Centre for Research
Research Specialisation
Currently, there are more than 200 staff/researchers who are engaged in research and consultancy at Taylor's. Taylor's welcomes any form of research collaborations with any parties who wish to contribute to the body of knowledge and support the Government's call to the higher education sector to be more innovative.

The research experts at Taylor's classified according to the various Schools are as follows: 
 
SCHOOL NAME RESEARCH EXPERTISE
School of
Architecture,
Building & Design
 Dr Veronica Ng
Associate Dean
(Teaching & Learning)Stream Coordinator
(Design & Design Studies)
Senior Lecturer
• Concept of place & Sense of place
• Design methods & techniques
• Architectural history & heritage
Dr Jeff Wai Tak Kan
Senior Lecturer
• Design Research
• Quantitative Research Method for Design and Creativity
• Design Cognition and Design Learning
• Design Collaborations and Communication
• Scientific Visualisation of Building Behaviour in Architectural Design
• Computer Aided Design and Information Technology
• Virtual Reality and Perception of Architectural Design
Ms Nor Hayati Hussain
Senior Lecturer
• Architecture History and Theory
• Architecture Design and Application
Ms M TamilSalvi Mari
Stream Co-ordinator
(Environmental Studies)
• Teaching & Learning in Architecture
• Ecological literacy in Architectural Studies
• Sustainability in Architecture and Built Environment
• Thermal Comfort & Building Envelope
Mr Woon Wai Cheong
Lecturer
• Heritage architecture in Malaysia.
• Adaptation of literary texts to film.
• Language shift in the Kadazandusun communities in Sabah.
• Architectural studies in college.
 
SCHOOL NAME RESEARCH EXPERTISE
School of
Biosciences
 Dr Stacey Yong Foong Yee
Dean
• Molecular Microbiology
• Epidemiological study of Legionella penumophila
• Water quality assessment using viral indicators
Dr Lim Soo Thye
Associate Professor
• Antioxidants and antioxidant enzymes in the Cucurbitaceae Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases and Cyclic nucleotide metabolism
• Symbiotic nitrogen fixation and Metabolism in Rhizobium
Ms Cheah Lee Hen
Lecturer
• Biostatistics
• Credit scoring
• Data mining
• Time series analysis
Dr Jee Jap Meng
Lecturer
• Natural product for antitumour and antimicrobial
Ms Lai How Yee
Lecturer
• Elucidating bioactive compounds from medicinal plants, with emphasis on antioxidant, tyrosinase inhibition, antibacterial and anticancer properties.
Dr Phelim Yong Voon Chen
Lecturer
• Elucidation of host response towards fungal infection via proteomics and transcriptomics
• Expression of recombinant proteins as diagnostic markers and immunotherapeutic agents
• Evaluation of natural compounds for antifungal activity
 
SCHOOL NAME RESEARCH EXPERTISE
Taylor's Business School: Marketing & Management
 Ms Nurlida Ismail
Associate Dean
(Teaching & Learning)
• Marketing
• Consumer Behaviour
• Higher Education Marketing
• Teaching & Learning
Mr Lim Chee Leong
Programme Director, Senior Lecturer
• Web-Enhanced Teaching
• Online Assessments
• Instructional Technology
• Online and Blended Learning
Ms Oh Yoke Moi
Programme Director of UniSA Programme (Marketing)
• Marketing Communications
• Consumer Behaviour
• Branding
Mr Andrew Lee Hock Cheong
Senior Lecturer
• Managing change
• Student motivation
• Teaching and learning
Ms Catherine Cheng Mei Sin
Senior Lecturer
• Teaching & Learning
• Consumer Protection
• Business Ethics
Ms Cheah Sou Wan, Sue
Senior Lecturer
• Academic Integrity
• Teaching and Learning
Ms Irene Ong Pooi Fong
Senior Lecturer
• Power and politics in organisation
• Organisational learning
• Environmental impact on organisational change
Ms Tang Siew Fun
Senior Lecturer
• Management, in the area of Quality Assurance
• Academic Leadership
• Mathematics and Statistical Analysis
Ms Alice Cheah Wai Kuan
Lecturer
• Packaging & CR
• Labelling
Mr Chandra Sakaran a/l Khalid @ Kalidas
Lecturer
• Action Research
• Sociolinguistic
• Plagiarism
• Research methodology
Ms Chen Chee Hoong
Lecturer
• American Literature
• Action Research
• Grounded Theory Research
• Communication Skills in Medical Education
Ms Choo Siew Ming
Lecturer
• Change Management
• Strategic Management
• Consumer Research
Ms Daphne Lim Wee Ling
Lecturer
• Human Capital
• Work Life Balance
• Career in Women
• Teaching and Learning
Ms Leow Yen Mee
Lecturer
• IT ethics
• Impact of IT on work
• Social life
Mr Liew Cheng Siang
Lecturer
• Consumer behavior
Ms Neliza Hilmy Nasrijal
Lecturer
• Cross Cultural Consumer Behaviour
• Relationship Marketing
• Service Quality
• Learning Style
 
