Wai Yie Leong is a Professor at MAHSA University, Malaysia, where she specializes in biomedical signal and image processing, medical signal processing and telecommunications, smart control, and wireless sensor networks. She has been actively involved in Women In Technology and received the Smart-State-Smart-Women Award from the Queensland Government, Australia, in 2005. She is currently the Chairman of the Women Engineers Section, Malaysia (IEM-WE) and Chairman of Women Engineers - AFEO (WEAFEO). She has participated in National and International Wushu Tournaments winning more than 30 awards, including traditional Taichi, Taichi sobre, Taichi fan and Taichi sword.