Current research and development activities are organised under three research clusters:

COM21 – Computational Intelligence
Head: 
Assoc. Prof. Ahamad Tajudin Khader (
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Research Area :
01. Intelligent System Techniques
02 Scheduling/Timetabling/Planning
03. Evolutionary Computing
04. Collective Intelligence
05. Brain Inspired Computing
COM22 – Computer Vision and Image Processing
Head: 
Prof. Mandava Rajeswari (
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Research Area :
01. Image Analysis
02 Semantic Image and Video Knowledge Extraction
03. Evolutionary Computing
04. Image Retrieval
05 Multimodal Integration
COM23 – Visual Informatics
Head: 
Assoc. Prof. Abdullah Zawawi Haji Talib (
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Research Area :
01. Data Visualization
02 Information Visualization
03. Knowledge Visualization
04. Computer Graphics
05 Visual Analytics
06 Virtual Environment
COM24 – Language Engineering
Head: 
Dr. Tan Tien Ping (
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Research Area :
01. Natural Language Processing
02 Automated Translation
03. Speech Recognition
04 Speech Synthesis
05 Semantic Web Search
06 Text Summarization
COM25 – Knowledge Engineering
Head: 
Assoc. Prof. Cheah Yu-N (
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Research Area :
01. Health Informatics
02 Knowledge Management and Engineering
03. Speech Recognition
04 Data Mining
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