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Name	Research Interests
Assoc Prof Ali Iftekhar Maswood	Novel Converter topology for hybrid Wind & Solar Energy Maximum Power Tracking Control Strategies using Fuzzy logic and Particle Swram Optimization Novel DC-DC buck-boost Converter for solar/Fuel Cell optimal power txtraction
Assoc Prof Ang Hock Eng	Fracture Mechanics Analysis of Engineering Components using Boundary Element Methods. Instrumentation & Control of Fluid Power Systems.
Asst Prof Ang Wei Tech	- BioRobotics / Bio-Mechatronics - Rehabilitation Engineering - Assistive Technology - Robotic Microsurgery - Robotic Cell Micromanipulation
Assoc Prof Cai Wenjian	Prof Cai's areas of expertise are system modelling, control and optimization, multivariable system identification and control, sensor and instrumentation, mechanical system simulation and design, and intelligent systems. His current research works focus on industry applications in building HVAC processes, renewable energy processes and environmental processes.
Asst Prof Chang Kuiyu	statistical pattern recognition, text/web-mining, Sentiment Analysis, Chinese Language Processing, open source software
Assoc Prof Chen I-Ming	1) Mechatronics system design: cable-driven systems, biomorphic robots, entertainment robots; 2) Wearable sensors and haptic devices; 3) Body sensor network, wireless sensor network and sensor grid; 4) Reconfigurable automation; 5) Parallel kinematics machines (PKM); 6) Micro- and nano-manipulation systems; 7) Spherical actuators and smart material based actuators; 8) Robotic locomotion.
Asst Prof Chen Tao	Dr Chen Tao's areas of expertise are chemometrics, i.e. statistical modeling and analysis of chemical and analytical data. His current research focuses on data-based process fault detection and diagnosis, experimental design and optimization, adaptive filtering and data reconciliation, model identification and parameter estimation, and multivariate calibration of analytical sensors.
Asst Prof Chen Yan	Deployable Structures, Design, Analysis and Control Cell mechanics Mechanism Theory Morphing Structures Re-configuration and Multi-configuration Structures Computational Mechanics Topology Optimisation
Assoc Prof Choo Fook Hoong	Alternative sustainable energy, solar electric, thermal and wind energy systems, energy conversion systems, motors and drives, energy conservation and management, energy recovery, power electronics, membrane distillation systems, heat pumps.
Assoc Prof Chua Soon Keong, Patrick	Research Interests * Physical simulation of full-scale aircraft vibration in the hangar using hydraulics technology * Environmental impact of aerospace engineering * Noise impact of aircrafts on populated areas near airfields and airports, * `Greening' the aircrafts using environmentally friendly hydraulic systems. * Aircraft hydraulic systems. * Aircraft landing gear system. * Hydraulic system contamination investigation and analysis * Rapid launching of small/large UAVs using fluid power technology. * Fire fighting using water mist technology * Pneumatics technology. * Intelligent in-situ monitoring and fault diagnosis of modern water electrohydraulic systems and oil hydraulic systems on aircrafts and in manufacturing industry. * Intelliigent and automated fluid power component selection and fluid power circuit design * Design and development of fluid power components * Modern water hydraulics technology - novel design and development of machines utilizing tap water hydraulics * Application of modern water hydraulics in aerospace engineering * Feasibility study of using water hydraulics in sub-zero temperature environments * Clean renewable energy Environmentatl issues involving fluid power applications * Solar energy, wave energy and wind energy. * Dispersion characteristics of toxic/flammable plumes in open and built-up areas due to accidents or sabotage * Engineering education involving fluid power technology * Industrial automation.
Asst Prof Domenico Campolo	His research interests include mechatronic technologies with application to the new emerging fields of Phenomics and Neuro-Developmental Engineering, in both animal and human models; biomimetic microrobotics, including: design, fabrication, development and control of biologically inspired smart actuators and sensors.
Prof Er Meng Joo	Professor Er Meng Joo's areas of expertise are intelligent control theory and applications, fuzzy logic and neural networks and robotics and automation. His current works focus on control theory and applications, fuzzy logic and neural networks, computational intelligence, cognitive systems, robotics and automation, sensor networks and biomedical engineering.
