Centre for Digital Futures

Centre for Digital Futures

Ultimately, research is all about the people and this centre brings researchers from different areas together to collaborate and innovate in the field of digital innovation.

About Us

About Us

Digital technologies continue to disrupt and enrich the way we live and communicate, and our researchers are developing these technologies in the fields of:

  • Big Data Mining and Predictive Health 
  • Assistive Technologies
  • Indigenous Heritage and the Internet
  • Robotics, Automation and Intelligent Farming

Scholarships (subject to interview process) are available on full-time basis, with a monthly stipend of MYR1,400 and above depending on quality of work.

Masters research involving software development and deployment:

  1. Artificial intelligence applications
  2. Cloud-based web applications
  3. Mobile (Android and iOS) applications

Swinburne and Eden-On-The-Park to develop aged care monitoring system

PhD/Masters scholarship for Automated Plant Disease Identification System

Kindly contact Centre Director Professor Patrick Then @ pthen@swinburne.edu.my for inquiries.

Centre Members

Centre Members

Center Director

Name Research Interest Contact
Prof. Patrick Then Health Informatics, AI, and medical imaging. pthen@swinburne.edu.my

Members

Name Research Interest Contact
Dr. Brian Loh Artificial Intelligence, cloud computing and software bloh@swinburne.edu.my
Dr. Cynthia Kon Infectious disease modeling, mathematical modeling, computational methods ckon@swinburne.edu.my
Fu Swee Tee software Technology and data Science sfu@swinburne.edu.my
Dr. Hudyjaya Siswoyo Jo Robotics, Automation, IoT, Industry 4.0 hsiswoyo@swinburne.edu.my
Dr. Joel Than Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning and Image Processing cmthan@swinburne.edu.my
Dr. Kelvin Yong Cybersecurity kscyong@swinburne.edu.my
Dr. Lai Chean Hung Smart systems, Iot, robotics and automation, data analytics clai@swinburne.edu.my
Assoc. Prof. Lau Bee Theng Image processing, Audio signal processing, Assistive technologies  blau@swinburne.edu.my
Dr. Lee Ming Ha Statistics mhlee@swinburne.edu.my
Dr. Lee Sue Han Artificial Intelligence and agriculture shlee@swinburne.edu.my
Dr. Mark Tee Internet of Things, Assistive Technologies and Human Robot Interaction mtktsun@swinburne.edu.my
Dr. Riady Siswoyo Jo IoT, Robotics and automation rsiswoyo@swinburne.edu.my
Sim Kwan Hua Time series pattern recognition, Machine learning khsim@swinburne.edu.my
Assoc. Prof. Ir. Sim Kwan Yong Software technology and predictive modeling ksim@swinburne.edu.my
Prof. Su Hieng Tiong RF and Microwave Engineering hsu@swinburne.edu.my
Dr. Valliappan Raman Medical imaging, Health informatics, AI, IoT and Data science vraman@swinburne.edu.my
Dr. Vong Wantze Deep learning in bioinformatics, literature-based discovery, knowledge extraction and discovery wvong@swinburne.edu.my
Prof. Wallace Wong Robotics, IoT, power systems wwong@swinburne.edu.my

Adjunct Professor

Name Affiliation Contact
Prof. Dr. Alan Fong Sarawak Heart Centre & Clinical Research Centre Sarawak General Hospital  
Prof. Miho Ohsaki Doshisha University Japan   

Adjunct Associate Professor

Name Affiliation Contact
Dr. Manas Kumar Haldar University Malaysia Sabah mhaldar@ums.edu.my

Adjunct Research Fellow

Name Affiliation Contact
Dr. Chew Xin Ying University Science Malaysia xinying@usm.my
Dr. Yakub Sebastian Charles Darwin University Australia LinkedIn

Projects & Events

Projects & Events

Precision Agriculture for Sarawak Rural Community

Precision Agriculture for Sarawak Rural Community

Soil-to-Table franchise system for small farmers has been developed collaboratively with agriculture industry. This franchise system combines both technological advancement and business model to enable small farmers to startup their agriculture business with low entry barrier in term of cost and knowledge.

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Industry Revolution 4.0 - Digital Waste Management Platform

Industry Revolution 4.0 – Digital Waste Management Platform

Three-party consortium Swinburne-Trienekens(Sarawak)-Kuching City Council has initiated mega Smart City plan on Industry Revolution 4.0 – Digital Waste Management platform for Kuching and Bintulu districts with 520,000 and 114,000 populations respectively. Swinburne team has revolutionised Trienekens’s operation from traditional regime to digital twin. Trienekens’s physical and cyber systems have been connected seamlessly.

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Indigenous Heritage and the Internet

Indigenous Heritage and the Internet

Indigenous knowledge – all stored and accessible in an app; knowledge about cultural heritage, language and tradition. A virtual museum curated by the people themselves. We are training users in rural communities to do exactly that and are developing the app which will make these stories accessible.

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Intelligent Farming and Automation

Intelligent Farming and Automation

The future of farming is full automation which can be remotely controlled. That's what we're building here for the oil-palm industry. Different machines which can fertilise, harvest and pluck, all connected through the Internet of Things and operated by AI, all easy to assemble which makes it commercially viable and a game changer.


Predictive Medicine and Big Data

Predictive Medicine and Big Data

Imagine being able to predict exactly what your cardiac health will be in 20 or 50 years. Together with our partners, we are creating a paradigm of historical data of cardiovascular patients and making an easy to use predictive model against which your current health can be compared.

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Workshop on the Internet of Things

Workshop on the Internet of Things

CDF organised a workshop on smart cities and smart farming for government officials. It was facilitated by Prof Congduc Pham, University of Pau and Pays De l’adour in France (right) and Prof. Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne (left)

Assoc. Prof Patrick Then (centre) says, “the objective was to see the possibilities and solutions IoT offers for current recurring problems.”

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