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Research Hub Administration

 

Director
Prof. Sudharshan N Raman

  

Deputy Director
Assoc Prof  M.E  Raghunandan

 

Hub Administrator
Dr Sharon Gooi

Theme  I:  Transforming  Construction

 

Theme Leader
Dr. Vivi Anggraini

Research areas:

  • Geosynthetics
  • Ground improvement
  • Environmental geotechnics
  • Geomaterials
 

Deputy Theme Leader
Dr. Kong Sih Ying

Research areas:

  • GFRP composites
  • Fiber-reinforced concrete
  • Steel connection
 

Prof. Sudharshan N Raman

Research areas:

  • Decarbonisation in the construction industry
  • Concrete engineering and technology
  • Structural resilience
 

Dr. Puspavathy Rassiah

Research areas:

  • Corporate Governance and Business Integrity
  • Environmental management practices and reporting
 

Dr Catherine Van

Research areas:

  • Earthquake engineering
  • Structural resilience under seismic loading
  • Structural retrofitting and rehabilitation
 

Dr Ervin Tiu

Research areas:

  • Low-carbon cement and binders
  • Waste valorization in construction materials
  • Alternative cementitious materials
  • Cement and concrete technology

Theme  II:  Future Mobilty

 

Theme Leader
Dr. Susilawati

Research areas:

  • Transport planning
  • Travel demand management
  • Autonomous vehicle
  • Geographic Information System (GIS)
 

Deputy Theme Leader
Prof Teh Pei Lee

Research areas:

  • Mobility and transportation
  • Technology management
 

Assoc. Prof. M E Raghunandan

Research areas:

  • Geotechnical engineering
  • Soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering
  • Environmental geotechnics
  • Transportation geotechnics
 

Prof. Tan Chee Pin (Edwin)

Research areas:

  • Control theory
  • Fault detection
  • State estimation
 

Dr. Euniza Jusli

Research areas :

  • Pavement materials (test and analysis)
  • Waste application on pavement (flexible, semi-rigid and rigid)
  • Pavement structural design
  • Traffic
 

Assoc. Prof. Dong Ngoduy

Research areas:

  • Traffic flow theory
  • AI and machine learning application in traffic monitoring
  • Connected and autonomous vehicles
 

Prof. Ziyuan Pu (Adj.)

Research areas:

  • Smart road infrastructure
  • Autonomous driving

Theme III:  Extreme Hydroclimatics

 

Theme Leader
Assoc. Prof. Chow Ming Fai

Research areas:

  • Sustainable Urban Stormwater management
  • Flood forecasting
  • Non point source pollution control
  • Hydropower analysis and management
 

Deputy Theme Leader
Dr. Izni Zahidi

Research areas:

  • Remote sensing
  • Geographic Information System (GIS)
  • Hydroinformatics
  • Natural resources management
 

Assoc. Prof. Pat Yeh Jen-Feng

Research areas:

  • Hydrology
  • Hydroclimatology
  • Water resources
  • Climate change
 

Assoc. Prof. Amin Talei (Adj.)

Research areas:

  • Hydrological modelling
  • Flood forecasting
  • Sustainable Urban water management
  • Artificial Intelligence in hydrology
 

Dr. Azliyana Azhari

Research areas:

  • Climate change communication
  • Emission management
  • Atmospheric hazards
  • Geographic Information System (GIS)
 

Dr Karim Mostafa

Research areas:

  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning forecasting based models
  • Optimisation algorithms applications in hydrology and dam engineering
  • Environmental and sustainable concrete replacement
 

Dr. Syahiirah Salleh

Research areas:

  • City Modelling
  • 3D GIS
  • Spatial Analysis
  • Topology

Theme  IV:  Digital Sustainability

 

Theme Leader
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Daniel Kong 

Research areas:

  • Infrastructure resilience
  • Data-driven decision making modelling
  • Lifecycle assessment
 

Deputy Theme Leader
Dr. Tan Chee Keong

Research areas:

  • AI/Machine learning
  • IoT/UAV
  • Smart City
  • Indoor positioning
 

A/Prof Mehrdad Arashpour

Research areas:

  • Construction resource recovery
  • Automatic sorting
  • Computer vision
 

Dr. Yaser Gamil

Research areas:

  • Project management
  • Building information modelling
  • Digital twin, virtual reality, augmented in construction
  • Digital transformation in construction
 

Dr. Rayana Sanzana

Research areas:

  • AI-driven energy management systems for thermal and hybrid energy storage
  • Renewable energy integration and smart grid systems in urban infrastructure
  • Digitalisation and predictive analytics for HVAC and facility management
  • Sustainable and climate-resilient building systems (TES-AC, sector coupling, water-energy nexus)