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Began at entry level in 1988 as a computer programmer in software industry for 6 years. He is a Professor of Data Mining, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Malaysia. He obtained tertiary academic qualifications from the Oklahoma City University, USA – B. Sc (1994), and M.Sc (1995, Computer Science) and the University of Malaya, Malaysia for Phd in Data Mining (2004). Since then, more than 90 academic papers have been published in proceedings and respectable journals internationally within top 1% ranking -> Information Fusion ( JCR 2021 -  : CATEGORY: COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS: Rank 1/109, impact factor :17.564 ) ,  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (JCR 2021 - : CATEGORY: INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE  : Rank 1/84,  impact factor : 18.958 ). 

He received a very good H-index and number of citation in Web of Science (H-index :22,  2,812 citations) , Scopus (H-index : 25, 3,738 citations ) and google scholars (H-index:31, 6,530 citations) databases. He actively supervises numerous students at all level of study – Bachelor, Master (12 completed) and Ph.D. (12 completed). Areas of interest in research includes Data warehouse, Data Mining, Deep Learning, IoT, Activity Recognition; Wearable Sensors; Accelerometers, Heart Arrhythmia; Electrocardiograph; Supraventricular Premature Beat; ; Multivariate Time Series, Edge Computing; Task Scheduling; Data Streams; Mobile Computing; Speaker Verification; Language Recognition; Clustering Algorithms; MapReduce; Stock Market; Sentiment Analysis. Besides that, he has received several grants (public, international - NVADIA GPU grant & private - PARKER HANNIFIN ) of more than RM one million. 

Currently, he has been serving as Associate Editor for Human-Media Interaction - FRONTIERS IN Psychology (JCR2021 - Q1) and also serves as a reviewer to several high quality journals, He serves as an Expert Advisory Panel for Master of Science (Data Science) Degree Program at UTP, Programme Advisory Panel for   Bachelor of Business (Honors) in Business Analytics at TARUC. He is also an external assessor of Swinburne University of Technology (BS of Computer Science program). Moreover, he is an External Assessor for Programme Master Sciences (Computer and Information Engineering), IIUM.

Recently, has completed two commercial data science projects such as Petronas GTD Data Science Project and  Air Liquide Smart Innovative Operations. He is appointed as an Associate Fellow of Institute for Advanced and Smart Digital Opportunities, UUM. and serves as a technical assessor of Swiss National Science Foundation as well.

He has been teaching data mining subject since 2002 which involved bachelor and Master programmes. He has produced data scientist graduates since 2002. He has also produced high quality Phd graduates who work in IBM, Canada(Senior Data Scientist),  Amazon Web Services (AWS), Toronto, Canada (Senior Solutions Architect, AI/ML Specialist),  Google, Canada (Senior Customer Engineer, AI/ML Specialist), Entefy, Silicon Valley, California, United States(Director of Data Science) as well.