PETALING JAYA: A Malaysian researcher’s work on shaping the “brain” behind a smart home won him the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Early Career Award for the year 2014.
Dr Thinagaran Perumal (pic), senior lecturer with Universiti Putra Malaysia’s Computer Science and Information Technology Faculty, won US$1,000 (RM3,257) as part of the award, which was won by a Malaysian for the first time.
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