Category: Awards

CHST postgraduate student, Goh Xue Xin, won the 2022 Science and Technology Research Grant, with a research grant worth RM20,000 with the title, “The in vitro inflammatory gene expression effect of the schizophrenia-associated gut and oral bacteria species on SH-SY5Y cell line”. Goh’s research study aimed to assess Schizophrenia patients’ in vitro inflammatory gene expression...

CHST member- Professor Dr Humaira Nisar won the Best Paper Award in 2nd International Conference on Emerging Trends in Smart Technology, held on 23 and 24 September 2022 with her paper, entitled “Channel Selection and Classification of Electroencephalography based Motor Imagery Signals using Machine Learning”.

Department of Mechatronics and BioMedical Engineering Assoc Prof Ir Ts Dr Hum Yan Chai and his team members from Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science (LKC FES) have successfully secured an international grant worth USD13,682 for their research project titled “Bridging the gap between engineering students and non-engineering audience by instilling data storytelling...

Article: https://news.utar.edu.my/awards/2022/Jan/28/02/02.html

The paper titled “Association between Physical Performance and Autonomic Nervous System in Elderly Fallers” presented by Nur Husna Shahimi, Choon-Hian Goh, Maw Pin Tan and Einly Lim was awarded the Best Paper in the 1st National Biomedical Engineering Conference (NBEC 2021). Many congratulations to Dr Goh Choon-Hian!

CHST postgraduate appears in the China Press Newspapers for winning the Young Investigator’s Award under the non-clinical category. For more details, please refer to this link: https://www.chinapress.com.my/?p=2699352

A CHST postgraduate student, Ms Foo Lee Sze, won the Young Investigator Award under the non-clinical category in the virtual Malaysia Stroke Conference 2021 (MSC 2021) with her publication titled, “Study of Common Quantification methods of Amide Proton Transfer Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Ischemic Stroke Detection”. Many congratulations to Ms Foo and her supervisors, Dr...

The paper titled, “Computer Vision and Machine Learning Approaches on Crowd Density Estimation: A Review”, presented by Shen Khang Teoh, Vooi Voon Yap, and Humaira Nisar was awarded the Best Paper in the 7th International Conference on Science and Technology (ICST 2021), Indonesia. Many congratulations to Dr Humaira Nisar!

Two CHST members, Dr Tee Yee Kai and Dr Lee Poh Foong, have been awarded 2021 Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) by the Malaysia Ministry of Higher Education. Congratulations to both!