Assoc Prof Goh Wooi Boon	Computer Vision, Human Computer Interaction, Multimedia Systems, Embedded Systems
Assoc Prof Gooi Hoay Beng	Prof Gooi's areas of expertise are Energy Management Systems, Forecast & Scheduling Applications, and Network Applications. His current research focuses on Microgrid Energy Management Systems, Electricity Markets, Spinning Reserve, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sources.
Assoc Prof Hoon Kay Hiang	Research Interests Main research interests are in stress analysis of thin-walled steel and composite structures, drop-impact study of electronic products, constitutive theory and toughening mechanisms of advanced materials and micro/nano mechanics of deformation and fracture. Also actively involved in bio-mechanical analysis, and design and development of assistive and rehabilitative gait devices for the physically disabled and geriatric healthcare.
Asst Prof Jaspreet Singh Dhupia	1. Nonlinear Dynamics, Systems and Controls 2. Substructure Analysis 3. Parametric Excitation and Non-Autonomous Systems 4. Machine Chatter, Regenerative Self Excited Vibrations 5. Reconfigurable Machine Tools, Machine Tool Design
Assoc Prof Jiang Xudong	Xudong Jiang's areas of expertise are pattern recognition, signal and image processing, computer vision and biometrics. His current research works focus on statistical pattern classification, feature extraction from image, fingerprint recognition, human face detection and recognition, multimodal biometric fusion, and visual object detection and recognition.
Prof Khoo Li Pheng	Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Decision Science, Collaborative Design, Systems Design and Diagnosis.
Prof Lam Yee Cheong	Dr. Lam's research is well supported by private and public funding. His most current research endeavor is on microfluidics, which include mixing and particle separation in microchannels. His recent research activities include modeling of materials and their processing, injection moldings, fiber composite manufacturing and the behaviors of polymers. He has also conducted research in the areas of metal working, fracture mechanics, life extension of structures and finite element analysis. He has published more than three hundred technical papers. His research in plastic injection molding is supported by Moldflow Corporation, USA, the leading and dominant company in plastic injection molding simulation software. As a result of this research collaboration, Moldflow donated $12.4 million dollars of software to NTU for research and educational purposes in 2000.
Asst Prof Lau Gih Keong	Dr Lau's areas are micro-and-nano electro-mechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), actuator design, micro-fabrication, multiphysics modeling and topology optimization. He has extensive experiences with various actuators, such as electro-thermal, piezoelectric, electrostrictive, and dielectric. Since 2004 at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, he has pioneered the work on a new class of polymer micro-actuators with embedding skeletons. His research on the polymer micro-actuators has been recognized with two best poster awards in the workshops of Micro-Mechanics Europe (MME) in 2005 and 2006. In addition, the work was selected and highlighted in the Virtual Journal of Nano-Science and Technology. A Dutch patent application on this inventive actuator design was filed in the Netherlands. His current research focuses on polymer actuators (based on electro-active polymer), composite design, and their micro-fabrication.
Assoc Prof Lau Wai Shing, Michael	Currently, my key research interest includes motion control using electric motors and mechatronics system integration and the design and control of unmanned vehicle robotics, including ROV, small tad-pole mechatronics tricycles, 4-wheel drive-&-steer vehicle. A total of 27 papers in peers? reviewed journals and 4 Books chapters had been published and 28 papers presented at conferences. From 2000, following a visit to LIMMR and with financial assistance from the then British Gas Asia Pacific, I started work on Underwater Robotic Vehicles, focusing on modelling, control and integration. Our team applied the principles of mechatronics and human computer interface to improve on the training, operations and control of a commercially available remotely operated vehicle (ROV). My area of responsibilities includes modelling and control, sensors and navigation and hydro-dynamics forces modelling. Lately, I extended my research activities to include group behaviour of groups of ground and aerial vehicles robotics and the design of aerial vehicles for low level flying in cluttered environment. I led the Robotics Research Centre Team Evolution to compete in the first Defence Science and Technology Agency, Defence Tech-X Challenge 2008 and bettered the 4 other finalists in terms of performance. In Motion Control and Active Vibration control, we started off using film motion analysis techniques for the study of vibrating beams and adopted the use of statistical methods to define robotics performance rather a set of fixed numbers. In the beam study, results compared favourably with theoretical analysis and for the robots performances, they matched those published by the robot manufacturers. In addition, I have worked on the use of direct output feedback and H-infinity control for active suppression of transmitted forces at four points from a rotating machine onto its support. The results showed a large attenuation of the vertical forces. In addition, I contributed motion control for a laser machine. We used the 5-axis machine for laser cutting of aerospace material and laser marking for the former TI. A number of papers were published in this area.
