Dr Ivan Ling BEng, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dr. Ivan is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He is involved in the delivery of various EEE courses related to programming, digital systems and microprocessor design. His research interest includes the development and fabrication of smart sensors, particularly using carbon-based materials, IoT applications of sensors and machine learning algorithms for interpreting multi-dimensional sensor data.
Dr. Ivan graduated top of his class in 2014 from Swinburne University of Technology with a first-class honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. In 2020, he was awarded a PhD from the University of Southampton for his work on the design and development of nanocrystalline graphene/graphite based environmental sensors. Before joining the University of Southampton, Ivan works at the Swinburne University of Technology as a research engineer, specializing in Linux based servers for high-performance CCTV applications. Ivan is also the recipient of the Anugerah Belia Inovasi (Innovative Youth Award) granted by the State Government of Sarawak and the winner of the IET-Greenpeace Global Challenge Award in 2019. Dr. Ivan is an active member of IET, IEM and IEEE. He is currently the Vice-Chairman of the IET Malaysia Young Professional Section, the Asia-Pacific Representative on the IET Young Professional Committee (YPC), an executive committee of the IEEE Malaysia Sensors and Nanotechnology Joint Council Chapter and IEM Electronic Engineering Technical Division. He is a reviewer for the IEEE International Conference on Sensors and Nanotechnology.