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Associate Professor Ts Dr Tan Kian Lam (Andrew)

Assoc. Prof. Ts. Dr. Tan Kian Lam (Andrew)

Dean of School of Digital Technology (DiGiT), Director, WOU AI Centre, Director of Centre for Research and Innovation (CeRI)

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Education/Qualifications

  • PhD (Computer Science), Universite Grenoble Alpes, France
  • PhD (Computer Science), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
  • Master of Computer Science (Information and Knowledge Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
  • Bachelor of Computer Science (Computing and Software Engineering), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
  • Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate
  • Google Advanced Data Analytics Professional Certificate

Experience

  • Successfully launched DiGiT Learning Model, ensuring 100% job placement for 1st cohort students after one year of study
  • Served as a Visiting Scientist at Universite Grenoble Alpes in 2016, focusing on lifelogging and tourism using machine learning and social networks
  • Adjunct Researcher at International e-Tourism Research Center at Chengdu University, China, specializing in smart tourism
  • Advisor at National Child Data Centre (NCDC) for comprehensive child data management
  • Ambassador of Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble, France

Areas of Interest

  • Data Science, Digital Heritage, E-Tourism, Extended-Reality, Gamification, Information Retrieval, Mobile Computing, and Education

Professional Highlights

  • Best result in the International Evaluation Challenge in Information Retrieval, CLEF 2013, especially in Monolingual Task in CHiC (2013)
  • Worked as a software engineer at Intel, contributing to automation software solutions in the United States, India, and China
  • Received EC Innovation Award for contributions to Intel’s “Netbatch Utilization and Machine Allocation Center (NutMac)” project in 2009

Published Work

  • Over 80 proceedings and journal articles in high impact journals
  • Notable publications in journals such as Sustainability, Telecommunication, Electronics, Journal of Medical, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Multimedia Systems, and others
    • “Smart home-based IoT for real-time and secure remote health monitoring of triage and priority system using body sensors: Multi-driven systematic Review” (Impact Factor: 4.460; Web of Science; Q1)
    • “A survey on communication components for IoT-based technologies in smart homes” (Impact Factor: 1.542; Web of Science; Q2)
    • “Systematic review of contextual suggestion and recommendation systems for sustainable e-tourism” (Impact Factor: 3.251; Web of Science, Q2)
    • “Comprehensive system review on virtual reality for cultural heritage practices: coherent taxonomy and motivation” (Impact Factor: 3.9; Web of Science, Q1)

Awards & Recognition

  • Received Innovation Award for Most Impactful Academia-Industry Collaboration (Commercial) from MOSTI in 2023
  • Invited panelist for “100 Go Digital” by Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) in 2019
  • Gold Winner of the National Research Innovation Competition (NRIC)
  • Bronze Winner of the International Exposition of Research and Inventions of Institutions of Higher Learning (PECIPTA)
  • Recognized as one of the Young Rising Stars from Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris