Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sureswaran Ramadass

Malaysian

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Member of Audit Committee

Non Independent & Non Executive

He obtained his Bachelor in Computer Engineering and Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Miami, USA in 1990. He also holds a doctorate from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM).

He started off his career in 1990 as a senior member of the technical staff of the research team of MODCOMP, Inc, a Florida-based research company focused on the R&D of real-time systems. He has worked with numerous customers to benchmark their needs, including National Aeronautics and Space Administration engineers. He left in 1991 and joined ICON Business System, Inc. (Florida) as Senior Consultant. He was subsequently promoted to Vice President Engineering and was responsible in overseeing the entire engineering and R&D divisions of ICON Business Systems, Inc. (Florida). He joined USM in 1992 as a lecturer and is currently an Associate Professor. During his tenure at USM, he has been a research partner/consultant to many companies in Malaysia including Telekom Malaysia Berhad, NCR Corporation, IBM Inc., MIMOS Berhad, Cabletron Systems Sdn. Bhd. and Compquest Sdn. Bhd. Currently, he is the Program Chairman and Head of Network Research, School of Computer Science, USM. He also holds numerous positions in global organisations including A13 project, which is a research-based project sponsored by the Japanese Government. He was also a nominated candidate for the position of Director of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in 2000 (ICANN). He is also the Head of APAN for Malaysia. Over the years, he has published over fifty (50) national and international level research papers as well as written chapters and provided writing materials for a few books in the area of multimedia conferencing.

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687,132 (Direct) shares in MLABS