UTAR Research Fund 2020 Cycle 1
(1 August 2020 - 31 July 2021)

No. Faculty Principal Investigator Project Title Project Extension Date
1 Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science Dr. Yeo Heng Giap Ivan Inventory Models Incorporating Sustainability N/A
2 Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science Dr. Chong Lee Wai Optimal Design and Control Strategy For Cost-Effective Renewable Energy Power System with Hybrid Energy Storage System N/A
3 Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science Dr. Maryam Khanian Najafabadi Autonomous Recommender Model for Determining Tag Recommendation on Vendor’s Products by Considering Natural Language Processing (NLP) Techniques N/A
4 Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science Dr. Goh Yong Kheng On construction of collective student-course profiles with critical learning pathways: An unbiased learning analytics framework. N/A
5 Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science Ir. Dr. Huang Yuk Feng Data Mining and Machine Learning Approaches in Investigation of Climate Change Impacts on Reservoir Storage Changes N/A
6 Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science Prof. Dr. Andy Chit Tan To Investigate and Develop Rubber/Latex-Concrete Railway Sleeper for High Speed Rail N/A
7 Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science Dr. Tee Yee Kai Design of a New Deep Learning Denoising Algorithm for Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CEST MRI) for Brain Cancer Diagnosis N/A
8 Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science Dr. Ng Law Yong Investigation on photocatalytic stability of carbon quantum dots in a photo-degradation reaction N/A
9 Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science Ir. Dr. Hum Yan Chai A new machine learning based method to predict the moment of conversion to Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) using only structural Magnetic Resonance (MR) Bio-markers. N/A
10 Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science Ts. Dr. Lee Kim Yee Chipless Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tag Sensor for Structural Heath Monitoring N/A
11 Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science Dr. Woon Kai Siong Strengths Performance of Deep Beam with Embedded Side Plates as New Shear Reinforcement N/A
12 Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science Dr. Sim Jia Huey Silicone Rheological Behavior Modification for 3D Printing N/A
13 Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science Dr. Lee Foo Wei Fundamental study on soil and stone stabilizing agent incorporating with new chemical mixture N/A
14 Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science Dr. Lee Yong Hong Design and optimization of planar inverted-L antenna for on- and in-metal RFID tagging applications N/A
15 Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science Dr. Goh Choon Hian Development of a Syncope Detection Algorithm from Physiological Signals Acquired in Head-up Tilt Table Test N/A
16 Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science Dr. Fong Lai Yen Evaluation of effects of Alternanthera sessilis ethanol extract on TNF-α-induced oxidative stress and endothelial dysfunction on human aortic endothelial cells N/A
17 Faculty of Medicine and Health Science Prof. Dr. Swaminathan a/l S Manickam Innovate Histopathological Glioblastoma Diagnosis using Deep Machine Learning Image Analysis N/A
18 Faculty of Medicine and Health Science Prof. Dr. Lam Sau Kuen Investigating the mechanism of vasodilatary effect of Gynura procumbens (Phase 2) N/A
19 Faculty of Medicine and Health Science Prof. Dr. Alan Ong Han Kiat Generation of mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-like cells from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and evalaution of its cancer properties, differentiation potential and exosomal effects on cancer cells N/A
20 Faculty of Medicine and Health Science Dr. Ng Foong Leng A study on traditional chinese medicine body constitution in breast cancer patients N/A
21 Faculty of Medicine and Health Science Dr. Thanaseelen a/l K.P. Rajasakran The appeal of voluntary disclosures for sustainability in advertisements: A exploratory study on unit trusts in Malaysia N/A
22 Faculty of Medicine and Health Science Dr. Swagata Sinha Roy The Nepalese diaspora in Malaysia: The cultural sustenance of community festivities. N/A
23 Faculty of Medicine and Health Science Dr. Siew Pei Hwa Promoting 21st Century Skills in Constructivism and Project-Based Blended Learning Environments for Multimedia Production Instruction among University Students N/A
24 Faculty of Engineering and Green Technology Dr. Sin Jin Chung Development of visible-light-responsive spinel ferrites-based nanocomposites with enhanced interfacial charge separation for environmental and energy applications N/A
25 Faculty of Engineering and Green Technology Dr. Mathialagan A/L Muniyadi Development of High Performance Coating Material using Waste Tire Powder N/A
26 Faculty of Engineering and Green Technology Dr.Yamuna a/p Munusamy Development of Thermal Conductive and Form Stable Phase Change Material for Industrial Waste Heat
Recovery Applications		 N/A
