Ir. Dr. Voo Yen Lei

Adjunct Associate Professor
School of Engineering

yenlei.voo@monash.edu
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Ir. Dr. Voo Yen Lei is a founder, Director, Chief Technology Officer of Dura Technology Sdn. Bhd. He completed his PhD. in Civil Engineering in year 2004 from the University of New South Wales (Australia). His interest and knowledge in ultra-high performance fiber reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) and his passion to create a more sustainable and environment friendly development. To-date Dura Company has supplied or constructed over 300 UHPFRC bridges in Malaysia, China and India. Dr Voo is also an Adjunct Professor with the Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne and Sarawak) and Monash University Malaysia. He also the three times winner in the 2016, 2022 and 2024 PCI Design Award: Best International Transportation Structure from the USA Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institution, and 1 time winner in ACI 2024 Excellence in Concrete Construction Awards.

Academic degrees

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (Structural), UNSW, Syndney Australia, 2004
  • Bachelor of Engineering (Civil), St. John College, Woodlawn, Lismore, Australia, 1996

Professional affiliations

Member of National Professional Bodies

  • Board of Engineer Malaysia, PEPC. Committee Member, Malaysia, 2016

Journal

  1. Pu Z, Zhu M, Li W, Cui Z, Guo X, Wang Y*. “Monitoring Public Transit Ridership Flow by Passively Sensing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Mobile Devices.” IEEE Internet of Things Journal. Jul. 2020. (Early Access, IF: 9.936, JCR Q1) [PDF]
  2. Cui Z, Lin L, Pu Z*, Wang Y. “Graph Markov Network for Traffic Forecasting with Missing Data.” Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 117 (2020): 102671. (IF: 6.077, JCR Q1) [PDF]
  3. Pu Z, Ke R, Li Z, Wang Y*. “Evaluating the Non-Linear Correlation between Vertical Curve Features and Crash Rates on Highways using Random Forests.” Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, 146 10 (2020): 04020115.(IF: 0.989, JCR Q4) [PDF]
  4. Pu Z, Liu C, Shi X, Cui Z, Wang Y*. “Road Surface Friction Prediction Using Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network Based on Historical Data.” Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems (2020) 1-12. (IF: 3.269, JCR Q2) [PDF]
  5. Pu Z, Li Z, Ke R, Wang Y*. “Full Bayesian Before-After Analysis of Safety Effects of Variable Speed Limit System.” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Jan. 2020. (Early Access, IF: 6.319, JCR Q1) [PDF]
  6. Pu Z, Cui Z, Wang S, Wang Y*. “Time-Aware Gated Recurrent Unit Networks for Road Surface Friction Prediction Using Historical Data.” IET Intelligent Transport Systems 14.4 (2020): 213-219. (IF: 2.48, JCR Q2) [PDF]
  7. Pu Z, Li Z, Ash J, Zhu W, Wang Y*. “Evaluation of spatial heterogeneity in the sensitivity of on-street parking occupancy to price change.” Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 77 (2017): 67-79. (IF: 6.077, JCR Q1) [PDF]
  8. Cui Z, Ke R, Pu Z, Wang Y*. “Stacked Bidirectional and Unidirectional LSTM Recurrent Neural Network for Forecasting Network-wide Traffic State with Missing Values” Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. May 2020. (In press, IF: 6.077, JCR Q1)
  9. Zhu M, Wang Y*, Pu Z, Hu J, Ke R. “Safe, Efficient, and Comfortable Velocity Control based on Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving.” Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 117 (2020): 102662. (IF: 6.077, JCR Q1) [PDF]
  10. Cui Z, Ke R, Pu Z, Ma X, Wang Y*. “Learning Traffic as a Graph: A Gated Graph Wavelet Recurrent Neural Network for Network-scale Traffic Prediction.” Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 115 (2020): 102620. (IF: 6.077, JCR Q1) [PDF]
  11. Ke R, Zhuang Y, Pu Z, Wang Y*. “A Smart, Efficient, and Reliable Parking Surveillance System with Edge Artificial Intelligence on IoT Devices” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation System. Mar. 2020. (Early Access, IF: 6.319, JCR Q1) [PDF]
  12. Cui Z, Henrickson K, Biancardo S, Pu Z, Wang Y*. “Establishing Multisource Data-Integration Framework for Transportatin Data Analytics.” Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems 146.5 (2020): 04020024.(IF: 0.989, JCR Q4) [PDF]
  13. Li Z, Xu C, Pu Z, Guo Y, Liu P*. “Reinforcement Learning-Based Variable Speed Limits Control to Reduce Crash Risks near Traffic Oscillations on Freeways.” IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine. Jan. 2020. (Early Access, IF: 3.363, JCR Q2) [PDF]
  14. Li W, Pu Z, Ban X*, Li Y. “Characterization of Ride-splitting Based on Observed Data: A Case Study of Chengdu, China.” Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 100 (2019): 330-353. (IF: 6.077, JCR Q1) [PDF]
  15. Li Q*, Wang Y, Pu Z, Wang S, Zhang W. “Time Series Association State Analysis Method for Attacks on the Smart Internet of Electric Vehicle Charging Network.” Transportation Research Record 2673.4 (2019): 217-228. (IF: 1.029, JCR Q4) [PDF]

Selected Conference Proceedings

  1. Pu Z*, Zhang Q, Zhuang Y, Lv Y, Wang Y*. “A Device-Free Pedestrian Monitoring Method Based on Wi-Fi Channel State Information.” ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development. 2020.
  2. Pu Z*, Ke R, Wang Y. “A Novel Multi-Source Transportation Internet of Things Device: Mobile Unit for Sensing Traffic (MUST) Sensor.” ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development. 2020.
  3. Pu Z, Li Z, Zhu W, Cui Z, Wang Y*. “Evaluating Safety Effects of Variable Speed Limit System using Empirical Bayesian Before-After Analysis.” Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting. No. 17-05863. 2017.
  4. Pu Z, Li Z, Ash J, Zhu W, Wang Y*. “Spatial Modeling of Sensitivity of On-Street Parking Occupancy to Price Change.” Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting. No. 16-4824. 2016.
  5. Liu T, Pu Z*, Zhang Q, Wang Y. “A Novel Way of Pedestrian Speed Detection Using Wi-Fi Channel State Information.” ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development. 2020.
  6. Zhu M, Pu Z, Yang H, Liu C, Wang Y*. “Developing A Visual Car-Following Model.” ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development. 2020.
  7. Li M, Li Z*, Pu Z, Liu T, Liu P. “Short-Term Prediction of Operational and Safety impacts of Lane Changes in Oscillations with Empirical Vehicle Trajectories” Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting. No. 19-04005. 2019.
  8. Li Z, Pu Z, Liu T*, Xu C. “Enhancing Real-Time Crash Risk Prediction Performance Considering Spatial and Temporal Correlations in Support Vector Machine” Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting. No. 19-03963. 2019.
  9. Liu C, Deng F, Jiang Y, Pu Z, Wang Y*. “View Independent Vehicle Model Recognition Using Semantic Segmentation and Image Retrieval.” Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting. No. 19-03448. 2019.
  10. Jiang Y, Pu Z, Wang Y, Liu C, Zhang J*. “Capturing Young People’s Ownership Behavior of Autonomous Vehicles Based on a Comparative Analysis in Japan” Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting. No. 19-05888. 2019.
  11. Zeng Z, Ash J, Pu Z, Zhuang Y, Wang Y*. “A Framework of a V2X Communication System for Enhancing Vehicle and Pedestrian Safety at Un-signalized Intersections.” Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting. No. 18-03707. 2018.
  12. Li Z, Pu Z, Wang Y*, Zhu W, Chen Z, Wu H. “Evaluating the Correlation between Vertical Curve Features and Crash Rates on Highways.” Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting. No. 17-06725. 2017.
  13. Ke R, Pan Z, Pu Z, Wang Y*. “Roadway surveillance video camera calibration using standard shipping container.” Smart Cities Conference (ISC2). 2017 International. IEEE. 2017.
  14. Zhu W, Zeng Z, Wang Y*, Pu Z. “Predicting Incident Duration based on Spatiotemporal Heterogeneous Pattern Recognition.” Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting. No. 17-06787. 2017.
  15. Zhu W, Wright B, Li Z, Wang Y*, Pu Z. “Analyzing the Impact of Grade on Fuel Consumption for the National Interstate Highway System.” Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting. No. 16-6999. 2016.

Research Interests

  • Ultra High Performance Concrete (UHPC)
  • Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete
  • Structural Analysis

ACTUAL PROJECTS

Ultra-High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) Structures:

  • Bridge - Setiawangsa - Pantai Expressway (SPE) - DUKE Phase 3, Section 2 (Pier P21 – P50), Kuala Lumpur.
  • Overlay - PLUS Points, Chemor, Perak.
  • Linkslab – Upgrading the Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Bridge (From 2 Lanes to 4 Lanes), Temerloh, Pahang.
  • Communication Tower - Chemor, Perak.
  • Sheet Pile - Slope Protection at Petaling Jaya Lake, Selangor.
  • Portal Frame Building - Chemor, Perak.

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International Award/Recognition/Exhibition/Stewardship

  • ACI Excellence in Concrete Construction Awards, Civil Engineering, International, 10th annual ACI Excellence in Concrete Construction Awards, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Nov 2024.
  • 2024 PCI Design Awards – Best International Transportation Structure, Civil Engineering, International, The Langat River Bridge in Kuala Langat, Selangor, Malaysia, Capitol Ballroom, Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center, Denver, USA, Feb 2024.
  • 2016 PCI Design Awards – Best International Transportation Structure, Civil Engineering, International, 100 m Single-Span UHPC Bridge (Batu 6 Bridge), PCI’s headquarters announced winners from Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2017.
  • 2022 PCI Design Awards – Best International Transportation Structure, Civil Engineering, International, Lambor Bridge (first UHPC submersible bridge design in Malaysia), 2022 PCI Convention in Kansas City, Missouri, 2022.