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Chuah Joon Huang (simplified Chinese: 蔡润煌; traditional Chinese: 蔡潤煌; pinyin: Cài Rùn Huáng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhoà Jūn-hông) is a Malaysian professional engineer, academician and university administrator who serves as the fourth President and Chief Executive Officer of Southern University College (Southern UC) in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.^[1][2] Chuah is known for his contributions to integrated circuit design, artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, and higher education leadership in Malaysia and the ASEAN region.^[3]

Chuah obtained a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He then earned a Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) from the National University of Singapore (NUS), followed by a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in Technology Policy and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the University of Cambridge, where he was matriculated at Wolfson College and Gonville and Caius College.^[4] He is a Kuok Foundation Scholar and a Commonwealth Scholar.

Chuah has worked in the semiconductor industry, including at Intel as an Integrated Circuit Design Engineer and at Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola, SPS) as a Senior Product Development Engineer and Senior Test Engineer. He began his academic career at the University of Malaya, where he served as a professor in Electrical Engineering and was the head of programme for Master of Mechatronic Engineering and director of the VLSI and Image Processing Research Group.^[5]

On 1 March 2024, Chuah was appointed President and CEO of Southern UC.^[6] In September 2024, he was additionally appointed Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. Under his leadership, Southern UC has expanded STEM and AI research programs, established collaborations with industry to support the Johor–Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ) and strengthened international academic partnerships.^{[7][8][9][10]}

Chuah is active and has held leadership roles in multiple engineering organizations, including Chairman Emeritus of Institution of Engineering and Technology, Malaysia Network^[11], Vice President of the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM)^[12] and Secretary-General of the ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organisations (AFEO).^[13][14]

Chuah has been recognized nationally and internationally for his contributions to academia and engineering such as Honorary Fellow of the ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organisations^[15], Fellow of ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology^[16], Top10 in Education^[17], National Outstanding Educationist Award^[18], The BrandLaureate Industry Icon Award – Educational Leadership and Management.^[19]

• Ali, Raza; Chuah, Joon Huang; Abu Talip, Mohamad Sofian; Mokhtar, Norrima; Shoaib, Muhammad Ali (2021). “Structural crack detection using deep convolutional neural networks”. Automation in Construction. 133. doi:10.1016/j.autcon.2021.103989.
• Soon, Foo Chong; Khaw, Hui Ying; Chuah, Joon Huang; Kanesan, Jeevan (2018). “Hyper-parameters optimisation of deep CNN architecture for vehicle logo recognition”. IET Intelligent Transport Systems. 12 (8): 939–946. doi:10.1049/iet-its.2018.5127.
• Han, Yi; Wang, Biyao; Guan, Tian; Tian, Di; Yang, Guangfeng; Wei, Wei; Tang, Hongbo; Chuah, Joon Huang (2023). “Research on road environmental sense method of intelligent vehicle based on tracking check”. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 24 (1): 1261–1275. doi:10.1109/TITS.2022.3183893.
• Chuah, Joon Huang; Holburn, David (2015). “Design of Low-Noise High-Gain CMOS Transimpedance Amplifier for Intelligent Sensing of Secondary Electrons”. IEEE Sensors Journal. 15 (10): 5997–6004. doi:10.1109/JSEN.2015.2452934.
• Wong, Kum Yeen; Chuah, Joon Huang; Hope, Chris (2019). “As an emerging economy, should Malaysia adopt carbon taxation?”. Energy & Environment. 30 (1): 91–108. doi:10.1177/0958305X18787273.