Education 2003 : Ph.D. degree from Osaka Prefecture University, Japan 1998 : M.Sc. in Distributed Multimedia Interactive Systems from Lancaster University, U.K 1997 : B.Sc. (Hons.) in IT from Teesside University, U.K Education Award 2000 : Japanese Language Proficiency Certificate from Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan Profession July 2008 - present Associate Professor Sept. 2006 - July 2008 : Senior Lecturer 2004 - 2007 : Head of Postgraduate Studies Department , FSKSM, UTM Oct. 2004 - Sept. 2005 : Head of the Software Engineering Department Sept. 1999 - Sept. 2004 : Coordinator of MSc & PhD by research, Lecturer at the Department of Graphics and Multimedia , Faculty of Computer Science & Information System (FSKSM), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)