Associate Professor Ph.D (Imperial College London), M.Eng. (UTM), B.Eng. (UTM)
Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIRO UTM), School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Johor, MALAYSIA Room : Room 20, Level 4, P19a Blok, FKE Phone: 07-5557163
Email: cfyeong@fke.utm.my (Membership BEM: 70313R, IEEE: 80713889 and Graduate Member IEM E&E: G 64763) Publication (Click link to view): Google Scholar Spin-off company: 1. www.dfautomation.com - Design, manufacture and market Automated Guided Vehicle 2. www.redeincor.com - Consultant and Training 3. www.cr2connect.com - Design, manufacture and market Rehabilitation Robot | 
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Recent Announcements
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UTM Graduate Deploying IR 4.0 Robotic Solution in Mexico Within 6 Months of Employment Original copy: https://news.utm.my/2019/04/utm-graduate-deploying-ir-4-0-robotic-solution-in-mexico-within-6-months-of-employment/?fbclid=IwAR1jjjWji4R-Ech_VKc6o0o9SYn64g2M8L7uNff9xn2ZH6OFtuyabN3mXh4April 4, 2019 by Hafizan HamzahJOHOR BAHRU, 27 March 2019 – The huge amount of experience gained from an internship session, and as a part time software engineer have enabled one of the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) graduates to successfully deploy robotic solution in Mexico after graduation.Nik Ahmad Faisal Kamarolzaman graduated in 2017 with a Bachelor of Mechatronics from the School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering of UTM Johor Bahru with flying colors.In an interview session held at his home recently, Nik Ahmad Faisal said that it all started with ...
Posted Apr 10, 2019, 11:28 AM by cf yeong -
This UTM Lecturer Has A Robot Army That Brings His Company Millions Of Ringgit A Year Original copy: https://vulcanpost.com/660201/df-automation-robotics-agv-malaysia-technology/?fbclid=IwAR36hKY9xRIkvMehMPncEqxCIas3Gn_1zOYNc89Zh5XFtlySHa-tBykRhWo0 Justin Lee2019-04-04 13:28:09DF Automation & Robotics is a Malaysian tech-based company that produces automation and robotics.The business specialises in designing, manufacturing, marketing, and consistently improving Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) systems for various kinds of industrial and commercial use.Everyday in a manufacturing plant, there are thousands of goods being moved from one location to another.Although most of the products are light and easily moved around, sometimes operators have to deliver goods as heavy as 500kg and walk up to 3km per day. This can be tiring and hazardous for the operator in the long run ...
Posted Apr 10, 2019, 11:29 AM by cf yeong -
DF won Platinum in Best Innovation at SOBA 2018
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UTM wins Malaysia Microsoft Imagine Cup 2017 National Winner UTP PERAK, 28 March 2017, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia group once again announced as Malaysia Microsoft Imagine Cup 2017 National Winner. The team Solvere also won the “RE:INVENT” awards and will be representing Malaysia in Imagine Cup Asia Pacific Regional Finals this 23-27 April 2017 in Manila,Philippines fully sponsored by Microsoft Malaysia which they will be competing 10 teams all around Asia Pacific to win top 4 places to be able to compete in Seattle , USA. Microsoft Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology showcase where they will distribute the competition in region first before proceeding to the final event.The team were asked to integrate Microsoft Cloud Service platform which is Microsoft Azure in their ...
Posted Mar 28, 2017, 8:32 PM by cf yeong -
SME Forum 2016 . *updated 1st Sept 2016.Dear all, First of all, thank you The Edge for inviting me to share my journey as an academician venturing to entrepreneurship especially in IoT related on 29th August 2016 at KL Hilton. It was a great honor to speak along side Dato Faris, Azam, Nohizam and Dr Khoh. I had a great time and hope the sharing has helped some of the audiences. I have received some questions from audiences after the talks and I think following info could be useful to some of you: Q: If I want to venture to IoT but does not have the skill, where should I go? (note: Skills may include general programming skill, database, web developer, etc ...
Posted Aug 31, 2016, 10:39 AM by cf yeong
Venue: FKE, UTM, JohorDate: 18th March 2014Time: 2.30pm - 4.30pmFacilitator: Dr Yeong Che FaiFee: FREERegistration: FULL
- King Sejong Inventor Order of Merit, Korea Inventor Award Festival (Special Award)
- Industrial Invention Order of Merit, Korea Inventor Award Festival
- Disabled & Handicaps Order of Merit, Korea Inventor Award Festival
- Rehabilitation & Therapy Order of Merit, Korea Inventor Award Festival
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They brought home cash prize RM1000, certificates and medals presented by Menteri Besar of the State of Selangor, Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim in 1 Utama shopping centre yesterday. The team would like to thank Innovation and Commercialization Centre (ICC) and UTM for providing full support in this project.
