Keynote Speakers

Visiting scholar at the University of Leuven in Belgium and visiting professor  at  the University of Changwon in Korea. In recent years, he has presided over four National Natural Science Fund projects, two major national science and technology projects, one national support plan, one 863 Project, one provincial fund, one international cooperation project, and more than 40 other school-enterprise cooperation projects. He has published more than 200 papers of the first author in the important academic journals at home and abroad, among which 170 papers are included in Sci/ei. There are 45 patents for invention and 38 patents for utility model.

Mohamed Shaaban received his B.Sc. (Honours) and M.Sc. degrees from Suez Canal University, Egypt and his Ph.D. degree (all in Electrical Engineering) from the University of Hong Kong in 1990, 1996, and 2002 respectively. He held previous appointments at Suez Canal University and Port Said University, Egypt, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia, University of Strathclyde, UK, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia. He was a Visiting Professor at Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA in 2007 and National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan in 2015. He is serving as a Visiting Professor at Tanta University, Egypt since 2020. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His current research interests include distributed generation scheduling, large-scale optimization, microgrid operation, smart distribution grids, renewable energy integration, and big data analytics applications in energy systems. He has more than 90 publications in various journals and international conferences. Dr. Shaaban is a Chartered Engineer, UK, a member of IET, and a Senior Member, IEEE.

My research is centred around the interrelated fields of 1) Liquid Crystal Technology, 2) Thermoelectric Materials and Devices, Electronics Packaging and 4) Quantum Chemistry modelling of electronic materials. My research is interdisciplinary in nature, spanning over electrical engineering, applied physics, chemistry and materials science. I have published over 120 ISI-Indexed journal publications, and have acted as Keynote/Plenary speker in several international publications. I was the founding President of the Malaysian Thermoelectric Society, and a national member of the Tin Solder Technology Association. To date, I have managed over RM5 million in research funds as Principal Investigator, and am actively engaging leading international collaborators in my research fields. I am also keen on encouraging the next generation to enter Science and Technology fields, through STEM outreach activities to schoolchildren, by disseminating information related to my research in an accessible manner.

Dr. Azura Che Soh is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang (UPM), Selangor. She graduated in BEng in Electronic/Computer in 1999 and MSc (Electrical & Electronic of Engineering) in 2002 from Universiti Putra Malaysia.  She obtained PhD (Electrical Engineering) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2011. She was main researcher of Control System and Signal Processing (CSSP) Research Group at Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, UPM and also Associate Researcher at Malaysian Research Institute on Ageing (MyAgeing). Her research focuses on multidisciplinary approaches for Control Engineering, System Modelling and Artificial Intelligent (AI) with applications in process control, traffic management system, fault detection and diagnosis system, agriculture, energy management system, robotic and automation. She has more than 150 publications in various journals and international conferences. She is a Professional Technologist (PTech), Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT) and senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She also member of Asian Control Association (ACA), International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Malaysia Society of Engineering & Technology (MySET) and Malaysian Society for Automatic Control Engineers (MACE).