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