Prof. Dr. David Asirvatham is currently the Executive Dean for the Faculty of Innovation and Technology, Taylor’s University, Malaysia. Prior to this, he was the Director of the Centre of Information Technology at the University of Malaya (Malaysia) and Senior Director of Centre for Information Technology, Multimedia University (Malaysia). He has held numerous posts such the Associate Dean for Faculty of Information Technology (Multimedia University), Project Manager for the Multimedia and IT Infrastructure Development for a university campus (US$14 million), Finance Committee for Multimedia University, SAP Advisory for High Education Council (Germany), Consultant for e-University Project and many more. Dr. David completed his Ph.D. from Multimedia University, M.Sc. (Digital System) from Brunel University (U.K.), and B.Sc. (Hons) Ed. and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Malaya. He has been lecturing as well as managing ICT projects for the past 30 years. His area of expertise will include Digital Neural Network, E-Learning Technologies, ICT Project Management, Multimedia Content Creation and recently he has done some work on Big Data Analytics and AI. At the national level, he was the Chairman for the ICT Human Capital Development for 11th Malaysia Plan 2016-2020 (Prime Minister’s Office), Secretary for the Artificial Intelligence Society Malaysia, President of Data Science Association (Malaysia) 2021/22, Country Representative for the Asia E-learning Network (AEN) based in Japan, Steering Committee Member for the Implementation of E-Learning for Malaysian Public Sector, and Member of the Malaysian Grid for Learning’s (MyGfL) Standards Expert Group (SEG), 2003-2004.
At the International level, he worked on various ICT Projects and e-learning technologies workshops in South Africa, Sudan, Iran, Ghana, Kenya, Vietnam, Maldives, Bangladesh (World Bank Project), UAE, India, and Brunei. In the area of research, he had the following grants: (a) Newton Grant – Smart sustainable cities (RM340,000) and (b) Taylor’s University Grant for Travel Behavior Analytics (RM300,000). (c) Predicting Consumption Intention of CRM Users Using Deep Learning RM100,000 (d) Big data analysis and Cloud platform for education RM22,500.