An Electrical Engineering graduate. Currently pursuing his Doctor of Philosophy at University of Malaya. His research interest revolved around safe driving, driving distraction detection, and autonomous driving. He is looking into performing accurate and real-time scene understanding for autonomous vehicles. Besides, he is also working towards efficient AI. He is the recipient of Prof Gray Gold Medal Award and finalist of Royal Education Award and University of Malaya Alumni Award. Self-taught in Artificial Intelligence and gained experiences through various hackathons. Able to balance multiple competing priorities, having joined multiple activities throughout four years of undergraduate studies whilst still achieving strict deadlines for submission of assignments. He is also HCIA-Routing & Switching Certified.
Research experience
Research Collaboration
Tsinghua University
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
- Collaborating with Nanoscale Integrated Circuits and Systems Lab (NICS) in performing 3D perception for autonomous vehicles.
- Supervisor: Prof Yu Wang
Research Internship
MIMOS Berhad
Sep 2019 - Apr 2020
- Working closely with the Microelectronics Department in developing a battery management system to be used in electric buses.
- Assigned to help on estimating the SOC of lithium-ion battery.
- The SOC is estimated with Extended Kalman Filter with RMS Error of <1.5%.
- STM32 is able to provide near real-time of SOC estimation through the identified parameter table.
- Hybrid CCM-EKF SOC estimation algorithm is proposed and flashed into STM32 Nucleo board and able to achieve refresh rate of 1Hz and accuracy of 99%.
Research Collaborator
TrafficSens
Oct 2018 - May 2019
- Collaborated with TrafficSens in completing the project "Traffic Prediction using Machine Learning".
- This project has won the best project among 26 teams in Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya.
- The trained prediction model is able to detect various vehicles with accuracy up to 90% given the angle of image taken is slanted.
Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Universiti Malaya
Oct 2018 - May 2019
- Working under the supervision of Assoc Prof Ir. Dr. Chuah Joon Huang with the title "Chili Quality and Ripeness Grading using Convolutional Neural Network", and the title "Traffic Prediction with Machine Learning" with a team of 4.
- The chili quality and ripeness detection can achieve an accuracy of > 98% with model size smaller than 5MB.
- The traffic prediction model could potentially helps in reducing traffic congession by controlling the traffic light timer based on the estimated traffic flow.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
Universiti Malaya
Sep 2020 - Present
Work experience
AI/ML Software Engineer
Akirakan Marine Technology Sdn Bhd
May 2023 - Present
- Working on 3D point cloud object detection for road traffic counter.
SMT Inspection & Android R&D Intern
Sichuan Suge Communication Technology Co Ltd, China
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
This internship is done in partnership with Sichuan University of Science & Engineering (Yibin School District), as part of compulsory internship for the degree.
- The internship comprised of two different sections:
- The first four weeks of the internship was about SMT Inspection, where I was taught how to understand a complexsmartphone schematic diagram, and diagnosed the faulty part accordingly.
- The next six weeks of the internship was about Android Development. I was tasked to customise a launcher for a specific region, of which I learnt about AOSP, and how to flash AOSP on a new phone.
Internship
Telekom Malaysia
Aug 2018 - Sep 2020
This is a compulsory internship program for Yayasan Telekom Malaysia scholar. The internship was done during my second year of degree.
I was exposed to various technology the company have to provide, including:
- Access Network Delivery (AND)
- Core Network & Facility Delivery (CNFD)
- Business Function and Financial Management (BFFM)
- Fulfillment and assurance of network and various ITNT related departments.
Skills
Softwares
Hardwares
Languages
Publications
Koay, H. V., Chuah, J. H., Chow, C. O., & Chang, Y. L. (2022). Detecting and recognizing driver distraction through various data modality using machine learning: A review, recent advances, simplified framework and open challenges (2014–2021). Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 115, 105309.
Koay, H. V., Chuah, J. H., & Chow, C. O. (2021, December). Convolutional neural network or vision transformer? Benchmarking various machine learning models for distracted driver detection. In TENCON 2021-2021 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON) (pp. 417-422). IEEE.
Koay, H. V., Chuah, J. H., & Chow, C. O. (2021, August). Shifted-window hierarchical vision transformer for distracted driver detection. In 2021 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP) (pp. 1-7). IEEE.
Koay, H. V., Chuah, J. H., Chow, C. O., Chang, Y. L., & Yong, K. K. (2021). YOLO-RTUAV: Towards real-time vehicle detection through aerial images with low-cost edge devices. Remote Sensing, 13(21), 4196.
Koay, H. V., Chuah, J. H., Chow, C. O., Chang, Y. L., & Rudrusamy, B. (2021). Optimally-weighted image-pose approach (OWIPA) for distracted driver detection and classification. Sensors, 21(14), 4837.
