Category: 2020 Delegate

Dr Litty Mathew Shibu

Litty completed a Bachelor’s degree in physical therapy and a Master’s degree in Hospital Administration from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore, India. She holds a PhD from Brunel university, London in Knowledge translation. Her research interests are Knowledge management, Continuing Professional Development and Teaching, Learning & Assessment in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). She is currently working as an Asst. Professor, College of Business & Finance, Coordinator, Center for Teaching & Learning at Ahlia University, Bahrain.

Mr Osamu Sugiyama

Osamu SUGIYAMA is a general manager, Division of Global Initiatives, Shibaura Institute of Technology. His responsibility is to enhance globalization of the institute under the framework of Top Global University Project initiated by Japan MEXT. The main task is to build various strategies and plans of globalization for faculty, staff and students, and carry out them. He is also a person in charge of Administrative Office of GTI Consortium which is a worldwide alliance among industry, academia and governmental agency. By utilizing experiences working for an international trading company, he is struggling to enhance the quality of global education for science and technology.

Sarah Howe

Sarah is the Assistant Vice-President, Innovation & Research Partnerships. She is a business development professional with extensive experience fostering innovation and developing strategic business operations. Sarah successfully created an innovation office at York University that provides a myriad of services across the university. She has created and grown a pan-university educational entrepreneurship programs, developed and manages a start-up incubator, as well as a 10,000 square foot innovation centre. In addition, Sarah is co-lead for the strategic development of innovation and entrepreneurship across the York University campus.

Professor David Kofi Essumang

Prof. David Koli Essumang holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Environmental Chemistry from the Aalborg University of Denmark and a Master of Philosophy (M. Phil) in Chemistry, as well as B.Sc. in Chemistry and Diploma in Education from the University of Cape Coast. He had his secondary school education at Agona Nsaba Presbyterian Secondary School and St. Augustine’s College, Cape Coast for the ‘0’ and ‘A’ Level Certificates respectively. Published over 80 peer reviewed articles in over 50 different journals all over the world. At University of Cape Coast, he is the most cited on SCOPUS database and the second most cited by Google Scholar. Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences which is on the flagship journals published by UCC. He is a reviewer for several Elsevier Journals. Ghana’s correspondent for World Library of Toxicology and Ghana’s representative of international Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) He has won some international awards (IUPAC Young Chemist Travelling Award, Royal Society of Chemistry, U. K. Research Grant). 2002: Demonstrator and Research Assistant 2011: Promoted to the rank of Associate Professor 2006: Promoted to the rank of Senior Lecturer 2013: Promoted to the rank of Full Professor

Dr Jamal Mohammed

Dr. Jamal Mohammed is a Senior Lecturer in Economics in the Department of General/Liberal Studies with the Koforidua Technical University, Ghana. He is currently the Director of Research for the University. Dr Mohammed also serves as the Executive Director of the Africa Development Resources Research Institute (ADRRI), a research policy think tank based in Koforidua. His research specialisations are: Environmental and Natural Resources Economics, Development Economics, Economics of Education, Economic Policy and Economic Modelling. Dr. Mohammed has published research articles in peer review journals. His research has span into: fuel wood commercialization, charcoal trade, climate change, Small and Medium Enterprises, Poverty, economics of education, entrepreneurship, and energy. He is also an entrepreneur and works on Network Marketing Techniques for entrepreneurial growth.

Dr Yun Ii Go

Dr. Yun Ii Go is Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering at Heriot-Watt University Malaysia. She is the Associate Dean of Science and Engineering Constituency and Associate Director of Academic Quality in School of Engineering & Physical Sciences. Prior to this, she served as Program Director for MSc programs and led the program accreditation by Energy Institute, ECUK. She is a certified competent person by Malaysia Sustainable Energy Development Authority, a certified energy manager under Association of Southeast Asian Nations Energy Management Scheme, a Professional Engineer awarded by Board of Engineers Malaysia and a Chartered Engineer awarded by IET, UK. Yun Ii has also successfully received well-recognized esteem and recognition among the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and Southeast Asia Nations as the APEC Engineer, International Professional Engineer and ASEAN Chartered Professional Engineer statuses. At the national level, she served as Head of Panel of Evaluator for Engineering Technology Accreditation Council, led various program accreditations for HEIs across the country. Yun Ii is passionate in green technology and sustainable development for resilient living. She leads various research projects from Energy Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering UK, Global Challenge Research Fund, Ministry of Education Malaysia, Ministry of Foreign Affair Taiwan etc; developed strong research partnership from UK, US, Southeast Asia and East Africa.

