Topic: NVIDIA on AI, Deep Learning, and their place in IR4.0

Professor Simon See is currently the Solution Architecture and Engineering Director and Chief Solution Architect for Nvidia AI Technology Center.   He is also a Professor and Chief Scientific Computing Officer at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Professor in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT).  He is being conferred as a Distinguished Fudan Scholar in September 2018 by Fudan University, Shanghai, China.  Previously Professor See is also the Chief Scientific Computing Advisor for BGI (China) and has a position in Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and King-Mong Kung University of Technology (Thailand).  Professor See is currently involved in a number of smart city projects, especially in Singapore and China.  His research interests are in the area of High-Performance Computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computational Science,  Applied Mathematics and Simulation Methodology.    Professor See is also leading some of the AI initiatives in the Asia Pacific.  He has published over 200 papers in these areas and has won various awards.

Professor See is also the member of SIAM, IEEE, and IET.   He is also the committee member of more than 50 conferences.

Dr. See graduated from the University of Salford (UK) with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and numerical analysis in 1993.   Prior to joining NVIDIA, Dr. See worked for SGI, DSO National Lab. of Singapore, IBM, International Simulation Ltd (UK), Sun Microsystems and Oracle.  He is also providing consultancy to a number of national research and supercomputing centers.

Topic: Emerging Technologies in Robotics and Its Applications

Professor Koichi Suzumori was born in 1959. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Yokohama National University, Japan, in 1982, 1984, and 1990, respectively. He had worked for Toshiba R&D Center from 1984 to 2001, and also worked for Micromachine Center, Tokyo, from 1999 to 2001. He had been a Professor of Division of Industrial Innovation Sciences, Okayama University, Japan since 2001. He has been a Professor of Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology since 2014. He is mainly engaging in the research fields of new actuators and their applications. He received many awards such as JSME Medal for Outstanding Paper, in 1999, RSJ Best Paper Award in 2000, and JSAEM Best Book Award in 2006. He is a fellow member of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Topic: IoT in Industries

Tomoaki Masuda obtained his Master’s degree of Business Administration (MBA) from MIT Sloan School of Management in 2015. He also obtained his Master’s degree of Informatics from Kyoto University in 2006.

His current role is a product manager of Internet of Things platform product and solutions.

He had been working for 13 years in telecom/IT industry mainly as a project manager overseeing both business and technical aspects including customer’s ICT transformation, internal business process reengineering and intrapreneurial projects as a certified Project Management Professional. He won a Regional Choice Special Award for APJ in SAP HANA Innovation Award with his team for Connected Transportation Safety Co-Innovation project in 2017.

He is also a technology enthusiast besides work, giving talks and organizing communities mainly on Digital Fabrications and Machine Learning field as Strategy Manager of NPO Binnovative, and participating competitions (e.g. 1st prize of government held AI competition 2017 in Japan).

Topic: AI Innovations

Brian created and managed SRI International’s Center for Innovation Leadership for eight years. (SRI was founded in 1946 as the Stanford Research Institute). This group identifies opportunities to share SRI’s research, development and commercialization best practices with partners worldwide. Brian’s business leadership expressed strongly when delivering innovation programs to thousands of people in cultures as diverse as Malaysia, Chile, Finland, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Germany, Oman and Brazil.Brian worked with teams from SRI International’s Artificial Intelligence Center, which works in most major areas of AI, including knowledge representation and automated reasoning, machine learning and analytics, multi-agent systems, robotics and image understanding. SRI created and spun off Siri prior to Apple acquiring the technology.

Brian has 25 years of management and business leadership experience in innovative environments. Brian currently does strategic consulting for a variety of advanced technology companies. He was recently the Executive Director for a non-profit leadership program, where he now serves as a Board Member. He has co-founded three start-ups and was responsible for corporate and business development for an advanced technology spin-off. He has also managed two chemical plants for a multinational corporation.