SCHOOL NAME RESEARCH EXPERTISE
Taylor's Business School: Accounting & Finance
 Sheela Devi D. Sundarasen
Associate Dean (R&D) / Senior Lecturer
• Malaysian Equity Market
• Initial Public Offerings (IPO)
Norhanim binti Dewa
Programme Director
• Corporate Finance: Pecking Order Theory, Financing
• Choice, Asymmetric Information, Financial Performance
• Stock Market Anomalies
• Islamic Banking
• Quality in Education
Kumaravel M Ganesan
Lecturer / Programme Director
• Taxation
• Action Research In Accounting
R. Ratneswary V. Rasiah
Stream Coordinator (Economics),
Senior Lecturer
• Teaching and Learning
• The Economics of Happiness
• Economics and Finance-related issues
• Gender Issues
Dr Ali Saeedi Velashani
Senior Lecturer
• Market Based Accounting Research
• Financial Reporting
Ms Cheah Sou Wan, Sue
Senior Lecturer
• Academic Integrity
• Teaching and Learning
Ms Irene Ong Pooi Fong
Senior Lecturer
• Power and politics in organisation
• Organisational learning
• Environmental impact on organisational change
Ms Tang Siew Fun
Senior Lecturer
• Management, in the area of Quality Assurance
• Academic Leadership
• Mathematics and Statistical Analysis
Ms Alice Cheah Wai Kuan
Lecturer
• Packaging & CR
• Labelling
Mr Chandra Sakaran a/l Khalid @ Kalidas
Lecturer
• Action Research
• Sociolinguistic
• Plagiarism
• Research methodology
Ms Chen Chee Hoong
Lecturer
• American Literature
• Action Research
• Grounded Theory Research
• Communication Skills in Medical Education
Ms Choo Siew Ming
Lecturer
• Change Management
• Strategic Management
• Consumer Research
Ms Daphne Lim Wee Ling
Lecturer
• Human Capital
• Work Life Balance
• Career in Women
• Teaching and Learning
Ms Leow Yen Mee
Lecturer
• IT ethics
• Impact of IT on work
• Social life
Mr Liew Cheng Siang
Lecturer
• Consumer behavior
Ms Neliza Hilmy Nasrijal
Lecturer
• Cross Cultural Consumer Behaviour
• Relationship Marketing
• Service Quality
• Learning Style
 
SCHOOL NAME RESEARCH EXPERTISE
School of Communication
 Ms R. Usha Devi
Associate Dean
(Teaching & Learning)
• Politics Race Relations
• International Relations
• Women and Power
Justin Gerard Victor
Programme Director
(Bachelor of Journalism)
• Ethics
• Media analysis
Phua Yeong Tsann
Programme Director
(Diploma in Communication)
• Multimedia & Web Technology
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lokasundari Vijaya Sankar
Senior Lecturer and Head, SEARCH
• ESL & EFL acquisition especially in the writing skill
• Writing Skill among adult learners of English
• Project- based learning of the English language
• Pedagogy
Srikumar Ramayan
Senior Lecturer
• Public Relations
• Media Studies
Dr Benedict P. Agulto
Lecturer
• New media and society
• Media culture
• Media policy and governance
• Social media and gaming
Jenny Heng Gek Koon
Lecturer
• Journalism
• Publishing & Visual Communication
Nicole Yang Lai Fong
Lecturer
• Media and Race
Prasana Rosaline Fernandez
Lecturer
• Marketing & Advertising
 