Korea, 31th August 2013 : Three students from Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM); Khor Kang Xiang, Fu Suan Kian and Patrick Chin Jun Hua under Dr.Yeong Che Fai supervision has won 1st runner-up in the 7th Student Design Competition (SDC) at International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology (i-CREATe) at KINTEX, Gyeonggi-do , Korea under Technology category with project title “Compact Rehabilitation Robot”. This project which is also their Final Year Project will be commercialized soon and shows UTM students' project are competitive in international arena. Mahidol University from Thailand won first place and Finders University from Australia won 2nd runner-up.
Top three awards at Student Design Challenge, I-CREATe 2013, Korea
1st: Mahidol University, Thailand
2nd: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
3rd: Finders University, Austratia
The 7th SDC at i-CREATe is an annual student design competition that challenges undergraduates from all over the world to develop creative and innovative Assistive & Rehabilitation Technology (A&RT) projects that socially benefits and improves the quality living of people with special needs and elderly. It is a competitive innovation competition joined by 24 teams from different countries, including Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia and Malaysia.
The team would also like to express their acknowledgment to Centre of Student Innovation (CSI), Innovation and Commercialization Centre (ICC) and UTM for providing full support in this project.
22 July 2013
Interviewed by BFM 89.9. http://www.bfm.my/resource-centre-dr-yeong-che-fai-utm-asgari-tun-mohd-stephens-intelligent-capital.html
UTM bagged 2 First prize and 6 consolation prizes in 3rd Innovate Malaysia Design Competition (IMDC) 2013. This competition is a multi-discipline engineering design competition open to all final year undergraduate engineering or computer science students in Malaysia with collaboration with MDec, TalentCorp, IEM, Agilent, Altera, Intel, National Instriments, Siltera, CEDC and DreamCatcher. UTM had the highest number of teams shortlisted to the finalist. This year, there were 256 applications submitted from 20 universities. UTM had 8 teams shortlisted to the finalist from the total of only 25 teams. Check our video submission:
Undergraduates from Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Khor Kang Xiang, Patrick Chin Jun Hua and Fu Suan Kian under Dr Yeong Che Fai supervision won 1st Prize in Intel Track worth RM5000 and laptops. The title is Compact Rehabilitation Robot.
Another team, undergraduates from Faculty of Electrical Engineering also, Soon Chun Mein, Muhammad Noor B Muhammad Hamdi and Mohd Farizal under supervision of En Zulfakar bin Aspar with title 'Implementation of LED Display Controller Using System on Chip Approach' won 1st Prize in Altera Track. They walked away with RM5000 and tPad DE2-111 Multimedia Development Kit.
Worth to mention, Khor Kang Xiang also won the prestigious Crest Research Award worth RM72,000 for him to continue his Master study. The selection was tough as the criteria to apply must be the finalist in IMDC and has 1st class CPA.
| RANK | ID | UNIVERSITY | LIKES | PROJECT'S NAME (Please click the link here and LIKE the video) |
| 1 | MY045 | UiTM | 587 | |
| 2 | MY024 | UTM | 545 | Compact Rehabilitation Robot |
| 3 | MY038 | UPM | 523 | |
| 4 | MY042 | USM | 493 | |
| 5 | MY015 | UKM | 386 | |
JOHOR BAHRU, 23rd. February 2013: Two Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) students won third place in Business Model Competition (BMC) Espriex 2013 International Category, Indonesia, yesterday.
Khor Kang Xiang and Patrick Chin from Faculty of Electrical Engineering presented business model title ‘Compact Rehabilitation Robot (CR2)’.
Faculty of Electrical Engineering lecturer Dr Yeong Che Fai said, they were the only participants not from business background to have won one of the awards.
“Total of 79 proposals has been submitted from ASEAN countries which are Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Myanmar and only 18 teams are shortlisted,” he said.
Universitas Brawijaya Malang, Indonesia won first place, second Sampoerna Business School, Indonesia second , third UTM, fourth Presiden University, Indonesia and Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore fifth.
“A big thank to Innovation and Comercialisation Center in providing full support in participating in this competition,” he said.
UTM won 'Best Design Award' in ROBOCON 2012 Hong Kong (NEW)
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) once again represented Malaysia in the prestigious ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest 2012 for the eighth times on 19th August 2012. This year’s ROBOCON theme was ‘Peng On Dai Gat, In Pursuit of Peace and Prosperity’. Students were required to construct one manual and two automatic robots to collect as many ‘buns’ as possible to score points. This year contest’s difficulty lay in the close collaboration required between manual and automatic robots. A team would win a match immediately if they achieve ‘Peng On Dai Gat’ (PODG). During training, UTM managed to achieve PODG in 39 seconds, one of the fastest in the competition. (click to read more)
