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Prof Ir Dr Norhayati Soin
Prof Ir Dr Norhayati Soin received the B. Eng. (Hons) degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Liverpool Polytechnic, United Kingdom (1991) and MSc degree in Microelectronics Engineering from Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom(1998). She has then received her PhD degree in Electronics and Systems Engineering from National University of Malaysia (UKM)(2005). She is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya, Malaysia. Her research interests include microchip design for medical applications, semiconductor device reliability and characterisation of CMOS circuit and devices. In terms of her technical contribution, she is the Chairperson of IEEE Electron Devices Society Malaysia Chapter for 2015 to 2018 who involved in organising local and international conferences. She was also a member of the technical program committee of several previous international conferences. She is an author and co-author of 80 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals of relevance in the Microelectronics field and published over 80 conference research papers as well as several keynote lectures. Prof Norhayati Soin is a regular reviewer for many journals (including IEEE Proceeding Electronic devices and systems and Elsevier Science Journal). She is a member of the scientific committee for many international conferences (IEEE International Conference). She has been actively involved and technically responsible for initiating and coordinating the microelectronics research in University Malaya. Currently, she leads the VLSI Design Research Group at the Electrical Department which is expected to spearhead concerted efforts towards creating more human resource focusing on microelectronic design. She has completed her PhD on Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) design and fabrication at The Institute of Micro and Nanoengineering (IMEN), UKM in 2005 and has been appointed as the associated research fellow at the institute. She brought her experience of MEMS research to the postgraduate program of University Malaya and responsible in teaching MEMS-related subjects and conducting MEMS-based research primarily on biomedical applications and RF. She was appointed as a committee member by the Malaysian Industry-Government Group (MIG) for High Technology in 2005 for developing the first national MEMS roadmap for Malaysia. Currently, she involves in the National MEMS/NEMS Working Committee organised by MIMOS Sdn Bhd, She is the principal investigator for local and international research grants (UM grant, FRGS, TRGS, Science Fund, Newton British Fund). She has experience of the doctoral/master degree examination process as an external and internal examiner for doctoral/master thesis locally and internationally. She has been appointed as a master trainer in University Malaya for the module of teaching and learning as well as postgraduate student supervision. Her involvement in the training session in AKEPT has contributed to excellent skills in the academic and research development of young lecturers in UM. She has received a Mimos prestigious award (Anugerah Inovasi Negara): supervision of doctoral dissertation for Dr Fatmadiana wan Muhammad Hatta in 2014.
Dr. Sharifah Fatmadiana Bt Wan Muhammad Hatta
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Dr. Sharifah Fatmadiana is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya in Malaysia since year 2014. She graduated with an MEng in Electrical Electronics Engineering (University of Sheffield, UK) in 2005, MSc in Microelectronics (University of Malaya) in 2009 and PhD in Microelectronics (LJMU,UK) in 2014. Her research interests include emerging technologies in wearable electronics, semiconductor reliability, advanced semiconductor modelling and characterisation as well as PUF-based technology in cyber-securities. She has co-authored in more than 20 journals and conference proceedings. She has collaborated with industries namely INTEL (Malaysia), MIMOS (Malaysia), Infineon Technologies (Malaysia), Motorola Solutions (Malaysia) and IMEC (Belgium) as well as academic institutions namely Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She has secured research grants from the Newton Fund (Royal Academy of Engineering, UK), Sciencefund (MOSTTI, Malaysia), FRGS (MOE,Malaysia) and internal research grants in University of Malaya. She is affiliated with the IEEE and IEEE Electron Devices Society, and has organised and served as a technical committee for a number of IEEE conferences since 2014. An awardee of the MIMOS Prestigious Award 2014 and shortlisted for the Newton Prize in 2017.
Dr. Mohamad Hazwan Bin Mohd Daut
Dr. Hazwan received the M.Eng. (First Class Hons.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Sheffield, U.K., in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from the University of Cambridge, U.K., in 2019. His interests are in the design and development of low power energy harvesting system, including energy harvesting mechanisms, low power converters, and power flow control for paralleling multiple low power dc–dc converters. His research also covers the fabrication and characterization of thin film devices based on oxide semiconductors for the applications of flexible power circuits for low power applications.
Dr. Ma Li Ya
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Ma Li Ya received the B. Eng. in Electronic and Information Engineering from Changchun University, Jilin, China, in 2007 and the M.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from International Islamic University Malaysia, in 2012. She completed her PhD in Electronic Engineering from University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2018. Currently she is working as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya. Her research interests include MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems), RF-MEMS switches, finite element modeling, microelectronics and VLSI (very large scale integration) technology. Recently as a post-doc researcher, her research has been extended to the fabrication and characterization of flexible electronics which contain printable fabrication methods and materials, as well as flexible and stretchable sensors with electrodes.