Biography
Choo-Yee Ting is currently working as Professor at the Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia. He was also the Deputy Dean of the Institute for Postgraduate Studies, Multimedia University. In year 2002, Choo-Yee Ting was awarded the Fellow of Microsoft Research by Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China. He has been active in research projects related to predictive analytics and Big Data. Most of the projects were funded by MOE, MOSTI, Telekom Malaysia, MDeC, and industries. In year 2014, he and his team members won two national level Big Data Analytics competitions. Prof. Ting has been the trainer for MDeC and INTAN for courses related to Big Data and Data Science. He is also the consultant, mentor and assessor for projects under MDeC funding. Currently he is working on Trouble Ticket Resolution prediction for Telekom Malaysia, AirAsia seat capacity optimization, and Dengue outbreak prediction for the government of Philippines. Prof. Ting was certified in Microsoft Technology Associate (Database), IBM DB2 CDA, and the Coursera Data Science Specialization (John Hopkins University). Prof. Ting is now appointed by Academy of Science Malaysia to be the data scientist for supporting the government in National Immunisation Programme for COVID-19 for vaccine supply modeling.