UCSI University’s Office of Postgraduate Studies (OPS) is entrusted with the responsibility of coordinating, promoting and managing all activities pertaining to postgraduate learning. The office supports the postgraduate community in every level for students to pursue academic excellence. The unparalleled experience provided to our postgraduate students includes allowing them the opportunity to work with leading academics and professionals in the industries. If this is your calling, we want you here.
- Applied Sciences
- Architecture And Built Environment
- Business and Management
- Computer Science and Digital Innovation
- Creative Arts and Design
- Engineering
- Hospitality & Tourism Management
- Medicine & Health Sciences
- Music
- Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Social Sciences & Liberal Arts
Applied Sciences
Professor Dr. Phang Siew Moi, FASc
Research Expertise:
Algae and Seaweeds Biotechnology, Algae for Renewable Energy, Algae in Bioremediation
Associate Professor Dr. Lionel In Lian Aun
Research Expertise:
Cancer vaccines, Antibody engineering, Immunotoxins, Cancer Immunology & Immunotherapy
Associate Professor Dr. Crystale Lim Siew Ying
Research Expertise:
Antibiotic resistance and biological responses, Gene expression profiling
Associate Professor Dr. Nyam Kar Lin
Research Expertise:
Lipids nanotechnology for food and skincare products
Associate Professor Dr. Yim Hip Seng
Research Expertise:
Recovery and Functionality of Natural Products, Functional Food Developments
Associate Professor Dr. Grrace Ng Hui Suan
Research Expertise:
Fermentation Technology, Biofuel and Biorefinery, Bioseparation Technology
Architecture And Built Environment
Professor Dr. Mohd. Tajuddin Bin Mohd. Rasdi
Research Expertise:
Islamic architecture, Malaysian architecture, Mosque architecture, Housing and community
Assistant Professor Ar. Chia Lin Lin
Research Expertise:
Environmental Waste, Demolition Waste: Reference to Masonry, Timber and Metal Elements
Assistant Professor Teoh Chee Keong
Research Expertise:
Conservation and Heritage, Community Engagement, Problem-Based Learning
Dr. Ng Keng Khoon
Research Expertise:
Architecture design, Urban studies in Asia/Southeast Asia, The politics of urban transformation
Dr. Taki Eddine Seghier
Research Expertise:
Building Information Modelling (BIM), Sustainable Architecture, Passive Buildings
Dr. Zairra Binti Mat Jusoh
Research Expertise:
Project Management, Materials Management
Business and Management
Professor Ts. Dr. Ooi Keng Boon
Research Expertise:
Information Systems, Industrial Management, Quality Management, Mobile Technology
Professor Dr. Ong Seng Huat
Research Expertise:
Discrete distribution theory and mixture modelling, Simulation and Computation
Associate Professor Dr. Ganeshsree A/P Selvachandran
Research Expertise:
Fuzzy mathematics and fuzzy computing, Artificial intelligence, Evolutionary computing
Associate Professor Dr. Pek Chuen Khee
Research Expertise:
Environmental Valuation Methodologies, Design thinking for innovation
Associate Professor Dr. Garry Tan Wei Han
Research Expertise:
Mobile Marketing, Mobile Commerce, Mobile Learning, Mobile Payment, Mobile Broadband
Associate Professor Dr. Abdullah Al Mamun
Research Expertise:
Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Entrepreneurship
Computer Science and Digital Innovation
Professor Dr. Kurunathan A/L Ratnavelu
Research Expertise:
Complex & Social Network Analysis, Optimal Theory, Theoretical Atomic Collision Processes
Professor Dr. Raveendran A/L Paramesran
Research Expertise:
Image and Video Analysis and Applications, Machine Learning based Applications
Associate Professor Dr. Abdul Samad Bin Shibghatullah
Research Expertise:
Modelling and simulation, Schedulling, Optimization, Artificial intelligence
Assistant Professor Dr. Chloe Thong Chee Ling
Research Expertise:
Information system in education, IT orgranizational transformation, M-commerce
Assistant Professor Dr. Shayla Islam
Research Expertise:
Network Mobility Management, Neural network, Heterogeneous Wireless Network
Dr. Abdurrahman Bin Jalil
Research Expertise:
Mobile learning application, Java Android Application, Amazon Web Services
