Head of School

Professor Lee Poh Aun has vast experience of teaching, research and consulting in the areas of probability theory, statistical data analysis, image processing and stochastic modelling of communication and computer queueing networks. A Colombo Plan scholar, he holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering with First Class Honours, majoring in communication and electronics, from the University of Queensland. His PhD degree, also in Electrical Engineering, is from Monash University.

Professor Lee has held various senior teaching positions including Professor of Mathematical Statistics and Director of Computer Centre at the University of Malaya as well as Senior Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology at Multimedia University in Cyberjaya.  He was the past President of the Malaysian National Computer Confederation (MNCC) and the South East Asia Regional Computer Confederation (SEARCC). He also served as the national representative in the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP).

Prior to joining Monash University Sunway campus as a Professor and Head of the School of Information Technology, he was the CEO and CTO of a venture-backed MSC status startup that uses high technology as an e-enabler in a B2B and end-to-end group-purchasing operation of pharmaceuticals in the healthcare industry.

He is a member of a eSience-funded research project on Digital Divide which comprises academics from the Schools of IT, Arts & Sciences and Business at the Monash Sunway campus together with external researchers from the Berwick campus of Monash in Australia, Yonsei University in Korea and MIMOS.  In addition, he is currently also supervising PhD projects in the areas of content-based information retrieval (CBIR), image processing and computer vision using advanced mathematical techniques.