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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.techcareinnovation.com - Design, manufacture and market Rehabilitation Robot

    












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Recent Announcements

  • How to be an Entrepreneur? Organised by ISS-Yemen
    Posted Aug 23, 2020, 9:24 AM by cf yeong
  • Robot Mak Cik Kiah bantu barisan hadapan Pengarah DF Automation & Robotics Sdn Bhd, Yeong Che Fai bersama produk Robot MCK (Makcik Kiah) pada Majlis Pelancaran National Technology dan Innovation Sandbox di Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre (MaGIC), di Cyberjaya, 19 Ogos. - UTUSAN/ FAISOL MUSTAFAsource: https://www.utusan.com.my/berita/2020/08/robot-mak-cik-kiah-bantu-barisan-hadapan/
    Posted Aug 23, 2020, 9:05 AM by cf yeong
  • How an Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) can help to fight COVID-19? Click here for full article: link.COVID-1931st of December, 2019 marked the date where several pneumonia cases arose in Wuhan City, in the Hubei Province of China. The World Health Organization (WHO) was the first to recognize that this case did not match any other known viruses. After going through some research, the Chinese authorities later confirmed that it is a new virus and it is temporarily named as “2019-nCOV”. Later, WHO named it as “COVID-19” which stands for ‘CoronaVirus Disease 2019’ on the 11th of February.The virus somehow spread rapidly and on the 11th of  March, the United Nations agency responsible for international public health declared it a pandemic. The government is currently committed ...
    Posted Apr 4, 2020, 10:07 AM by cf yeong
  • UTM WON THE TOP TWO PRIZES AT NI AUTONOMOUS ROBOTICS COMPETITION 2019 Posted by Hafizan Hamzah | Dec 2, 2019 | Academic/Researcher Achievement, Announcement, Faculties & Schools, Faculty of Engineering, Student/Alumni Achievement, University/Faculty/Centre Achievement, UTM Successful Stories | 0 Two teams from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) were declared as the Champion and 1st Runner Up at National Instruments Autonomous Robotics Competition 2019 (NIARC) held at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Nibong Tebal branch campus.The 2019 theme was “Planet Exploration – Mars Exploration Program”, whereby students were required to design and program the hardware to gather specific materials for research, both autonomously and manually in a specific duration – to determine if Mars could support life, to study the geology of the planet and to help prepare for human exploration.UTM team supervisor, Assoc. Professor ...
    Posted Mar 3, 2020, 6:35 AM by cf yeong
  • UTM SPIN-OFF COMPANY TO COLLABORATE WITH INDUSTRIES FOR R&D IN INDUSTRIAL PURPOSES AI TECHNOLOGY Posted by Hafizan Hamzah | Oct 7, 2019 | Academic/Researcher Achievement, Faculties & Schools, Faculty of Engineering, Impactful Research & Development/Project/Commercialisation, Industrial/Institutional Collaboration & Networking, Prominent Academic/Researcher, School of Electrical Engineering, University/Faculty/Centre Achievement, UTM Successful Stories | 0 JOHOR BAHRU, 24 Sept. 2019 – A three-year research grant worth RM575, 999.00 was approved by the Collaborative Research in Engineering, Science and Technology or CREST to Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM).This grant was disbursed for the purpose of cultivating a new research project which can be utilized in a real industrial environment.This research project involves a collaborative effort from two industrial partners, SAS Institute Sdn. Bhd and DF Automation & Robotics Sdn. Bhd. which will bring in their expertise ...
    Posted Mar 3, 2020, 6:34 AM by cf yeong
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18 March 2014
Sharing talk on 'How to win Competition?' and Entrepreneurship Mindset by Dr Yeong Che Fai is successfully conducted
Venue: FKE, UTM, Johor
Date: 18th March 2014
Time: 2.30pm - 4.30pm
Facilitator: Dr Yeong Che Fai
Fee: FREE
Registration: FULL

