Assoc. Prof. Dr. Norisma Idris
Dean of FCSIT, UM
Signature workRadiology report generation & LLM alignment (2025); AI in education.
Selected impactApplying advanced NLP and AI models to critical sectors like healthcare and education.
People
AI Researchers at Malaya AIR
A multidisciplinary academic team working across computer vision, natural language processing, robotics, medical imaging, trustworthy AI and computational intelligence.
Head of Malaya AIR
Assoc. Prof. Ts. Dr. Aznul Qalid Md Sabri
Head of Malaya AIR · Associate Professor, Department of AI
Faculty leadership
Dr. Muhammad Shahreeza Safiruz Kassim
Head of Department (AI)
Signature workDeep ensembles & risk stratification in clinical cohorts (2021–2022).
Selected impactStatistical ML models for clinical risk assessment and healthcare AI.
Professors
Prof. Ir. Dr. Chan Chee Seng
Professor
Signature workCVPR 2024 (InteractDiffusion); NeurIPS 2021 (Deep Hashing); PRL 2024 (Text-VQA).
Selected impactPublications in top-tier venues; public service at MOSTI (2020–22) & lead of PICC Unit, CITF.
Prof. Dr. Loo Chu Kiong
Professor
Signature workACM CSUR 2023 (XAI for agents); IEEE TFUZZ 2024/25 (gastric cancer segmentation).
Selected impactHigh-impact publications; robotics education initiatives; Co-founder of UMCH Technology (WeHealth).
Prof. Dr. Nor Liyana Bt Mohd Shuib
Professor
Expert Systems and Machine Learning; Data Analytics; Data Science Programming and Computing
Signature workResearch in personalization, e-learning, recommender systems, data analytics, data science, AI applications, and educational technology.
Selected impactRanked among Stanford University top 2% scientists globally in 2023-2024; recipient of more than 30 awards and active in higher education consultancy.
Prof. Ts. Dr. Sri Devi A/P Ravana
Professor
Information Retrieval Evaluation; Text Retrieval and Heuristics; Data Science; Data Mining; Machine Learning
Signature workPhD in Computer Science and Software Engineering from The University of Melbourne, with research in retrieval evaluation and machine learning.
Selected impactInternational research collaborations, conference leadership, and service through information retrieval and knowledge management communities.
Associate professors
Associate Prof. Dr. Kasturi Dewi A/P Varathan
Associate Professor
Data Analytics; Text Mining; Information Retrieval
Signature workPublished in high-ranked journals and conferences, with award-winning research in data analytics.
Selected impactVisiting scientist and research fellow appointments in Switzerland and Malaysia; recipient of national and international research grants.
Senior lecturers and lecturers
Dr. Erma Rahayu Mohd Faizal Abdullah
Senior Lecturer
Signature workBMC Oral Health 2024 (CBCT); UMFit cardiac monitoring app.
Selected impactReal-world applications in medical imaging, mobile health (UMFit) and industry automation.
Dr. Liew Wei Shiung
Senior Lecturer
Signature workCo-author, ACM CSUR 2023 (XAI for agents/robots); RNNs for transcranial Doppler classification.
Selected impactKey contributions to explainable AI for robotics and biomedical signal analysis.
Dr. Lim Chee Kau
Senior Lecturer
Signature workPRL 2024 (Text-VQA pruning with Chan); ESWA 2022 (risky gait ranking).
Selected impactCollaborative research in vision-language models and ML for healthcare diagnostics.
Dr. Mohamed N. M. Lubani
Lecturer
Signature workDesigning and developing production-ready AI solutions that bridge academic research and real-world industry applications
Selected impactApplied NLP and AI systems through research and industry-focused innovation
Dr. Narsimlu Kemsaram
Senior Lecturer
AI-enabled Autonomy; Multi-robot Systems; Swarm Robotics; Aerial Robotics (UAVs)
Signature workLearning- and perception-driven methods for collaborative robotic systems in complex real-world environments.
Selected impactResearch experience across Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg, Eindhoven University of Technology, and the University of Luxembourg.
Dr. Nurul Japar
Senior Lecturer
Signature workCognitive Computation 2025 (radiology report generation); ICIP 2024 (text detection).
Selected impactAdvancing vision-language models for healthcare and industrial computer vision.
Dr. Saw Shier Nee
Senior Lecturer
Signature workIEEE TFUZZ 2024/25 (gastric cancer segmentation); wearable/biomechanics studies & patents.
Selected impactPatented research in healthcare AI, focusing on medical imaging and wearable technologies.
Dr. Unaizah Hanum Obaidellah
Senior Lecturer
Signature workDermoscopic pigment network detection & classification using CNNs/XAI (2025).
Selected impactApplying explainable AI techniques to medical imaging for improved diagnostics in dermatology.
Dr. Uzair Iqbal
Senior Lecturer
Neural Networks for Machine Learning; Health Systems; Non-communicable Disease Nursing
Signature workCross-disciplinary work connecting machine learning, software engineering, and healthcare systems.
Selected impactApplies AI methods to accessible health systems, medical and health sciences, and human societal resilience.
Dr. Uzair Ishtiaq
Senior Lecturer
Signature workA Hybrid CNN Model for Dental Age Estimation (BMC Oral Health, 2025); DR Detection (Diagnostics, 2023).
Selected impactDeveloping hybrid AI models for diverse applications in medical imaging and audio processing.
Dr. Woo Chaw Seng
Senior Lecturer
Signature workPattern Recognition (biometrics survey); IET works on medical X-rays.
Selected impactContributions to biometrics, digital security (watermarking) and medical X-ray analysis.
Dr. Zainab Malik
Senior Lecturer
Signature workA Novel Key Flow Frame Selection Method for Video Classification (AJSE, 2024).
Selected impactExpertise in video understanding, human action recognition and Arabic scene text analysis.
Dr. Zati Hakim Azizul Hasan
Senior Lecturer
Signature workParticle swarm optimisation variants (2025); neonatal HR estimation via transfer learning (2025).
Selected impactResearch in optimisation algorithms and healthcare applications; robotics/STEM education.
Roles and research interests are summarised. Full, current profiles are maintained on UMExpert.
Governance
Steering Committee
The committee holds responsibility for the direction of the centre, for its portfolios, and for the leadership of each flagship project.
Leadership
AP Dr. Saaidal Razalli Azzuhri
Assoc. Prof. Ts. Dr. Aznul Qalid Md Sabri
Head of Malaya AIR · Associate Professor, Department of AI
