A job well done by my third year PhD student, Fatini for successfully presented her paper entitled “Examining Teachers’ Brain Functional Connectivity during Reflection: A Preliminary Study” at the IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering 2022 (TALE 2022) organised by IEEE and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Many congratulations to my third year PhD student, Shanthini for successfully presented her paper entitled “Using Brain Functional Connectivity Pattern to Examine the Effectiveness of a Reading Intervention for Children with Dyslexia” at the IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering 2022 (TALE 2022) organised by IEEE and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
I would like to extend a huge congratulation to my PhD student, Shanthini for winning the Best Presentation Award at IEEE TALE 2021. Her presentation was based on the paper entitled “Examining the Brain Functional Connectivity Pattern of Children with Dyslexia during Rapid Naming Tasks: A Preliminary Study”. You made our research team proud. Well done, Shanthini!
Our brain functional connectivity research project won silver during FSSH UTM Research and Innovation Competition 2021. I’m not really a big fan of competitions of this sort, to be honest (this was my first ever attempt; after receiving an “official encouragement” from the faculty), but looks like the last minute effort paid off after all. Alhamdulillah.
The PPT slides are available on ResearchGate: Examining Brain Functional Connectivity During Game-Based Problem Solving Task Among Malaysian Undergraduates: Does Gender Matter?
I would like to congratulate my PhD student, Fatini Md Said for successfully negotiated her proposal defense entitled “The Study of Brain Functional Connectivity during Reflective Thinking among Teachers using Electroencephalogram (EEG)” this morning.
Thank you to the examiners AP Dr. Zainudin and AP Dr. Norlaili for the insightful comments and suggestions. Thank you also to AP Dr. Baharin who chaired the session and Dr. Ivy as the assistant to the Chairperson.
Many congratulations to my PhD student, Shanthini A/P Chandra Sekaran Naidu for successfully negotiated her proposal defense entitled “Effectiveness of Clay Integrated Sound Box Approach (CISBA) in Enhancing Early Reading Skills among Children with Dyslexia” this afternoon. Thank you to the examiners Prof. Yeo and AP Dr. Zainudin for the insightful comments and suggestions. Thank you also to AP Dr. Baharin who chaired the session and Dr. Rustam as the assistant to the Chairperson.
Alhamdulillah, on 30 October 2020, we received an email from RMC informing that our Reflective Brain project successfully secured FRGS 2020 (Phase 1). The project, which is officially entitled “Framework for Critical Reflective Thinking based on Neuroeducational Approach“, has been approved and granted RM56,200 from the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE).
Personally, this is my second time receiving FRGS after my first project ended in 2016. Indeed, it was quite competitive this time around. 142 (out of 362) applications from UTM succeeded in securing the grant. Credits should be given to my faculty, FSSH, in collaboration with my Research Alliance, for all the workshops organised since early 2020. And also to the facilitators who had shared all the valuable tips, as well as the internal evaluators for all the constructive comments and suggestions throughout the process proposal refinement.
Yesterday our research group conducted test runs for Fatini’s and Shanthini’s PhD projects. As usual, Taha assisted us with the technical part while Sayyid served as the subject. Dr Zuri and Dr. Norlaili offered the technical expertise as well.
The four of us met up at DSP Lab yesterday for some updates by Shanthini on her project.
Yesterday we gathered at DSP Lab SKE to discuss the progress of the Fatini’s research. This time around we were joined by Dr. Nurul Ashikin who shared us some of her thoughts based on her expertise and previous experiences conducting EEG on children with disabilities.
