Two academics at the Faculty of Computer Science & Information System have been promoted to professor

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Professor Dr. Habibollah HaronDr. Habibollah Haron has been promoted to Professor of Soft Computing. His research examines the role of soft computing (SC) techniques in prediction, optimization and planning. The invention of recent SC techniques and the integration with the established SC techniques show the potential in enhancement and improvement of the mathematical modeling and management sciences in solving real world problem especially in e-manufacturing, bio-medical robotics, image processing and geometric modeling where he is currently explored.

Professor Dr. Ali SelamatDr. Ali Selamat has been promoted to Professor and become among young academics with full professor at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. His research interests include software engineering, software agents, web engineering, information retrievals, pattern recognition, genetic algorithms, neural networks and soft-computing. He received a B.Sc. (Hons.) in IT from Teesside University, U.K. and M.Sc. in Distributed Multimedia Interactive Systems from Lancaster University, U.K. in 1997 and 1998, respectively. He has received a Dr. Eng. degree from Osaka Prefecture University, Japan in 2003. Currently, he is the Dean of Research Alliance in Knowledge Economy (RAKE) UTM.