Quantum Computing Market Tracker - 1Q23 Data

Sivalingam Muniandi

Research Manager

As part of Omdia's research operation team, Sivalingam Muniandi leads the projects from the service provider, consumer, and enterprise market sectors, with a specific interest in telecom operator multi-play strategies, subscriber and revenue trends, new service rollouts, regulatory developments, telco merger and acquisition activity, and pay TV.

Prior to joining Omdia, formerly IHS Markit, Siva worked as a senior research analyst, covering telecoms and pay TV in Asia Pacific. He also worked at Maxis Berhad, Malaysia as a business analyst on the regional sales team.  During his time there, Siva was responsible for data mining, KPI and sales performance reporting, market research, competitor insights, trade management, vendor management, and compliance control.

Siva holds a Bachelor of Information Technology (Hons.) in multimedia systems from Wawasan Open University, Malaysia. He is currently pursuing the Commonwealth Executive Master of Business Administration and is based in Penang, Malaysia.  

Amni Abdul Ghapar

Research Analyst

Amni is a research analyst in Omdia’s research operations team. Amni assists in providing research and analysis support for various research products in service providers and the IoT market.

In particular, she tracks telco news from third-tier countries and records SME bundles from enterprises. She also oversees the telecom IT contracts database and produces reports on IoT applications; she is also familiar with the smart cities market.

Prior to joining Omdia, formerly IHS Technology, Amni was a graduate trainee in Celcom Axiata. Amni holds a bachelor’s degree in business economics from Aberystwyth University, UK.

Siraj Aziz

Analyst, Cloud and Data Center

Siraj focuses on the data center infrastructure market, covering modular data centers, data center racks, and rack power distribution units (PDUs). Siraj has over five years of experience in the technology research industry, providing extensive desk research and end-to-end content creation across various topics such as smart cities, artificial intelligence (AI), and Internet of Things (IoT).

Prior to joining Omdia (previously IHS Markit) in July 2018, Siraj worked as a research assistant at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He also had brief assignments as a research intern at the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) and Securities Commission Malaysia. Siraj earned a master’s degree in development studies from the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2019 and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, in 2015

Kavitha Mahendran

Senior Research Associate

Kavitha provides research and analysis support for various products related to service providers and AI as part of the Research Operations team based in Penang, Malaysia.

Prior to joining Omdia, Kavitha worked as a reporting business analyst at Teleperformance Malaysia, Penang. She was responsible for data-driven analysis of employee key performance index (KPI), sales and revenue visualization, and forecasting. Besides that, Kavitha has been an active part-time tutor focusing on Excel spreadsheets and VBA automation teachings.

Kavitha holds a bachelor’s degree in financial mathematics from Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Malaysia.

Yi Wei Cheah

Senior Research Associate

As part of Penang Research Operations, Yi Wei is proficient in data mining algorithms, data processing, automation, NLP, and scripting languages, including Python and UiPath, to increase data efficiency and reduce lead times for research projects.

Yi Wei joined Informa Tech in 2021 with two years of experience in data automation and worked as a Python developer. Yi Wei holds a bachelor’s degree in science (actuarial and financial mathematics) from the University of Malaya.

Saranyah Vijayan

Senior Research Associate

Saranyah is a part of the Penang Research Operations’ data and automation team. She works on automation solutions and data visualization using UiPath, Power BI, Alteryx, and R.

Saranyah has been a part of the team since 2018. She graduated from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) with a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering (Hons.) and was later trained in big data analytics. Previously a test engineer with Standard Chartered Global Business Services, she has experience with analytics tools such as Hadoop and Teradata.