Principle Researchers


Professor Ts. Dr. Rayner Alfred (Scopus)
Ph.D. (University of York, UK)
Address: Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
email: ralfred(at)ums.edu.my, ralfred121@gmail.com
Area: Ubiquitous Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Large Language Model, Artificial Intelligence


Professor Dr. Jason Teo (Scopus)
Dr. IT (New South Wales, Aus)
Address: Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
email: jtw(at)ums.edu.my
Area: Emotion Recognition, Evolutionary Computing, Artificial Life, Bio-Inspired Robotics


Professor Dr. Ag. Asri Ag. Ibrahim (Scopus)
Ph.D. (York University, UK)
Address: Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
email: awgasri(at)ums.edu.my
Area: Sonification, Kansei Engineering, Human Computer Interaction and Usability


Associate Professor TS. Dr. Mohd Hanafi Ahmad Hijazi (Scopus)
Ph.D. (Liverpool, UK)
Address: Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
email: hanafi(at)ums.edu.my
Area: Medical Image Analysis, Precision Agriculture


Associate Professor Ts. Dr. Goh Say Leng (Scopus)
Ph.D. (Nottingham)
Address: Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
email: slgoh(at)ums.edu.my
Area: Operations Research, Discrete Optimization, Scheduling, Timetabling, Meta-heuristics, Hyper-heuristics


Associate Professor Dr. Leau Yu Beng (Scopus)
Ph.D. (Universiti Sains Malaysia)
Address: Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
email: lybeng(at)ums.edu.my
Area: Information Centric Network (ICN) Security


Associate Professor Dr. Azali Saudi (Scopus)
Ph.D. (Universiti Malaysia Sabah)
Address: Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
email: azali(at)ums.edu.my
Area: Computer Vision for Robotics and Embedded System, Intelligent Robotics


Associate Professor Ts. Dr. Chin Kim on (Scopus)
Ph.D. (Universiti Malaysia Sabah)
Address: Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
email: kimonchin(at)ums.edu.my
Area: Image Processing, Deep Learning


Dr. James Mountstephens (Scopus)
Ph.D. (Surrey, UK)
Address: Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
email: james(at)ums.edu.my
Area: Psychologically-Inspired Computing, Natural Language Processing


Dr. Ervin Gubin Moung (Scopus)
Ph.D. (Universiti Malaysia Sabah)
Address: Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
email: ervin(at)ums.edu.my
Area: Face recognition, Neuroscience-inspired computer vision


Dr. Farashazillah Yahya (Scopus)
Ph.D. (Univ of Southampton, UK)
Address: Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
email: fara.yahya(at)ums.edu.my
Area: Security Science, Schema Evolution


Dr. Florence Sia (Scopus)
Ph.D. (Universiti Malaysia Sabah)
Address: Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
email: florence.sfs(at)ums.edu.my
Area: Contrast Subspace Mining, Data Mining & Warehousing


Ts. Dr. Rayner Pailus (Scopus)
Ph.D. (Universiti Malaysia Sabah)
Address: Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
email: rayner.pailus(at)ums.edu.my
Area: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision


Dr. Khalifa Chekima
Ph.D. (Universiti Malaysia Sabah)
Address: Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
email: kchekima(at)ums.edu.my
Area: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Internet of Things.


Dr. Chin Pei Yee (Scopus)
Ph.D. (University of South Australia)
Address: Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
email: peiyee(at)ums.edu.my
Area: Social Computing, Technology Adoption and Diffusion, Philosophy of Technology


Dr. Mohd Shamrie Sainin (Scopus)
Ph.D. (Universiti Malaysia Sabah)
Address: Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
email: shamrie(at)ums.edu.my
Area: Artificial Intelligence, Speech Recognition, Low Resource and Speech Disorder


Dr. Suraya Alias (Scopus)
Ph.D. (Universiti Malaysia Sabah)
Address: Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
email: suealias(at)ums.edu.my
Area: Artificial Intelligence, Speech Recognition, Low Resource and Speech Disorder


Dr. Jane Lai Po Hung (Scopus)
Ph.D. (Universiti Malaysia Sabah)
Address: Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
email: laipohung(at)ums.edu.my
Area: Sentiment Analysis, Text Emotion Detection


Dr. Tan Soo Fun (Scopus)
M.IT (Universiti Sains Malaysia)
Address: Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
email: soofun(at)ums.edu.my
Area: Post Quantum Cryptography / Quantum-safe cryptography


Ts. Nordin Saad (Scopus)
M.IT (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)
Address: Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
email: nordin(at)ums.edu.my
Area: Network Performance, IoT, Path Planning
Associate Researchers


Professor Dr. Iida Hiroyuki
Ph.D. (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology) in Computers and Games
Address: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Access 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292 Japan
email: iida(at)jaist.ac.jp
Area: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Games


Associate Professor Dr. Yuto Lim
Ph.D. (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Address: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Access 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292 Japan
email: ylim(at)jaist.ac.jp
Area: Wireless Network, Ubiquitous Computing, Cyber-Physical Systems, Energy Distribution


Associate Professor Dr. Patricia Anthony
Ph.D. (Southampton, United Kingdom)
Address: Lincoln University, Faculty of Environment, Society and Design, Christchurch, New Zealand
email: Patricia.Anthony(at)lincoln.ac.nz
Area: Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems


Associate Professor Ts. Dr. Aslina Baharum
Ph.D. (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)
Address: Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Sunway University
email: aslinab@sunway.edu.my
Area: Visual Informatics


Dr. Raymond Alfred
Ph.D. (Universiti Malaysia Sabah)
Address: Allyssa Certification Sdn. Bhd., 322, 3rd Floor, West Wing, Wisma Sabah, 88817, Kota Kinabalu
email: certificationallyssa@gmail.com
Area: Spatial Modelling


Josh Lee Ren Ting
B.Sc. (Universiti Malaysia Sabah)
Address: Sri Komputer Sdn Bhd, Wisma 2020, Level 5, West Wing, 18, Jalan Belia 88100 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
email: lrt@joshlrt.com
Area: Future Internet Architecture & Technology, IoT Engineering, Enterprise Networking & Security, Cloud Solutions, DevOps Engineer, Cyber Security


LS Dr. Nosius Luaran
Ph.D. (Universiti Malaysia Sabah)
Address: Jurukur Luaran & Associates, Unit E-4-6, Block E, Level 4 Tanjung Aru Plaza, Jalan Mat Salleh 88100 Kota Kinabalu
email: jurukurluaran@gmail.com
Area: Licensed Surveyor


Raymond Victor
Master of Science (North Borneo University College, Sabah, Malaysia)
Address: Infinity Enterprise, Lot 6, Block A, 2nd Floor, Donggongon Newtownship, 89500 Penampang, Sabah, Malaysia
email: info@infinityenterprise.my
Area: Technology Management
Innovative Projects
Exploring creative applications of AI and machine learning technologies.
AI-Generated Art
Creating unique artworks using advanced machine intelligence techniques.
AI in Music
Developing music compositions through innovative AI algorithms and models.
AI in Writing
Generating compelling narratives and content using AI technologies.
AI Research
Conducting studies on AI's impact across various industries.