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List of Group

MYREN Research Community comprises of leading researches from various organizations in Malaysia. The community aims to promote formalization of research projects in accordance to specific focus area. There are 5 Research Areas (RA) established under MYREN including Network Research, IPv6, E-Research, Multimedia Applications and Knowledge Management and Information Retrieval. Each RA is chaired by an appointed chairman.

[ Network Technology ]
Chairman	:	Prof. Dr. Borhanuddin Mohd Ali (borhan@ieee.org)
Group Objectives : To work on various aspects of network technology, essentially:- Layer 2, 3, 4, i.e. routing, QoS, traffic flow control, traffic engineering, measurements Applications layer: Security, Web Service, Grid, Streaming, Conferencing AREA DIRECTOR: Prof. Dr. Borhanuddin Mohd Ali Director Institute of Multimedia and Software Universiti Putra Malaysia Putra Infoport-IOI Resort Jalan Kajang-Puchong 43400 UPM Serdang Selangor Tel : 03-89417101 Fax : 03-89483514 E-mail : borhan@ieee.org Note: Prof. Dr Borhanuddin is also the overall Chairman of MYREN R&D Area
Working Groups	:	Security Quality of Service (QoS) Wireless Network Optical Network

[ IPv6 ]
Chairman	:	Assoc Prof Dr. Sureswaran Ramadass (sures@nav6.org)
Group Objectives : To work on various aspects of IPv6 technology, essentially on the development of IPv6 standards, monitoring tools, middleware applications. The group aims to promote joint research works and projects amongst IPv6 subject matter experts This group also aims to address issues for nationwide implementation of IPv6, including address allocation, migration process and policy assistance AREA DIRECTOR: Assoc Prof Dr. Sureswaran Ramadass Director of NAv6 (Malaysian National Advanced IPv6 Center & Head of Network Research (NRG) School of Computer Sciences Universiti Sains Malaysia 11800 Minden, Penang, Malaysia Tel: + (60) 4 6533004 Fax: + (60) 4 6594757 Email: sures@cs.usm.my Website:http://nrg.cs.usm.my
Working Groups	:	Core Research & Development Monitoring Policies & Migration Assistance Middleware Development Infrastructure HR & Training

[ E-Research ]
Chairman	:	Assoc.Prof. Dr. Suhaimi Napis (s_napis@yahoo.com)
Group Objective : Revolves around Ubiquitous Computing, High Performance Computing (HPC) and Parallel and Distributed System (GRID) for sharing of computation, storage and visualization. Encompasses e-Science, e-Engineering, e-information science, e-Social Sciences, e-Arts and Humanities, e-Economics and Management, e-Business, e-Anything! AREA DIRECTOR: Assoc.Prof. Dr. Suhaimi Napis Deputy Director Institute of Multimedia and Software Universiti Putra Malaysia Putra Infoport-IOI Resort Jalan Kajang-Puchong 43400 UPM Serdang Selangor Tel : 03-89410602 Fax : 03-89483514 Email: s_napis@yahoo.com
Working Groups	:	Cheminformatics Medical Informatics & Imaging Agrobioinformatics/Biodiversity Bioinformatics Geospatial Informatics & Earth Monitoring E-Arts & Humanities Malaysian Software Engineering High Performance Cyber Design

[ Multimedia Application ]
Chairman	:	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ewe Hong Tat (htewe@mmu.edu.my )
Group Objective : To work on various aspects of multimedia applications. This research area currently focuses on Virtual Reality as well as E-Learning technologies. AREA DIRECTOR Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ewe Hong Tat Dean, Faculty of Information Technology Multimedia University Jalan Multimedia 63100 CYBERJAYA Email: htewe@mmu.edu.my WORKING GROUP 1 CHAIRMAN Assoc. Prof. Harold Thwaites Email: harold.thwaites@mmu.edu.my Phone: +603-8312 5358 WORKING GROUP 2 CHAIRMAN Professor Dr. Peter Woods, Knowledge Management Centre MMU Email: p.woods@mmu.edu.my Tel No : +603 8312 5829/ 012 353 1805 Working GROUP 3 CHAIRMAN Ms. Wong Chui Yin Email:cywong@mmu.edu.my Mr. Khong CW Email:cwkhong@mmu.edu.my
Working Groups	:	e-Learning Technologies & Applications Interface Design & Ambient Intelligence Virtual Reality & Immersive Technologies

[ Information Retrieval & Knowledge Management ]
Chairman	:	Prof. Dr. Tengku Mohd Tengku Sembok (tmts@pkrisc.cc.ukm.my)
Group Objective : To study further improvement on training, education, R&D, professional etiquette on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management To prepare for communication techniques, develop cooperation between academics and professionals for the purpose of research To increase interest towards the research and advancement of the information retrieval and knowledge management AREA DIRECTOR: Prof. Dr. Tengku Mohd Tengku Sembok Faculty of Information Science & Technology Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor Email: tmts@pkrisc.cc.ukm.my
Working Groups	:	Information Retrieval Knowledge Management