Institute for Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (IBDAAI) is a Centre of Excellence dedicated for developing smart solutions to data analytics and social analytics that operate in complex environments. The centre aims to build a collaborative research team, which can contribute to high quality research outcomes and impacts. This centre of excellence will also provide expert advice through training, consultancy and commercialization related to Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence. In line with the latest developments and future needs, new advances in artificial intelligence technology in empowering Big Data Analytics is very important. The combination of Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence provides optimal solutions to many problems. The establishment of this centre of excellence is also in line with the direction of the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE), Malaysia to leverage the university's expertise that will be useful and benefit to the community and industry. The vision is to become a world-renowned and internationally recognized research centre in the field of Big Data analytics and Artificial intelligence.

IBDAAI was a research centre known as Advanced Analytics & Engineering Centre (AAEC), established on 1st of June 2014 and located at the Faculty of Computer & Mathematical Sciences (FSKM), Al Khawarizmi Complex, UiTM Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.Since then AAEC and FSKM have been working together to establish Big Data Lab@UiTM which were supported by Grants acquired from the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) and Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI). Total value of both grants are about RM750,000. Big Data Lab@UiTM has been used for training of students taking Data Science tracks, Postgraduate students and research projects on Data Analytics.

Since 2015, AAEC has organized the International Conference on Soft Computing in Data Science (SCDS). This annual event was co- organized with other collaborators such as The University of Tennessee, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Chulalongkorn University, University of Macau, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) and Kyushu Institute of Technology.