CCIS Talk: Keeping Singapore bright through sensor and data analytics by Koh Niak Wu

You are cordially invited to attend the following CCIS event:

Title: Keeping Singapore bright through sensor and data analytics
Date: 16 February 2015 (Monday)
Time: 4PM - 5PM
Venue: DK4, Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science, UTAR KL Campus, Jalan Genting Klang, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur.
(*For non-UTAR staff and students, please register yourself at the security booth, and inform them that you come for this event)
Speaker: Dr Koh Niak Wu, CEO, Cosmiqo International Pte Ltd.
Registration: Free

Abstract:
A city that is optimally lit results in many socio-economic benefits enjoyed by the urban population. This sharing session will touch upon what we do at Cosmiqo and some fun (at least in our definition) analytical solutions that we are building.

Biography:

Dr Koh Niak Wu specialises in supply chain analytics, strategy deployment and operations management innovation.
He is part of the team at Cosmiqo International Pte Ltd that drives change and now enjoys an 80 hour work week at his startup to avoid working 40 hour ones in his past lives.
With his cross-functional background, Niak Wu lives in a rather surreal world of convergence that has in its sensor-based systems. He believes in the power of analytics and how it shapes business decisions. Niak Wu also limits his fluid intake so he can stay at his desk longer.

This event is supported by:

IEEE SMC Malaysia chapter

CCIS Talk: Image Processing and Interactive Arts by Lee Byung Gook

You are cordially invited to attend the following CCIS event:

Title: Image Processing and Interactive Arts
Date: 23 January 2015 (Friday)
Time: 11AM - 12PM
Venue: SA 6th Floor West Wing Meeting Room, Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science, UTAR KL Campus, Jalan Genting Klang, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur.
(*Please register yourself at the security booth, and inform them that you come for this event)
Speaker: Professor Lee Byung Gook, Dongseo University, Korea
Registration: Free

Abstract:
Professor Lee Byung Gook will share his past, current and future researches which include: Image Sensor, Color Sensor, Flat Panel Display Defect Detection, Keypad Inspection System, Hand Tracking, Shadow Garden, Interactive Board – IR Pen & Laser Pointer,
u-Pointer, AR Toolkit, Shall we dance, Magic Projector, Multi Touch Table, reacTIVision, Mixed Reality Interfaces, DJ Mix with Kinect, Deform 2D Shape Manipulation, Multi Touch System with Kinect, Multi-Level AR, MiniCar with Arduino, MagicalSketchPad and LookEdu@AR

Biography:

Professor Lee Byung Gook received the B. S. degree in Mathematics from Yonsei University, Korea in 1987. He got his M. S. and PhD in Applied Mathematics from KAIST, Daejon, Korea in 1989 and 1993 respectively. He was a researcher in Computer Center of Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science from 1992 to 1993. Besides that, he worked in R&D Center, DACOM Corporation as a senior engineer in the division II Open Systems Lab.
Since 1995, he was the Associate Professor in Division of Systems Engineering. In 1999 to 2000, he went to University of Oslo, Norway for post-doctoral in the Department of Informatics under Professor Tom Lyche.
He is currently a Professor in Division of Computer & Information Engineering, Dongseo University and the Director of BK21 Institute of Ambient Intelligence.

This event is supported by:

IEEE SMC Malaysia chapter

Research Assistant: Tropical Wood Identification using Deep Learning

Research Assistant (RA):
Tropical Wood Identification using Deep Learning

Number of Vacancies: 1 or 2

Available at 

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

Project Title

Tropical Wood Identification using Deep Learning

Project Leader

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

Objective

Identification of wood species based on its anatomy is critical to possibly trace the origin of the wood and hence reduce wood smuggling and illegal logging. Automated process in identification of wood species will create a vast applications from this capability.

In this research, we will look into applying deep learning and convolution neural networks, as the fundamental components in this wood identification system. We aim to devise a novel method to create a platform for applying machine learning in solving the very challenging and exciting research frontiers.

Scope of Work

• To review the recent work in vision-based wood species identification
• To devise and enhance deep learning model for textural feature extraction recognition
• To assess the performance of the model
• To create a proof-of-concept prototype of a wood species identification system

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's degree by research or PhD program with UTAR.

Requirements

• Passionate in computer programming
• Have good mathematical foundations
• Strong interest and/or has working experience in machine learning/artificial intelligence/computer vision/image processing projects.
• 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 Jan 2015.

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: Science for Truth-seeking or Sustainability by Jay Kishigami

You are cordially invited to attend the following CCIS Talk:

Date: 25 November 2014 (Tuesday)
Time: 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Venue: DK1, LKCFES, UTAR KL Campus, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur.

Title: Science for Truth-seeking or Sustainability

Abstract:
This talk is to discuss the emerging technology for the sustainable life for human being. These 60 years was a ICT era which started in 1946. The transistor was born in that year. We have been enjoying ICT on every industry and life. If the Kondracheff wave still has a power to predict the future, the new technology which will be base for the next 60 years is now inventing. For a long time, Science should be the academia which seeks the truth. But we may change this attitude and facing the critical condition in terms of sustainability of ourselves. The deep learning, singularity, robotics, data science, new paradigm of the internet and the collaboration between physics and statistics will be presented during the talk.

Speaker: Prof Jay Kishigami, Muroran Institute of Technology

Biography:

Professor Jay Kishigami is currently a professor at Division of Information and Electronic Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology.

