Dean's Welcoming Remarks

Prof Liyanage De Silva welcomes all readers interested in the activities of School of Digital Science at Universiti Brunei Darussalam to join our community in our journey of academia and research.

Professor Liyanage C De Silva, Dean of School of Digital Science, UBD

We are pleased to announce the first issue of the postgraduate and faculty newsletter of School of Digital Science. We are a new school offering the Bachelor of Digital Science degree with the following majors: Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, Cybersecurity & Forensic.

Previously, running Computer Science as a major as a Bachelor of Science degree, the school has now expanded, having currently 7 PhD, 5 Masters and over 50 Bachelors’ students. We are expecting more than 20 students to graduate at the 2021 convocation. We are proud that our graduates have found work in their respective disciplines at EVYD, DST, BIBD, Dynamik Technologies, Shell and some have gone to pursue further studies both at UBD and abroad.

At the school currently we have a total of 14 members, 12 academic and 2 administrative staff. Our academic staff specialises in the research areas of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Robotics, Internet of Things and Cybersecurity, having published over 50 papers in highly reputable journals and conferences this year.

We are excited to share that the following active research projects co-funded by School of Digital Science, Faculty of Science, Institute of Applied Data Analytics, Institute of Health Sciences and Faculty of Art and Social Sciences:

1. Architectural Heritage in Brunei Darussalam

2. MF-Ledger: Hyperledger Sawtooth Blockchain-enabled Novel and Secure Multimedia Chain of Custody Forensic Investigation Architecture

3. Applying Evolutionary Computation

4. Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) and Colon Cancer Risks Reduction

5. Traffic Driving Modelling

The following are past UBD-funded research projects which some may still be on-going or extended into other grants:

1. Automated Realtime Plant Species Recognition

2. Multimodal Human Emotion Recognition

3. Data Management Of 25 Ha Permanent Forest Dynamics Plot At Kuala Belalong

4. Patent Analytics

5. Exploring metaheuristics in a ssFCM Clustering Framework

We're excited to welcome you to the School of Digital Science community. We welcome your kind comments and feedback at: office.sds@ubd.edu.bn

Professor Dr Chandratilak De Silva LIYANAGE
BSc(Eng)Hons, MPhil, MEng, PhD(Univ Tokyo Japan), SrMIEEE 

Dean

School of Digital Science (SDS)

Universiti Brunei Darussalam

Brunei Darussalam

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