Centre for Information Systems and Software Technologies (CISST) aims to provide a focal point of contact for management, cooperation and coordination among UTAR staffs and external parties that seek R&D collaboration and consultancy. The vision of this centre is to become a national and regional centre of excellence in the research area of information systems and software technologies.

The centre has research projects on the following area of interest:

• Internet of Things
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Smart Home/Village/City

• Computer Vision
  • Human action recognition
  • Visual category recognition
  • Multimedia content analysis
  • Image and video feature representation
  • Image and video search

• Software Engineering and Knowledge Management
  • Software processes
  • Software Solutions and applications
  • Human, social and organizational factors in software engineering
  • Knowledge management