27 Faculty of Engineering and Green Technology Dr. Yeap Kim Ho Magnetic Resonance Lumbar Spine Image Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) N/A
28 Faculty of Engineering and Green Technology Dr. Wong Lai Peng Enhanced oil recovery from palm oil mill effluent using ultrasonication technique N/A
29 Faculty of Science Dr. Anto Cordelia Tanislaus Antony Dhanapal Impact of Titanium Dioxide and Silver Nanoparticles on the Nutritional properties Haematococcus pluvialis N/A
30 Faculty of Science Dr. Yap Moh Lan Chimeric Envelope protein enhances identification specificity of dengue serotype N/A
31 Faculty of Science Ms. Norliza binti Shah Jehan Muttiah The effectivenessof neurofeedback training in social media addiction and its association with stress, anxiety and depression related genes among yound adults N/A
32 Faculty of Science Dr. Annaletchumy Loganathan Concurrent Use of Herbs to Self-management of Hypertension Among Adults living in Kinta Valley, Perak N/A
33 Faculty of Science Dr. Nor Ismaliza Binti Mohd Ismail Potential of a novel and thermostable recombinant phage endolysin KW01-E against Shigella spp. N/A
34 Faculty of Science Dr. Teh Lai Kuan Association of iron regulating genes with iron deficiency anemia (IDA) and iron refractory IDA N/A
35 Faculty of Science Dr. Chew Choy Hoong Genetic diversity of pathogenicity islands (PAIs) of uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) strains from Perak N/A
36 Faculty of Engineering and Green Technology Dr. Ng Hui Fuang Video Surveillance with Deep Learning and Few-Shot Learning N/A
37 Faculty of Information and Communication Technology Dr. Mobashar Rehman Integrated SEM-Neural Network Approach to Improve Cyber Security Behaviour through Cyber Hygiene among Employees of Software Development SMEs N/A
38 Faculty of Information and Communication Technology Prof. Dr. Leung Kar Hang Front yard robbery/theft detection based on human behavior and yard layout N/A
39 Faculty of Information and Communication Technology Dr. Rehan Akbar Feature Based Detection of New and Unknown Malware to Predict Threat N/A
40 Faculty of Information and Communication Technology Dr. Ramesh Kumar Ayyasamy A Coherent Knowledge-Driven Deep Learning Model For Implicature Opinion Mining Using Social Big Data N/A
41 Faculty of Arts and Social Science Ms. Kristina A/P Francis Design and Development of a Flipped Professional Development Massive Open Online Course (Fit-Pd MOOC) for University Educators N/A
42 Faculty of Arts and Social Science Dr. Pung Pit Wan Examining the relationship among social factors, self-control factor and juvenile behaviour: Self-control and coping strategy as mediators N/A
43 Faculty of Arts and Social Science Dr. Sumathi A/P Renganathan Transforming English language literacy outcomes for Orang Asli students through participatory research involving University-School collaboration N/A
44 Faculty of Arts and Social Science Dr. Tan Chee Seng Psychometric Evaluation of the Malay version Objectification of Women Questionnaire among Malaysian Adults N/A
45 Faculty of Arts and Social Science Dr. Lee Lai Meng The predictive effect of digital addiction on individual work performance of Malaysian academics in private higher education context N/A
46 Faculty of Business and Finance Mr. Pragash a/l Muthu Rajan The Intercultural Communication Competence (ICC) Among Malaysian Undergraduates: From the Perspective of Anxiety/Uncertainty Management (AUM) Theory N/A
47 Faculty of Business and Finance Dr. Zam Zuriyati Binti Mohamad Value Stream Mapping to Overcome Obstacles in Adopting Internet of Things in Government Hospital N/A
48 Faculty of Business and Finance Dr. Yip Chee Yin Biodiversity Loss and Emergence of Contagious disease: Exploring Disease Emergence in an Animal-Virus System N/A
49 Faculty of Business and Finance Dr. Abdelhak Senadjki Artificial Intelligence and SMEs competitivenes in the global economy N/A
50 Faculty of Business and Finance Dr. Shanthi a/p Nadarajah The influence of Academic Culture on Social Cultural Adjustment w ith Self-Efficacy as the moderator: A study on higher education institutions in Malaysia. N/A
51 Faculty of Business and Finance Dr. Au Yong Hui Nee Digitalisation of the Economy and its Social and Economic Impacts for Sustainable Malaysian Development N/A
52 Faculty of Business and Finance Ms. Kuah Yoke Chin The Adoption of Peer-2-Peer Lending: TAM perspective N/A
53 Faculty of Business and Finance Dr. Charles Ramendran A/L S Pr Subramaniam Assessment of Urban social-economics Sustainability of Public Transport System In Malaysia N/A
54 Faculty of Business and Finance Pn. Maziah binti Husin B40 income group reaction tow ards spending, savings & investment, and debt management for a better future financial well-being. N/A
55 Faculty of Business and Finance Ms. Lai Ka Fei Entrepreneurship Case Study (An Online Seafood Company: Ricksman Fish Markets) N/A
56 Institute of Chinese Studies Dr. Chou Wen Loong A study of collective memory of New Village in Malaysia on 1950s-1980s: perspective from the Anthology in Malaysia Chinese Literature N/A
57 Institute of Chinese Studies Dr. Lee Soo Chee The Chinese Calligraphy Heritage of Malaysia : A Study of Tsue Ta Tee’s Chinese Calligraphy and its significant meanings to Penang Island N/A