DR. ZAHARUDDIN MOHAMED

Professor

Department of Control and Mechatronics Engineering

Faculty of Electrical Engineering

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

81310 UTM Johor Bahru

Johor, Malaysia

Email: zahar@fke.utm.my

Education

BEng (Electrical, Electronics and Systems), Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 1993.
MSc (Control Systems Engineering), Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, The University of Sheffield, UK, 1995.
PhD (Control Systems Engineering and Robotics), Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, The University of Sheffield, UK, 2003.

Administration

Head of Advanced Control Research Group, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, 2017 - now.
Head, Department of Control and Mechatronics Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Enginering, Nov 2012 - Oct 2016.

Working Experience

Design Engineer, Sony Malaysia, 1993-1994.
Senior Lecturer, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 2005-2007.
Associate Professor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 2007-2017.
Associate Professor (Sabbatical Leave), King Abdulaziz University, Rabigh, Saudi Arabia, 2009-2010.
Professor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 2018 -.
Visiting Professor, Abylkas Saginov Karaganda Technical University, Karaganda, Kazakhstan, September - October 2023.

Professional Qualifications and Memberships

Chartered Engineer (CEng), UK.
Professional Engineer (Ir), Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM).
Professional Technologies (Ts), Malaysian Board of Technologies (MBOT).
President, Federation of Asian Simulation Societies (ASIASIM), 2023-2024.
Council Member, Federation of Asian Simulation Societies (ASIASIM), 2017 - now.
Executive Board Member, International Society of Mechanical System Dynamics (ISMSD), 2023-2026.
Chairman, Malaysian Simulation Society (MSS), 2019 - 2024.

Professional Activities

Editor, Applications of Modelling and Simulation, ARQII Publications (Scopus - CiteScore 1.8), 2023 - now.
Associate Editor, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, Sage Publications (Impact factor: 1.3), 2023 - now.
Associate Editor, Measurement and Control, Sage Publications (Impact factor: 2.0), 2018 - now.
Associate Editor, International Journal of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems, Inderscience (Scopus), 2020 - 2023.
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control, Sage Publications (Impact factor: 2.8, Q1), 2019 - now.
Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Mechanical System Dynamics, Wiley (Impact factor: 3.4, Q1), 2023 - now.
Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems, Inderscience (Scopus - CiteScore 1.9), 2023 - now.
Editorial Board Member, Advances Robotic Research, an International Journal, Techno-Press, 2013 - now.
Editorial Board Member, Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Sage Publications (Impact factor: 1.316), 2019 - 2022.
Editorial Board Member, ISRN Applied Mathematics, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2011 - 2015.
Editor, ELEKTRIKA: Journal of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 2006-2009.
Reviewers for several international journals.
Member, Programme Advisory Committee, Malaysian Palm Oil Board, Mechanization and Automation, 2021.
Chair, Asia Simulation Conference (ASIASIM) 2023, 25-26 October 2023, Langkawi, Malaysia.
Co-chair, Asia Simulation Conference (ASIASIM) 2017, 27-29 August 2017, Melaka, Malaysia.
Program Co-Chair, Asia Pacific Conference on Intelligent Robot System (ACIRS), 2022 (China), 2023 (Xi'an, China), 2024 (Dalian, China).
International Program Committee of conferences:
- International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR), 2012-2024.
- Asia Simulation Conference, 2018(Kyoto, Japan), 2019 (Singapore).
- International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control 2019, Tianjin, China, 13-15 July 2019.
- 7-th International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Control and Robotics, 21-23 January 2021, China.
- International Symposium of Asian Control Association on Intelligent Robotics and Industrial Automation, Goa, India, 20-22 September 2021.
Organising Committee, International conferences (CIM 2007, CIM 2009, CIM 2013, CIM 2022)