: A Preliminary Study

You are cordially invited to the following talk:

Title: A Sustainable Model for Fleet Management under Uncertainty: A Preliminary Study
Date: 7 Nov 2012 (Wednesday)

Time: 1pm
Venue: SD 102, UTAR KL Campus, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur
Speaker: Teoh Lay Eng, Department of Mathematical and Actuarial Sciences, UTAR

Abstracts:
Globally, pollution issue is worsening nowadays and hence more attention is certainly required. In order to fulfil the social responsibility i.e. to preserve the environment, the airlines should concern this issue in their fleet planning. Nevertheless, until to date, there is no available method on how to quantify 'green flight' that could provide guidance to the airlines. Besides, the airlines' profit should not be compromised in fulfilling their social responsibility. As such, how to balance these objectives is interesting to be investigated. Fleet management concerns the supply of service and the operational profits are thus sensitive to the demand, especially under uncertainty. To achieve a win-win situation between the environment and the airlines, a sustainable model is indeed necessary. In response to this, a bi-objective programming model is developed to maximize the operational profit of the airlines while optimizing (maximizing) the green level of the environment. Correspondingly, 'green flight index' will be formulated by considering aircraft emission, noise and fuel efficiency. The developed model is able to determine the number and types of aircraft to be purchased/leased by the airlines economically and environmentally. It is anticipated that this study may reveal some useful insights for the airlines to provide a better service, at a profitable and sustainable manner.

CCIS Talk: Making Technology Dream Comes True, an Alternative Path to be a Technopreneur by Tan Xian Yi

You are cordially invited to the following talk:

Title: Making Technology Dream Comes True, an Alternative Path to be a Technopreneur
Speaker: Tan Xian Yi, Software Manager, Recogine Technology Sdn. Bhd.
Date: 5 November 2012 (Monday)
Time: 1pm - 2pm
Venue: SE105, FES, UTAR KL campus, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur.
Admission: Free
Abstract:
In this talk, Tan Xian Yi, an alumnus of UTAR, will share the alternative path he has chosen to be a technopreneur. He joined a start-up technology company after his graduation, and grow together with the company till today. Throughout these years, his innovative and creative ideas have being realized and implemented in real world applications. He’s now the software manager of the organization and was involved in a lots of nation-wide critical infrastructure projects. In this talk, he will share his experience working in the technology start-up environment.

Biography of Speaker:

Xian Yi has 7 years of experience in ICT field for Infrastructure industry. He joined Recogine Technology Sdn Bhd, a start-up technology-based company in 2005 as a Software Engineer and is now holding the position as Software Manager. Throughout the years, Xian Yi involved in computer vision R&D activities, software design & development, networking, IT infrastructure, system engineering, project management and etc. With his experience and knowledge, he has designed an innovative system platform named UNIVEMS for the ease of software development and deployment. He has also initiated a Computer Vision-based R&D project – RecoTraffic. As technology applies for infrastructure industry is converging to ICT-based, he believes, ICT experts will play an important role in this industry.

CCIS Talk: Exploring the Path of Mobile Technology by Francis Pang

You are cordially invited to attend the following talk:

Title: Exploring the Path of Mobile Technology

Speaker: Francis Pang, CTO, Convep Mobilogy

Date: 1 November 2012

Time: 12pm - 1pm

Venue: SE105, Faculty of Engineering and Science, UTAR KL Campus, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur.

Admission: Free

Abstract:

In this talk, Francis, an alumnus of UTAR, will share his journey of his career after his graduation, which lead him co-found his own technology company, Convep Mobilogy Sdn. Bhd, and how one should learn and start exploring mobile development as well as the current emerging trend of mobile technology.

Biography of Speaker:

Francis is the co-founder of Convep Mobilogy Sdn Bhd, a company with vision to bring Convenience to People thru Mobile Technology. Mobilogy which is derived from Mobile Technology was first formed by the founders as during that time mobile technology was still an upcoming technology that not many have ventured into. Foreseeing the trend, the founders of Convep Mobilogy started the company and focused on mobile technology by bringing to the market smartphone applications such as MyDistress, MyMall, AppsAsia and many more apps that brings convenience to users on mobile devices such as iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone and not forgetting the older java enable phones. Most recently, Convep Mobilogy Sdn Bhd was awarded merit winner at the Apicta 2012 ICT Awards.

In creating Convep Mobilogy, Francis draws his experience from multiple mobile companies such as UNOS Enterprise which also won the Best of Prime Minister Award and Best of E-Communication Apicta award on Apicta 2008 ICT awards. UNOS Enterprise focus was on bringing mobile banking, mobile coupon, and VOIP to users via mobile devices such as blackberry and symbian phones. Products that Francis was involved included AmGenie, a mobile banking solution for AMBANK and UNOS Pro which provides live traffic reports, coupon, GSC booking, VOIP and many more.

Going further back, at Chilliwire Technologies Sdn Bhd, Francis was the co-founder of the company and founder of MobiGo framework as a small footprint framework which increases the effectiveness of the J2ME developments and reduces up to 50% development time and effort required of a normal J2ME development project. His aim was to develop the world's first enterprise scale mobile development framework that would be adopted as the standard approach by all mobile developers. Other achievement in the company include mobile face recognition which allow nano technology company Nanoident, to implement face recognition algorithm in mobile devices, medical mobile scanner which allow user to collect information from water and blood sample to diagnose the water or blood content to check for sickness.

