Syed Ab Rahman Abu-Bakar

Syed Ab Rahman Abu-Bakar received his first degree in Electrical Engineering (B.Sc.E.E) from Clarkson University, New York and then a master degree (M.Sc.E.E) majoring in Signal Processing from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. He joined Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 1992 as a lecturer in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He earned his PhD degree from University of Bradford, UK in the area of Image Processing. He is now a full professor in the Electronic and Computer Engineering department under the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FKE), UTM, and currently the Deputy Dean of Research, Innovation & Development of FKE. In 2004, he setup the Computer Vision, Video and Image Processing research lab and has become the head since then. Up to date, Dr. Syed has successfully supervised 20 PhD students and 9 master students by research. His current research interest is in computer vision and image processing focusing in video security and surveillance particularly in the area of human action/activity recognition and deepfakes. Dr. Syed has lead and managed many research projects securing grants from both the government and private sector. He has published more than 180 scientific papers both at national and international levels. He is a senior member of IEEE and was the chair for the IEEE Signal Processing Society Malaysia Chapter. He received the Certificate of Merit from the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) twice in 2014 and 2019 for dedicated leadership as Chapter Chair and support of the activities of the SPS Malaysia Chapter.