Jeyraj Selvaraj received the B.Eng. (Hons.) degree from Multimedia University, Malaysia, in 2002, the M.Sc. degree in Power Electronics and Drives jointly from the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K., and the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K., in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2009.

He is currently a Professor and Executive Director of UM Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), Universiti Malaya. He has involved in the field of Solar Energy for more than 15 years.  He has done more than 75 onsite inverter tests under the FiT, LSS and NEM scheme in Malaysia. He is also a member of IEEE, IEM and a member of working group committee on Photovoltaic Standards of Department of Standards Malaysia. He is one of the recipients of NAM Research Training Fellowship for Young Scientist and Royal Academy Engineering UK’s Leaders in Innovation Fellowship in 2016 and 2017 respectively.

In 2019 he was awarded the Erasmus+ Mobility Programme Fellowship followed by Asian Universities Alliance Scholarship in 2020. He has been awarded Top Research Scientist Malaysia (TRSM) by Academy of Science Malaysia 2024. He has around 150 publication both in ISI and Scopus. Dr Jeyraj is actively involved in research as a Principal Investigator with a total amount of research grants more than RM3million. His outstanding research had been recognized by Stanford University as the Top 2% of scientists in the world in 2021 to 2023. He is also a Professional Engineer with the Board of Engineers Malaysia.