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Now, Prof. Ma is a Research Professor in the College of Engineering at Qatar University in Qatar. He has extensive research interests including network security and wireless networking. He has over 500 international academic publications including over 250 journal papers and about 250 conference papers. His publication has received more than 10,000 citations in Google Scholar. Prof. Ma is a senior member of the IEEE Communication Society and a member of ACM. He is now the Chair of the ACM, Singapore Chapter. Prof. Ma has been a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communication Society from 2013 to 2016 and from 2023 to 2024.

He is also a Chartered Engineer and a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK. Dr Thang is now serving Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU) as Associate Professor and Head of School of Engineering. His responsibilities are to manage the quality processes of the School in teaching and learning as well as ensuring continuous professional accreditation for all the engineering programmes.

He has multiple certifications from Cadence Design Systems. His experience is mainly in RTL-GDS Implementation, delivering numerous ASIC designs in his career.

Samuel holds an MBA from Anglia Ruskin University, UK, an MS in Integrated Circuit Design jointly offered by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Technical University of Munich, Germany, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication from Anna University, India. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and an active member in more than 50 Technical Societies across the globe. He has reviewed papers and chaired sessions in more than 15 IEEE conferences and holds eight patents for IoT projects.

Samuel published a paper titled “Methodology for Structured Data-Path Implementation in VLSI Physical Design: A Case Study” in Electronics, an MDPI Journal, 2022, and an article “Importance of Security in IC Design” in the Singapore Semiconductor Voice magazine by the Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association, 2019. He also received a Technical Merit Award for the paper “A Novel Approach in Security Implementation and Clock Tree Synthesis using ICC2” in SNUG, Penang, 2018. Samuel is passionate about sharing his expertise with students and professionals and has delivered Guest lectures in more than 200 international platforms on VLSI design, IoT, and cybersecurity.

He has successfully completed government sponsored projects such as DST, UGC and BRNS more than 3 crores as Principal Investigator. He has teaching and research experience of more than 27 years. Presently he is working as Professor in the Department of Manufacturing Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University and Director, Center for Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR), Anna University, Chennai.
Based on his dynamic leadership, he has established the most prestigious Technology and Innovation Support Centre (TISC) in Anna University through World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). TISC aims to provide innovators with high quality technology information and related services as well as help innovators to create, protect and manage their Intellectual Property Rights. He has recognized Institutions and Inventors by Awarding “Anna University Intellectual Property Award” every year for the two best performing Institutions in each regions. He is recipient of ‘Indian National Science Academy’ award. He is a life member of ISTE and Fellow of Institution of Engineers, India. He has travelled widely to countries like USA, UK, France, Spain, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, China etc.

He have done my BTech from the Indian Institute of Information Technology Vadodara, Gujarat India. ...He is fueled by my passion for machine learning/deep learning and cloud computing to solve real-world problems.He is also interested in Deployable AI making final deployable solutions in solving problems. He, along with a team of 4, stood as top 10 finalists in Nvidia AI Hackathon 2019 where they worked on the topic Audio alert system for visually impaired using segmented pixel data. He have also been selected in the IITH-Ritsumeikan University Japan Project-based Learning program under Sakura Science Exchange 2019 wherein he got an opportunity to visit Japan work with Japanese students. His research interest has led me to submit a conference paper to IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing for Emerging Markets 2018 (acceptance rate is less than 10% for conference papers) for a work which is done as part of my 3rd-year B.Tech summer project. The paper has been accepted and won the best paper award in 2018. He is practicing and doing realistic portrait art for 2 years now which led me to start a commission work-based business called Sketch-IFY. He aspire to excel in the area of academic research along with becoming an Entrepreneur.