In this final episode of our 2nd season we speak with Ram Raj, senior lecturer at the University of Malaya and director at AirAsia Academy about how we can up-skill ourselves and our workforces. Some of the other topics that we cover include:

• What is exciting about Artificial Intelligence (we do not talk about ChatGPT here but about the wider implications on how we can make sense and put our study of AI in context)


• What are some of the most crucial sciences and skills to learn in the next decade


• How you actually get to grow a country's GDP


• How AirAsia Academy manages to up-skill the lower middle class and help them find attractive employment opportunity in virtually no time


• And much more...

Further Links

Learn more about AirAsia Academy here.

More about Ram Raj

Ram Gopal Raj received the B.E. degree (Hons.) in electronics and computing from Nottingham Trent University, in 2004, the master’s degree in information and multimedia technology from Universiti Tun Abdul Razak, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2011. He has over ten years of experience as an Academician. He has also successfully supervised Ph.D. and master’s students. During this time, he was a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya (UM), and also held the post of Deputy Director of The Academic Strategic Planning Centre, UM. He is currently the Director of strategy and innovation with AirAsia Academy. He has authored or coauthored various journal and conference papers related to his areas of expertise. His research interests include artificial intelligence, text classification, natural language processing, and logic programming. https://publons.com/researcher/2843168/ram-gopal-raj/