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

COM11 – Enterprise Computing
Head: 
Dr. Ahmad Suhaimi Baharudin (
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Research Area :
01. Service Science and Innovation
02. Management of Information Systems (MIS)
03. Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
04. IT Operations and Management
05. Technopreneurship
COM12 – Software Engineering
Head: 
Dr. Vincent Khoo Kay Teong (
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Research Area :
01. Service Systems Engineering(SSE)
02. Software Analysis and Design Patterns
03. Software Productivity and Quality
04. Value-Based Software Engineering
05. Sustainable and Evolutionary Software Systems
COM13 – Social and Sustainable Computing
Head: 
Dr. Nasriah Zakaria (
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Research Area :
01. Social Informatics
02. Computer Ethics
03. Collaborative Computing
04. Information Evaluation
05. Usability Engineering
COM14 – Multimedia Systems
Head: 
Assoc. Prof Muhammad Rafie Hj. Mohd. Arshad (
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Research Area :
01. Virtual Reality and Animation
02 Multimedia Retrieval, Processing and Analysis
03. Distributed Multimedia and Multimedia Communication
04. E-Learning
05. Multimedia Tools and Applications
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