Research

Research Areas — Who's Working on What

Our academic members work across interconnected themes, spanning fundamental AI research and applied solutions in healthcare, robotics, language, and intelligent systems.

Computer Vision & Multimodal AI

Advancing visual understanding, vision-language models, object detection, and multimodal AI for real-world applications.

Researchers
  • Prof. Ir. Dr. Chan Chee Seng
  • Assoc. Prof. Ts. Dr. Aznul Qalid Md Sabri
  • Dr. Erma Rahayu Mohd Faizal Abdullah
  • Dr. Nurul Japar
  • Dr. Woo Chaw Seng
  • Dr. Zati Hakim Azizul Hasan
  • Dr. Zainab Malik
  • Dr. Uzair Ishtiaq

Medical Imaging & Healthcare AI

AI-powered medical imaging, clinical risk assessment, segmentation of medical scans, and digital health innovation.

Researchers
  • Dr. Erma Rahayu Mohd Faizal Abdullah
  • Dr. Saw Shier Nee
  • Prof. Dr. Loo Chu Kiong
  • Dr. Muhammad Shahreeza Safiruz Kassim
  • Assoc. Prof. Ts. Dr. Aznul Qalid Md Sabri
  • Dr. Uzair Ishtiaq

Natural Language Processing & VLMs

Research in NLP, large language models, vision-language models, ontology engineering and multilingual information extraction.

Researchers
  • Assoc. Prof. Ts. Dr. Aznul Qalid Md Sabri
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Norisma Idris
  • Dr. Mohamed N. M. Lubani
  • Dr. Nurul Japar

Explainable / Trustworthy AI

Building interpretable, transparent, and responsible AI systems — including XAI for agents, robots, and healthcare.

Researchers
  • Prof. Dr. Loo Chu Kiong
  • Dr. Unaizah Hanum Obaidellah
  • Dr. Erma Rahayu Mohd Faizal Abdullah
  • Prof. Ir. Dr. Chan Chee Seng

Human–Robot Interaction & Robotics

Continual learning, biomedical signal analysis, and explainable robotics for human-centred autonomous systems.

Researchers
  • Dr. Liew Wei Shiung
  • Prof. Dr. Loo Chu Kiong
  • Dr. Zati Hakim Azizul Hasan

Graph Learning / AIoT / Smart Systems

Graph neural networks, generative & responsible AI, AIoT, and intelligent education-domain (AIED) applications.

Researchers
  • Prof. Dr. Loo Chu Kiong
  • Dr. Woo Chaw Seng
  • Dr. Zati Hakim Azizul Hasan

Optimisation & Fuzzy Systems

Particle swarm optimisation, fuzzy systems, early action recognition, and machine-learning-driven optimisation methods.

Researchers
  • Dr. Lim Chee Kau
  • Prof. Dr. Loo Chu Kiong
  • Dr. Zati Hakim Azizul Hasan