7 December 2013

We won 4 awards at Korean Inventor Award Festival 2013 including a Special award.
  • 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
 

30 October 2013

We won three awards at British Invention Show (BIS) in London. The awards are:
1. World Invention Award 2013
2. Diamond Award
3. Gold Medal

Following are the news coverage: 

 

  


  

16 September 2013
 

UTM won 2nd runner-up in IEM EINIX 2013

JOHOR BAHRU, 16th September 2013: A team from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) won second runner-up in the 2nd Engineering Invention and Innovation Exhibition (EINIX) at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The team members are Dr.Yeong Che Fai, Dr.Eileen Su Lee Ming, Khor Kang Xiang, Patrick Chin Jun Hua and Hisyam bin Abdul Rahman. The team presented a novel robot to assist in rehabilitation for stroke patients. The device has virtual reality game and haptic sensation attracted many crowds including children.

EINIX is a competition that challenges talents in ASEAN to propose inventions related to Engineering Commercialization. It requires participants to generate invention or innovation that involve inter disciplines of Engineering in attempting to further enhance commercializing the engineering concept to greater heights and broader region not only in ASEAN region but globally.

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.


31 August 2013


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


21 July 2013
Our submission to Genovasi Challenge is shortlisted the top 14 vying for the first prize of RM25K! The voting ended 20th July and thanks for everyone who has voted. The genovasi page http://homeinonepiece.challenge.my/submissions/16203-hawkeyes-br  and you can view our video submission as below: 

YouTube Video




4th July 2013

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: 

YouTube Video

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.


    


24 June 2013
Good news and NEED Your Help. My students team is shortlisted to the prestigious Innovate Malaysia 2013 competition which is organised by Intel, Altera, Siltera, NI, Agilent and DreamCatcher. One of the award in Video Award and is based on number of likes on facebook. Currently, we are ranked second with 545 LIKES. We need you help to 'LIKE' our video so we can stay on top and of cause hopefully win the award as well. To vote, please click on this link Compact Rehabilitation Robot
and then click 'LIKE' on the video. I believe you will find the video interesting and informative especially the real fact on stroke and also the invention my students have come out. 

Current ranking: 
RANKIDUNIVERSITYLIKESPROJECT'S NAME (Please click the link here and LIKE the video)
1MY045UiTM587
2MY024UTM545Compact Rehabilitation Robot
3MY038UPM523
4MY042USM493
5MY015UKM386





ps: - Ranking as on 23rd June
       - Vote due on 3rd July

Thanks!   


24 May 2013
Well done to my students for winning some of the awards in MIRCED 2013 (http://mirced2013.fke.utm.my/).

Best of Best - Khor Kang Xiang
Best Poster - Khor Kang Xiang
Best Presentation - Khor Kang Xiang
Best Presentation (3rd) - Patrick Chin


Photo: Congrats to my fyp student Kang Xiang having won 3 awards (best of the best, best poster and best presentation) and Patrick at third place for best ptesentation during MIRCED2013.


25 February 2013
UTM won 3rd at Espriex 2013 Business Model Competition at Malang, Indonesia.

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.


18 February 2013

7 - 19 December 2012 (Visit to Silicon Valley, California)



 

29 November 2012 ( MyInovasi2012 - Champion) - UPDATED

UTM won the MyInovasi2012 competition organised by KPT at Putrajaya on 29 November 2012. The three students are from 4SEM (Khor Kang Xiang, Patrick Chin and Suan Kian) supervised by Dr Yeong Che Fai. Finally, their hard works and sleepless night paid off. 

UTM also won the 'Penyertaan Terbanyak' with about 20 applicants where most of the applicants are from FKE (I have 13-14 teams and Dr Athif has several teams from FKE). There were more than 700 applicants nationwide during the first stage few months ago and yesterday 60 teams were selected to the final. Full result is here: http://www.myinovasi2012.com/.

