Invited Speakers

Shahida Sulaiman
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Shahida Sulaiman (IEEE Senior Member) is an associate professor at Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) since 2011. Formerly, she had served at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) for seven years. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and M.Sc. degree in Computer Science – Real Time Software Engineering. Her main research interests include software design, knowledge management, and education informatics. She has published and co-authored numerous technical papers mainly in software engineering area, has been the editors for a number of journals, book chapters and conference proceedings, besides serving as reviewers and technical committee members. She has a good linkage with the software industry that made her receive the Industry Involvement Award 2015 at Citra Karisma, UTM. With the strong support from fellow researchers at USM and UTM, she founded Malaysian Software Engineering Interest Group (MySEIG) in 2005 that organised the 1st Malaysian Software Engineering Conference (MySEC 2005) and its series, organised the 16th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2009) for the first time in Malaysia and the 1st Software Engineering Postgraduates Workshop (SEPoW 2009). She was the Organising Chair of the 26th APSEC 2019 that was hosted for the second time in Malaysia. For the recognition of her community work in education informatics, she received the IEEE Malaysia Communications Society and Vehicular Technology Society Joint Chapter Award: Best Social Activity 2016 on the effort to expose mobile learning among rural learners under the Centre for Advancement in Rural Education Informatics (iCARE) in collaboration with a rural agency. She received the Outstanding Service Award 2020 for the second time of her service with UTM and Community Service Award 2021, also recognised by UTM. Based on her efforts in the community service related to science and technology, she was selected as an IEEE STEM Champion for 2022/2023. Recently, she has received the IEEE Computer Society Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) grant 2023 to promote Computer Science among rural learners.

Loc Nguyen
Loc Nguyen's Academic Network, Vietnam

Loc Nguyen is an independent scholar from 2017. He holds Master degree in Computer Science from University of Science, Vietnam in 2005. He holds PhD degree in Computer Science and Education at Ho Chi Minh University of Science in 2009. His PhD dissertation was honored by World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF) and awarded by Standard Scientific Research and Essays as excellent PhD dissertation in 2014. He holds Postdoctoral degree in Computer Science from 2013, certified by Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) by 2015. Now he is interested in poetry, computer science, statistics, mathematics, education, and medicine. He serves as reviewer, editor, and speaker in a wide range of international journals and conferences from 2014. He is volunteer of Statistics Without Borders from 2015. He was granted as Mathematician by London Mathematical Society for Postdoctoral research in Mathematics from 2016. He is awarded as Professor by Scientific Advances and Science Publishing Group from 2016. He was awarded Doctorate of Statistical Medicine by Ho Chi Minh City Society for Reproductive Medicine (HOSREM) from 2016. He was awarded and glorified as contributive scientist by International Cross-cultural Exchange and Professional Development-Thailand (ICEPD-Thailand) from 2021 and by Eudoxia Research University USA (ERU) and Eudoxia Research Centre India (ERC) from 2022. He has published 92 papers and preprints in journals, books and conference proceedings. He is author of 5 scientific books. He is author and creator of 9 scientific and technological products.