OUTSTANDING VOLUNTEER AWARD 2018 BY IEEE RAS MALAYSIA CHAPTER
Assistant Professor Dr MKA Ahamed Khan | Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Built EnvironmentAssistant Professor Dr MKA Ahamed Khan has made UCSI University exceedingly proud as he was awarded the Outstanding Volunteer Award 2018 by IEEE RAS Malaysia Chapter.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DR QUEK SHIO GAI PROVES THAT DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS ARE NOT IMPEDIMENT TO SUCCESS
Assistant Professor Dr Quek Shio Gai | Faculty of BusinessIf there is one thing that Assistant Professor Dr Quek Shio Gai has proven to us, it is that development disorders such as autism should never become a stumbling block to success. The lecturer from UCSI University’s Faculty of Business was first diagnosed with autism at a very young age, which was also around the same time where he showed interest and aptitude in mathematics.
PROFESSOR OOI WINS TWO AWARDS FOR TOP DOWNLOADED ARTICLE
Professor Ooi Keng Boon | Faculty of Business and Information ScienceUCSI University’s Professor Ooi Keng Boon has won two awards for the Top Downloaded Article 2018 from Elsevier in the journal Telematics & Informatics. Both articles bring valuable contributions to the field of Business and Information Science in specific ways.
MOST CITED PAPER BY EMERALD PUBLISHING LIMITED
Professor Dr Ooi Keng Boon | Dean, Faculty of BusinessCongratulations to Professor Dr Ooi Keng Boon on receiving the certificate of ‘Most Cited Paper’ by Emerald Publishing Limited for his paper, titled What catalyses mobile apps usage intention: an empirical analysis.
MOHD FAUZI WINS BEST PAPER AWARD IN THE 2018 IEEE 4TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ROBOTICS AND MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION
Mohd Fauzi Zanil | Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Built EnvironmentUCSI’s Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Built Environment lecturer Mohd Fauzi Zanil won the best paper award in the 2018 IEEE 4th International Symposium on Robotics and Manufacturing Automation (IEEE ROMA 2018).
The symposium was organised by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society - Malaysia Chapter in Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Engineering College, Perambalur, TN, India.
His paper was entitled “Modified Meta-Heuristic Bee Colony Optimisation In The Polymerisation of Propylene”.
DR ELANGO WINS BEST PAPER AWARD AT INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ROBOTICS AND MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION (IEEE ROMA 2018)
Assistant Professor Dr Elango Natarajan | Head of Research, Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Built Environment.Winning the Best Paper Award at the 2018 IEEE 4th Symposium on Robotics and Manufacturing Automation (IEEE-ROMA 2018), was truly a memorable moment for Assistant Professor Dr Elango Natarajan, Head of Research from the Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Built Environment.
The awards presentation was held at Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Engineering College, Perambalur, TN, India with around 110 participants.
Dr Elango’s paper was entitled “Design and Development of A Robot Gripper For Food Industries Using Coanda Effect”. The Coanda principle uses the pressure changes locally present inside the gripper to handle soft objects such as meat, vegetables, paper or fabric. It is a new idea applied in robotics for handling these fragile and soft objects.
BEST PAPER AWARD PRESENTED TO TEY WAH YEN FOR CONTRIBUTION IN COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS
Tey Wah Yen | Lecturer. Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Built EnvironmentFaculty of Engineering, Technology and Built Environment’s lecturer Tey Wah Yen received the Best Paper Award conferred by the Technical Committee of International Conference on Aviation Technology and Management 2018 conducted at Sri Pacific Hotel, Kuala Lumpur on 13th September 2018.
He received the Best Paper Award for the submitted conference paper entitled “Numerical Modelling of Convective Wave Using Fractional-Step Method”.
This award is an international recognition from the conference’s technical committee to acknowledge the substantial research contributions of Tey in the Computational Fluid Dynamics field.
MALAYSIA'S RESEARCH STAR AWARD 2018
PROFESSOR DR OOI KENG BOON | Dean, Faculty of BusinessCongratulations to Professor Dr Ooi Keng Boon on receiving The Malaysia's Research Star Award 2018 as Top Peer Reviewer presented by the Ministry of Education and Clarivate Analytics.
2018 PUBLONS PEER REVIEW AWARD
Professor Dr Ooi Keng Boon | Dean, Faculty of BusinessCongratulations to Professor Dr Ooi Keng Boon on being awarded the 2018 Publons Peer Review Award.
Listed among the World’s Top 1% of Reviewers in the field of ‘Social Sciences, General’.
EMERALD’S LITERATURE AWARD
Assistant Professor Dr. Hiram Ting | Assistant Professor, Faculty of Hospitality & Tourism ManagementCongratulations to Assistant Professor Dr Hiram Ting for being conferred the Emerald’s Literati Award on his paper 'The relationship between training satisfaction, organisational citizenship behaviour, and turnover intention' published in the Journal of Organisational Effectiveness: People and Performance.
Selected by the editorial team as an Outstanding Paper in the 2018 Emerald's Literati Award.
His article was chosen as a winner as it is one of the most exceptional pieces of work the team has seen throughout 2017.