I like to take this opportunity to thank to FKE for the support in providing places for them to conduct the project. To CSI in supporting transport and meal allowance for the students. To CAIRO for supporting my travel expenses. Not forgetting as well to Hospital Sultanah Aminah and NASAM in providing their clinical opinion on this matter. And finally, to ISI (Institute Sultan Iskandar) in organizing this competition. 






22 October 2012 (UTM ICC Innopitch Competition 2012)
Dr Yeong Che Fai won the UTM ICC Innopitch Competition for the second year in a row. His pitch title was 'MOG' (Medic On the Go). The idea is to allow user to test potential disease by just using a toilet equipped with MOG system. Full results http://www.icc.utm.my/innopitch/.

5th October 2012 (NI ASEAN Graphical System Design Achievement Awards, Singapore)
UTM won two awards in National Instruments ASEAN Graphical System Design Achievement Award held in Singapore, 5th October 2012. The competition has received more than 60 submissions from 6 countries (Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia). UTM team member are Dr Yeong Che Fai, Dr Eileen Su Lee Ming and Tey Wei Kang has submitted a project entitled ‘Omnidirectional Mobile Robot using NO sbRIO9632xt’. The project won 
‘Best Innovation in Robotics’ and ‘Honorary Mention in Academic Category’. Both awards received plaque, certificates, S$300 and gifts from NI. (Click here for more news)




5th October 2012 (UTM INATEX 2012, Johor)
Gold Medal: Plug-and-play AGV
Bronze Medal: Haptic Knob



2 October 2012 (MyInovasi Tahap 2 Zon Selatan)
Two teams under Dr Yeong supervision have won the recent MyInovasi Tahap 2 Zon Selatan on 2nd October 2012. The titles are 'Life after stroke?' and 'Blind Spot Remover'. Both teams received RM5000 to further develop their products and will compete again with other zones to win RM50K.



6 September 2012 (International Robot PRIDE Competition 2012, Kuching Sarawak)

19th August 2012

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)



21-7-2012 - 17-8-2012, NII, Tokyo Japan.
Short attachment collaboration work at National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo (http://www.nii.ac.jp/en/) with Prof Inamura and Dr Jeffrey Tan on SigVerse project (http://sigverse.org/sigverse/main/). 

 


17-7-2012, Kuala Terrenganu: ROBOCON 2012
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia done it again becoming the champion of Malaysia Robocon 2012 and will represent Malaysia the 8th time to the Asia-Pacific ABU Robocon. UTM will depart to Hong Kong for the international competition on 17th August 2012.  UTM won the First Prize (RM10K), Third place (RM3K), Best Technology Award (RM3K) and subsidy travel from both ABU (USD1K) and RTM (RM3K). Well done UTM and all the best in Hong Kong. 

     



14-7-2012, Penang: Innovate Malaysia Design Competition 2012


This competition was co-organised by MDec, Agileng, Altera, Intel, National Instruments, Siltera, CEDEC and DreamCather. More than 200 proposals submitted. After a few rounds of eliminations, 25 best projects were shortlisted. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia  has won the highest number of finalists with a high 8 participants. The statistic are UTM=8, 
MMU - 4, 
UPM - 3, 
UM - 2, 
USM - 2, 
UTAR - 2, 
UTHM - 1, 
UiTM - 1, 
UNITEN - 1, 
UTem - 1. On 14 July 2012, at Equatorial Hotel Penang, the 25 finalists present once again to the panel of judges to try to win the top 3 prizes on each category (5 categories) and one Grand Prize (Total 16 awards) worth RM45K and also other attractive prizes such as laptop, Lego Mindstorm, Ni Daq and Softwares . UTM is the big winner that day grabbing the prestigious Grand Prize, 2x First Prizes, 2x Second Prizes, 1x Third Prize and 3 Consolation Prizes. Well done and congrats to all winner!

 
  











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