Centre Name:	Centre for Information Systems and Software Technologies
Chairperson:	Dr. Tan Hung Khoon
Description of Centre:	The mission of the Centre for Information systems and Software Technologies (CISST) is to promote and lead research and development, technology transfer and training of R&D manpower in specific areas of information systems and software technologies to enhance competitiveness of local industries in global markets. It will strive to become a catalyst for the seeding and growth of information systems and software technologies research groups with unique capabilities and contributions. It is also the intention for the centre to leverage upon and support the particular strengths of the local ICT infrastructure vis-à-vis other economies globally.
Research area:	Business and Enterprise Information Systems High Performance Computing  Information Mining Media Communications Software and Hardware Integration

Activities in 2013

Summary of activities 

No	Activity	Title	Organiser/Speaker	Date
1	FICT Career Talks	ICT Careers	12 different external companies	6-Mar-2013
2	Knowledge Sharing Session	Introduction to Huawei Desktop Cloud	Trainers from Huawei	6-Mar-2013
3	Knowledge Sharing Session	Interesting ideas I learned from teaching stochastic processes	Dr Ng Yen Kaow	19-Mar-2013
4	Knowledge Sharing Session	Introduction to LTE	Mr Goh Hock Guan	23-Apr-2013
5	Knowledge Sharing Session	Money Laundering	TESS International	28-May-2013
6	FICT Career Talks	ICT Careers	11 different external companies	20-Jul-2013
7	Seminar	GPGPU Programming Using NVIDIA CUDA	Mr. Lee Wai Kong	30-Oct-2013
8	Colloquium	The 2nd FICT Colloquium	Postgraduate Students of FICT	19-Nov-2013
9	Seminar	Introduction to IOS	Mr. Koon Kim Peh	22-Nov-2013
10	Seminar	Next Generation Network	Prof. Koichi Asatan	17-Dec-2013

Highlights of activities  

FICT Career Fair 2013

The FICT Career Day is a bi-annual event where companies from the Information Technology industry are invited into the campus and meet the students. It is considered as students’ “practical lab sessions” for “successful job seeking” where at the end of the day, students would gain market, industrial exposure, interview skills and the process of job seeking.
 
In 2013, two Career Fairs have been organized successfully.

 1.      The 1^st FICT Career Fair 2013

Date:         6^th March 2013

Time:        8am to 5pm

Venue:       Block N, FICT, UTAR

 
A total of 10 companies participated in the event. UTAR FICT also took up a slot to introduce postgraduate study opportunities in the faculty to the undergraduate students. A series of talks were given by the representatives from these companies where students get to know the company’s background and product, job expectation, employee benefits and the state of the industry in general. The participating companies are:

1.      Swisslog

2.      Lintramax

3.      Silverlake

4.      Jobstreet

5.      ManagePay

6.      Hilti

7.      OCBC

8.      DreamCatcher

9.      Philip Capital

10.  Web Bytes

11.  UTAR FICT

 

2.      The 2^nd FICT Career Fair 2013

Date:         10^th July 2013

Time:        8am to 5pm

Venue:       Block N, FICT, UTAR

In the 2^nd FICT Career Fair 2013, a total of eleven companies participated. There was a good response from the students where more than 100 FICT students participated.

The participating companies are: 

1. Lintramax
2. Quintip
3. Silverlake
4. Dream Catcher
5. Hilti
6. CTC
7. iWowSoft
8. Brunsfield
9. Nettium
10. Canaplus
11. ATOS

 

Interesting Ideas I Learned From Teaching Stochastic Processes

Date:               6^th March 2013

Time:              8am to 5pm

Venue:             Block N, FICT, UTAR

Event Type:    CISST Knowledge Sharing Session

Speaker:         Dr. Ng Yen Kaow  (FICT Lecturer)

 

Content: In this knowledge sharing session, Dr. Ng Yen Kaow shared his knowledge in Stochastic Processes where he gave a technical presentation on Markov Chain and queuing theory. 

Introduction to LTE 

Date:               23^rd April 2013

Event Type:    Knowledge Sharing Seminar

Event Type:    CISST Knowledge Sharing Session

Speaker:         Mr. Goh Hock Guan (FICT lecturer)

 

In this knowledge sharing session, Mr. Goh Hock Guan gave an introduction to LTE that covered both LTE and EPC. LTE, an acronym for Long Term Evolution, commonly marketed as 4G LTE, is a standard for wireless communication of high-speed data for mobile phones and data terminals. It is based on the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA network technologies, increasing the capacity and speed using a different radio interface together with core network improvements. The standard is developed by the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project).

