DR. SURIA BINTI ZAINUDDIN

Suria Zainuddin is a Management Accounting and Taxation lecturer at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Malaya. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and undergraduate studies (BAcc) in accounting in 2011 and 1998, respectively at University of Malaya and obtained her Master of Accountancy (MAcc) in 2002 from Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia. Her research interests are in the area of taxation, zakat, management accounting and control systems, and accounting education. She has supervised more than 10 Masters and 3 PhD students. She has been teaching for 20 years for various levels of studies including diploma, undergraduates and postgraduate studies. 

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DR. MOHAMMED ABDO HASHEM ALI

Dr. Mohammed Abdo Hashem is currently working as Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) with the department of Mechanical Engineering at Faculty of Engineering in University of Malaya starting from April 2021-Onwards.  He has a quite long experience in teaching courses in the fields of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering for more than 8 years. Besides that, he was working as engineer in several industrial companies for more 3 years. In 2015, He was appointed as a senior lecturer and leader of control, software and automation teaching & research groups, in the Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering- Universiti Malaysia Pahang, where he led many research and teaching activities during the period of appointment between 2015 and 2021.  In the research, a total of four patents have been granted to his novel research and products, namely; laser simulator approach for path planning, intelligent spanner and the autonomous road marks painting system version 1&2; with furthermore publishing more than 60 papers in high indexed ISI journals, Scopus, chapters and conferences. He recieved more than 12 grants as leader from MOHE (1FRGS and 1 PRGS) and Universiti Malaysia Pahang (8 RDU grants).  His research interests include, but are not limited to the following areas: Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation, Artificial Intelligence, Robot Path Planning, SLAM, Industrial Robotics, Mobile Manipulators, Sensors Fusion, Mechatronics Systems, Automation and IR.4, Intelligent Active Force Control, Signal and Image Processing. He is currently working, in his research group, on developing a novel AI algorithm, called laser simulator logic, that helps to avoid the drawbacks of current fuzzy logic type 1 and 2, especially in the noisy environments of industrial systems.     

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DR. SHANGEETHA A/P RAJAH KUMARAN

Shangeetha Rajah Kumaran is a Senior Lecturer and the current Head of the Department of English Language in the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics at Universiti Malaya (UM), a position she has held at various times since 2021. She is also the Universiti Malaya Quality Excellence Index (UMQEI) assessor and the University's Programme Quality Assurance Expert (ProQAE), working collaboratively to enhance academic programmes, and improve standardisation and quality of documentation for accreditations. Due to her expertise in programme quality assurance, she has served as the Chair and External Panel of Assessor for the Full Accreditation of several programmes in various institutions. Her primary research interests focus on sociolinguistics and postcolonial literature, particularly, the sociolinguistic aspects of language use in literary texts, code-switching in various fields, language maintenance and shift among diasporic communities, and Malaysian Indian writings in English. Her current research work centres on translanguaging practices in the education and medical fields, as well as the visibility of languages in public spaces (linguistic landscape). She has authored and co-authored numerous articles and a book titled Diasporic Consciousness of Malaysian Indian Writings in English. She is also the recipient of the 2025 Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS).

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