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Harold Thwaites
Harold Thwaites is the head of the Centre for Research-Creation in Digital Media at Sunway University. Originally from Canada, Professor Thwaites was a tenured associate professor in the Communication Studies Department at Concordia University in Montreal for 31 years. He was later dean of the Faculty of Creative Multimedia at Multimedia University, Malaysia from 2006 to 2012, and director of the Centre for Creative Content and Digital Innovation at University of Malaya from 2012 to 2015. He also served as the president of the International Society on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM) from 2003 to 2010. His research and teaching comprise media production, information design, digital heritage, biocybernetic research and 3D spatial media. In addition to being the recipient of a fellowship from the Telecommunications Advancement Organisation of Japan, he was also the first overseas researcher at NHK Science and Technical Research Labs in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in 3D HDTV. He continues to share his 43 years of experience and passion to innovate new projects and fields of research with staff and students at Sunway University.
Contact: Jalan Universiti, Bandar Sunway, 47500, Selangor, Malaysia.
