UMS ready to collaborate in the emerging AI field

KOTA KINABALU: Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) is ready to collaborate with any party on research and development (R&D) in the emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) field.

Associate Professor Dr Ismail Saad, head of the university's AI Research Unit (AiRU), under its School of Engineering and Information Technology (SEIT) Faculty, said the unit has been working in different AI sub-fields since its establishment in 2006.

He said under this unit, they have six research groups each working on a particular sub-field.

The sub-fields are Biomimetic Computing (BiRG); Intelligence Signal Processing (ISP); Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning (KDML); Nano Engineering and Materials (NEMs); Robotics and Intelligent Systems (myRIS); and Vision and Language (V&L). "AiRU is a cross-disciplinary unit working in different sub-fields of Artificial Intelligence and Engineering. We welcome any R&D collaboration on the emerging field of AI," he said in representing UMS Vice Chancellor Professor Datuk Dr Mohd Harun Abdullah and the university in welcoming local and international participants of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Application in Engineering and Technology (ICAIET2014) at Le Meridien, here, Wednesday.

AiRU is the co-organiser of the three-day international conference, which is the fourth in a series of international conferences organised through its collaboration with the United Kingdom (UK) Simulation Society.

The first, second and third ICAIET were held in 2002, 2004 and 2006 and reportedly produced a very successful outcome and impact to students, researches, high learning institutions and government organisations in Malaysia and abroad.

This time around, there would be six keynote speeches and 37 research papers presented by experts from various universities and business institutions involved in the AI field.

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UMS ready to collaborate in the emerging AI field