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Professor Dato’ Ir. Dr. Mohd. Hamdi Abd. Shukor received his Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) with Honours from Imperial College, London, England; a Master of Science degree in Advanced Manufacturing and Management Technology from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, United Kingdom; and a Doctor of Engineering degree from Kyoto University, Japan.

His academic career commenced in 1995 in Universiti Malaya (UM) as a tutor and he later became a lecturer in the Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture in 1997. He was then appointed as the Head, Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture (2003-2006). He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006 and then served as a full Professor (Professor C) in 2010. He was promoted to a Senior Professor (Professor B) in 2014 and in 2019 as Senior Professor (Professor A). In 2021, he was appointed to the highest promotion post of Turus III.  

Prof Hamdi was the former Dean, Faculty of Engineering, UM (2009-2011) and the former Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and International), UM (2011-2014). He was appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 2019 and in November 2020, he assumes the role of leading Universiti Malaya as the 13th Vice-Chancellor.

At the national level, he continues to hold top leadership positions of great repute including as Chairman of the Public Universities Rectors/Vice-Chancellors Committee, Chairman, Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC), Board Member of Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) and Council Member of the Institute of Engineers Malaysia (IEM).

He was a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2015-2016. He was appointed as the Executive President of Asian Universities Alliance (AUA) from 2021-2022 is currently a Steering Committee Member of Asia Pacific Rims Universities (APRU) 2022-2023 and a Council Member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) 2022-2025 and the Administrative Board Member of International Association of Universities (IAU) 2022-2026.

In addition to producing more than 220 impactful publications in journals indexed by the Web of Science, he also has recorded a h-index of 39 with total citation of over 6,140

In recognition of his outstanding service and contribution, Dato' Mohd. Hamdi was conferred the Darjah Johan Mangku Negara (J.M.N.) by KDYMM Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong in 2019 and also Darjah Dato’ Paduka Negeri Sembilan (D.P.N.S.), which carries the title of Dato' by DYMM Yang di-Pertuan Besar Negeri Sembilan in 2020.

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