Innovation in IoT applications for Community
Biography
Mohd Helmy Abd Wahab is a Senior lecturer and a former Head of Multimedia Engineering Lab and
Intelligent System Lab at the Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) in 2014 and 2009. He is
currently a Principle Research Fellow at Advanced Telecommunication Research Center, Faculty of
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, UTHM (2021 – 2025) and Visiting Research Fellow for Center
of Excellence on Advanced in Computing, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UNIMaP) (2021 – 2022). In
addition, he was a visiting research fellow at Center of Excellence on Geopolymer and Green
Technology under cluster Green ICT, Unimap from 2018 – 2020. He received a Bachelor of
Information Technology with Honours from Universiti Utara Malaysia and Master of Science
(Intelligent System) from the same university in 2002 and 2004 respectively. He has completed
several research grants; won several medals in research and innovation showcases and awarded
several publication and teaching awards.
By latest he received 2nd runner up for Grand Prize Award category Innovation Video Challenge for
project "Online Learning System with authentication and identification mechanism using neuro-fuzzy
algorithm" and the same project also received 1st Grand Prize Award for FB Post and contest as well
as GOLD medals respectively at Asia International Innovation Exhibition 2020 (AIINEX2020)
organized by ConnectionAsia and UNIKL. He also received a international award GOLD medal for
project "Portable Dwi-Switch Home Control Appliance for Elderly and Disabled People" at 2020
Bangkok International Intellectual Property, Invention, Innovation and Technology Exposition
(IPITEx 2020) in conjuction with Thailand Inventors’ Day 2020 on 2 - 6 February 2020.
He has authored and co-authored 2 academic books in database and WAP application, published
several both local and international book chapters as well as published more than 100 technical papers
in conferences and peer-reviewed journals. He also served as Editor-in-chief in Advances in
Computing and Intelligent System Journal and guest editor for Special Issue in Wireless and Mobile
Networks in International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications and as Deputy
Editor in Chief for Int. Journal of Software Engineering and Computing and scholarly contributed as
committee for conferences, editorial team and manuscript reviewers. His research interests are in data
mining, artificial intelligence and computer vision, mobile and wireless computing, web-based
applications. He is currently a senior member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IAEng, and Senior
member of IACSIT.
