Embracing Industry 4.0

Dr Mohd Azraai Mohd Razman received his first degree from the University of Sheffield, UK, in Mechatronics Engineering. He then obtained his M.Eng and Ph.D. from the Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) along with a visiting Ph.D. from the University of Padova, Italy. His research interests include optimisation, control systems, instrumentation in aquaculture and agriculture, sports engineering and machine learning.Mr Jessnor Arif Mat Jizat graduated as a Diplomingenieur (FH) in Mechatronics Engineering from the Hochschule Karlsruhe Technik and Wirtschaft, Germany. He obtained his M.Eng. (Manufacturing) from the UMP and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. studies in image processing and machine learning. His research interests include robotics vision, sports engineering, and autonomous vehicles.Dr Nafrizuan Mat Yahya graduated from the Universiti Sains Malaysia with a B.E. in Manufacturing Engineering with Management in 2004. He received his M.Eng. from the UMP in 2009 and subsequently studied Automatic Control & Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield, UK. Currently the Head of the Cybernetics and Systems Engineering Laboratory (CSEL), his research interests include computational intelligence, algorithm development, and control systems optimisation.   Prof Hyun Myung received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, in 1992, 1994, and 1998, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. Currently a Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, his research interests include structural health monitoring using robotics, artificial intelligence, simultaneous localisation and mapping, robot navigation and machine learning.Mr Amar Faiz Zainal Abidin received his first degree from the University of Nottingham in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He subsequently obtained his M.Sc. in Computer Vision from the University of Burgundy, France, and his M.Eng. from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Currently a lecturer at the Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, he is an active researcher in the fields of optimisation, computational intelligence, and computer vision. Dr Mohamad Shaiful Abdul Karim received his B. Eng. (Electrical and Electronics), M.Eng. and D. Eng. degrees from Ritsumeikan University, Japan in 2011, 2013 and 2016, respectively. In 2016, he joined the UMP as a senior lecturer at the College of Engineering and is currently pursuing research on microwave engineering, communication and biomedical medical devices.