SCHOOL NAME RESEARCH EXPERTISE
School of Computing & IT
 Ms Banumathy Devi
Dean
• Web Development Technologies
• Technology in Tourism & Hospitality
• e-Service quality
• Web service quality
• First year experience
Dr Saeed Shadlou
Senior Lecturer
• Web Development Technologies & Web Application
• E-commerce, Ajax ,PayPal API
• E-learning
• Web Development Methodology
Dr Abdolreza Hajmoosaei
Lecturer
• Semantic Web
• Semantic Web Data Integration
• Ontology
• Query based Web Data System
Ms Chew Meow Khee (Magdalene)
Lecturer
• Computer-assisted language learning
Mr Mahadevan Supramaniam
Lecturer
• Enterprise Resource Planning for SMEs
• Database Management and Data Mining
• Intelligent Bank Management system and e-banking
Ms Rohini Balapumi
Lecturer
• Knowledge Management
• Computer Education
• Distributed Computing
Mr Sanath Sukumaran
Lecturer
• Knowledge Management
Ms Tan Ee Xion
Lecturer
• Social Media and Social Networking
• Mobile Networking
• Action Research in Education
 
SCHOOL NAME RESEARCH EXPERTISE
School of Engineering
 Assoc. Prof. Dr Mushtak Al-Atabi
Dean
(School of Engineering)
• Thermofluids
• Renewable Engineering
• Biomechanical Engineering
• Engineering Education
• Academic Leadership
Dr Edwin Chung Chin Yau
Associate Dean
(School of Engineering)
• Asynchronous Circuit Design
• Engineering Education
• Systemic Innovation
Assoc. Prof. Dr Marwan M. Shamel
Associate Dean
(Research & Development)
• Oil hydrolysis using immobilised enzyme
• Cleaning in place for the foul membrane
• Membrane separation
• Enzyme adsorption on membrane surfaces
• Removal of mercury and lead pollution from fresh water
• Porosity measurement
• Engineering Education
Dr Singaram Lakshmanan
Programme Director
(Mechanical Engineering)
• Metal casting
Dr Abdulkareem Shafiq Mahdi Al-Obaidi
Senior Lecturer
• Aeronautics
• Computational Fluid Mechanics (CFD)
• Panel Method
Chow Seng Chu
Senior Lecturer
• Modern Control Theory
Dr Mohammad Hosseini Fouladi
Senior Lecturer
• Sound and vibration source identification and insulation
• Machine condition monitoring
• Acoustic materials, human sound and vibration comfort
• Ergonomics
• Environmental acoustics
Dr Soundarajan Krishnan
Senior Lecturer
• Fluidisation
• Air Pollution Control
• Heat Transfer
Dr. Obai Younis Taha Elamin
Lecturer
• CFD
• Heat transfer
• Shadowgraph technique
Tham Chan Seng
Lecturer
• Neural Networks
• Artificial Intelligence
• Robotics
Dr TVN Padmesh
Lecturer
• Chemical Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Environmental Biotechnology
 
