PROFESSOR DR ABDULLAH GANI, FASc  of NIMS INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

PROFESSOR DR ABDULLAH GANI, FASc 
Senior Member of IEEE and Fellow, Academy Science of Malaysia 

Abdullah GANI was a Director at the Research Management Centre, University Malaysia Sabah. He 
was a Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Computing and Informatics, University Malaysia Sabah 
(UMS) before assuming the directorship. Prior to joining UMS, he was Professor and Dean at the 
Department of Computer System and Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information 
Technology, University of Malaya, Malaysia. He obtained tertiary academic qualifications from the 
University of Hull, UK – B.Phil, and M.Sc (Information Management) and the University of Sheffield, UK 
for Phd in Computer Science. Prior to his degree studies, he acquired the Teaching Certificate from 
Kinta Teaching College, Ipoh and Diploma of Computer Science, from ITM. He has vast teaching 
experience due to having worked in several educational institutions locally and abroad – schools, Malay 
Women Teaching College, Melaka, Ministry of Education; Rotterham College of Technology and Art, 
Rotterham, UK, University of Sheffield, UK. 
 
His research interest kicked off in 1983 when he was chosen to attend the 3-Month Scientific Research 
Course in RECSAM by the Ministry of Education, Malaysia. Since then, more than 250 academic papers 
have been published in proceedings and respectable journals internationally within top 10% ranking. 
He received a very good number of citations in Web of Science as well as Scopus databases. He 
actively supervises numerous students at all levels of study – Bachelor, Master and Phd.  Area of interest 
in research includes Self-Organized Systems, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Wireless 
related networks, Big Data and Data Science, Broadband Wireless and Quantum Network. 
 
He was working on Mobile Cloud Computing with the High Impact Research Grant of USD 800,000 
(RM3.5M) for the period of 2011-2016. He was also the Principal Investigator of the research ‘Al- Quran 
and Hadith Authentication Systems’ with the grant of RM650,000. Besides that, he has received several 
grants of more than RM350,000. He was the Director of the Centre for Mobile Cloud Computing 
Research (C4MCCR), which focuses on high impact research. The Centre has published more than 
120 papers in Tier 1 and Tier 2 ISI-indexed journals in the last 5 years. He was also the Director of the 
Centre for Data Science and Analytics, Taylors University. Internationally, he served as a Visiting 
Professor at the King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, Adjunct Professor at the COMSATS Institute of 
Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. He served as a reviewer to several high-quality journals and 
was Chief-in-Editor of Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, ISI-indexed journal. He serves as Grant 
Proposal Evaluation Panel for Chile Government, and Kazakhstan Government for number of years. 
Locally, he was a Visiting Professor at the University Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia 
(2015-2017). He serves as a panel for FRGS Grant Proposal Evaluation. He serves as a Chairman of 
Industry Advisory Panel for Research Degree Program at UNITEN, Malaysia (2015-2017). He is a 
senior member of IEEE and was elected as a Fellow Academy of Sciences Malaysia (FASc) for 
Engineering and Computer Science discipline. He was appointed as a member of Eminent Scholar

Biography:

PROFESSOR DR ABDULLAH GANI, FASc 
Senior Member of IEEE; 
                                                   Fellow, Academy Science of Malaysia 
 
 
 
 
Abdullah GANI was a Director at the Research Management Centre, University Malaysia Sabah. He 
was a Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Computing and Informatics, University Malaysia Sabah 
(UMS) before assuming the directorship. Prior to joining UMS, he was Professor and Dean at the 
Department of Computer System and Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information 
Technology, University of Malaya, Malaysia. He obtained tertiary academic qualifications from the 
University of Hull, UK – B.Phil, and M.Sc (Information Management) and the University of Sheffield, UK 
for Phd in Computer Science. Prior to his degree studies, he acquired the Teaching Certificate from 
Kinta Teaching College, Ipoh and Diploma of Computer Science, from ITM. He has vast teaching 
experience due to having worked in several educational institutions locally and abroad – schools, Malay 
Women Teaching College, Melaka, Ministry of Education; Rotterham College of Technology and Art, 
Rotterham, UK, University of Sheffield, UK. 
 
His research interest kicked off in 1983 when he was chosen to attend the 3-Month Scientific Research 
Course in RECSAM by the Ministry of Education, Malaysia. Since then, more than 250 academic papers 
have been published in proceedings and respectable journals internationally within top 10% ranking. 
He received a very good number of citations in Web of Science as well as Scopus databases. He 
actively supervises numerous students at all levels of study – Bachelor, Master and Phd.  Area of interest 
in research includes Self-Organized Systems, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Wireless 
related networks, Big Data and Data Science, Broadband Wireless and Quantum Network. 
 
He was working on Mobile Cloud Computing with the High Impact Research Grant of USD 800,000 
(RM3.5M) for the period of 2011-2016. He was also the Principal Investigator of the research ‘Al- Quran 
and Hadith Authentication Systems’ with the grant of RM650,000. Besides that, he has received several 
grants of more than RM350,000. He was the Director of the Centre for Mobile Cloud Computing 
Research (C4MCCR), which focuses on high impact research. The Centre has published more than 
120 papers in Tier 1 and Tier 2 ISI-indexed journals in the last 5 years. He was also the Director of the 
Centre for Data Science and Analytics, Taylors University. Internationally, he served as a Visiting 
Professor at the King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, Adjunct Professor at the COMSATS Institute of 
Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. He served as a reviewer to several high-quality journals and 
was Chief-in-Editor of Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, ISI-indexed journal. He serves as Grant 
Proposal Evaluation Panel for Chile Government, and Kazakhstan Government for number of years. 
Locally, he was a Visiting Professor at the University Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia 
(2015-2017). He serves as a panel for FRGS Grant Proposal Evaluation. He serves as a Chairman of 
Industry Advisory Panel for Research Degree Program at UNITEN, Malaysia (2015-2017). He is a 
senior member of IEEE and was elected as a Fellow Academy of Sciences Malaysia (FASc) for 
Engineering and Computer Science discipline. He was appointed as a member of Eminent Scholar 
Panel of Majlis Dakwah Negara.https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7003355320

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