Achievements

MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING UNIVERSITY CHOIRS

i. UCSI Chamber Choir

• Two Gold Awards at the World Choralympic 2020 in Pyeongchang, South Korea
• Gold Award at the 3rd International Choral Competition in Karlovac, Croatia in 2019
• Gold Medal and Grand Prix Finalist at the 47th Festival of Songs, International Choir Competition MUNDI CANTANT 2019 in Olomouc, Czech Republic
• Silver Award in Taipei International Choral Festival 2018
• Gold Medal at the 5th Vietnam International Choir Competition 2017
• Level B Choir Award at the 13th China International Chorus Festival 2016
• Gold Medal at the 4th Bali International Choir Festival 2015
• Gold Medal and the Grand Prix Finalist at the 7th International Choir Festival, Grand Prix Pattaya 2014
• Silver Award and one Performance Gold Award at the HK International Youth and Children’s Choir Festival 2013

ii. UCSI Concert Choir

• Gold Medal and Grand Prix Absolute Winner at the 10th International Choir Festival, Grand Prix Pattaya 2017
• Silver Award at the 9th Orientale Concentus International Choral Festival in Singapore 2016
• Gold Medal at the 11th China International Choir Festival 2012
• Gold Award at the 3rd International Choral Festival Orientale Concentus in Taiwan 2010

iii. UCSI University Singers

• Gold Medal and Grand Prix finalist at the 12th International Choir Festival, Grand Prix Pattaya 2019

iv. UCSI Chorale

• Performed with Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of international conductors, Roberto Abbado for Carmina Burana (2018), Jessica Cottis for Ola Bola The Movie (2017), Benjamin Zander for Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (2016), and Andreas Delfs for Mozart’s Requiem (2015)

1ST RUNNER-UP WINNER IN THE SAKURA COLLECTION ASIA STUDENT AWARDS IN MALAYSIA 2020

Congratulations to Denise Thong Wan Qing for winning the 1^st runner-up in the Sakura Collection Asia Student Awards in Malaysia 2020.

WINNER OF THE CARING FOR SIGHT DESIGN COMPETITION 2020

Winner of the Caring For Sight Design Competition 2020, bagged RM1,000. His design will be the subject of both the national awareness campaign and the L'Occitane limited edition travel pack. L’Occitane will be producing 4,000 units of the pouch and 100% of the proceeds will go to the L’Occitane Foundation to help the visually impaired.

DR TRACY WONG WEI WEN

i. Assistant Professor of Choral Studies at Western University and Conductor of Grand Philharmonic Youth Choir in Ontario, Canada

ii. 2019 Canadian Composer Feature for the Canadian Kodály Journal, Alla Breve

iii. Recipient of the 2018-19 McMaster University Student Union Teaching Award

iv. 2016 & 2017 Elmer Iseler National Graduate Fellowship in Choral Conducting

v. Published choral pieces on Cypress Choral Music (Canada), Graphite Publishing (USA), and Young Choral Academy (Malaysia). It has been performed by Malaysian, North American, European, and Southeast Asian choirs at international competitions and festivals

CONGRATULATIONS TO UCSI SABE ALUMNI!

UCSI’s School of Architecture and Built Environment would like to congratulate Ar. Tan Kwon Chong, Ar. Phyllis Wong and Ar. Tan Kah Chuan for obtaining the Professional Architect title (LAM Part 3 Architect). The three alumni of the Architecture Undergraduate Programme at UCSI have commented that whilst the process was challenging, they were ultimately pleased with their success and that it was a huge milestone for them. The attainment of the Professional Qualification, as well as the maintenance of knowledge comes not only from past and on-going experience, but also serves as the reflection of an individual’s ability to develop accurate, safe and efficient solutions to the practical problems of mankind.

OUTSTANDING RESEARCHER AWARD

Congratulations to Shahrizal Jelani from Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department for receiving the Outstanding Researcher Award at the International Conference on Engineering and Computing 2020 (ICEEComp2020).

UCSI STUDENTS WIN BEST SOLAR CAR AWARD

UCSI University Engineering students Ng Weng Mun, Chong Ying Hai and Ngo Kah Lock won the Best Solar Car Award in the Solar Car Competition 2020 (SCAR’20) organised by MAHSA University. All three students are from the Mechatronics Engineering programme. The participants were divided into seven groups, with three per group where each group had their own solar car.

UCSI STUDENTS SELECTED AS TOP 5 COUNTRY FINALISTS IN SCHNEIDER GO GREEN COMPETITION

UCSI Engineering students Harry Hoon Jian Wen (Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering with Honours) and Siah Jing Yi (Bachelor of Mechatronics Engineering with Honours) were selected as the Top 5 country finalists in the Schneider Go Green Competition 2020 in which their title was ‘Cost effectively reduce carbon emission using PV-BESS system’.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Alumnus of SMK SS17, Subang Jaya

Currently working as Lead Developer at HTM Niseko, Hokkaido, Japan

Former Project Manager, MYCITY SME Sdn Bhd

UCSI University President’s Award (2014; 2015)

PROFESSOR OOI’S PAPER IS TOP 1% IN ACADEMIC FIELD OF SOCIAL SCIENCE

UCSI’s Faculty of Business and Information Science dean Professor Ooi Keng Boon has received two new recognitions for his continuing hard work and dedication in research, particularly on the topic of mobile credit cards.

The first recognition was by Clarivate Analytics which placed his paper ‘NFC Mobile Credit Card: The Next Frontier of Mobile Payment?’ in the top 1% of the academic field of social science. The second was for the same article which was recognised as a Highly Cited Article Paper by the journal Telematics and Informatics, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 292-307 (Elsevier, SSCI, JCR-2018, IF = 3.714, Q1-ranked journal). The article was co-authored with Dr Garry Wei-Han Tan, Dr Siong-Choy Chong and Dr Teck-Soon Hew.

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