I am currently a Senior Researcher at Mimos Berhad, at the Advanced Modeling and Analysis Cluster (ADAM). This group deals with developing, and using formal models for the modeling, and analysis of mathematical research problems from software, to hardware. Within the group, I am extending the use, and development of formal models based on cognition, and language theories to deal with research challenges pertaining to Human-Computer Interaction. Some of the many interesting challenges are developing useful tools for people in the villages, and tackling the design challenges to support the wide gap in knowledge representation between people in the city, and those living in the villages. I am also very interested in the cultural use of tools (that extends to the Web) as part of people's everyday living. 

My research interests is in the formalization of communications based on situated cognition, activity theory, with combination of language theories, in the context of collaboration (co-located, and mediated by the Web). I am especially interested in the role played by the physical artefacts in influencing the construction of communication process. I generally favor an empirical approach to studying communications. I am also interested in conducting empirical studies of Agile Software Development process to study how developers, and users mediated by physical artifacts reach a common ground.

I believe that in order to understand cognition better, we must not ignore empirical data in our formal models - quoting from Gregory Bateson 'The observations cannot be denied, and the fundamentals must be fitted' !