{"id":83,"date":"2020-08-28T20:37:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T12:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/azman\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:29:09","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/johan\/","title":{"rendered":"Johan&#8217;s Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johan bin Mohamad Sharif has been a lecturer at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) since 1997. He began as a tutor and became a lecturer in 2000. In 2012, he obtained his doctorate and was promoted to senior lecturer in 2013. In July 2016, he was appointed as a member of the Task Force for First Year Experience (FYE). From 2017 to 2018, he served as web editor for UTM FC Proceedings and joined special task forces at the faculty level, including the Ahli Jawatankuasa Kecil Pembangunan Mahasiswa dan Alumni, Fakulti Komputeran, from 13 August 2017 to 12 July 2019. He was appointed as research group leader for the Pervasive Computing Research Group (PCRG) from September 2022 for a six-month term.<\/p>\n<p>Besides teaching at UTM, he also lectures in the UTM Space program. He has received several research awards at both national and international levels, as well as research grants from several agencies, including UTM itself and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI).<\/p>\n<p>He is currently carrying out projects in collaboration with other research partners in the Pervasive Computing Research Group (PCRG) and offers services (GOT) to anyone interested in pursuing a doctorate in any field of computer science.<\/p>\n<p>*CIDB &#8211; Construction Industry Development Board<\/p>\n<p>*GOT &#8211; Graduates-on-Time<\/p>\n<h1>Education<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\">2006-2012<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300\"> Universiti Teknologi Malaysia<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300\">PhD (Computer Science)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\">1998-2000<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300\"> Universiti Teknologi Malaysia<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300\"> MSc (Computer Science)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\">1995-1997<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300\"> Universiti Teknologi Malaysia<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300\"> Bachelor of Computer Science<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Career history<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\">2012-present<br \/>\nSenior Lecturer, UTM<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\">2000-2011<br \/>\nLecturer, UTM<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\">1997-2000<br \/>\nTutor, UTM<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johan bin Mohamad Sharif has been a lecturer at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) since 1997. He began as a tutor and became a lecturer in 2000. In 2012, he obtained his doctorate and was promoted to senior lecturer in 2013. In July 2016, he was appointed as a member of the Task Force for First [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":611,"featured_media":1000,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-83","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/johan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/johan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/johan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/johan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/611"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/johan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/johan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/johan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/johan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/johan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}