Ackowledgment: I would like to acknowledge financial support from governmental agencies and industry: Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), PETRONAS, National Healthcare Group (Singapore), HITACHI (Japan).PETRONITA and Majilis Amanah Rakyat (MARA).
Current Members
1. Chan Yee Ling (PhD candidate) - xAI for human measurements
2. Lee Lok Hua (PhD candidate) - Predictive model of MDD drug treatment response using fNIRS and miRNA (With attachment @ NTNU, Taiwan)
3. Muhamad Hafiz Abd Latif (Research Scientist)
4. Rumaisa Abu Hasan (Research Officer)
Supervised postgraduate theses (PhD: 11; MSc by Research: 8)
1. Muhammad Zubair Aslam, Pakistan (MSc grad, 2014) - Capacitive sensing for water in crude oil
2. Iskandar Slaiman, Syria (MSc grad, 2015) - Enhancement of bandwidth and power efficiency for indoor free space optical communications
3. Lim Lam Ghai (MSc grad, 2017) - Capacitive sensing system for water content detection in crude oil
~~ Won 2017 Best Master Thesis Award by IEEE Circuits and Systems Society ~~
4. Syed Ayaz Ali Shah, Pakistan (PhD grad, 2017) - Microaneurysm detection using Curvelet Transform
5. Fares Al-Shargie, Yemen (PhD grad, 2017) - Bimodal OT-EEG data fusion of mental stress at workplace
6. Ung Wei Chun (MSc grad, 2018) - Development of fNIRS based dynamic difficulty adjustment system (With attachment @ Hitachi, Japan)
~~ Won 2017 Best Journal Paper Award by IEEE Signal Processing Society ~~
~~ Won 2018 Best Master Thesis Award by IEEE Signal Processing Society ~~
7. Mehwish Saba Bhatti, Pakistan (PhD grad, 2018) - Real-time measurement of ocular blood flow in rabbits under deep anaesthetics
8. Waqas Rasheed, Pakistan (PhD grad, 2019) - Anomaly detection using multi-instance one class SVM for moderate traumatic brain injury
9. Rodney Petrus Balandong (PhD grad, 2020) - Improved sleepiness detection method using fusion of multiple sleepiness indicators for shift workers
10. Chan Yee Ling (MSc grad, 2020) - OMST to analyze fNIRS-based functional connectivity (With attachment @ Hitachi, Japan)
11. Chai Meei Tyng (PhD grad, 2020) - Dynamic effective connectivity analytical approach in assessing color effects on multimedia learning
12. Aishah Ismail (PhD grad, 2021) - Longitudinal analysis of ocular hemodynamic disregulation due to carotid artery stenosis (With attachment @ MIT, USA)
~~ Won 2018 Merdeka Award for international research attachment ~~
13. Chong Jie Sheng (MSc grad, 2021) - Detection of emotional sensitivity using fNIRS based dynamic functional connectivity
14. Lim Lam Ghai (PhD grad, 2021) - Hemodynamic baseline detection for optimizing mental workload estimation (With attachment @ Hitachi, Japan)
~~ Winner of UTP Three Minutes Thesis Competition 2020~~
~~ Won 2022 Best PhD Thesis Award by IEEE Signal Processing Society ~~
15. Ung Wei Chun (PhD grad, 2022) - Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Adaptive Cognitive Training System
16. Ahmad Bukhari Aujih (PhD grad, 2023) - Architecture with Noise Invariant and Effective Computation for Classification of DR
~~ Won 2023 Best Paper Award (Student) by IEEE EMBS ~~
17. Rumaisa Abu Hasan (PhD grad, 2024) - Resilience assessment using EEG based effective connectivity analysis
~~ Won 2023 CHESS Innovation Pitching under the category "Data Analytics and IoT"~~
18. Ayman Siddiqui (MSc grad, 2025) - Detection of low mental resilience using EEG-based data-driven effective connectivity measures
19. Ding Su Yen (MSc grad, 2025) - Lightweight spatio-temporal convolutional neural network for audio-visual emotion recognition (With attachment @ NTNU, Taiwan)
Visiting Scholars
1. 2015 - Stephanie Liana Utami Sutoko (Hitachi, Japan)
2. 2016 - Ijlal Haider (University of Lahore, Pakistan)
3. 2016 - Remy Farnert (University of Burgundy, France)
4. 2017 - Heloise de La Broue de Vareilles (CentraleSupelec, France)
5. 2017 - Joseph Yung-I Yang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
6. 2018 - Hicham Chaali (University of Burgundy, France)
7. 2018 - Vincent Candappane (University of Burgundy, France)
8. 2018/19 - Wang Yu-Sheng (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
9. 2019 - Imad Boufenchouche (University of Burgundy, France)