ASSOCIATE PROF. DR. NIKMATUL ADHA BINTI NORDIN

Dr. Nikmatul Adha is currently the Director of the Corporate Performance Centre at Universiti Malaya. She holds both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). In 2011, she was awarded a doctoral degree from USM, specializing in social and physical planning. Dr. Nikmatul Adha began her career as a Research Officer at USM, later serving as a Research Executive at a private consultancy firm before transitioning into academia. Since 2004, she has been a faculty member at Universiti Malaya, where she teaches Urban Management, Community Development Planning, and various planning studio courses. She is also a Graduate Member of the Malaysian Institute of Planners (MIP). Her research interests include participatory urban planning, tourism planning, and community development planning. Dr. Nikmatul Adha has authored several books and academic articles related to her areas of expertise. She is frequently invited as a speaker and forum panellist at national conferences and has served as a visiting lecturer at Nanjing University Jinling College.

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DR. ADEEB HAYYAN

* PhD with distinction in Chemical Eng. from University of Malaya. *His h-index is 31 with total citations almost 7400 according to Google Scholar. *He published more than 100 ISI journal articles and filed 12 patents with 6 granted patents. He has been awarded many medals in International Expos. Laureate of 10 International Awards. *He is recognized by SciFinder Database as one of the top 20 researchers (ranked 14) in the world in the research field of ‘deep eutectic solvents and palm oil research work’. *He participated in more than 50 International conferences in different countries. * Invited as keynote speaker in Oman, Qatar and Sudan to deliver lectures and seminars as well as to improve the research system in many universities in Sudan. *He has received many certificates and recognition from Elsevier and Thomson Reuters for his published papers. *He received many international awards from Elsevier, United Nation University- Japan, UNESCO-Paris, ICheME- Malaysia, Foundation of Alexander von Humboldt-Germany, and American Oil Chemists' Society-USA. * Laureate 2015 ProSPER.Net-Scopus Young Scientist Award in Sustainable Development for Energy Category in Asia Pacific. * Laureate MAB Young Scientist Award from UNESCO and representing Malaysia. *Publication of the first comprehensive scientific report on Malaysian Biosphere Reserves with support of NESCO. * Recognized as one of the top 100 Scientists in Asia in the 2018 edition of the Asian Scientist 100 (AS100). * Member in Editorial Advisory Committee in Al-Khwarizmi Engineering Journal (ALKEJ). * Member in Editorial Advisory Committee Inform magazine (founded 1917) published under American Oil Chemists' Society. * In 2020,2021,2022 and 2023 and according to ranking generated by Stanford University, recognized as world’s top 2% of Scientists in Eng. In Category of Chemical and Biotechnology Eng.

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PROF. DR. SITI HAFIZAH BINTI AB HAMID

Professor Dr Siti Hafizah is an expert researcher in software engineering whose work bridges software reliability, cloud computing, and intelligent software applications. She received her Ph.D. in Software Verification and is leading a research team that specializes in Software Quality, Software Testing, and Affective Computing, where her team has published more than 100 papers in SCOPUS and WoS conferences and journals. She is a SIRIM Technical Committee for Malaysia Standard of Software & System Engineering (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7), Academic Programme Quality Manager, and currently holding a post as a Deputy Dean (Development) for the faculty. She has graduated with 15 PhD students and more than 20 Master students. She has received private, national and international grants for machine and deep learning research on metadata-tagging for music repositories, evolutionary software development for Malaysia's aging & retirement survey system, natural language processing on anxiety and depression emotions, dengue prevention, and STEM teaching and learning. Also, she is certified with professional training in iOS mobile app development, Project Management, and Computational Thinking. Her research interests are software efficiency, fault tolerance computing, and social media markers in mental healthcare.

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RECENT PUBLICATION

  • Islam, Ameena; Md Syed, Md Azalanshah (2026). Journalistic Professionalism in a Time of Paradoxes: ntv Online and "alternative Voice" in Bangladesh. Journalism Practice


  • Adams, Donnie; Sothinathan, Jayanti S.; Radzi, Norfariza Mohd (2026). Science Mapping The Evolution of Middle Leadership Research, 2002-2023. Educational Management Administration & Leadership


  • Ooi, Ai-Yee; Lim, Kian-Ping (2026). Multiple Blockholders and Governance Through Voice: Evidence from Blockholder Board Representation. Applied Economics Letters


  • Daghigh, Ali Jalalian; Guo, Lisha (2026). A Socio-cognitive Account of Ideological Manipulation in Chinese Translation of Political Opinion Articles. Journalism Practice


  • Azahari, Ahmad Fikri Azfar Ahmad; Naim, Wan Naimah Wan Ab; Sari, Nor Ashikin Md; Lim, Einly; Mokhtarudin, Mohd Jamil Mohamed (2026). Advancement in Computational Simulation and Validation of Congenital Heart Disease: a Review. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering


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