In the Media (Innovation)

September 2024

Featured as the rooftop solar customer of Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) in TV3's Majalah 3 program, which aired on September 2, 2024. The full program is available at TV3 Official YouTube channel --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3wP5v2Gae4

July 2020

National radio interview by BERNAMA Radio on my innovation "Retino: Preventing Vision Loss" as well as my role as the Chair of IEEE Malaysia Section (in local Malay language).

Live recording via Bernama FB page available at https://www.facebook.com/bernamaradio/videos/775949123215496  

July 2019

Newspaper articles in local Telugu language for the keynote talk at ICIEEE 2019 conference in Hyderabad.

Before the conference, I also was given the opportunity to give a motivational talk to the students at GNI.

https://gniindia.org/training-programs/expert-talks/  

October 2019

After presenting the IEEE Malaysia's Innovation Award for Final Year Students during the IEEE Malaysia Open Day 2019. These were the groups from UTAR which received the most number of awards by one institution.

https://news.utar.edu.my/awards/2019/95/95.html

June 2019

Profiled as the R10 Personality of the Month in the IEEE R10 (Asia Pacific) Newsletter article June-July 2019 edition.

01 August 2018

An article in QS Wow News, Issue 30, p.37, August-October 2018, published by QS Asia Quacquarelli Symonds Pte Ltd.

Access the full publication at https://www.qs-asia.com/e-book/wownews/files/assets/basic-html/index.html#1

10 June 2018

A feature article in The Star on page 14 (full page) on my team's innovation for the automatic screening of Diabetic Retinopathy. Check out the article for details. Click for a larger readable version.

01 June 2015

In the CSR book published by UTP Corporate Office, "A Gift of Hope", my innovation product for a simple and quick eye check was included as one of the contributions to the local community in Kampung Aji in Bota, Perak--a small and poor village near UTP campus. The Android mobile app was developed in order to provide an easy-to-use tool for CSR teams to perform quick eye examination of old folks who were staying alone, had very poor eyesight and didn't have the means to visit the clinics to get a proper eye check and get reading glass. With the app, CSR teams can either recommend a reading glass that you can buy at the pharmacy or to recommend for a further examination at the proper eye clinics. We would never think that such a simple task were impossibly difficult for those living under poverty and limited mobility with no children taking care of them.  It was a way for us to give back to the local community. The product was initially developed as part of an undergraduate project by Mr Zen Ming and funded by UTP Idea Generation (i-Gen) Fund.

15 May 2016

Media coverage on my medical device invention during the 27th International Invention Innovation & Technology Exhibition (ITEX 2016) at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center for the project titled "RETINO: Portable Diabetic Retinopathy Grading System". During the biggest annual innovation exposition in Malaysia, my team and I showcased the third generation medical apparatus developed at the Centre for Intelligent Signal and Imaging Research (CISIR) based on three patents (two awarded, one pending). Project members at the time were “Fawnizu Azmadi Hussin (main supervisor), Mohd Iqbal Saidon, Ahmad Fadzil Mohd Hani. This newspaper (News Straits Times) article talks about Retino and how it would enable quicker and non-invasive eye examination of diabetic patients without the dependency on the availability of expert ophthalmologists. Retino can be used by anyone, with minimal training. That's the beauty of it. The team at CISIR (under my lead) are working on further enhancement while at the same time, we are negotiating with potential companies who are interested to bring this to the market.

04 June 2014

Media coverage during ESTCON 2014 (http://www.utp.edu.my/estcon2014), which was held on 3-5 June 2014. I was the Secretary of the Congress, which was attended by more than 1200 paper presenters and additional 6000 participants to the exhibition, which was held as part of the ESTCON 2014. This article was published in the News Straits Times during the event.

Read this news online at NST.com.my. Click here to go to NST.com.my.

In this article which was published on the same day in Berita Harian (Malay language newspaper) talks about my invention, the portable diabetic retinopathy(DR) grading system, which is based on a portable Android device. This invention was patented in 2013 at MyIPO (Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia). I had pitched this invention during the Innovation Pitching session the day earlier, which was judged by the Malaysian Innovation Agency (AIM). This portable DR grading system enables quick and non-invasive method to diagnose and grade the severity level of DR, which is normally present in patients with Diabetes Mellitus. With the invention, it would be possible to conduct a nationwide screening of DR to the general population, because the invention would not require the expert ophthalmologists to be present to do the diagnosis and grading. During this pitching session, I presented an enhanced version of this invention, which makes it more portable and user friendly.

23 April 2013

Announcement by PIKOM on the PLC certification in The Star newspaper. 

28 August 2013

As chair of IEEE Circuits & Systems (CAS) Malaysia, I was presenting the awards during the IEEE CAS Hi-Tea event at Residence Hotel, UNITEN on 29th June 2013. This news piece in Berita Harian is a publicity by UniMAP on one of their students receiving the award. Click the image for a larger view.