Prior to Chilliwire Technologies Sdn Bhd, Francis was the Senior R&D Consultant of Mobiepay Sdn Bhd, a research & development arm of E-Pay Asia, a leading provider of electronic top up services for prepaid mobile users in South East Asia whose dual listed on Australian Stock Exchange and the AIM segment of the London Stock Exchange. At Mobiepay, he is in charge of software development for mobility. During his tenure with Mobiepay, Francis researched on various technologies and platforms such as cryptography, midlet certificates and mobile framework which was used as the mobile front end system for MobiCharge platform, the widely acclaimed successful airtime reload management platform used by tens of thousands of retailers in several countries, transacting more than 300,00 transactions per month and still growing.

Before joining Mobiepay, Francis served as Senior Mobile Engineer for Ozura Sdn Bhd, an international developer and publisher for mobile games and wireless entertainment which is a subsidiary of NextNation Communication Bhd. During his tenure with Ozura, Francis led a team of 8 mobile developers focusing in developing mobile games and mobile application, at the same time assuming the role of a Project Manager and he manages various projects for telecommunication companies such as Maxis Bhd and Celcom Bhd. Francis was in charge of initiating the research on a new algorithm to improve mobile development effectiveness for all the mobile developers in the company, as well as holding critical roles such as the Project Manager for multiple projects in the company. He often represents the company attending various mobile technology conference and events such as the Asia Game Developer Summit,. He is also the representative for the company in attending various games launching ceremonies and telecommunication quality assurance meetings.

In the early days, Francis represented his university to participate in the Microsoft Imagining Cup competition in year 2004, where he worked on a project call "EzCash" which allow easy cash transfers between users of mobile phone amongst each other through web services. He is also a member of MENSA Group International, an intellectual exchange forum for privileged members.

Francis was an active member back in his university days where he held various positions such as Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer for various clubs and societies where he completed his Degree in Computer Science from University of Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR).

Talk: New Paradigm of Micro and Nano Mechatronics by Toshio Fukuda

You are cordially invited to the following talk:

Venue: DK 3, FES, UTAR KL campus, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur.
Date: 29 October, 2012 (Monday)
Time: 11 am
Speaker:  Prof.Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan
Title: New Paradigm of Micro and Nano Mechatronics
Abstract:
Mechatronics is the Synergetic Integration of Mechanical Engineering and Electronics with computing power. There are so many commercial products from the Mechatronics Industry in our daily life.
Now mechatronics went to the micro and nano-scale and has been required more accuracy and precision. Micro sensor and actuator have been well established and available in many commodities.
Furthermore, we can study biological cells from the view point of the micro-and nano mechatronics and analyze/assemble in future cells. This will be another discipline of the new micro and nano mechatronics.

Biography:

Toshio Fukuda received the B.A. degree from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1971, and the M.S and Dr. Eng. from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1973 and 1977, respectively. In 1977, he joined the National Mechanical Engineering Laboratory. In 1982, he joined the Science University of Tokyo, Japan, and then joined Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in 1989. Currently, he is Director of Center for Micro-Nano Mechatronics and Professor of Department of Micro-Nano Systems Engineering at Nagoya University, where he is mainly involved in the research fields of intelligent robotic and mechatronic system, cellular robotic system, and micro- and nano-robotic system. He is Distinguished Professor, Seoul National University since 2009.

Dr. Fukuda is IEEE Region 10 Director-Elect (2011-2012) and served President of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (1998-1999), Director of the IEEE Division X, Systems and Control (2001-2002), and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE / ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (2000-2002). He was President of IEEE Nanotechnology Council (2002-2003, 2005) and President of SOFT (Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics) (2003-2005). He was elected as a member of Science Council of Japan (2008-).

He received the IEEE Eugene Mittelmann Award (1997), IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), IEEE Robotics and Automation Pioneer Award (2004), IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Service Award (2005), Award from Ministry of Education and Science in Japan (2005). IEEE Nanotechnology Council Distinguished service award (2007). Best Googol Application paper awards from IEEE Trans. Automation Science and Engineering (2007). Best papers awards from RSJ (2004) and SICE (2007), Special Funai Award from JSME (2008), 2009 George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation (2009), IEEE Robotics and Automation Technical Field Award (2010), ROBOMECH Award 2010 (2010), The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers Technical Field Award (2010), Distinguished Service Award, The Robotics Society of Japan (2010), World Automation Congress 2010 (WAC 2010) dedicated to Prof. Toshio Fukuda, Best Paper Award in 2010 International Symposium on Micro-Nano Mechatronics and Human Science (MHS2010), IEEE Fellow (1995), SICE Fellow (1995), JSME Fellow (2001), RSJ Fellow (2004), Honorary Doctor of Aalto University School of Science and Technology (2010).

Contact Person: Dr. Leong Wai Yie (Department of Mechatronics and Biomedical Engineering)

CCIS New Member: Dr. Soh Chit Siang

Dear colleagues,

Let's welcome our new member, Dr. Soh Chit Siang.

Soh Chit Siang is currently an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Green Technology, UTAR where he has been serving since April 2009. He received his PhD from Universiti Malaya in 2009 in the area of signal processing for non-invasive biomedical analysis. Prior to that, he obtained his MEngSc in 2004 and BEng(Electrical) in 2002 from Universiti Malaya.

His current research works focus on applying signal processing and pattern recognition methods in two areas namely, non-intrusive appliance load monitoring and surveillance video analytics. He has supervised and co-supervised final year projects and Master students in the area of video analytics on embedded system for video surveillance system. He also supervises a PhD student in non-intrusive appliance load monitoring for smart metering.