Asst Prof Lee Kijoon	His research interest is over a broad area of interaction of light with human tissue, with the application in medical imaging in mind. Main research field is diffuse optical tomography (DOT) and its variants such as fluorescence diffuse optical tomography (fDOT) and bioluminescence tomography (BLT). He is experienced in both instrumentation and numerical image reconstruction, and is actively performing research on building a clinical imaging device for breast cancer screening.
Dr Lim Tau Meng	Vibration Control of High Speed Rotor-Bearing System, Active and Hybrid Magnetic Bearings, Self-Bearing Motor, Axial Flow Blood Pumps, Transcutaneous Energy Transfer Device
Assoc Prof Ling Keck Voon	Keck-Voon Ling's areas of experties include control and optimisation, Online Laboratorties and Embedded Systems. His current research interests include model predictive control, receding horizon estimation, and their embedded and high speed implementations. Selected Publications Model Predictive Control KV Ling, JM Maciejowski and BF Wu, Embedded Model Predictive Control (MPC) using a FPGA, 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, 6-11 July 2008. A. Richards, KV Ling, JM Maciejowski, Robust Multiplexed Model Predictive Control, European Control Conference, July 2007, pp.441-446 KV Ling, JM Maciejowski and BF Wu, Multiplexed Model Predictive Control, CUED Report, CUED/F-INFENG/TR.561, July 2006. KV Ling, JM Maciejowski and BF Wu, Multiplexed Model Predictive Control, 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, July 2005. KV Ling and KW Lim, Receding Horizon Recursive State Estimation, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol.44, No.9, pp.1750-1753, 1999. KS Low, KY Chiun and KV Ling, ?Evaluating Generalised Predictive Control for a Brushless DC Drive?, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 1191-1198, November 1998. KV Ling and KW Lim. A State Space GPC with Extension to Multi-Rate Control. Automatica, Vol.32, No.7, pp.1067-1071, 1996. KV Ling and AL Dexter, ?Expert Control of Air-Conditioning Plant?, Automatica, Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 761-773, May 1994. Online Laboratories Habib Mir M. Hosseini, Keck Voon Ling and Bing Duan, Learning Object Model for Online Laboratories, in: Handbook of Research on Instructional Systems and Technology, Volume II (Terry T. Kidd and holim Song, eds), Information Science Reference, Hershey, New York (2008), pp.768-784. Bing DUAN, Habib Mir HOSSENIN, Keck Voon LING and Robert Keng Leng GAY, An Architecture for Online Laboratory E-Learning System, Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 4(2), 87-101, April-June, 2006. Bing DUAN, Keck Voon LING, Habib Mir M. HOSSEINI and Robert Kheng Leng GAY, An e-Learning Model for Lab-based Courses, International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol.21, No.6, pp.1068-1075, 2005 KV Ling, Y Lai and K Chew, An online Internet laboratory for control experiments, in: Advances in Control Education 2000 (L Vlacic and M Brisk, eds), Pergamon, Great Britain (2001), pp.173-176.
Prof Ling Shih Fu	Professor Ling's research areas are in Sensing and Actuation, Monitoring of Macro- and Micro- Mechatronical Systems and Manufacturing Processes and Mechanical Vibration and System Dynamics
Assoc Prof Low Kay Soon	Prof Low has been conducting reserach in the areas of precision Linear Drive, power converter for energy conversion, UWB for Communications and Medical Imaging, Intelligent Control System, and Wireless Sensor Network. He has successfully completed 24 funded projects with many of them from the industry. Presently, he has 5 on-going funded projects in the field of UWB radar, wireless sensor network, micro-satellite system, solar energy system. He has a number of granted patents on UWB and nonlinear circuits from the US patent office, WIPO and EPO.