Creative Arts and Design
Assistant Professor Dr. Khairul Azril Bin Ismail
Research Expertise:
Visual Culture, Prison Studies, Photography Historical Processes, Early photography culture in Asia
Assistant Professor Dennis Wong Chee De
Research Expertise:
Model Design & Sculpture, Applied knowledge in ancient and traditional Bow-making
Assistant Professor Shahfida Abd Manap
Research Expertise:
Retail Design and visual construction, Contemporary Visual Design, Multimedia & Practise
Assistant Professor Nur Mashita Binti Kamalun Ariffin
Research Expertise:
Fashion Retail Design, Contemporary Wear & Practise
Alan Ong Tee Chuan
Research Expertise:
Gamification Theory, Participatory Action Research for Multimedia Application
Ivan Lam Wai Hoe
Research Expertise:
Fine Art, Contemporary Art Practise
Engineering
Professor Dato' Ir. Ts. Dr. Mohd Rizon Bin Mohamed Juhari
Research Expertise:
Signal & Image Processing, Artificial Life and Robotics, Intelligent Systems
Professor Ir. Dr. Barkawi Bin Sahari
Research Expertise:
Stress Analysis, Crashworthiness and Injury Analysis, Automotive Body Structure
Professor Dr. Mohd Razman Bin Salim
Research Expertise:
Assistant Professor Ir. Dr. Mahmud Iwan Solihin
Research Expertise:
Artificial Intelligence-Machine learning, Robotic and automation, Control engineering
Assistant Professor Dr. Elango Natarajan
Research Expertise:
Soft Robotics, Spine Analysis, Optimization of Machining Parameters, Reinforced Composite
Assistant Professor Ts. Dr. Lim Wei Hong
Research Expertise:
Computational Intelligence, Energy Manageent Optimization, Digital Image Processing
Hospitality & Tourism Management
Associate Professor Dr. Hiram Ting
Research Expertise:
Marketing, Behavioural Studies and Tourism Management
Assistant Professor Dr. Leong Quee Ling
Research Expertise:
Tourist Behavior, Consumer Behavior, Marketing, Food Tourism
Assistant Professor Hanafi Bin Hamzah
Research Expertise:
Tourism Planning and Development, Hospitality Management and Sustainability
Assistant Professor Mohamad Fadzly Bin Che Omar
Research Expertise:
Gastronomy and Kitchen Management
Assistant Professor Dr. Mark Edmund Kasa
Research Expertise:
Human Resource and Rooms Division, Hospitality Management, Hospitality Education
Assistant Professor Christopher Wan Sageng
Research Expertise:
Gastronomy Tourism, Hospitality Education, Lifelong Learning, Heritage Tourism
Medicine & Health Sciences
Academician Senior Professor Dato' Dr Khalid Yusoff, FASc
Research Expertise:
Cardiology, Hypertension
Professor Dr. Hoh Boon Peng
Research Expertise:
Population Genetics, Genetics of complex diseases, Archaic human genome analysis
Associate Professor Dr. Cheah Shiau Chuen
Research Expertise:
Cancer Biology, Angiogenesis, Drug screening & Bioassays, Tumour Microenvironment
Associate Professor Dr. Farahnaz Amini
Research Expertise:
Telomere and DNA damage, Public Health, Breast Cancer
Assistant Professor Dr. Eugenie Tan Sin Sing
Research Expertise:
Ecopharmacology, Environmental factors for Health, Emerging pollutants in Environment
Assistant Professor Dr. Tan Chung Keat
Research Expertise:
Environmental Health, Antioxidant and Oxidative Stress, Phytochemistry
Music
Professor Dr. P’ng Tean Hwa
Research Expertise:
Piano Performance, Chamber Music, Performance Practice, Piano Literature
Assistant Professor Dr. Jeremy Leong
Research Expertise:
Western/German Influences in Music Education of China, Music and Migration
Assistant Professor Dr. Joyce Wang Chiao Su
Research Expertise:
Music Education K-12 instrumental/general music, Piano Pedagogy, Chamber Music
Assistant Professor Dr. Cheong Yew Choong
Research Expertise:
Piano Performance, Performance practice, Historical musicology, Piano literature
Assistant Professor Dr. Christine Tan Yunn Bing
Research Expertise:
Piano Pedagogy, Piano duo/duet repertoire
Dr. Chan Wei Tuck
Research Expertise:
Piano Literature, Collaborative Piano
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Associate Professor Dr. Mogana Sundari A/P Rajagopal
Research Expertise:
Antimicrobial natural products research to address antibiotic resistance (AMR)
Associate Professor Dr. Palanirajan Vijayaraj Kumar
