Professor Serge Demidenko
- Professor
Biography
Professor Serge Demidenko enjoys an extensive career that encompasses working for industry and academia combined with services to professional institutions. He re-joined Sunway University (2024) from Massey University (Professor, later - Emeritus Professor). His previous positions included Dean of School (2018-2023) at Sunway University; Head (earlier – Associate Head) of School (2014-2018) at Massey University; VP (Academic) and Head of two Schools at RMIT Vietnam, Head of School at Monash University Malaysia, among others. During his career in the industry, he progressed from an Electronic Design Engineer to Head of the Joint R&D Test Lab at a large computer consortium (1987-1992)
Academic & Professional Qualifications
- PhD (Candidate of Sciences) in Cybernetics & Information Theory, Institute of Engineering Cybernetics, Academy of Sciences of BSSR, Belarus (1984)
- BEng (USSR 5-year High Engineering Diploma) in Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering), Belarusian State University of Informatics & Radio Electronics (1977)
- Docent in Informatics, Control & Computer Engineering – post-doctoral academic qualification, State Higher Attestation Committee under the Council of Ministers of Belarus (1997)
- Certificate in Teaching: Higher Education, Singapore Polytechnic & Sheffield University, UK (1994)
- Chartered Engineer (CEng), UK Engineering Council (1991)
Research Interests
- Electronic Design and Testing
- Digital Signal Processing and Generation
- Instrumentation and Measurement
- Computer System Engineering
- Fault Tolerance
Teaching Areas
- Electronics - Digital and Analog
- Digital Logic
- Computer Organization
- Research Methods in Science and Technology
- Physical Principles for Engineering & Technology
- Project Supervision - Individual, Group, Capstone, Research
Courses Taught
- Physical Principles for Engineering & Technology
- Design of Computer & Communication Systems.
- Advanced Micro- Technologies
- Computer Systems Engineering
- Analogue Electronics
- Digital Electronics
- Digital Logic
- Engineering Design with Constraints.
- Embedded Systems Design
- Electronic Testing, Instrumentation and Measurement
- Capstone Project
- Individual Research Project.
- Project Preparation, Planning and Problem Solving
- Research Methods in Engineering and Technology.
Notable Publications
Ooi, M. P.-L., Rajan, A., Kuang, Y. C, Demidenko, S. (2023). Analytical Evaluation of Uncertainty Propagation for Probabilistic Design Optimisation – IOP Publishing, Bristol, UK
Abeysekera, S. K., Robinson, A., Ooi, M. P.-L., Kuang, Y. C., Manley-Harris, M., Holmes, W., Hirst, E., Nowak, J., Caddie, M., Steinhorn, G., Demidenko, S. (2023). Sparse Reproducible Machine Learning for Near Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging: Estimating the Tetrahydrocannabinolic Acid Concentration in Cannabis Sativa L. - Industrial Crops and Products, Vol. 192, 116137, 13 pp.
Holmes, W., Ooi, M., Kuang, Y. C., Demidenko, S., Simpkin, R., Abeysekera, S. K., (2023). On Machine Learning Methods to Estimate Cannabidiolic Acid Content of Cannabis Sativa L. from Near-Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging. IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 6 pp.
Ooi, M. P.-L., Robinson, A., Manley-Harris, M., Hill, S., Raymond, L., Kuang, Y. C., Steinhorn, G., Caddie, M., Nowak, J., Holmes, W., Demidenko, S. (2022): Robust Statistical Analysis to Predict and Estimate the Concentration of the Cannabidiolic Acid in Cannabis Sativa L.: A Comparative Study. Industrial Crops and Products, Vol. 189, 115744, 8 pp.
Pajooh, H. H., Demidenko, S., Aslam, S., Harris, M. (2022). Blockchain and 6G-Enabled IoT. Inventions, Vol. 7 (4), 109, 18 pp.
Pajooh, H. H., Rashid, M. A., Alam, F., Demidenko, S. (2022). Experimental Performance Analysis of a Scalable Distributed Hyperledger Fabric for a Large-Scale IoT Testbed. Sensors, Vol. 22(13), 4868, 27 pp.
Faulkner, N., Konings, D., Alam, F., Legg, M., Demidenko, S. (2022). Machine Learning Techniques for Device-Free Localization Using Low-Resolution Thermopiles. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 9(19), pp.18681-18694.
4. Xu, J., Demidenko, S., Chew, M. T. (2022). Mixed-Signal Test System for Education in Instrumentation and Measurement Technology. IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications, Chemnitz, Germany, 6 pp.
Iakovidis, D., Ooi, M., Kuang, Y. C., Demidenko, S., Shestakov, A. et al (2022). Roadmap on Signal Processing for Next Generation Measurement Systems. Measurement Science and Technology, Vol. 33, 0120002, IOP, 49 pp.
Tran, T. H., Demidenko, S., Chew, M. T. (2022). Interactive System for Maintenance of Automatic Test Equipment on the IC Production Floor - Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 829, Springer, pp. 871-877.
R ZHANG, A RAJAN, Y C Kuang, M P-L Ooi and S DEMIDENKO: Towards Implementing Uncertainty Propagation in Probabilistic Floating-Point Computation Error Bounding - IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC 2018, Huston, TX, USA, May 2018, p. 748-753
P Pangputt, B Parr, S Demidenko and A Drain: Real-Time Acoustic Analysis for Flow Rate Estimation in a Medical Aerosol Application - IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC 2018, Huston, TX, USA, May 2018, p. 23-28
Achievements & Accolades
Project: “Blockchain-Enabled AI Architecture for Trustworthy Digital Health” – Global South AI for Pandemic and Epidemic Preparedness and Response Network, (SDG 03) (SDG 05) – Initiator, Activities Committee and Malaysia Team Member (2023-present).
Project: “Analytical Evaluation of Uncertainty Propagation for Probabilistic Design Optimization” – Sunway University Internal Grant Scheme, (SDG 09) (SDG12) – Principal Investigator and Team Leader (2022-2023).
Project: “Real-Time Analysis for Flow Rate Estimation in a Medical Aerosol Application and Smart Inhaler Development” – Massey University Research Fund (SDG 03) – Co-investigator (2023-2024)
Professional Associations
- Member (2022-present) – European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Fellow (1994-present) - The Institution of Engineering & Technology
- International Professional Registration Advisor (1992-present) – IET
- Professional Review Interview Assessor (2009-present) - IET - Fellow (2004 - present) - The Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
- Member-at-Large (2022-present) - IEEE Awards Board
- Chair (2024-2025) - IEEE Technical Field Award Council
- Member (2023-present) - IEEE Fellow Committee
- Member (2019-present) Conferences Quality – IEEE Conferences Committee - Fellow (2021–present) - Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)
- Member-Academician (2023-present) - International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA)
- Affiliate (2014-present), Engineers Australia (EA)
- Member (2004-present), Nomination Panel (Advanced Technology: Electronics) - Kyoto Prize, Inamori Foundation
- Member (2023-present), Nomination Panel, VinFuture Prize, VinFuture Foundation
- Member (present), Editorial Boards of six professional journals