He was also the former Professor at Faculty of Engineering and Science, UTAR and Interfaculty Initiative of Information Studies, University of Tokyo from 2007 to 2013.

Prof Jay previously served as the Visiting Professor and Adjunct Professor at various universities, namely Kochi University of Technology, Rikkyo University and Muroran Institute of Technology.

Prof Jay's past working experience includes working for Cyber Solution Laboratories as the Executive Director, Vice President at New Business Promotion Group and Chief Producer at Content Distribution and IPTV.

Recently, he was selected as one of nine advisory board in W3C in June 2014.

CCIS Talk: Emerging IT Threats by Goh Su Gim

You are cordially invited to attend the following CCIS Talk:

Date: 31 Oct 2014 (Friday)
Time: 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue: IDK7, UTAR Perak Campus, Kampar, Perak

Title: Emerging IT Threats

Abstract:
This talk is to encourage students to think about security issues and to deploy security mechanism early in designing software application or in making purchase decision for computer hardware and software. Besides updating IT Professionals in security, this talk aims to create security-savvy computer users who will have a clear understanding of the security ramifications of using computers and Internet in their daily life. Motivates by rents debates on IT security threats, this talk will discuss potential individual privacy threats, which may arise from inappropriate use of computer security technology.

Speaker: Mr Goh Su Gim, F-Secure Corporation (M) Sdn Bhd

Biography:

Mr. Goh Su Gim is a Security Advisor who represents F-Secure in the Asia Pacific region, where he is actively involved in activities that raise public awareness of the IT threat landscape. He can be found giving talks in conferences, and acting as a liaison between the public and the local F-Secure office in Kuala Lumpur. He stays on top of the latest IT security related news, blogs about the latest threats and attacks or interesting findings from the F-Secure Labs, and provides advisories to the general public and media should there be any virus outbreak.

Su Gim’s past 15 years of IT security experience includes working for several companies in the USA in the area of IT system integration, IT security consulting (network and systems design), penetration testing and assessment, and working at a 24/7 security operations center. Prior to returning to Malaysia, he lived in Hawaii, USA, for 12 years. During his free time, he enjoys playing badminton, jungle trekking, camping and photography.

CCIS Talk: Convolutional neural networks for gender recognition by Ng Choon Boon

You are cordially invited to attend the following CCIS Talk:

Date: 30 Oct 2014 (Thursday)
Time: 10.30am - 11.30am
Venue: Meeting room, Mimos Lab, SB Ground Floor, FES, UTAR Kuala Lumpur Campus.

Title: Convolutional neural networks for gender recognition

Abstract:
Most computer vision methods relies heavily on hand-crafted features such as SIFT, LBP and HOG. Recently, deep learning methods, characterized by neural network architectures with many hidden layers, have become popular. In this paradigm, discriminative features are learnt by the network, thus enable it adapt to a different problem domain. The availability of parallel computing power at reasonable cost in the form of consumer graphical processing units has resulted in a resurgence of interest in such neural networks, as large architectures can now be trained on datasets consisting of many thousands of images. In particular, deep convolutional neural networks has achieved state-of-the-art results in tasks such as traffic sign classification, large scale object recognition, pedestrian detection and action recognition. In this project, we study convolutional neural networks for the problem of gender classification.

Speaker: Ng Choon Boon, Lecturer, UTAR.

Biography:

Ng Choon Boon is a lecturer with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman. He earned his Master of Computer Science and Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degrees from the University of Malaya. At the present, he teaches undergraduate subjects in the field of electronics and communications. His research area of interest is in computer vision. He is currently pursuing his PhD in UTAR in the topic of human gender recognition.

CCIS Talk: Top 5 tips for aspiring technopreneurs & building e-commerce business by CK Wong

You are cordially invited to attend the following talk:

Date: 4th November 2014 (Tuesday)
Time: 1.00PM - 3.00PM
Venue: DK1, FES, UTAR Kuala Lumpur Campus, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur.
Title:Top 5 tips for aspiring technopreneurs & building e-commerce business
Abstract:
Start working for some one first
- Read, read, read
- Find your niche & passion
- Partner & team
- Numbers & revenue
- Start with passion & determination
- Build a niche, master product sourcing
- Grow traffic & sales with numbers
- Understand what customer needs
- Build a brand that lasts
Speaker: CK Wong a.k.a @ckaywong
Biography:

CK Wong a.k.a @ckaywong is the co-founder of ecommercemilo.com - an online content site with focus on e-commerce insights in Malaysia and Southeast Asia. It is equipped with professional know-how, data-driven, in depth content written by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs or anyone who is interested in e-commerce topics.

He has also founded silvermouseasia.com - an e-commerce enabler that supports merchants from small & medium businesses to big brands on their e-commerce and digital marketing campaigns. The service offering ranges from webstore setup, digital marketing, fulfillment to conversion, or anything e-commerce.

CK was a columnist in local newspaper writing on e-commerce trends and regularly shares his analysis on e-commerce via local media. He has just authored a book titled "E-Commerce Success Stories Vol. 1" with MPH publishing, featuring 10 local e-commerce entrepreneurs on their journey to success. (The book is scheduled to be launched in local bookstores by October 2014)

Prior to that, CK has 10 years of experience providing e-commerce IT and consultancy services to retailers, including a 2 years stint heading marketing activities of Rakuten Malaysia since their setup here in 2012.

Contact: Too Chien Wen (toocw@utar.edu.my)