Academic Background

Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
- Dissertation Title: Stacking-based Deep Neural Networks for Pattern Classification
- Advisor: Prof. Andrew Beng Jin Teoh
Master in Science (Computer Science), Multimedia University, Malaysia
- Thesis Title: Offline Handwritten Signature Watermarking for Digital Document Authentication
- Advisor: Prof. Andrew Beng Jin Teoh
Bachelor of Information Technology (Computer Science), Multimedia University, Malaysia
- Thesis Title: Geographic Information System for Flood Forecasting
- Advisor: Prof. Meng Chew Leow

Employment History

Sep. 2025 ~ Present : Assistant Professor, Department of AI Convergence Engineering, Changwon National University, Republic of Korea.
Jan. 2025 ~ Aug. 2025 : Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP), Germany.
Mar. 2022 ~ Dec. 2024 : Research Associate (Senior Researcher), Institute for Basic Science, Republic of Korea.
Nov. 2019 ~ Feb. 2022 : Postdoctoral Researcher, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea.

Prior to 2019

Mar. 2014 ~ Oct. 2019 : Lecturer (Tenured), Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Multimedia University, Malaysia.
- On Ph.D. Study Leave from Mar. 2014 to Feb. 2018.
Nov. 2009 ~ Feb. 2014: Lecturer (Non-Tenured), Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Multimedia University, Malaysia.
Apr. 2008 ~ Nov. 2009: Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Multimedia University, Malaysia.
Apr. 2005 ~ Mar. 2008: Tutor, Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Multimedia University, Malaysia.

Amazon Research Award 2025, Forest-Blossom (Sustainability Track) .
Winning Team, Face Recognition Challenge in the Era of Synthetic Data, CVPR 2024 .
Winning Team, Computer Vision for Ecology Challenge, ECCV 2024 .
Korean Research Fellowship Brain Pool (2019-2022), National Research Foundation of Korea, Republic of Korea
Global Leader Fellowship (2014-2018), Yonsei University, Republic of Korea