NYI NYI TUN

NYI NYI TUN (Dr. NYI) received a bachelor’s in Mechatronic Engineering from the Department of Mechatronics, Technological University, Mandalay, Myanmar, in 2013. He was one of the research candidates for the JICA EEHE projects’ fund for the year 2015. He obtained a master’s in Mechatronic engineering from Mandalay Technological University, MTU, Myanmar, in 2016. He was also a Marubeni-Myanmar scholarship student in 2016. Among several scholarships, he was selected as a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering at Kyushu University with a JICA Innovative Asia scholarship. He joined the Neuroinformatics and Neuroimaging Laboratory at Kyushu University in 2017. For his Ph.D. studies, he worked on Brain Computer Interface (BCI)-related research and the analysis of functional coupling and synchronization between brain and muscle signals at Kyushu University. Then, he graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D. in Information Science) in March 2022 from Kyushu University.

He is one of the IEEE young professional members, Fukuoka section. He became the ambassador of IEEE EMBS in the Student Mentoring Program (SMP) for the year 2021. He was appointed as an IEEE EMBS Student Activities Committee’s Membership Advocate that year. He was a graduate of the IEEE MGA 2022 VoLT Program. He served as chairman of the IEEE EMBS Student Mentoring Program for the year 2022. Upon the successful launch of the 2022 program, he was serving as Chairman of the 2023 Edition of the IEEE EMBS Student Mentoring Program, which falls under the Professional Development Portfolio. He was also a member of the IEEE Young Professionals (YP) Climate and Sustainability Task Force (CSTF)and IEEE EMC-S EdCom. He is an ambassador for IEEE Smart Cities. To contribute, he founded Dr. NYI Online Training Courses (Free-for-All), which are aimed at youth in 2022, June 18. He is serving as a vice chair of the IEEE EMBS Student Activities Committee (SAC), along with the role of Professional Development Portfolio Lead for the year 2024.

He was a specially appointed researcher at the Nagoya Institute of Technology from April 2022 to March 2023. He is working as a postdoctoral academic researcher at the Department of Electronics, Graduate School, and Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University. His research relates to biomedical and neural circuits in fusion with mechatronics engineering. He achieved the best presentation award at the 9th International Conference on Science and Engineering, 2018, in Yangon, Myanmar.