About me

I believe in education, education changes life

I was born in Cambodia and spent my childhood at countryside. I moved to Phnom Penh (the capital of Cambodia) to continue my undergraduate study at an engineering school in 2002. Then, my life go much for further than what I expected. I got a scholarship to pursue my study in Master degree and PhD degree at University of La Rochelle, France. And that how my life changed by education.

Nowadays, I am a research engineer at Mimos (National R&D center of ICT) in Malaysia since August 2015. I did my Post.Doc at Laboratory of Information, Image and Interaction (L3i), University of La Rochelle from August 2014 to August 2015. From 2012 to 2014, I worked as assistant lecturer at Institut Universitaire de Technologie de La Rochelle.

I received my engineering degree in 2008 in computer science from Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), Master degree in 2009 in Ingénierie des Contenus Numériques (ICONE) from University of La Rochelle and Ph.D degree in 2013 on “on-line handwritten words recognition system”.

My research interests are:

• Handwriting recognition

• Document image analysis

• Deep Learning

• Object recognition

• Machine Learning

• Object tracking

• People counting

• Vehicle classification and counting

My reading topics/areas (not limited to):

• • Mindfulness, awareness, wellness and well-being

  • Leadership

  • Education

I'm also a sport active. I like badminton, table tennis, squash, cycling, swimming, hiking, yoga and traveling.