Muhammad Amir Bin As’ari holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. His PhD’s work was in the field of assistive technology, computer vision and image procesing and his work focused on developing a novel 3D shape descriptors for recognizing the activities of daily living (ADLs) based on Kinect-like depth image. Amir pursued his master degree and bachelor degree at the Faculty of Electrical Eng, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, majored in Electronic Engineering. His master degree and bachelor degree projects were also related to computer vision and image processing for security and surveillance. Currently, he  is working on automated human action recognition based on wearable sensor and context-aware modality for assistive technology and sport technology.