Curriculum Vitae

DR. NURUL BINTI JAPAR

Senior Lecturer
  • Department of Artificial Intelligence
    Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology
  • nuruljapar
  • 0137833287

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)
  • Ahli Taskforce untuk Working Group Infrastruktur Universiti Malaya Open Science
    13 Jun 2024 - 13 Jun 2027 (University Malaya)
  • Ahli Taskforce Pelaksanaan "AI for Nation"
    01 Jun 2024 - 31 Dec 2025 (University Malaya)
  • Graduate Employability Coordinator
    06 Oct 2023 - 30 Apr 2025 (University Malaya)
  • Task Force Member
    03 Jul 2024 - 05 Aug 2024 (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 (Faculty)
  • 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)

MEMBERSHIPS

  • IEEE MEMBERSHIP, MEMBER
    2024 to 2024 (International)
  • IEEE YOUNG PROFESSIONALS MEMBERSHIP, MEMBER
    2024 to 2024 (International)
  • IEEE WOMEN IN ENGINEERING MEMBERSHIP, MEMBER
    2024 to 2024 (International)
  • IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP, MEMBER
    2024 to 2024 (International)

PUBLICATIONS

Article in Journal
WoS
  1. Zhang, Xiang; Alhendi, Omar; Ab Hamid, Siti Hafizah; Japar, Nurul; Nor, Adibi M. (2024). A Computer Vision Model for Seaweed Foreign Object Detection Using Deep Learning, SUSTAINABILITY. 16(20). doi:10.3390/su16209061
  2. 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
  3. 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
Others
  1. B. Y. Yin and N. Japar, "Salient Guided Text Detection in E-Commerce Images," 2024 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2024, pp. 991-997, doi: 10.1109/ICIP51287.2024.10647436.

RESEARCH INTEREST

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

RESEARCH PROJECT

National
  1. 2024 - 2027, UNIVERSITI MALAYA RESEARCH EXCELLENCE GRANT (UMREG)
    RenalGuard: A Machine Learning-Based Early Prediction Model for Acute Kidney Injury and Kidney Disease Progression Post Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery ( Co-Researcher)
  2. 2024 - 2027, Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS)
    Vocabulary Sharing Framework For Malaysian Sign Language Translation Using Large Language Model And Deep Learning ( Principal Investigator(PI))
  3. 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)
  4. 2023 - 2025, Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS)
    A Lightweight Network Traffic Classifier For Resource-constrained Networks Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence ( Co-Researcher)
  5. 2023 - 2025, Bantuan Khas Penyelidikan (BKP Special)
    Malaysian Sign Language (MSL) Video-Text Retrieval using Deep Learning ( Principal Investigator(PI))

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)
Media appearance
  1. (2024) Interview (Temu Bual - Teknologi Ai Dalam Kreativiti dan Hobi), National, (Interview)

SUPERVISION

Postgraduate Student
  1. (2024) Thermal Sensing of a Person by Robots, QURRAT UL AIN
  2. (2024) Explainable AI for Multimodal Tasks in Medical Domain, ZENG, TING
  3. (2024) TEACHERS’ TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP IN ENHANCING QUALITY ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING WITH MOBILE TECHNOLOGY: CASE STUDIES FROM ZHENGZHOU’S LANGUAGE CENTRES, CHINA, WU TONG
  4. (2024) CROWD ANOMALY DETECTION BASED ON SURVEILLANCE VIDEOS, CHU CHENGXI
  5. (2024) DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS INVENTORY USING MACHINE LEARNING FOR THE PROTECTION OF WATER RESOURCE AT SUNGAI LANGAT, SELANGOR, NUR NAJWA MOHD RIZAL
  6. (2024) Apparatus to Guide Visually Impaired Runner on the Treadmill, CHEAH PEI YI
  7. (2024) Auto Brightness display with machine learning and pupil tracking, MOHAMED ZAIM BIN SHAHREL
  8. (2024) Salient-guided Multi-Feature Approach for Text Detection in E-Commerce Images, BOON YIN YIN
  9. (2024) 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)
  3. WORKSHOP RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT OF RESEARCH, The Cube, Level 4, Research Management & Innovation Complex (Rmic), Universiti Malaya (01 Dec 2023 - 01 Dec 2023)
  4. HRD CORP TRAIN THE TRAINER CERTIFICATION PROGRAM, Universiti Malaya (07 Mar 2023 - 11 Mar 2023)
  5. E-LEARNING SEMINAR: MC AND ODL , Wyndham Grand Bangsar (25 Apr 2024 - 25 Apr 2024)