FPGA Designer Training

Dr. Florence Choong received the BEng. (First class) from Multimedia University, Malaysia in 2002. She then completed her Masters of Engineering Science (MEngSc) degree in Multimedia University, Cyberjaya in 2005 and Ph.D. in Engineering in 2012. Recently, she has completed her Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Derby, UK.

Upon graduation, she started her career in the telecommunications and networking industry where she served TM for three years in various departments such as networking, IT, quality assurance and customer service. Being passionate in research and training and educating the youth, she then moved to the academic and research line where she joined Multimedia University (MMU) as a lecturer in 2005. She then moved on to University Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) in 2008 as a senior lecturer. She was the Head of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering department at Taylor’s University leading the program to its first accreditation. At present, she is a senior lecturer and is also very active in research. She has a total of more than 10 years of teaching experience. She is also a Chartered Engineer and is registered with the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) and IEM. She is also the advisor to the Taylors IET On Campus.

She is author and co-author of numerous international journal and conference papers published by renowned journals in power quality, VLSI system design and artificial intelligence. Her current research interests are in the area of artificial intelligence, digital and VLSI design. She has also extended her skills and knowledge in this area through various consultancy works.

Sim Cher Khern (Sim CK) has over 20 years of working experience in a number of product development lifecycles, involving embedded firmware and FPGA programming, as well as high speed embedded system hardware design and PCB layout, where EMI/EMC considerations are critical for product delivery. He has also gained much project management experience and knowledge working with various operating systems (Windows, Linux, RTOS), networking technologies and web interface while developing the products.

Being a technology enthusiast, he keeps up with emerging technologies and likes to get his hands dirty with projects. In the process, he has picked up knowledge in full stack web development and its deployment to the cloud platform. He has also acquired knowledge on Cybersecurity threats, Network Defense and Ethical Hacking.

CK holds a MSc in Embedded Systems from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), as well as Cybersecurity certifications from EC-Council (ECSS, CND, CEH and CHFI).

His current area of interests include Cybersecurity, Embedded system hardware and firmware, IoT, Web technologies and Machine learning. They are intertwined in today’s business systems setup.