Research Expertise:
Pharmaceutical Technology, Nanotechnology, Protein and Polypeptide Deliver
Associate Professor Dr. Gabriel Akyirem Akowuah
Research Expertise:
Pharmacokinetic, Interactions of Herbal Medicinal Products
Assistant Professor Dr. Ashok Kumar Janakiraman
Research Expertise:
Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, Self-microemulsion drug delivery, Transdermal patches
Assistant Professor Dr. Chew Yik Ling
Research Expertise:
Bioactivity of tropical plants specifically on anticancer, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory
Assistant Professor Dr. Ashok Kumar Balaraman
Research Expertise:
Lead identification and evaluation, Pharmaceutical Regulatory
Social Sciences & Liberal Arts
Assistant Professor Dr. Ravindran Latha
Research Expertise:
ESL Policy and Implementation, Teacher Professional Development, English Language Teaching
Assistant Professor Dr. Vimala A/P Govindasamy
Research Expertise:
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Corporate Communications, Public Relations
Assistant Professor Dr. Ghayth Kamel Shaker Al-Shaibani
Research Expertise:
Critical Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Media Studies, Anthropological Linguistics
Assistant Professor Dr. Mansour Amini
Research Expertise:
Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), Translation and Interpretation
Assistant Professor Dr. Mohtaram Rabbani
Research Expertise:
Parenting, Child development, Mental Health, Child abuse, Personality, Stress
Dr. Tan Yen Teng
Research Expertise:
Mental Health, Children Behaviour, Depression, Technology Usage
Over 30 Years of Track Record
It has a three decade-long history of shaping the lives of thousands through education.
A Leader in Higher Education
It’s currently ranked in the top 400 among the world’s universities and the only Malaysian private university to emerge as the best private university in the country for two years in a row, namely in 2019 and 2020.
A Leader in Graduate Employability
It's ranked as one of Malaysia's best for producing top quality graduates.
7 Fellows
of Academy of Sciences Malaysia are at UCSI University.
The appointment of Post-Doctoral Research Fellows (PDRF) provides faculties and institutes the opportunity to enhance R&D activities for the purpose of increasing research output. We invite both, domestic and international applicants, to this fraternity to drive the growth of research at UCSI University. PDRFs are fundamentally the contributors to the research environment at the University and their chosen field. In doing so, they raise the profile of themselves and UCSI University. They work under the supervision of a faculty member and may assist with the supervision of graduate students.
This fellowship is directed to candidates who have recently received their PhD (must be within 5 years of being awarded a PhD) to support the development of a research project at any of the faculties and institutes.
QS World University Rankings 2021
Rank 391 - Top 1.3% of all universities in the world
QS World University Rankings By Subject 2020
Faculty of Business and Information Science is one of the world’s top 400 schools in the world
Third time best for performing arts
Institute of Music (IMus) emerged as one of top 100 schools for performing arts in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020
2021 QS Top 50 under 50
Rank 51-60: Made it to top 60 universities under 50 years old.
RCE Kuching
Acknowledged as a Regional Centre of Expertise Kuching (RCE Kuching) by United Nations University (2018). Address
Office of Postgraduate Studies (OPS),
10th Floor, Block G, UCSI University, No. 1, Jalan Menara Gading, UCSI Heights (Taman Connaught) 56000 Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Telephone
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E-mail
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Office of Postgraduate Studies (OPS),
10th Floor, Block G, UCSI University, No. 1, Jalan Menara Gading, UCSI Heights (Taman Connaught) 56000 Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Telephone
(+603) 9101 8880
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