Assoc Prof Luo Fang Lin	A/Prof Luo's areas of expertise are DC/DC Converters, Energy Factor/Mathematical modeling and Digital power Electronics. His current research works focus on AC/DC, DC/DC, DC/AC and AC/AC Converters, Renewable Energy sources and Microgrid Energy management Systems. Dr. Luo has invented more than 100 novel topologies of power DC/DC converters, including the well-known series Luo-Converters: Positive/Negative/Double Output Luo-Converters. These converters implementing the voltage-lift technique have high voltage transfer gain on stage-by-stage in arithmetical process, up to hundreds times. Dr. Luo has also created Super-Lift Luo-Converters: Positive/Negative Output Super-Lift Luo-Converters, Positive/Negative Output Cascaded Boost Converters. These converters implementing the super-lift technique have very high voltage transfer gain on stage-by-stage in geometrical process, up to thousands times. They also have advantages of high efficiency, simple structure and low cost. All converters are introduced in his book "Advanced DC/DC converters". Dr. Luo has also developed other types of converters such as the Multi-Quadrant Luo-Converters, Ultra-list Luo-converter, positive/negative output Multiple-Lift Push-Pull Switched-Capacitor Luo-Converters and Cascade Double Gamma-CL Current Source Resonant Inverter. The investigations on DC/DC converters mainly concentrate in the steady state analysis. The dynamic process analyses rely on the mathematical models of the DC/DC converters. Establishing the mathematical modeling is the historic problem accompanying the development of power DC/DC converters. Many people devoted in this area since 1940's. Unfortunately, no proper modeling is recognized and suitable for all power DC/DC converters. Dr. Luo revealed the energy storage in power DC/DC converters and defined the new parameter: Energy Factor (EF). Using this new concept, he has proposed general mathematical modeling of power DC/DC converters, and the corresponding transfer function in a second-order form. He successfully solved the historic problem and well described the characteristics of power DC/DC converters. This new theory and transfer function are very good to describe the dynamic process of DC/DC converter performances. Simulation and experimental results verified his new theory and transfer function. This is a milestone contribution in DC/DC conversion technology. Dr. Luo applied digital control methodology into power electronics - the new theory "Digital Power Electronics". He introduced the mathematical models: the zero-order-hold (ZOH), first-order-hold (FOH) and second-order-hold (SOH) in Digital Power Electronics. He uses the zero-order-hold (ZOH) to simulate all AC/DC converters, the first-order-hold (FOH) to simulate all DC/AC inverters and AC/CC converters, and successfully described the characteristics of the control systems with switching circuitry. All knowledge is introduced in his new book "Digital Power Electronics and Applications".
Assoc Prof Martin David Adams	Martin Adams' research interests include sensor data processing for robot navigation, random finite set based SLAM, inertial navigation and sensor fusion. He has been principle investigator of numerous robotics projects at NTU, the most recent of which is "Surface and Sub-Sea Sensor Data Fusion for Coastal Environment Mapping and Monitoring" under the Singapore - MIT Alliance program CENSAM. For much more information on research/teaching activities, please go to http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/eadams/
Assoc Prof Nader Vahdati	Due to my 12 years experience in Noise and Vibartion industry, in the USA, my research expertise is in the area of passive, semi-active, and active vibration and noise control. Research has been conducted on elastomeric components, passive fluid mounts, semiactive and active fluid mounts, controllable fluids (ER and MR-fluids) and devices, piezo-electric and smart materials. Since in my previous professional experience, I was dealing with both automotive and aerospace industry, I have had many projects in both automotive and aerospace sectors. Since joining NTU, I do research with many companies, such as RSAF, ST Kinetics, and Seagate. Many of my projects are military related. My Ph.D. expertise was in System Dynamics and Controls. So, majority of my projects involves dynamics modeling and controls.
Asst Prof Park Taezoon	His research area includes Human-Computer Interaction, user experience design, affective and cognitive information processing, and high performance computing. Current research interests are smart home design for elderly, human factors in maritime system, and affective design and evaluation of consumer products.
Asst Prof Phee Soo Jay, Louis	His current research works focus on Medical Robotics and Mechatronics in Medicine.
