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Assoc. Prof. Rayner Alfred, IEEE Member, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia

Rayner Alfred is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah in Malaysia. Rayner completed his PhD in 2008 looking at intelligent techniques using machine learning to model and optimize the dynamic and distributed processes of knowledge discovery for structured and unstructured data. He has authored and co-authored more than 150 journals/book chapters and conference papers, editorials, and served on the program and organizing committees of numerous national and international conferences and workshops. In terms of postgraduate student supervision, he has successfully supervised 6 doctorate and 7 master students. Now, he has 9 active Ph.D. students undergoing research in Biometric security, Big Data Analytics, Data Modelling and Visualization, Machine Learning for Odour Classification, Multi-Agent Technology, and Digital Transformation. Rayner is currently a member of IEEE, a Certified Software Tester (CTFL) from the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB), and also a certified IBM DB2 Academic Associate (IBM DB2 AA).  He leads the Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) research group at UMS and he has led several projects related to knowledge discovery and machine learning on Big Data.

Assoc. Prof. Abdul Samad Shibghatullah, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia

BIO: Abdul Samad Shibghatullah is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Kajang, Selangor. He earned his Bachelor Degree in Accounting from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 1999, a Master degree in Computer Sciences from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2001, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Sciences from Brunel University of Uxbridge, United Kingdom in 2008. His current research interest is in operational research modeling, computational intelligence, business intelligence, and analytics. Currently, he is a member of OptiMAS (Optimization, Modelling, and Simulation Research Group).

Assoc. Prof. Por Lip Yee, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

Bio: Lip Yee received his Ph.D. from the University of Malaya, Malaysia under the supervision of Prof. Abdullah bin Gani in 2012. Currently, he is an Assoc. Professor at the Department of System and Computer Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Malaysia. He is also a senior member of IEEE. Lip Yee and his team were the first few pioneers who received IRPA, E-Science, FRGS, ERGS, PRGS, HIR, and IIRG grants. He was the first person who managed to secure 2 E-Science funds with the role of PI in 2008. He was also the first person at the FCSIT who managed to secure the PRGS and ERGS grants. Besides collaborators from Malaysia, Lip Yee also has international collaborators from France, UK New Zealand, Turkey, Thailand, and China. He also established his connections with his national and international collaborators with some industrial partners in Malaysia and other countries.