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
R Akmeliawati, D Bailey, S Bilal, S Demidenko, N Gamage, S Khan, Y C Kuang, M Ooi and G Sen Gupta: Assistive Technology for Relieving Communication Lumber between Hearing/Speech Impaired and Hearing People – The Journal of Engineering, Issue 6, , p. 312-323.
N M Duong, M T Chew, S Demidenko, Q H Pham, D K Pham, M P-L Ooi and Y C Kuang: Vision Inspection System for Pharmaceuticals – Sensors Application Symposium – SAS’2014, Queenstown, New Zealand, February 18-20, 2014, p. 201-206
A Rajan, Y C Kuang, M P-L Ooi and S DEMIDENKO: Standard Uncertainty Estimation on Polynomial Regression Models - Sensors Application Symposium – SAS’2014, Queenstown, New Zealand, February 18-20, 2014, p. 206-212
H K SOK, M S CHOWDHURY, M P-L OOI, Y C KUANG and S DEMIDENKO: Using the ADTree for Feature Reduction through Knowledge Discovery - IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC’13, Minneapolis, MN, USA, May 6-9, 2013, p. 1040-1044
M P-L OOI, S H KUAN, Y C KUANG, H CHENG, E K-J SIM, S N DEMIDENKO and C W K CHAN: Identifying Systematic Failures on Semiconductor Wafers using ADCAS - IEEE Design & Test, Volume 30, Issue 5, , p. 44-53
M P-L OOI, Y C KUANG, H K SOK, S N DEMIDENKO and C CHAN: Defect Cluster Recognition System for Fabricated Semiconductor Wafers – Journal of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Volume 26, Issue 3, March , p. 1029–1043
T C ONG, M T TEE, Y C KUANG, M P-L OOI and S DEMIDENKO: Periodic Piecewise Linear Excitation for ADC Testing - IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC’12, Graz, Austria, May 13-16, 2012, p.2285-2290
Z S CHOW, M P-L OOI, Y C KUANG and S N DEMIDENKO: Low-Cost Automatic Visual Inspection System for Media in Hard Disk Drive Mass Production - IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC’12, Graz, Austria, May 13-16, , p. 234-239
A ROWE, G SEN GUPTA and S DEMIDENKO: Instrumentation and Control of a High Power BLDC Motor for Small Vehicle Applications - IEEE International Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference – I2MTC’12, Graz, Austria, May 13-16, 2012, p. 559-564
Z S CHOW, M P-L OOI, Y C KUANG and S N DEMIDENKO: Automated Visual Inspection System for Mass Production of Hard Disk Drive Media - Procedia Engineering, Elsevier, Vol. 41, , p. 450-457
H CHENG, M P-L OOI, Y C KUANG, S DEMIDENKO and B CHEAH: Outlier Distribution Detection Approach to Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Process Monitoring - 3rd Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design – ASQED’, July 19-20, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, p. 62-67.
M S ONG Y C KUANG, M P-L OOI, S DEMIDENKO and P S LIAM: Optimal Dual-Tone Frequency Selection for ADC Sine-Wave Tests – IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, v. 60, No 5, , p. 1533–1545.
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
