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Ts. Dr. J Emerson Raja (Ph.D.) is currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Technology at Multimedia University (MMU), Malaysia. His technical expertise centres around applying soft computing techniques to monitor the health of machines. He was honoured with the notable commendation award by his alma mater, SRM University, India in conjunction with its Alumni Day on 12 March 2017. He was also honoured with the best executive award and group CEO merit award for the year 2014 from TM, the leading integrated telecommunication company in Malaysia. He has co-authored 3 books, Modeling Intelligence: Computational Techniques in Cognitive Systems published by Amazon in August 2025, A Textbook of Practical Neural Networks a kindle Edition by Amazon in July 2025 and C Programming for beginners, published by Pearson (Malaysia) in 2009. He has been a recipient of the excellent teaching award four times, for the year 2012, 2013, 2016 and 2024 from the president of Multimedia University, Malaysia. He was also the recipient of the best research poster award in the MMU-Infineon technical symposium 2011. Dr. Emerson Raja received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Madras, India in 1989 and 2001 respectively. His PhD degree was awarded by MMU, Malaysia for his research on “Intelligent Machine Condition Monitoring” in 2014. He has conducted successfully the Malaysian Government funded MTCP training program for 15 international participants form 14 August to 25 August 2017 at MMU. He was one of the speakers of the "International Teaching Week" at Hof University of Applied Sciences, Germany in June 2013. As a SENIOR member of IEEE, he has actively contributed as invited speaker in several technical symposiums arranged by IEEE Signal Processing Society of Malaysia. He had provided key-note speeches in many International Conferences in Malaysia, India, China and Dubai. He has been invited twice as a guest speaker in MAL technical & innovation symposium on 21 November 2013 and 30 October 2014 at Infineon, a German based company in Malaysia. He was also awarded the silver medal by the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia, for his poster in the Innovative Practices in Higher Education Expo 2014 (I-PHEX 2014). Given a talk on “Peer Tutoring in Higher Education” at ASAIHL Conference, Tokio Japan in March 2018. He has been invited to Chonnam National University, South Korea, for their international summer session 2018, as international visiting scholar. He had given a talk on “Digestive health” at Gwanju International Centre, South Korea on 21st July 2018. He had also given the same talk on Digestive Health at Australian Radio SBS Tamil (2018) and it is available online. Being a HRDF certified trainer, he has conducted many workshops and delivered seminars on “The Role of AI in IR4,0”.