Research focused

The campus in Malaysia has research strengths in biotechnology, medicine & health, economic & business modelling, Islamic banking, electronic test technology and agri-business. Some of our prominent researchers are internationally renowned such as:

• Professor. Dato Dr Khalid Bin Abdul Kadir, School of Medicine

  >> B. Med, Sc (Hon) MBBS (Hons: Monash); PhD, FRACP, FRCP
  >> Conduct research in diabetes and its complications, hormones and sexuality, obesity.

• Professor. Bala Shanmugam, School of Business

  >> BA Hons (Wales), MBS (Dublin), PhD (Wollongong), AAIB (Snr)
  >> Conduct research on Islamic Banking, Mergers and Acquisition, Productivity and Electronic Banking.

• Professor. Ishwar S. Parhar, School of Medicine

  >> B. Sc. (CHD), M. Sc. (CHD), PhD (NUS)
  >> Area of research in neuroscience, neuron-endocrinology, reproduction, behavioral neuroscience

• Professor Lee Poh Aun, School of Information Technology

  >> BE (Elect) (Queensland), PhD (Monash), FNCC
  >> Area of research in Computational techniques and stochastic modelling: Image processing with the Askey-scheme of hypergeometic orthogonal polynomials. Stochastic analysis in computational biology and bioinformatics. Grid computing and push technology in financial risk mgt.

• Dr. Mahendhiran Nair, School of Business

  >> B. Sc. Hons (Brock), MA (Stats), MA (Econ), PhD (York, Canada)
  >> Area of research in statistical pattern recognition, cluster analysis, Economic modelling and applied econometrics.

• Professor Pua Eng Chong, School of Arts & Sciences

  >> B. Sc. (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), M. Sc. (McGill University, Canada), Ph. D (McGill University)
  >> Area of research in plant cell and molecular biology, plant biotechnology.
   

• Dr Teoh Kok Soo, a senior Engineering lecturer at Monash Malaysia was awarded the prestigious Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning under the Carrick Awards for Australian University Teaching organised by the Carrick Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. He was invited by the Vice-Chancellor’s office of Monash Australia to apply for the Carrick Award and was nominated by the Engineering faculty.
   

• Although Dr Teoh has already received a few recognition of his contributions to education including the Monash University’s Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Teaching 2005; the first for a Malaysian, and the Monash Malaysia Pro Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching 2005, he feels that the Carrick Award is a significant addition to his list of achievements.