Mohd Helmy Abd Wahab is a Senior Lecturer and former Head of Multimedia Engineering Lab at the Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). He is currently a Priciple Research Fellow at Advanced Telecommunication Research Center, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia and a former Visiting Research Fellow at Center of Excellence on Geopolymer and Green Technology (Cluster Green ICT), UNIMaP.
He received a Bachelor of Information Technology with Honours from Universiti Utara Malaysia and Master of Science (Intelligent System) from the same university in 2002 and 2004 respectively.
To-date, He has authored and co-authored 2 books in database and
WAP application and authored and co-authored more than 200 articles and over 900 citations (referred/quoted) made by researchers from many parts of the world including Russia (with over 140 papers that are indexed in Scopus, and some of which with impact factors) that appeared in Journals and Conference Proceedings as well as other form of publications such as media and periodicals.
Being a prolific writer, he has been invited to sit as an editor-in-chief for International Journal of Advances in Computing and Intelligent System and International Journal of Computer System and Software Engineering and serves as as editorial board members in various well known International Journals. In addition, he also served as a guest editor in few special issues in journals.
For the same reason, various International Journals had given the trusts and responsibilities to review their received articles before publications. E.g. IEEE Access, IEEE Transaction of Knowledge Discovery in Data, IEEE Software, IEEE Computer, IEEE Intelligent System, Knowledge-based System, Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence and etc.
In addition, his papers and research products had been widely accepted as well as being invited as Keynote Speaker or invited speaker in international conferences such as ICRITO 2015, ICACEC2016, IRIS2017, FTNCT2018, ICCMIT2019 and ICRITO2020, CONFLUENCE2021. From the refereed presentations, he obtained various awards or medals in most innovation exhibition.
For his continuous contributions and recognitions in research as well as career, he had been awarded with several awards both at national and international levels, namely: Young Writer Award 2008 and 2010, Anugerah Persatuan Sains dan Teknologi (PESAMA)
His research interests are in data mining, artificial intelligence and computer vision, mobile and wireless computing, web-based applications. He is currently a senior member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IAEng, and IACSIT.