Koay, H. V., Chuah, J. H., & Tan, K. Y. (2020, December). A Hybrid Kalman Filtering for State of Charge Estimation of Lithium-Ion Battery Used in Low-Powered Microcontroller: CCM-EKF Approach. In 2020 IEEE 8th Conference on Systems, Process and Control (ICSPC) (pp. 25-30). IEEE.
Teaching Experiences
KIX1002 Engineering Mathematics 2
Semester 2, Session 2021/2022, Universiti Malaya
KIX2002 Engineering Economics Analysis
Semester 1, Session 2021/2022, Universiti Malaya
KIX1001 Engineering Mathematics 1
Semester 1, Session 2021/2022, Universiti Malaya
Awards & Honors
Professor Gray Gold Medal Award
Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya (2020)
University Book Prize
Universiti Malaya (2020)
Finalist of Royal Education Award and Universiti Malaya Alumni Awards
Universiti Malaya (2020)
Head of Department Award
Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya (2020)
Best Project Award
2020 IEEE Malaysia Best Final Year Project Competition
IEEE EPS Malaysia Chapter Award
IEEE EPS Malaysia Chapter (2020)
Best Industial Design Project
Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya (2019)
Best Industial Design Project Video Award
Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya (2019)
Finalist of Anugerah Tokoh Siswa (STEM Leadership)
Ministry of Higher Education (2019)
Best Student Award
Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya (2019)
Students' Icon Award
Universiti Malaya (2018)
Finalist of Maxis Stars of What's Next
Maxis (2018)
Best Service Award
Tuanku Bahiyah Residential College, Universiti Malaya (2018)
Project Harapan (BEGIN Challenge 2018)
Tuanku Bahiyah Residential College, Universiti Malaya (2018)
Certifications
Testimonials
"His work in the current research field shows how well-fit he is in conducting high-impact research"
"He is one of the most outstanding students in all aspects. Koay has proven that balancing both academics and social life is possible, through his high CGPA and several leadership experiences."
"He had distinctly outshone his peers and had shown remarkable potential as a student, friend, leader and individual."
"Hong Vin is an asset to this institution. He is committed, professional, a team player, and he belongs in the top 1% in terms of overall performance and academic competent."
Leaderships
Vice President of i-Think Mind Map Organization, 2015-2016
President of BEGIN Challenge, 2017
Vice President of iUM Disrupt, 2017
Head of Publication Department of Grand Asian Chess Challenge, 2017
Head of Sponsorship Department of The Engineering Festival, 2017
Head of Sponsorship Department of EDMAT-39, 2018
Student Advisor of BEGIN Challenge, 2018
President & Co-founder of Malaya Electrical Students Association (MESA), 2018-2020
President of IEEE University of Malaya Student Branch, 2018
Volunteers
Facilitator for Student Orientation Week in Kedah Matriculation College, 2016
Technical Team Lead for #JomBuatBaik Kaseh4U Food distribution program, 2016
Facilitator for Student Orientation Week (MHS) in Universiti Malaya, 2017
Event Organizer for Social Engagement Program in Semenyih, 2018
Student Volunteer for ICML, 2021
Peer Reviewer for IEEE Intelligent Transportation Journal, 2022
Mentor for AUA-Universiti Malaya Hackathon 2022
Peer Reviewer for Cybernetics and Systems, 2022
Peer Reviewer for Knowledge and Information Systems, 2023
Sponsorship Officer for PyCon, 2023
Hackathons
Gig Economy @ MOHE Hackathon
Champion & Best Overall Solution
myMaker Robotics Challenge 2018 - IoT Division
Second Runner-Up
KVC Escape 10 Challenge 2018
Second Runner Up
University Street Smart Entrepreneurship Challenge Program Unistreet 3.0
Champion, Best Presentation, Best Sale & Best Team
EE Makerthon 2019
Champion
DSC Kita Hack 2021
Champion
Malaysia Techlympics 2022
Champion
RHB Get Your Hack Out ASEAN Edition 2022
Consolation Prize
CIPTA 2023
Second Runner-Up
PayHack 2023
Consolation Prize
ImpactHack 2023
Special Mention
Invited Talks
A not-so-gentle introduction to Python
Malaya Electrical Students Association, 2021
Recent Advances in Biomedical Image Processing
AUA-Universiti Malaya Overseas Study Program 2021
How to win an Hackathon
GDSC UPM Student Chapter, 2022
Hackaton Tips and Tricks, 2022
AUA-Universiti Malaya Overseas Study Program 2022
AI, Big Data: What's that?
EDMAT-41, 2022
Projects
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