PUTRAJAYA, 1 November 2016 – Three professors from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) have been selected to be recipients for the 2016 Malaysia Rising Star Awards for their achievements in the research and developments (R&D).
They are the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation), Prof. Dr. Ahmad Fauzi Ismail, Director of Process Systems Engineering Centre (UTM-PROSPECT), Faculty of Chemical and Energy Engineering Prof. Ir. Dr. Sharifah Rafidah Datu Wan Alwi and Prof. Dr. Zainal Salam from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

Prof. Dr. Ahmad Fauzi and Prof. Dr Zainal received the awards under the category of Frontier Researcher and Prof. Dr Sharifah Rafidah under Young Researcher category.

They were selected for obtaining the top one percent of the Highly Cited Papers published worldwide and the selection was made by Thompson Reuters and Elsevier.

They received the award from the Minister of Higher Education, Dato’ Seri Idris Jusoh during the Malaysia’s Rising Star Award & CREAM 2016 Status Ceremony in Putrajaya, today.