Esyin is the
project leader and founder of the below labs:
1. EUREKA Robotics Centre (2018-present): www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/eureka
i. IR Maker Lab: 3D design and printing for bio-inspired robots and robotics parts.
ii. HRaaS Hub: service robotics for healthcare and hospitality & tourism
iii. STEAM Hub: (1) STEM workshops, CPD and internship for teachers and pupils across Wales, Malaysia and India; (2) Robotics lab design and setup consultancy.
2. Monash STELA Lab (2014-2017): Seamless Technologies Enhanced Learning & Assessment research with assessment & feedback model, robots, mobile devices and smart glasses.
Esyin is the
Principal Investigator (PI) for the below projects:
- 2022-2023: PIE I for Women in STEM (£70,013); PIE II programme for Women in STEAM-H (£115,924), funded by British Council and partners in SEA. (£185,937)
- 2021-2022: HRaaS Project, funded by Welsh Government. (£332,340)
- 2021-2022: The Affordable and Novel Human-Centred Designed Far-UV Disinfection Service Robotics , funded by GA Fellowship and BioCareUV Ltd. (£12,000)
- 2020-2021: Accessible Polygenic-weLLbeing (PLL) Robot for Elderly Women in Chronic Systemic Disease Prevention and Management; Epidemic Preparedness and Control with Care4URobot, funded by Impact Builder & Get Started Grant. (£5,000)
- 2018-2019: Robot Dewey, the Chinese Language Tutor, funded by Cardiff Met Interdisciplinary grant. The project was shortlisted as one of the Finalists of the eAssessment Award 2018, the International e-Assessment Awards. (£2,500)
- 2018: STEAM Labs with Educational Robots, funded by Schools, Local Councils and CSM (£11,359)
- Robots in Museum (2018), funded by National Museum Cardiff and CSM (£7,182)
- 2016-2018: Monash University Malaysia Strategic Grant: SMART Design Lab (MYR280,000 ~£52,000)
- 2016-2017: Monash
University Malaysia Better Teaching Better Learning Grant. (MYR45,000; ~£8,400)
- 2015: iCONNECT for EU-SEA e-Plagiarism Battle: EUSEA - iCONNECT, funded by FP7 CONNECT2SEA: Connecting ICT in Europe and South East Asia, ICT Cooperation Grant. (EU7,000)
- 2015-2016: Suhakam Goes Digital with Monash, jointly funded by Human Rights Commission of Malaysia: Suhakam and Monash University Malaysia (MYR10,000)
- 2015-2016: When Clickers meets Socrative: a student experience project for personal response system, funded by Monash University Australia: PVC's L&T Office Better Teaching Better Learning Small Grant. (AUD$5,000 ~£3,000)
- 2014-2015 Flipped Classroom: A cover up for Die hard Traditional Teaching, Monash University Malaysia: VITAL grant. (MYR7,000)
- 2015: Monash University Australia
PVC’s L&T Office Better Teaching Better Learning Small Grant. (AUD£2,000)
- 2014-2015: Pedagogy for Electronics and Electrical Engineering & Information Technology Education in Malaysia in the 21st Century, funded by Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia: Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS). (MYR50,000)
- 2014: Sounds Good or Reads Well? Enhancing Assessment and Feedback Experience with online Audio and Text Feedback, funded by Monash University Australia PVC's L&T Office Better Teaching Better Learning (BTBL) Small Grant (£3,000)
- 2010-2011: Enhancing international student experience with innovative assessment and feedback on postgraduate Economics studies at Glamorgan, iLExSIG – International Learners' Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group, funded by The UK Higher Education Academy (HEA) Economics Network, RAE Funding and UK HEA-ELESIG small grant and Research Assessment Exercise Grant. (£2,000)
- 2009-2010: Turn it in or Turn it off? A Collaborative Pilot Project for Turnitin/Grademark Experience at Glamorgan, funded by Turnitin UK (iParadigm Ltd), Glamorgan Sandpit Education Research Grant. (£7,100)
- 2005: Biometric Authentication for E-Commerce, funded by Ministry of Education Malaysia Research Vote: PJP Research. (MYR10,000)
Esyin is also COI for other successfully funded projects in relevant fields (Total ~£500,000)
Selected Professional activities:
Editor, Chair and Reviewer:
- Editorial Board of the 'PeerJ Computer Science', ISI/SCI Q1, Scopus indexed (2020-to-date)
- Editor board for MEKATRONIKA. http://journal.ump.edu.my/mekatronika (2019 -to-date)
- Reviewer of the International Journal of Social Robotics, WoS & Scopus-indexed Q2 (2018 –to date)
- Reviewer of the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, WoS Q2 & Scopus-indexed (2012-to date)
- General Chair and Host of the 8th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA2020), Cardiff.
- Reviewer of the Journal of Computers and Education, WoS Q1& Scopus-indexed Q1 (2012-2015)
- Reviewer and Committee Member of the 20th European Conference on e-Learning, 28-29 October 2021, Berlin, Germany.
- Reviewer and Programme Committee of the 7th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA 2019)
- Advisory Committee for the 2nd International Conference on Innovative Technology, Engineering and Sciences (iCITES 2020), Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia.
- Reviewer of the First Telemedicine Conference, Malaysia (2015)
- Reviewer and Committee member of the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th,15th, 16th,17th European e-Learning Conference, Portugal, UK, Netherland, France, Czech Republic, Greece (2010-to date).