Brian holds an MBA from Rice University, a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and a certificate in biotechnology from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Topic: National Policy on Industry 4.0: Industry4WRD

Alia Md Saleh holds a MSc in Public Policy from University College London (UCL), UK 2014 and BSc in Chemistry (Honours) from National University of Malaysia (UKM) 2006. She began her career with Citibank (M) Berhad in May 2006 and later on in the Malaysian Administrative and Diplomatic Services beginning 20 August 2007. She has served the Ministry of International Trade and Industry for more than a decade in both Trade and Industry capacity namely Investment Policy and Trade Facilitation, Secretariat to PEMUDAH (Task Force to Facilitate Business co-chaired by KSN and FMM President) and Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Division including being involved in trade negotiations (TPP and MTFTA). She was responsible for the Electrical and Electronics Unit as Principal Assistant Director since 2015 before re-assigned to the Industry 4.0 Unit beginning January 2018 to assist in the roll-out of the Policy implementation.

Panelist for Plenary Topic: Robotics in Manufacturing

Dr Yeong Che Fai is a senior lecturer at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He received his PhD from Imperial College London and his MEng & BEng from UTM. His interests are in embedded system, robotics, innovations and entrepreneurship. He has won more than 100 awards for his innovation and entrepreneurship works such as World Invention Award at the British Invention Show, Korean Inventor Award Festival, APICTA Award, ROBOCON, Allianz Bank SME Innovation Challenge, Ministry of Education Entrepreneurship Mentor Award, trips to Philips at Eindhoven and to Silicon Valley through the selective MaGIC e@Stanford program. He was also selected to participate in Austrian Leadership Program (Vienna) and also Newton Fund Leader in Innovation Fellowship Program (London) sponsored by respective government. He is a serial entrepreneur and has co-founded several companies. One of the companies, DF Automation & Robotics, produces Industry 4.0 enabled robots which have been exported to US, UK, Mexico, Singapore, Thailand and Philippines, among others. Another company, Techcare Innovation Sdn. Bhd., focuses on rehabilitation robots and assistive technology.

Panelist for Plenary Topic: IoT in Industries

Rosdiadee Nordin is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical, Electronic & Systems Engineering at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Earlier, he graduated with a B.Eng. in Electrical. Electronic & Systems Engineering from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (2001) and then became an engineer in Malaysia’s telecommunication industry for almost five years. He later pursued his Ph.D. on wireless engineering at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom (2010) under the supervision of Professor Joe McGeehan, who is considered as ‘The Godfather’ of mobile communications in the United Kingdom. He aims to connect everything wirelessly; from human to remote objects you can imagine. He has research experience in other international research institutes, such as University of Bristol (United Kingdom), International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Italy) and Wireless Research Centre at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand). He is a professional engineer by practice, Senior Member of IEEE, Chair of Science Communication Working Group, under the Young Scientists Network (YSN) – Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM) and finally, the advisor & editor of Majalah Sains, an online popular science magazine that aims to increase Malaysians literacy on science topic.

Panelist for Plenary Topic: AI for Data Analytics in Manufacturing

Robert is a Senior Principle Analyst at the Malaysian Industry Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT). His role is to assist MIGHT in the digitalization process to transform the organization in serving its clients better. Robert is currently heading the rebuilding and improvement of MIGHT’s industrial database. His recent work includes the preparation of inputs to support the draft Industry 4.0 policy framework, and led a study to benchmark Malaysia’s science and technology innovation capacities against OECD countries.

Robert has also undertaken various other capacities, including research support for the Science Advisor to the Prime Minister, as well as implementation of various projects, such as the Green Technology Foresight 2030 study, a study on Assisted-Recovery Rehabilitation
Robotics, and the development of the 1-Innocert evaluation programme. Prior to MIGHT, Robert was a R&D manager involved in the development of new products for the export market. He had managed the design and development of numerous information technology (IT) and consumer electronics related products, such as LCD monitors, large screen televisions (plasma and LCD), and IT related hardware and software products.

Robert holds a Degree in Computing with 1st Class Honours from Monash University of Australia, and a Master in Business Administration (General Management) from the
University of Bath in the UK

SHARIFAH HAFIZAH SYED ARIFFIN Received her B.Eng (Hons) from London, in 1997, and obtained her MEE and Ph.D in 2001 and 2006 from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, and Queen Mary, University of London, London respectively. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Her current research interest are in Internet of Things, Ubiquitous computing and smart devices, Wireless sensor networks, IPV6, Handoff Management, Network and Mobile Computing System. She had published 116 papers, 17 copyrights, 1 integrated circuit, and 1 trademark.