Prof. Dr. Wan Mohd Nasir Wan Kadir

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

BIO: Ts. Dr. Wan Mohd Nasir Wan Kadir is a Professor in Software Engineering at the Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He received his BSc. from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, MSc. from UMIST, and Ph.D. from The University of Manchester. He has been an academic staff at the Faculty of Computing for over 25 years (since 1997). He was the Head of the Software Engineering Department from 2005 to 2009, Deputy Dean (Development) of the Faculty of Computing from 2010 to 2015, Deputy Director of the Center for Academic Leadership and Professional Development (CALPD), UTMLead from 2015 to 2016, Director of CALPD from 2016-2018, and Chair of the School of Computing from 2019-2022. He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Computing, UTM. He is also currently the Chairman of the Malaysia Council of ICT Deans (MaDICT) and Head of the ICT Cluster at the National Council of Professors (MPN).

Prof. Por Lip Yee

IEEE Senior Member, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

BIO: Dr. Lip Yee, an esteemed Professor at the Department of System and Computer Technology within the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology at the Universiti Malaya, Malaysia, earned his Ph.D. from the Universiti Malaya under the mentorship of Prof. Abdullah bin Gani in 2012. He is also a senior member of the IEEE. Since then, Dr. Por has made significant contributions to academia, research, and industry.

Dr. Por's research endeavors have been at the forefront of technological advancement, particularly in the domains of security and quality assurance of information (NEC 2020: 0611) and machine learning (NEC 2020: 0613). His research interests include machine learning, support vector machines, deep learning, long-short-term memory, computer vision, AIoT, IoT, blockchain, authentication, graphic passwords, PIN-entry, cryptography, data hiding, steganography, and watermarking. His pioneering work has garnered recognition both nationally and internationally, with over 100 academic papers published in reputable journals. Notably, he was among the first few pioneers to publish in the top 1% of ISI journals, with commendable citations across platforms such as Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar. Web of Science (H-index: 18, 1343 citations), Scopus (H-index: 22, 1748 citations), and Google Scholar (H-index: 29, 2777 citations) databases (last update: July 13, 2024).https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/B-5309-2010.