DR. MUHAMMAD RIDHA BIN ALI HUDDIN

Dr. Muhammad Ridha bin Ali Huddin merupakan Pensyarah Kanan di Jabatan Bahasa Arab dan Bahasa-bahasa Timur Tengah, Fakulti Bahasa dan Linguistik, Universiti Malaya. Beliau juga ialah bapa kepada lima orang anak. Beliau mendapat pendidikan awal di Sekolah Kebangsaan Jawi, Pulau Pinang. Beliau kemudian menamatkan persekolahan di SMK Seri Nibong, Pulau Pinang. Beliau menyambung pengajian di Darul Quran JAKIM bagi peringkat Diploma Tahfiz al-Quran dan al-Qiraat (Syariah) pada 2009-2012. Kemudian, bagi Ijazah Sarjana Muda pula, beliau meneruskan pengajian di Universiti Putra Malaysia (pengkhususan bahasa Arab, minor bahasa Inggeris) di bawah biasiswa Skim Pembiayaan Hafiz JAKIM. Beliau berjaya menamatkan pengajian Sarjana Muda dalam masa 2 tahun setengah sahaja iaitu pada akhir 2012 hingga awal 2015. Beliau meneruskan pengajian bagi peringkat Sarjana (Masters) di Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM) dalam bidang Linguistik Arab di bawah biasiswa KPT-Mybrain. Tesis master beliau adalah dalam bidang Fonetik dan Fonologi Arab. Beliau berjaya bergraduat dalam masanya (graduate on time) iaitu pada tahun 2017. Pada tahun 2018, beliau berjaya ditawarkan fellowship berprestij tinggi iaitu Skim Latihan Akademik Bumiputera oleh Universiti Malaya serta mendapat tajaan penuh daripada Kementerian Pendidikan Tinggi bagi pengajian Ijazah Doktor Falsafah (Ph.D) di Universiti Malaya dalam bidang Fonetik dan Fonologi (Arab), serta beliau berjaya menamatkan kedoktorannya secara rasmi pada awal tahun 2024. Dr. Muhammad Ridha juga merupakan pemegang tauliah mengajar al-Quran Majlis Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan (MAIWP) bagi kategori dewasa dan kanak-kanak sejak tahun 2014. Selain itu, beliau juga merupakan Perunding Hartanah berdaftar dengan Lembaga Penilai, Pentaksir, Ejen Harta Tanah Malaysia (LPPEH) serta mempunyai 4 tahun pengalaman dalam industri hartanah di bawah agensi hartanah PutraHomes Realty, Putrajaya. Beliau juga merupakan Timbalan Pengerusi di KAFA Al-Amin Putrajaya (institusi pendidikan swasta) sejak tahun 2015 hingga kini.  Beliau kini sedang aktif berkolaborasi bersama Persatuan Berdaftar/NGO dalam beberapa penyelidikan berkaitan neurolinguistik dan psikolinguistik dalam kalangan kanak-kanak berkeperluan khas (Disleksia) dari aspek literasi bahasa Arab, memori kerja (working memory) dan pemprosesan fonologi berbantukan peralatan klinikal seperti Electroencephalography (EEG) dan functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

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PROF. DR. ZAMRI BIN ZAINAL ABIDIN

Prof Dr Zamri Zainal Abidin is a radio astronomy researcher who focuses on exploring the fundamental and applications of deep space astrophysics and solar astronomy sciences. He has been a physicist and lecturer at the Department of Physics, University of Malaya since 2005. After graduating from the Jodrell Bank Centre of Astrophysics at University of Manchester, and together with Prof Dr Zainol Abidin Ibrahim, he established the Radio Cosmology Research Lab Group, which is the first and currently only radio astronomical research group in the country. His PhD thesis won the best publication in astronomy in 2005 awarded by the National Space Agency (ANGKASA). His team of researchers won medals at expos including at the Research, Invention and Innovation Expo (silver medal; awarded by Universiti Malaya in 2006), International Invention, Innovation & Technology Exhibition (gold medal; awarded by Ministry Of Science Technology And Innovation Of Malaysia in 2017), Research and Innovation Week Expo (gold medal; awarded by Education, Science, Technology And Transformation of State of Terengganu in 2017) and Seoul International Invention Fair 2017 (2 silver medals; awarded by Korean Invention Promotion Association in 2017). Among his responsibilities are; the chair of the radio astronomy group for the South East Asian Astronomy Network (SEAAN) since 2007, national representative for the Radio Astronomy Frequency Committee in the Asia-Pacific region (RAFCAP) since 2010, regional advisory committee member for the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) since 2017 and the head of the Malaysia-East Asian Observatory Consortium (MEAsOOC) since 2019. He received numerous fellowships including the Freeman Foundation Fellowship (awarded by the Salzburg Seminar, Austria in 2005), Chinese Academy of Sciences Visiting Research Fellowship For Developing Countries (awarded by the CAS China in 2013) and President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) for Visiting Scientists (awarded by the CAS China in 2019). For his work with the CAS, he was nominated for The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) "Regional Award for Building Scientific Institutions" in 2020. In 2022, he was invited to make a special extended appearance in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) documentary "Solar Storm: A Warning from Space". In his administrative duty, he held the position of the Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Science in Universiti Malaya between 2017 and 2019. He was the Head of Department of Physics between 2022 and 2025. He attended the Executive Education Program on "Innovation in the Digital Age: Entrepreneurship Lessons from Silicon Valley" conducted by the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley in June 2023. He is currently the director the National Centre of Particle Physics, since November 2024. In 2025, he has 7 ongoing PhD students and 11 ongoing masters students under his supervision. The total number of postgraduate students that have graduated under his supervision stands at 31 (13 PhD and 18 masters). He has also supervised a total number of 96 undergraduate Final Year Project (FYP) students since 2006. He has received the certificate of patent filing by the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia for the innovation entitled "Space Weather Monitoring System using a dual-polarized log-periodic dipole antenna array" on 28th July 2025.

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IR. DR. HUZAIFA BIN HASHIM

Huzaifa bin Hashim is a senior lecturer at Faculty of Engineering. He has made his path unceasingly in civil engineering field , gaining in knowledge over the years both in academic and industrial line.

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