Min Khant

Dr. Min Khant
Ph.D, BEng. (Hons.)
Teaching Fellow

Contact Details
Location: Skylark 3 Room 447
Telephone: +60 85 630 100 Ext: 2505
Fax: + 085-630 088
Email: minkhant@curtin.edu.my

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=P3Hh1goAAAAJ&hl=en
Web of Science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/HIA-0725-2022
SCOPUS: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=58046071500
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5793-0204

Background

Dr. Min Khant is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at Curtin University Malaysia. His work focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence and biomechanics, with expertise in developing machine learning models to estimate muscle activity and analyze human motion using wearable sensor data. He aims to bridge AI and biological systems to create practical, human-centered solutions, while contributing to interdisciplinary research, education, and industry.

Academic History

  • Doctor Of Philosophy (Engineering) (Specialization: Artificial Intelligence), Monash University, Malaysia, 2025
  • Bachelor Of Mechatronics Engineering (Hons.), Monash University, Malaysia, 2019

Professional History

  • Teaching fellow, Curtin University Malaysia, 2025-Present
  • Teaching assistant, Monash University, Malaysia, 2024-2025
  • Programming helpdesk assistant, Monash University, Malaysia, 2024
  • Software developer, Tun Min Thin, 2019-2021

Awards and Recognitions

  • Monash University School of Engineering Publication Awards 2025

Research Interests

  • Machine Learning/AI in Biomechanics
  • Wearable Sensors in Biomechanics
  • Digital Health
  • Robotic Prostheses

Journal Publications

  1. Khant, Min, Darwin Gouwanda, Alpha A. Gopalai, and Chee Choong Foong. “Integrating deep learning in stride-to-stride muscle activity estimation of young and old adults with wearable inertial measurement units.” Scientific Reports 15, no. 1 (2025): 24783.
  2. Khant, Min, Darwin Gouwanda, Alpha A. Gopalai, King Hann Lim, and Chee Choong Foong. “Estimation of lower extremity muscle activity in gait using the wearable inertial measurement units and neural network.” Sensors 23, no. 1 (2023): 556.
  3. Perera, Chamalka Kenneth, Zakia Hussain, Min Khant, Alpha Agape Gopalai, Darwin Gouwanda, and Siti Anom Ahmad. “A motion capture dataset on human sitting to walking transitions.” Scientific Data 11, no. 1 (2024): 878.

Conference Publications

  1. Khant, Min, Daniel Ts Lee, Darwin Gouwanda, Alpha A. Gopalai, King Hann Lim, and Chee Choong Foong. “A Neural Network Approach to Estimate Lower Extremity Muscle Activity during Walking.” In 2022 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (IECBES), pp. 106-111. IEEE, 2022.
  2. Khant, Min, Darwin Gouwanda, Alpha A. Gopalai, King Hann Lim, and Chee Choong Foong. “A combination of feature extraction and feedforward neural network to estimate muscle activity in human gait.” In TENCON 2023-2023 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), pp. 975-980. IEEE, 2023.

Research Grants and Projects

  • Local LLM Chatbot, Project 2025
  • Godot RPG game, Project 2025

Professional Activities

  • IECBES 2024 Organizing Committee, 2024
  • IECBES 2022 Organizing Committee, 2022
  • Head Of Intelligent System Shell Eco-Marathon Competition, 2018

Professional Affiliations

  • Graduate Engineer with Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM).