Invited Speaker

Kelvin J. A. Ooi
Xiamen University Malaysia, Malaysia

Kelvin J. A. Ooi is an Associate Professor with the Department of Physics at Xiamen University Malaysia Campus. He received his BEng (Hons.) and PhD degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2010 and 2014, respectively. He has authored over 50 international journal and conference publications with a citation count of over 1000 and h-index of 17. He is the recipient of several national and university research grants as both Principal and Co-Investigators. He has received funding from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia under its Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) to study the urban transport networks of Malaysia. Prior to joining Xiamen University Malaysia, he served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, from 2013-2018, in the SUTD-MIT International Design Center, and the Lee Kuan Yew Center for Innovative Cities, which are both located within Singapore University Technology and Design. His current academic and research interests span interdisciplinary domains, primarily in the modelling of physical systems and its application to different domains of knowledge. He is presently investigating the physical models for urban traffic as well as neural propagation.