Assoc Prof Quek Hiok Chai	His main interests includes the research and study of brain-inspired functional and computational models of memory structures that underlie the human reasoning process. In addition, advanced brain-inspired reasoning and cognition frameworks such as focus of attention, affect modeling, skill learning from novice to expert are actively investigated using the neurocognitive informatic approach. Fuzzy, Fuzzy neural, Neural, GA, GA-Neural, Rough set that maps formal fuzzy logical structures onto neural systems to perform fuzzy set derivation and Rule identification/reduction are investigated. The development of architectures that supports on-line and off-line learning fuzzy intelligent rule based systems is examined. The research issues cover fuzzy clustering, learning, modeling, fuzzy rule model, etc. These basic techniques are used to craft the brain-inspired memory learning systems. These memory learning structures are the building blocks of the functional neuro-cognitive brain and they can be broadly classified into huppocampal global semantic memories and neocortical like semantic association memories. In addition, research into CMAC and in-house developed MCMACs and Fuzzy MCMACs are actively pursued. They form a class of cerebellar like association memories that have excellent memory resolution and recall. The application areas are extensive as they rely heavily on the basic research into brain-inspired learning memory structures and brain-inspired cognitive architectures for emotion, cognition and perception modeling. The exciting application areas include computational finance ? arbitration, portfolio, trend analysis, bond and commodity trading; biomedical engineering ? diabetes modeling and control, ICU ventilator control; Affect modeling for edutainment, forensic tools, marketing research tools; Medical decision support tools ? thermograph analysis, pediatric leukemia and ovarian cancer analysis; Intelligent transportation analysis tools ? trend analysis and incident monitoring; as well as student affect modeling in Intelligent Tutoring System.
Assoc Prof Ravishankar Sharma	Currently Principal Investigator of NRF-funded project on "Business Models and Pricing Strategies in the IDM Marketplace".
Vg Assoc Prof Rohana Sarath-Kumar Senanayake	Machine Design, Cold Roll Forming
Assoc Prof Seet Gim Lee, Gerald	Main research interests are in mechatronics and field robotics, with specific interest in underwater mobile robotics and fluid power systems. A consultant to industry in these areas. Recent research interest includes Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAV) and collaborative robotic systems.
Prof Soh Yeng Chai	Robust system theory and applications; Estimation and filtering; Signal and information processing; Hybrid systems and applications; Optical signal processing.
Asst Prof Son Hungsun	- Magnetic field modeling - Mechatronics (design and control of electromechanical systems) - Robotics and Automation - Sensing methodology - Unmanned Vehicle System (UVS) - System dynamics and Vibration analysis - Nonlinear system and Control
Asst Prof Sudha Natarajan	Computer Vision and Image Processing, Neural Networks, Embedded systems and VLSI architectures. Current research focus is in Face Recognition, Iris Recognition and Embedded Systems for Vision-based Applications.
Assoc Prof Sunita Chauhan	Medical/surgical robotics, Computer Assisted/Integrated Surgery, Bio-medical Instrumentation, Robotics, Mechatronics, Sensors/Transducers, Ultrasound in Medicine (Diagnostic, Therapeutic, Surgical), Signal/Image Processing, Bio-mechanics (hard and soft tissue), Tissue characterization, Real-time monitoring and feedback.
Assoc Prof Tai Kang	design automation, design optimization, multiobjective optimization, structural optimization, topology optimization, shape optimization, evolutionary computation, genetic and evolutionary algorithms, computational intelligence, discrete and combinatorial optimization, compliant mechanisms, flexural mechanisms, finite and boundary element analysis, paperboard packaging, folding and unfolding of 3D folded structures, flat pattern design, computational geometry, UAV trajectory planning, sensor network deployment, probability collectives, collective intelligence
Asst Prof Tay Leng Phuan, Alex	Alex Tay's research interests currently lie in Cognitive Intelligence. He actively seeks to understand how human percepts can be derived from sensory inputs and how these representations can be transformed into memories. His current project to develop a cognitive autonomous vehicle seeks solutions to visual perceptions through active cognitive binocular interactions with the real world. He is also investigating cognitive navigation whereby autonomous systems can use perceived states to aid in the navigational tasks. Dr Tay's research is always augmented with actual implementations. He, together with a strong team have managed to build a vehicular platform to realize the investigations.