SCHOOL NAME RESEARCH EXPERTISE
School of Hospitality, Tourism & Culinary Arts
 Mr Frederic Bouchon
Deputy Dean
• Destination Branding
• Cultural heritage
• Urban Tourism
• MICE Residential tourism
• Digital culture and urban tourism
• Place branding and place communication
Ms Hema Subramonian
Deputy Dean
(Graduate School)
• Knowledge Management
• E-Commerce
• Application of ICT in Hospitality & Tourism
Mr Adrian Yao Yong Tat
Associate Dean
(Teaching & Learning)
• Teaching and learning
• Instructional Technology and New Media
• Languages Education
Prof. Dr Muhamad Muda
Professor
• Hospitality & tourism education
• Employment & internship in hospitality, tourism & culinary education
• Establishing The Malaysian National Dish.
• Tourism promotion
• Food Habits and Preferences
Assoc. Prof. Dr Vikneswaran Nair
Director
(Centre for Research & Development)
• Sustainable & responsible tourism
• Green business & green tourism
• Environmental management
• Ecotourism rating and certification
• Poverty alleviation via tourism
Mr Toney K. Thomas
Programme Director / Senior Lecturer
• Destination Benchmarking
• Destination Development
• Sustainable Tourism Development
• Tourism impact studies
Dr Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore
Senior Lecturer
• Qualitative Research
• Consumer Behaviour
• Real Estate
• Entrepreneurship
Dr Kashif Hussain
Senior Lecturer
• Services Marketing
• Service Quality
• Customer Satisfaction
• Job Satisfaction
• Perceived Justice
• Stress Roles
• Organizational Commitment
• Sustainable Developments
• Product Developments
• Higher Education Services
Lisa Tung Pei Pei
Senior Lecturer
• Relationship Marketing
• Customer Behaviour
• Motivations
• Tourists Satisfaction
• Loyalty Behaviour
• Destination Marketing
Souji Gopala Krishna Pillai
Senior Lecturer
• Culinary research
• New product development
• Sensorial Analysis
• Calorific foods
• Ethnic Cuisine research
• Culinary curriculum developments
• Food sociology
• Student centred learning techniques
• Problem based learning activities
Anshul Garg
Lecturer
• Hospitality Education
• Terrorism & Hospitality and Tourism
• Academic Leadership
• Risk & Crisis Management
Bernard Lew Shian Loong
Lecturer
• Spatial-economic methodologies for destination systems
• Evolutionary economics and agent-based simulations
Boey Tuck Sai
Lecturer
• User Experience Airline Websites
• Domestic Tourist Behaviour
• Tourist Experience
Lim Tau Sian
Lecturer
• Consumer Behaviour Study(Satisfaction and Loyalty) in Heritage Sites
• Hotel and Restaurant Settings from Visual Perspective
• Destination Personality
• Youth Tourism
Nancy Vathsala
Lecturer
• Food Microbiology
• Food safety
• Nutrition and Eating Habits
Dr Paolo Mura
Lecturer
• Tourist behavior
• Socio-cultural impacts of tourism
• The philosophy of tourism/leisure/recreation
• Research methodologies
Philip Wong Pong Weng
Lecturer
• Tourism Marketing
• Destination Branding
• Destination Competitiveness
Uma Thevi Munikrishanan
Lecturer
• Industrial Economics (SMEs)
• Economic Impact Analysis
• Development Economics (Poverty alleviation)
 
SCHOOL NAME RESEARCH EXPERTISE
Law School
Dr Markus Aurel Petsche
Senior Lecturer
• Comparative Law
• International Law (including European Law)
• Law of the WTO
• International Sales Law (UN Sales Convention)
• International Business Transactions
• Conflict of Laws
• International Commercial Arbitration
• International Commercial Litigation
• IAlternative Dispute Resolution
 
SCHOOL NAME RESEARCH EXPERTISE
School of Medicine
 Dr Abd Rahman Bin H Mohd Noor
Dean
• Medical Education
• Paediatrics
• Rational Use of Drugs
Assoc. Prof. Dr Ong King Kok
Associate Professor
• Insulin action
• Ascorbate oxidase
Dr Gul Muhammad Baloch
Senior Lecturer
• Medical Sociology
• Health Psychology
• Gender and Health
• Qualitative Research
• Adolescent Health
Dr Nalamolu Koteswara Rao
Senior Lecturer
• Diabetes
• Diabetic nephropathy
• Ethanopharmacology
• Controlled release drug delivery systems
• Enhancement of dissolution for poorly soluble drugs
Dr Mohit Shahi
Lecturer
• Diabetic microangiopathy
• Fine needle aspiration cytology
• Molecular pathology
• Stem cell research
• Medical Education
Dr Umesh Bindal
Lecturer
• Dermatoglyphics
• Morphometry of Skeleton
• Histopathological studies of Various tissues of body
• Histopathological analysis of Various drugs on tissues
Dr Wong Eng Hwa
Lecturer
• Antibiotic Resistance in Gram-negative bacteria

Based on our current manpower skills and programmes being offered and future directions of Taylor’s, we will be focusing on a number of core areas of research namely: 
  • Hospitality, tourism & culinary
  • ICT & computing
  • Architecture, building & design
  • Communications & humanities
  • Engineering
  • Clinical, life & behavioural sciences
  • Business