Short Biography

Dr. Muhamad Hariz is currently working as a senior lecturer at Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris. He has experience in teaching, research and publication, grant application and working in the industry. His specializations are artificial intelligence, data mining, cloud computing, information technology and software engineering.

As a lecturer, Dr Hariz teach Information Technology, Management, Marketing and Statistics subjects. As a graduate research assistant at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, he tutored structured programming subject. He has published 4 Scopus journals, 10 conference proceedings and an ISI book chapter.

He has working experience as a system analyst and information technology consultant. Dr Hariz has worked with local and Japanese executives to manage and handle various problems related to the system, networks and hardware. As an information technology consultant, He helped clients from Small and Medium Enterprises to transform their business digitally and set-up e-commerce platforms and digitalized enterprise system.

Dr Hariz have completed many training and certifications in the last 10 years including grant writing, IP filing, academic journal and paper writings, programming and data science. The results of the training are several prototypes that he has developed and grants that he has successfully obtained worth of RM240,000.

Research Interests :
Autonomous negotiation, Multi-agents, Genetic Algorithms, Hyper-heuristics, Data Mining, and Artificial Intelligence.

Academic Qualification:
Ph.D. in IT Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, UTP
MSc. (Computer Science) Universiti Sains Malaysia, USM.
BSc. (Computing & Software Engineering) Universiti Sains Malaysia, USM.