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5.08/20/2025

Encourages independent and critical thought.

4.05/21/2025

Helps students unlock their full potential.

5.03/31/2025

Inspires students to love learning.

4.02/27/2025

Makes even dry topics interesting.

5.02/7/2025

Makes even dry topics interesting.

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About Lay

Associate Professor Lay-Ki Soon is based in the School of Information Technology at Monash University Malaysia, where she has served as Associate Head (Graduate Research) since November 2018. She holds a PhD in Engineering (Web Engineering) from Soongsil University, Korea, with the thesis 'Towards a Semantically-Driven Focused Web Crawling'; a Master of Science in Database from Universiti Putra Malaysia; and a Bachelor of Computer Science from Universiti Putra Malaysia. Before Monash, she was Senior Lecturer and Deputy Dean (Research and Innovation) at the Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Multimedia University from March 2016 to August 2018, and Research Fellow at Telekom Malaysia R&D, contributing to call data records database optimization. She has graduated seven PhD students and three Master's students, one of whom received the MMU Best Master Thesis Award in 2015. Lay-Ki Soon teaches Databases and Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing to Master's and undergraduate students, and has delivered professional courses on Relational Database and NoSQL Database.