About SPOre

SPOre is a HWUM MACS initiative to provide undergraduate computing and data science students an early opportunity to experience project work and brew new innovative ideas, under the guidance of a supervisor or research group. The SPOre programme runs through the summer break (June to August) for roughly 10-12 weeks, where students can acquire a spectrum of skills that supplements their existing knowledge before undertaking larger projects (like final year project) or joining internship stints.

SPOre is modelled after the popularly known UROP programmes found in many leading universities, with the exception that SPOre is opened to both research-centric (R) and development-centric (D) projects.

How to join

Look at the list of available projects. If anything piques your interest, drop the supervisor an email. Note that most projects are team-based (more than 1 person involved). The supervisor may have multiple applicants for a particular project and could recommend teaming up students, or providing other available options if one is already filled. We will update the project availability on the website as often as we could.

Currently, projects in SPOre are primarily focused with computing at its core, and are designed for CS students. However, these projects (if feasible) are also opened to undergraduate students of other related programmes in HWUM such as Statistical Data Science, whereby the project has to be led by a CS student.

What we need from you (if you do join)

• Your commitment ❤️
• To regularly get in touch with your supervisor for 🗣️ and ☕
• Keep a log 📖 of your 📈 and learnings
• At the end of the project, do a demo or presentation 👩🏻‍🏫 , and share about it, tweet it, IG it…

Most importantly, enjoy the experience! 😊

FAQs

Have a question? Before you email us, go here for a list of frequently-asked questions (FAQs) about the SPOre programme.

Project List

• Building models for Malaysian Food Image classification (Supervisor: Dr. John See): 1-2 students
• UML Class Diagram to Java and vice versa (Supervisor: Dr. Thomas Basuki): 1-2 students
• Voice Synthesiser (Supervisor: Dr. Chin Zi Hau): 1 student
• Automatic on-Browser Video Stream Manipulation (Supervisor: Dr. John See): 1-2 students
• Network Topology Simulator (Supervisor: Dr. Ian Tan): 1 student
• MyRA Entry Portal (Supervisor: Dr Chin Zi Hau): 1 student

Click here for more details of each project.

If you have other ideas for a project you would like to pursue, you may approach a specific lecturer to propose and discuss further.

CS Supervisors (full list)

Please add the institution domain to the email user names in parenthesis

• Dr. Thomas Basuki (t.basuki)
• Dr. Timothy Yap (timothy.yap)
• Dr. Rosalind Deena Kumari (r.kumari)
• Dr. Chit Su Mon (c.mon)
• Dr. Abdullah Almasri (a.almasri)
• Dr. Chin Zi Hau (z.chin)
• Dr. Ian Tan (i.tan)
• Dr. John See (j.see)
• Mr. Yap Chee Een (c.yap)