 

Money Laundering

Date:               28^th May 2013

Event Type:    Talk (Industry)

Speaker:    Mr. Satish S.S from Tess International. TESS International which is a leading regional financial software application providers.

 

In this talk, Mr. Satish provided some background understanding about the use of anti-Money Laundering (AML) software to detect and curb the activities of money laundering that are common among banking institutions in the global environment.

GPUGPU Programming Using NVIDIA CUDA

Date:               23th October 2013

Time:              9:30am – 11:30am

Venue:             N109, UTAR-PK

Event Type:    CISST Knowledge Sharing Seminar Series

Speaker:         Mr. Lee Wai Kong (FICT Lecturer)

 

 

In this sharing session, Mr. Lee Wai Kong shared his expertise on GPUGPU Programming. He introduced the GPU platform and then showed basic GPU programming using the NVIDIA platform for various applications. Some intermediate-level GPU programming concepts were also given for users to explore more after mastering the basic concepts. Lastly, Mr. Lee gave a demo to showcase the powerful features of GPU programming at the end of the workshop.

 

About GPUGPU: GPUGPU is gaining popularity recently due to its massively parallel structure and flexible programming model. It is especially popular in the field of scientific simulation, weather forecasting, bio-medical imaging and artificial intelligence. Many conventional algorithms that run in general processor can be re-structured to run in GPU for much faster execution speed.

 

 

The 2nd FICT Postgraduate Colloquium

Date:               19^th November 2013

Time:              11:30am to 5:20pm

Venue:             N109, UTAR-PK

Event Type:    Postgraduate Colloquium

Speakers:        Postgraduate students in FICT.

 

The Colloquium is an annual event for postgraduate students of FICT to exchange ideas and gather feedback on their research progress and findings. It also serves as an opportunity for students to refine their presentation skills. Through this interaction, students is expected to gain exposure on different fields of research undertaken by students in the faculty.

In this year’s colloquium, FICT postgraduate students (both Master and PhD students) in FICT presented their recent work or findings in their field of research. There were 5 sections overall, namely “Artificial Intelligence”, “Algorithms”, “Image Processing and Computer Vision”, “Business Intelligence and Information System”, and “Networking and Microelectronics”.

 The itinerary of the colloquium is shown below:

 

Time	Session
11:30am-5:20pm	Registration
12:00pm-12:10pm	Chairman Briefing
12:10pm-1:10pm	Session: Artificial Intelligence
1:15pm – 2:15pm	Session: Algorithms
2:20pm-3:00pm	Session: Image Processing and Computer Vision
3:00pm-3:15pm	Tea Break
3:00pm to 3:15pm	Session: Business Intelligence and Information System
4:40pm to 5:20pm	Session: Networking and Microelectronics

 
In total, there were 15 presentations. Each presentation was allocated 15 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for question and answering. Total number of audience was 32 people including the presenters.

 

 

Introduction to iOS

Date:               23^rd April 2013

Time:               10:00am to 12pm

Event Type:    CISST Knowledge Sharing Seminar Series (Workshop)

Venue:             P103A, UTAR

Speaker:         Mr. Koon Kim Peh (FICT lecturer)

 
In this sharing session, Mr. Koon Kim Peh gave a workshop on “Introduction to iOS”. There were more that 20 attendees attended the workshop, including participants from other faculties who are interested to write programs in iOS. During the workshop, participants were given step-by-step guidance to write their first program in iOS.

About iOS: iOS is the operating system that runs on iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch devices. The operating system manages the device hardware and provides the technologies required to implement the native apps. The operating system also ships with various system apps, such as Phone, Mail, and Safari that provide standard system services to the user. The iOS Software Development Kit (SDK) contains the tools and interfaces needed to develop, install, run, and test native apps that appear on an iOS device’s home screen. Native apps are built using the iOS system framework and Objective-C language and run directly on iOS. Unlike web apps, native apps are installed physically on a device and are therefore always available to the user, even when the device is in Appliance mode. They reside next to the system apps, and both the app and any user data is synced to the user’s computer through iTunes.

Next Generation Network

Date:               17^th December 2013

Time:               11:00am to 12:00pm

Event Type:    Talk by Visiting Professor

Venue:             N108, UTAR

Speaker:         Prof. Koichi Asatan

This talk was given by Professor Koichi Asatani who is currently the dean of Department of Computer Science and Communications Engineering, Kogakuin University. In this talk, Professor Koichi presented about recent advances in the networking.

 

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