Assoc Prof Teo Ee Chon	Dr Teo has for the past 18 years been a dynamic researcher in the area of human spinal biomechanics, crossing both experimental and computational fields. His central accomplishment was pioneering a novel method for the computational modelling of the human second cervical vertebra (C2) using a computer controlled Co-ordinate Measuring Machine in 1987, progressing to the spinal segments and column using an advanced 6 DOF flexible digitiser in 2000. It was one of Dr Teo's earliest conference papers, Finite Element Stress Analysis of a Cadaver Second Cervical Vertebra, presented in the 16th World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering in Kyoto 1991, that subsequently led to the exploration of the use of the FE method in human spinal analysis based on geometrical data from digitised or scanned images (X-ray, CT scan, MRI). The presented paper was selected as outstanding contribution for subsequent publication in Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing in 1994. Over the years, Dr Teo and his team have created FE models of the various spinal regions to predetermine the three-dimensional flexibility changes of degenerated or injured spine and relate the data to established published experimental and radiological findings. The FE models help to enhance various relevant clinical and experimental studies and reduce time and cost for diagnosis and implants pre- and post-surgery. Also, as an extension of his research interest in producing "virtual" injuries, he is employing the FE models of the spine for simulation and analysis of head-neck region trauma due to whiplash and pilot egress, with the aim of predicting injury, establishing safety standards and influencing the design of equipment and platforms. Extending his computational research expertise beyond the spinal field, Dr Teo also performed simulation analyses of offshore tubular tubular joints with doubling-plate stiffeners and deep seas offshore connectors for offshore marine engineering company. He also performed comparative analysis of proposed coronary (heart) stents and human spine implants devices for few joint venture local biomedical company. Overall, the research success that Dr Teo has achieved and the extensive network with external researchers in similar fields that he has built have helped NTU's standing, particularly, in spinal research both locally and internationally.
Assoc Prof Tor Shu Beng	A/P Tor's areas of expertise are in Micro-replication processes, Toolings for micro-replication, Mold and tooling Design and Manufacturing informatics. His current research works focus on Micro Powder Injection Molding and Toolings for Polymeric Microfluidic Devices.
Asst Prof Vinay Kumar Kariwala	plant-wide control, decentralized control, integer programming, fundamental control limitations, diagnosis of plant-wide oscillations, monitoring of crystallization processes
Assoc Prof Wang Jianliang	1. Robust and Reliable Control, Fault Detection and Identification, Nonlinear Control, and Model Predictive Control. 2. Applications to Aircraft Flight Control System Design. 3. Control of Graphics Rendering Process.
Prof Wang Youyi	Dr. Wang Youyi's main research interests are in the area of applications of nonlinear control, robust control to power and energy systems, electric drive systems, information storage systems, fuel cell systems, renewable energy systems and MEMS systems. Since he joined Nanyang Technological University in 1991, Dr. Wang keeps actively doing research in many areas and exploring some new research areas. Dr. Wang has made a good contribution and has a good international recognition and reputation in the established research areas of power and energy system control and analysis, hard disk drive systems, drive system control, and renewable energy system modeling and control.
Prof Xie Lihua	Prof Xie's expertise areas include robust control and estimation theory. His current research works focus on collaborative information processing in wireless sensor networks, networked control, cooperative control, time-delay systems, and modeling and control of data storage systems.
Assoc Prof Xie Ming	Intelligent Vehicle, Humanoid Robot, Machine Intelligence.
Assoc Prof Yap Fook Fah	MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS 1. Mechanics of micro-systems, in particular the dynamic analysis of multi-component systems for high capacity, high speed data storage. Currently manager of Centre for Mechanics of Micro-Systems. 2. Virtual prototyping and simulation of complex mechanical systems 3. Dynamics of damped structures and vibration control using magneto-rheological fluid damping technology.
Assoc Prof Yeo Song Huat	Dr. Yeo's areas of expertise are in robotics and mechanisms. His current research works focus on cable-driven mechanisms, motion capture system, and modular robots.
Assoc Prof Yow Kin Choong	Yow Kin Choong's research interests include Computer Vision, Wireless Communications and Computational Intelligence. In computer vision, he is interested to study geometric approaches to object detection and point correspondences. He investigates probabilistic methods such as belief networks to combine image evidences to reduce the number of false detections and increase the confidence of true detections. In wireless communications, he studies mobile ad hoc networks and he is interested to investigate ad hoc routing schemes with emphasis in routing security, QoS provisions and resource allocation fairness. Geographic routing schemes provide the shortest path to the destination, but they are vulnerable to attacks because the nodes? positions are known to all other nodes in the network. Multihop Wireless Networks with Infrastructure (MWNIs) also presents a series of problems in load balancing as well as QoS guarantees and need to be investigated. In computational intelligence, he is interested in studying the design of pseudo-recurrent networks to predict outcomes in time series data. These computational framework models after the human brain and has important applications in Biomedicine, Financial Data as well as Earth Sciences.
Assoc Prof Zhong Zhaowei	Mechatronics and Design; Microelectronics Packaging; Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology; Modelling and Analysis

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