- Review Committee of the Tenth International Conference on Design Science, Research and Information System and Technology, Dublin, Ireland (2015)
- Editorial Board Member and Reviewer for the 6th International Plagiarism Conference, UK (2014).
- Reviewer of the 4th,5th & 6th International Plagiarism Conference, UK (2010, 2012, 2014)
- Reviewer of the Journal of Applied Research, UK (2009-2013)
- Reviewer of the 7th International Conference on Information Integration and Web Based Applications & Services (iiWAS), Kuala Lumpur (2005)
- Reviewer of the Joint International Conference on Informatics and Research Women in ICT, Kuala Lumpur (2004)
- Executive Editor, Journal of Problem-based Learning in Electronic Journal University of Malaya (2004-2005)
- Editor of the Joint International Conference on Informatics and Research Women in ICT Kuala Lumpur (2004)
Invited Keynote Speaker or Trainer:
- Chew, E. (2023) "A thoughtful integration of Robotics and automation in healthcare: a global case", Invited Speaker at the UK National Robotics & Automation Conference, NEC Birmingham, https://www.roboticsandautomation.co.uk/speakers/esyin-chew
- Chew, E. (2023) Invited Panel Speaker at WiDEn: AIs' images problems" with gender diversity issues, 'WiDEn' - Women in Digital Environments by the Alan Turing Institute, AIUK 2023.
- Chew, E. (2022) Introduction to EUREKA Robotics Research in Healthcare, Hospitality and Education, Research Seminar, Portsmouth University.
- Chew, E. (2022) Introduction to EUREKA Robotics Research in Healthcare, Research Seminar, York University. (Online Presentation)
- Chew, E. (2022) Women in STEM: AI & Robotics, Invited Keynote speech in the International Women seminar, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta , Indonesia. (Online Presentation]
- Chew, E. (2022) Robotics-as-a-Service for healthcare and hospitality, Invited Keynote Speaker at the UK National Robotics & Automation Conference, Coventry. https://www.roboticsandautomation.co.uk/speakers/esyin-chew
- Chew, E. (2022) Invited Keynote Speaker (2022) at International Conference in Engineering Technology, IETP2022, Pahang, Malaysia. https://etic.ump.edu.my/index.php/en
- Chew, E. (2019) Invited Speaker and one of the Panellist, Higher Education Festival (June 2019), Buckingham University https://www.hefestival.com/speakers-2019
https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/FHE-programme-2019.pdf
Artificial Intelligence: Robotics, the curriculum and inclusion video streaming: https://vimeo.com/345303465 - Chew, E. (2018) Invited Keynote Speaker, the 6th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications, Robotics and Machine Intelligence. 16-18 Dec 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. https://icrita2018.org/speakers.php
- Chew, E. (2017) Invited Keynote Speaker at Trends in Holistic Education Symposium Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. https://thesa.taylors.edu.my/programme/keynote-speakers
- Chew, E. (2015) Invited Speaker in the 25th MEIPTA meeting that consists of 22 public local universities e-learning heads / heads of education management / heads of academic development, July 2015, Langkawi, Malaysia.
- Chew, E. (2015) Invited Pre-workshop Speaker, International Conference on Innovations, Shifts & Challenges in Learning and Teaching, Nov 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- Chew, E. (2014) Invited Speaker, Celebrating Innovative Learning Practices: Opportunity for Community Engagement and Collaboration, Monash University All staff CPD, Sept 2014, Subang Jaya, Malaysia.
- Chew, E. (2013) Invited Keynotes Speaker, UCSI University 2nd Blended Learning Symposium, Nov, 2013. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- Chew, E. and Jones, N. (2012) Keynotes Address of the 5th International Conference on Hybrid Learning, Aug, 2012 Guangzhou, China.
- Chew, E. (2011) Invited Speaker for Turnitin Leader Experience, Quality Conference, University of Wales, August 2011, Cardiff, UK.
Membership:
1. Member, The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (since 2018)
2. Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom (since 2011)
3. Member, e-Assessment Association, UK (2010-2013)
Awards and Recognitions:
1. Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Award of Research and Innovation, Cardiff Met University (2018).
2. Finalist eAssessment Award (2018), the International e-Assessment Awards, Innovation Category: Robot Dewey, the Chinese Language Tutor http://eassessmentawards.com/shortlist-2018
3. Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing and Electronic Enterprise (2018): The Design of the Care4Patience with Google Glass.
4. Welsh Crucible (2017) Award Winning Leadership Development Programme for Future Research Leaders: http://www.welshcrucible.org.uk/esyin-chew
5. Bronze Prize, the National Invention, Innovation and Design Competition: Innovation of Healthcare starts from OK Glass (2015).
6. Bronze prize, the UiTM Teaching Aid Competition: The use of BYOD with Socrative and Clickers (2014).
7. Best Poster Presentation, Elsevier’s Computer-Aided Learning Conference, UK (2011).
8. Gold Medal awards in University of Malaya, Research, Design and Innovation Expo: Mutually-Beneficial iE-E Seeker, A Web Intelligent Matching Using Multi- Dimensional Case-Based Reasoning (2006).
9. Silver Medal Awards in University of Malaya: 100 years Research, Design and Innovation Expo: Easy Voice Authentication System v.10 for e-Commerce (2005).
10. Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University Australia; Faculty nominee for the Vice Chancellor’s Citation Award (2015): Educational Technologies.
11. Best Lecturer Awards in the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Malaya, in academic year of 2005/2006, 2004/2005, 2003/2004 (voted by students).