Warm welcome to Mr. Nevil Wickramathilaka to Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He is a lecturer from the Department of Spatial Sciences, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Sri Lanka. He will be doing his MPhil study in UTM under my supervision. We will be working together in creating an improvisation equation for green areas via 3D city modelling. Welcome to the group!
Throwback [24 May 2022] – First initial meeting call for UTM Metaverse project. It is a brainstorming session in bringing UTM to a new niche area which is developing metaverse for UTM.
I was able to give an idea on how to incorporate metaverse in the university. Among the advantages of creating a metaverse in the university are; students can socialize virtually, this includes going to lectures, sports, tadarus, and so on. Its a new concept (future new norm), which can be tested in the university.
At this ceremony, seven (7) students under my supervision received their degrees. May they succeed in the future and overcome the challenges in the industries. All of my students are currently employed in the geoinformation profession. All the best to them! I am thrilled about this success!
Noorain Nawawi (Doctor of Philosophy – Supervisor)
THE SCA 2022 INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
As a member of the international technical program committees, I would like to extend an invitation to any researchers interested in submitting their research papers to the 7th Smart City Applications International Conference, held in Castelo Branco, Portugal, from October 18-21, 2022. The 7th International Conference on Smart City Applications is a multidisciplinary forum co-organized by the IPCB – Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco in partnership with the Mediterranean Association of Sciences and Sustainable Development (Medi-ADD). Among the related topics are:
3D City Modeling and Visualization
Location-Based Services
Geographic Information Systems
Remote Sensing
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
GeoInformation for Mobile
Collective Sensing and Geo-spatial Big Data
Laser Scanning
Processing of Spatial Imagery
Geo AI
Urban Informatics
Geospatial Cloud Computing
Wireless and Mobile GIS
The purpose of the event is to bring together research scientists and engineers to debate and exchange experimental and theoretical results, creative designs, case studies, and ideas that create new trends in the field of smart cities. You are welcome to check out the website conference at https://medi-ast.org/SCA22/index.html. The paper submission link is at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca22.
Our new journal paper (Modern City Issues, Management and the Critical Role of Information and Communication Technology) published in the International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA). It is a Web of Science and Scopus indexed journal that focuses on publishes research, review and survey papers which offer a significant contribution to the computer science literature, and which are of interest to a wide audience.
I was appointed as an editorial board member for The International Journal of Built Environment and Sustainability (IJBES). This journal is indexed by Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Asean Citation Index, UDLedge Social Science & Humanities Citation Index (SS&HI), Focus, MyCite, MyJurnal, Google Scholar. IJBES is an international peer-reviewed journal addressing the present research, developments, and best practices in the field of the built environment, including Urban and Regional Planning, Architecture, Quantity Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Construction and Building and Infrastructure Development in view of social, cultural, economic and environmental sustainability. If you have any papers or manuscripts that you would want to submit, you may want to consider IJBES as one of the potential options for your submission. Please let me know if this is something you are interested in.
Opportunity to be on a jury of five finalists for The 2022 Esri Young Scholars Award. Quite excited to see the results of the students’ work in using ESRI technology for GIS works. This award offers university students from across the country the chance to win a free trip to Esri UC – the world’s largest geospatial technology conference – held in San Diego. Open to undergraduate and postgraduate students studying spatial disciplines, the competition celebrates excellence, innovation, and creativity in using GIS applications to drive positive outcomes. Students can enter by submitting a project, software development, application or research paper leveraging GIS. This can be a current passion project or work completed in the previous university year. Thank you ESRI, for organizing this event for the students.
I was invited to present a topic on Digital Twin at a webinar organized by AECA Solutions Sdn. Bhd. The theme of the webinar is “Road Asset and Infrastructure Mapping”. It will be attended by highway and road concessionaires, maintenance contractors, infrastructure and railway providers, GIS and remote sensing engineers, surveyors, civil engineers, and government authorities interested in digital twin and road monitoring. Hopefully, the presentation and sharing of my research and development (R&D) during this webinar can help the industry outside the university in their daily work. Thank you, AECA Solutions Sdn. Bhd. for the invitation.
Last month, I was entrusted as the main moderator to all 41 members of the Geoinformation department. My responsibility is to lead the department’s strategic plan workshop by focusing on several issues, namely income generation, curriculum development, staff development and the empowerment of student societies. This workshop was held at Felda Residence Tanjung Leman, Johor for 3 days and 2 nights. Hopefully this planning can help the department in strengthening the department’s delivery to the university. By the way, this hotel is located next to a nice beach. The morning view at the beach is mesmerizing.
All members of the Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia are very proud of the achievement of being among the 100 best universities in the world and in the highest position among universities in Malaysia for the field of “Architecture/Built Environment” by Quacquarelli Symonds World University Ranking (QSWUR) by Subjects 2022.
