Team – Raffles University AI Research Institution

The Team

The Researchers

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
DR. SASA ARSOVSKI
Programme Director of AI & Robotics ;
Associate Professor

With more than twenty years’ experience as an AI and IT developer, Dr Sasa Arsovski has received a Ph.D. from the Department of Applied Computer Science and Informatics, Faculty of Technical Science, University Novi Sad, Serbia. Since 2004 he has been working as an independent associate for the development of ICT in the Guarantee Fund of AP Vojvodina, as a visiting Professor at multiple universities (inc. International University in Novi Pazar, Serbia and University Novi Sad, Serbia). He was also the Lab Vice Director and AI researcher at the Imagineering Institute in Johor.

Dr Sasa Arsovski has received an award by the Union of ICT Societies of Serbia (JISA, DISKOBOLOS 2009) and author of the books “Decision support and strategic planning ontologies” and “Deep Learning Applications”. He is a member or chief editor of multiple boards including: Informing Science Institute’ (USA);‘Multimodal Technologies and Interaction-MTI international journal’;‘Transactions on Leading-edge Synergistic Robots international journal’; MTI’s “Deep Learning” special issue; Program Chair-ACE international conference (2017); 2018 International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence – USA; Academy of Science – Malaysia; and National Machine Learning initiative group.

Dr Sasa Arsovski is a highly recognized AI researcher in the field of computer vision in the industrial quality control, object detection, image understanding and genetic algorithms in the text processing for neural network chatbots.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
DR. TAN WEE CHUEN
Campus Dean

Associate Professor Dr. TAN Wee Chuen has worked in tertiary education institutions for over 20 years within education research, teaching, management and leadership. She has extensive work experience in both academic and management positions. Dr. Tan holds a PhD in Educational Technology, a Master degree in Education and a Bachelor Degree in Science and Computer with Education.

As a researcher in education, Dr. Tan conducted extensive research in educational technology and has published these findings in various publications including books, proceedings and journal papers. As a lecturer, she had applied various pedagogies at the higher education level to promote students’ learning, which have been shared in conferences and journals. These experiences have led Dr. Tan to become a prominent trainer in pedagogy and providing guidance to academic staff in teaching and learning. She is a Certified Trainer under Human Resources Development Fund Malaysia. She is also appointed as a Panel Assessor for the Malaysia Qualification Agency.

DR. PONG HON KEAT
Lecturer of AI & Robotics

Dr. Pong received his PhD from Nanyang Technological University, where his research focused on computer vision. Prior to his PhD studies, he was a research engineer working on a panorama image generation system in a company spinning off from Kent Ridge Digital Labs. The company was later acquired by Creative Technology. At Creative, he worked on image and video processing. A highlight of his career with Creative was a US patented technology generated from a motion analysis project.

After his PhD studies, Dr. Pong worked as an R&D engineer with a multinational company in Singapore and as a research fellow at Nanyang Technological University. He then went back to Malaysia to join a private university in Ipoh, Perak, where he had held the roles of senate member, deputy dean and programme coordinator. Before joining Raffles University, he was an associate professor at the Southern University College, heading the Department of Computer Science there.

Dr. Pong’s research interests are in computer vision and computer graphics. He aims to work harder in research and hopes to develop AI technologies that can benefit the industries in Malaysia. He is passionate about teaching and strives to provide high-quality teachings to his students.