Curriculum Vitae

DR. NURUL BINTI JAPAR

Senior Lecturer
  • Department of Artificial Intelligence
    Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology

BIOGRAPHY

Nurul Japar is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Vision research area, earned in 2022, and completed her Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) in 2018 at Universiti Malaya. Her expertise lies in computer vision and machine learning, with a focus on object detection, classification, recognition, and vision-language models.  

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • COMPUTER VISION
  • MACHINE LEARNING

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

  • PhD, (Kepintaran Buatan)
    Universiti Malaya (UM)
  • B.Sc, (Kepintaran Buatan)
    Universiti Malaya (UM)

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

  • Committee Members
    01 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2027 (Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Graduate Employability Coordinator
    06 Oct 2023 - 30 Apr 2025 (University Malaya)
  • Faculty Supervisor for LI (Sem 1, Session 23/24)
    09 Oct 2023 - 03 Mar 2024 (Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Ahli Taskforce Semakan Kurikulum Sarjana Muda
    22 Feb 2023 - 21 Feb 2024 (Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Core Course Coordinator (WIX1002-FOP)
    13 Mar 2023 - 23 Jul 2023 (Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Faculty Supervisor for LI (Sem 2, Session 22/23)
    13 Mar 2023 - 23 Jul 2023 (Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Committee Members
    02 Jun 2022 - 02 Jun 2023 (Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
  • Task Force Member
    10 Mar 2022 - 31 Dec 2022 (Department)
  • Task Force Member
    25 Aug 2022 - 03 Oct 2022 (Department)

PUBLICATIONS

Article in Journal
WoS
  1. Japar, N., Kok, V. J., & Chan, C. S. (2021). Coherent group detection in still image. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 80(14), 22007-22026. doi: 10.1007/s11042-021-10763-w
  2. Japar, N., Kok, V. J., & Chan, C. S. (2021). Collectiveness analysis with visual attributes. Neurocomputing, 463, 77-90. doi: 10.1016/j.neucom.2021.08.038
Article in Proceeding
WoS
  1. Japar, Nurul; Chan, Chee Seng; Kok, Ven Jyn (2019). Coherent Crowd Analysis in Still Image, 2019 IEEE 21ST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING (MMSP 2019).
  2. Lim, Jian Han; Japar, Nurul; Ng, Chun Chet; Chan, Chee Seng (2018). Unprecedented Usage of Pre-trained CNNs on Beauty Product, PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2018 ACM MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE (MM'18). , 2068-2072. doi:10.1145/3240508.3266433

RESEARCH INTEREST

  • COMPUTER VISION (OBJECT DETECTION)
  • COMPUTER VISION (OBJECT CLASSIFICATION)
  • COMPUTER VISION (OBJECT RECOGNITION)
  • MACHINE LEARNING (VISION-LANGUAGE MODEL)

RESEARCH PROJECT

National
  1. 2023 - 2026, Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS)
    Deep Learning In Molecular Descriptors Mining And Optimization For Drug-potentials Targeting G Protein-coupled Receptors ( Co-Researcher)
  2. 2023 - 2025, Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS)
    A Lightweight Network Traffic Classifier For Resource-constrained Networks Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence ( Co-Researcher)

ACADEMIC/PROF. SERVICES

Evaluation
  1. (2023) Jemputan Sebagai Ahli Panel Penilai Kertas Cadangan Mrun Research Officer Grant Scheme (Mrogs), National, (Reviewer)
  2. (2023) Reviewer Invitation for 2023 17th International Conference On Open Source Systems and Technologies (Icosst), International, (Reviewer)
  3. (2023) Discovery of Potential Lrrk2 Inhibitors Through Ai-Assisted in Silico Approaches, University, (Internal Examiner)
  4. (2022) Umhackathon Judge (Competition), National, (Reviewer)

SUPERVISION

Postgraduate Student
  1. (2023) Thermal Sensing of a Person by Robots, QURRAT UL AIN
  2. (2023) TEACHERS’ TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP IN ENHANCING QUALITY ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING WITH MOBILE TECHNOLOGY: CASE STUDIES FROM ZHENGZHOU’S LANGUAGE CENTRES, CHINA, WU TONG
  3. (2023) DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS INVENTORY USING MACHINE LEARNING FOR THE PROTECTION OF WATER RESOURCE AT SUNGAI LANGAT, SELANGOR, NUR NAJWA MOHD RIZAL
  4. (2023) Apparatus to Guide Visually Impaired Runner on the Treadmill, CHEAH PEI YI
  5. (2023) Auto Brightness display with machine learning and pupil tracking, MOHAMED ZAIM BIN SHAHREL
  6. (2023) TEXT DETECTION ON E-COMMERCE IMAGES., BOON YIN YIN
  7. (2023) BIM TRANSLATOR USING DEEP LEARNING, ANDREW LIM WEI CHIN
  8. (2023) Towards Medical Radiology Report Generation Using Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing Techniques, AMAAN IZHAR
Under Graduate Students
  1. (2023) Treadmill Monitoring System for Impaired Vision User using Face Detection
  2. (2023) Food Waste Classification System using Convolutional Neural Networks
  3. (2023) Enhancing STEM Education with AI Driven Animated Visualizations
  4. (2023) Employee Attendance System using Facial Recognition with Liveness Detection
  5. (2023) Emotion Classification for Movie Posters
  6. (2023) BIM Translator using Deep Learning

COURSE ATTENDED

Internal / External Course
INTERNAL COURSE- ORGANIZED BY PTJ
  1. EMERALD TEACHING AND LEARNING 2022, Online (08 Aug 2022 - 12 Aug 2022)
  2. EMERALD RESEARCH AND SUPERVISION, UM (16 Aug 2022 - 17 Aug 2022)