Dr Farhana Diana Deris

Dr Farhana Diana Deris is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. She currently holds the portfolio as Manager of International Alliances at the office of UTM International. Her current administrative role covers, among others, the coordination of the university’s participation in alliances. She also holds executive roles for a number of alliances including as the Coordinator for the Asia Technological University Network, Secretary for the ASEAN Learning Network, and being the university’s Erasmus+ Institutional Coordinator, and SATU network coordinator. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Linguistics Association of Korea, and of the Editorial Board of the Society of Teaching English through Media based in Korea, and a member of the national Malaysian English Language Teaching Association, the Johor English Language Teacher’s Association, the Qualitative Research Association of Malaysia (QRAM), the Indonesia-Malaysia Research Consortium (I’MRC).

Professor Muralidhar Miryala

Professor Muralidhar Miryala is Board of Councilor and former Deputy President at Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT) and Professor at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering / College of Engineering.

Prof Miryala’s main task is to transform SIT into a high rank university. To accomplish this goal, he has been working and further designed several innovative programs to enhance global initiatives for SIT. For instance, global project based learning (gPBL), advanced project based learning (aPBL), Ph.D innovative program, publication based internship program, high school internship program as these programs are crucial towards global ranking projects.

On the other hand, interested in applications and technology of bulk single-grain superconductors; thus, Prof Miryala had developed a new class of mixed LRE-123 system which can be used up to 15 T at 77 K and high temperatures up to 90.2 K. He developed a novel technology to produce a RE-123 type silver sheathed wire on the basis of solid state / liquid phase reaction. Prof Miryala has developed bulk MgB2 with enhanced superconducting properties, paving the way to affordable superconducting magnets for medical and transportation applications. Successful in his intellectual mindset enabled him to produce a small type superconducting bulk magnet which is useful to magnetize both high-Tc superconducting materials and magnetic materials in a variety of industrial applications. Prof Miryala also contributed to develop technology for the development of DC Superconducting Cable for Railway system applications. Prof Miryala has authored and co-authored more than 500 research items including patents, books, review-articles, articles, press release etc., and delivered over 150 oral presentations including plenary and invited ones.

Prof Miryala holds several Japanese national and international patents. Awards: Young Scientist Project Award, DST-Govt. of India (1995), Director’s Award, SRL-ISTEC (1998 and 2003), 1999 PASREG Award of Excellence (1999), Best Presentation Award at the IWCC11 (2003), Best Researcher Award, ISTEC-SRL (2007 and 2008), Best Researcher Award, Railway Technical Research Institute (2012), the Amity Global Academic Excellence Award (2017), Engineering Education Award for Contribution in Higher Education (2018), SIT Excellent Education Award (2019) by President. IAAM Fellow (2020), Vebleo Fellow (2021), Best Faculty Award (2021), Pravasi Bharatiya Summan Award by President, Govt. of India (2021). SIT Chairman’s Award (2021), Incredible Academician of World Award (2022). He is an Editor-in-Chief and Editorial board member of several international journals. Currently I am adjunct professor, visiting professor and international advisor for several universities in worldwide.

Professor Lynne Jack

Professor Lynne Jack PhD CEng FCIBSE FSoPHE FHEA
Lynne Jack is a Professor of Building Services Engineering and Director of the Built Environment Research Institute in the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society at Heriot-Watt’s Edinburgh campus. She is also Associate Principal for International Research. From 2017-2020, Lynne was on long-term secondment as Director of Research at Heriot Watt’s Malaysia campus.

Lynne’s teaching background is in the field of building services engineering and architectural engineering, and her research focuses on modelling the flow characteristics of water supply and drainage systems for buildings.

She is a Chartered Engineer and is current Chair of the Scientific Committee of the CIB W62 Working Group; an international research organisation addressing Water Supply and Drainage for Buildings. She was also President of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) from 2019 to 2020; the Institution’s first ever female President.

Professor Ir Dr Zainuddin Abdul Manan

Zainuddin A. Manan is a professor of chemical engineering and the Deputy Vice Chancellor of Academics and International of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He is the founding director of UTM Process Systems Engineering Centre (PROSPECT) and the founding Dean of UTM Faculty of Chemical and Energy Engineering. He started his career as an process engineer and has since then been an academic leader, educator, researcher, consultant and professional coach for more than 25 years. As the UTM Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic and International), Prof Zain founded the UTM Synergy 4.0 transformation program to advance the mission of widening access to UTM quality engineering education. UTM Synergy 4.0 involved the historic consolidation of 18 UTM subdiscipline-based faculties into 7 faculties based on UTM key thrust areas; advancing flexible & 4IR-ready curriculum, future-ready educators and life-ready graduates; and providing access to UTM lifelong education programs delivered through various digital and distance learning modes such as MOOCS, blended, fully online as well as remote supervision, apart from residential modes. Zain has been the chair of global/regional committees such as the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Global Award for Computer Aided Process Design, the Board of judges for ASEAN Energy Awards for commercial and industrial sectors, and the Chair of Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act Drafting committee under the Malaysian Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources. He has delivered over 400 invited talks in professional courses, conferences and seminars across the world and has coached professionals from more than 500 national and multi-national companies.

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