Congratulations to UTM Researchers whom have been offered the Leaders in Innovation Fellowship (LIIF) Programme under the Newton-Ungku Omar Fund by the The Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT) and the Royal Academy of Engineering United Kingdom.
| No | Name | Research / Department / Faculty |
| 1 | PM Dr Siti Hamidah binti Mohd Setapar | SHE Empire Sdn Bhd CLEAR Faculty of Chemical and Energy Engineering |
| 2 | Dr Eileen Su Lee Ming | Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering |
| 3 | Dr Farhan bin Mohamed | Media and Games Innovation Centre of Excellence (MaGICX) Dept. of Software Engineering Faculty of Computing |
| Dr Md Afendi bin M Yusuf | Fakulti Kejuruteraan Mekanikal Centre of Electrical Energy System (CEES) Institute of Future Energy |
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| 5 | Dr Mohd Iskandar bin Illyas Tan | HOLISTICS Lab Sdn Bhd UTM- Halal Technology Consortium (UTM-HTC) Faculty of Computing |
The LIIF Programme is designed to build the capacity of researcher for entrepreneurship and commercialization of their research. The wider benefit of the LIIF Programme will be the creation of international networks of innovators and technology entrepreneurs centred on the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Enterprise Hub.
All selected LIIF fellows will have to attend 2 weeks LIIF Residential Training Programme in London and Technopreneurship Training in Kuala Lumpur in September 2017. In addition to the training programmes, the LIIF Fellows are given the opportunity to receive up to 6 months of structured follow on support with their associated coaches.