Rate My Professor Joanne Lim

Joanne Lim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, School of Engineering, Monash University Malaysia. She received her Bachelor of Engineering (with honours) in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering from Monash University Malaysia in 2008, Master of Engineering from Universiti Malaya in 2011, and PhD in Engineering from Multimedia University in 2016. Beginning her academic career as a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Asia Pacific University in 2011, she joined Monash University Malaysia in 2017 as a Lecturer and has advanced to Senior Lecturer and now Associate Professor. She serves as Course Director for Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering.

Her research interests include Internet of Things (IoT), Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs/drones), Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs), artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization schemes, robotics design, and renewable and sustainable systems. She focuses on applying machine learning with IoT in vehicular systems and UAVs to improve quality of life and transportation efficiency, contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goals including SDG 3, 7, 9, 11, 12, and 13. Key publications include "Intelligent traffic rerouting with dynamic vehicle selection for congestion mitigation" (2025, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence), "Long-term traffic speed prediction utilizing data augmentation via segmented time frame clustering" (2025, Knowledge-Based Systems), "Altitude-informed fusion pyramid network for multi-scale waste detection in unmanned aerial vehicle images" (2025, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence), "Collaborative vehicle rerouting system with dynamic vehicle selection" (2023, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems), and "UAV swarm communication reliability based on a comprehensive SINR model" (2024, Vehicular Communications). Among her awards are the PVC Award for Excellence in Research (2020), Faculty of Engineering Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher (2021), Dean's Award for Industry and Community Education Programs (2023), PVC Award for Industry and Community Education Programs (2023), and School of Engineering Award for Excellence in Education (Early Career Education Award, 2023). She has served as Primary Chief Investigator on grants such as "Investigation into Traffic Mobility in Malaysia for Intelligent Transportation System" (2019-2023) and "Reliable Communication Architecture for Navigation and Guidance of Interconnected Aerial Vehicles" (2021-2024). Since 2022, she is Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Safety and Environment.