Dr. Chai Tong Yuen


Contact Person in UTAR

Qualification
  • Ph.D. (Engineering), Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman: Master of Science (Mechatronics Engineering)
  • MS.c (Mechatronics Engineering), Universiti Malaysia Perlis
  • BEng Mechatronics Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis
Organization   Quest International University, Malaysia
Email address / URL chaitongyuen@gmail.com
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=WKCSvqYAAAAJ
UTAR Contact Person Dr. Kwan Ban Hoe (UTAR profile

Employment

  • Oct. 2022  Present: Associate Professor-Quest International University 
  • Feb. 2014 – Oct. 2022 :Assistant Professor- Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
  • Feb. 2013 – Dec. 2013: Researcher-Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
  • Feb. 2009 – Jun. 2009: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Researcher-Extol MSC Berhad
  • Apr. 2008 – Feb. 2009: Software R&D Engineer-Intel R&D Center Malaysia

Professional Membership

  • Best Paper, Automated Detection of Face and Facial Features, 7th WSEAS ISPRA, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (20-22 Feb. 2008).
  • Patent, Method for Face Recognition Using Local Binary Pattern and Laplacian Face Reduction Method, Extol MSC Berhad, PI 2011002968 (2011) 
  • Technology Assessment Consultant for the MSC Malaysia (MGS grant), 31 Oct. 2011 • Technical Consultant for AutoDiscounts Sdn. Bhd. (Carlist.com) on Real-time Multiple Visible Watermarks Detection System, (Jun – Sep. 2012) 
  • Technical Consultant for MCT Asia (Penang) Sdn Bhd on “Automated Optical Inspection of In-Process & Finished Advanced Packaging Semiconductor Materials, (Jun 2017 – May 2018) • Supervisor for Lim Tying Xuan @ Vitrox’s project, Microcrack detection on IC packages with Machine Vision, Aug. 2018 
  • Technical consultant for Solo Labeller, Robochef; Project consultant for i-CYCLE Sdn Bhd, Tree Hugger mobile apps for the municipal of Cyberjaya (2019-2020) 
  • Patent (UTAR): Multimodal ECC-Free Biometric Key Binding Method, PI 2017702830 (2017) 
  • Publication Chair for 2019 IEEE CSUDET; Session Chairman for 2018 ICSiTech, IET ICDP 2010 and 2016 IEEE CCIS; Technical Program Committee for IEEE STUDENT 2012; Auditor for IEEE SMC Malaysia Chapter, Jan 2011; Steering Committee for IEEE STUDENT 2010; Organizing Committee of CANS 2010, STUDENT 2010 & 2012; 
  • • Reviewer for Journal of Biomedical Signal Processing & Control, Expert Systems, Optics Express, Int. Journal of Fuzzy System

Award

  • 2022 MTSF Science and Technology Award for their research titled “Cryptology, fast implementation of cryptographic algorithms, information security, digital watermarking and template protection biometrics”, Prof. Dr. Goi Bok Min, Prof. Dr. Yap Wun She, Dr. Lee Wai Kong, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chai Tong Yuen and Prof. Ir. Dr. Raphael Phan Chung Wei, awarded RM30,000.
  • Third Price, Grocery-Based project manager Optimized Inventory And Checkout System (GOINC), Smart Applications Track, Innovate Malaysia 2022: https://innovate.dreamcatcher.asia/winners2022.html
  • 1st Runner-up, The institution of Engineering and Technology, "Scalable Unmanned Surface Vechicle", 2021 https://www.facebook.com/IETYPMalaysia/posts/611630473579299
  • Bronze Award, UTAR Mechatronics and Biomedical Engineering, "IOT Based Personal Safety and Protection System", 2021
  • Bronze Award, UTAR Mechatronics and Biomedical Engineering, “Household Waste Segregation Using Intelligent Vision System”, Aug. 2020. https://news.utar.edu.my/awards/2020/Nov/09/01/01.html
  • Merit Award, Household Waste Segregation Using Intelligent Vision System, 2020 IEEE Malaysia Best FYP Competition, IEEE CIS, Apr. 202
  • 1st Runner-up for FYP Poster Competition, "Classification of Defects in Green Coffee Bean Using CNN", UTAR, 2018
  • 1st Runner-up for FYP Poster Competition, "Microcrack Detection using Machine Vision", UTAR, 2018
  • 1st Runner-up for FYP Poster Competition, “Portable Surgical Bag Pack”, Track 6: Applied Engineering, Lee Kong Chian FES, UTAR Sungai Long Campus, supervisor of Eric Chua Shi Khang, 12 April 2017 (http://www.utar.edu.my/econtent_sub.jsp?fcatid=25&fcontentid=94396) 
  • Winning Team for the Most innovative Use of 3D Printing Technologies,” “Biological Scaffold Printing using 3D Print”, Hack-a-Thon in Software, Hardware or 3D Design using 3D Design using 3D Printing Technologies for a Better and Healthier World, Materialise Sdn Bhd, 20-21st Feb 2016 
  • Silver Award, “Bio-Crypto Authentication Solution”, Persidangan dan Ekspo Ciptaan Institusi Pengajian Tinggi Antarabangsa 2015 (PECIPTA2015), Pusat Konvensyen Kuala Lumpur, 4th Dec. 2015
  • Sponsorship SSOLLA 2014, Asian Laser Center at Advanced Photonics Research Institute (APRI), Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 2014
  •  Best Student Paper, "Automated Detection of Face and Facial Features" in 7th WSEAS ISPRA, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2008

Publication

Citations: >450

H-index: 10

Total journal publications: >10 Total conference publications: >20

Full list of publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WKCSvqYAAAAJ&hl=en

Selected journal publications:

  • Tong-Yuen Chai, Bok-Min Goi and Wun-She Yap. "Towards Better Performance for Protected Iris Biometric System with Confidence Matrix." Symmetry (IF 2021:2.94) 13(5), 910, 2021
  • Shin, Zhenyong, Tong-Yuen Chai, Chang Hong Pua, Xin Wang, and Sing Yee Chua. "Efficient Spatially-Variant Single-Pixel Imaging Using Block-Based Compressed Sensing." Journal of Signal Processing Systems (IF 2021: 1.87) , 93(11), 1323-1337, 2021.
  • Tong-Yuen Chai, Bok-Min Goi and Yong Haur Tay, “A new design for alignment-free chaffed cancelable iris key binding scheme”, Symmetry (IF 2021: 2.94), 11(2), 164, Feb. 2019.
  • Yen-Lung Lai, Andrew Beng Jin Teoh, Bok-Min Goi, Wun-She Yap, Tong-Yuen Chai, Christian Rathgeb, “Cancellable iris template generation based on Indexing-First-One hashing”, Pattern Recognition (IF 2021: 8.54), Vol. 64, 105-117, Apr. 2017.
  • S. Y. Chua, X. Wang, N. Guo, ChingSeong Tan, T. Y. Chai and G. L. Seet, “Improving Three-Dimensional (3D) Range Gated Reconstruction Through Time-Of-Flight (TOF) Imaging Analysis”, Journal of European Optical Society (ISSN 1990-2573, IF 2021: 1.53), Vol. 11, 16015, Jan 2016