BIOGRAPHY

His current research lies on the development of innovative membrane technology in removing pollutants from water and wastewater as well as for efficient energy generation. He is the pioneer in the fabrication of inexpensive ceramic hollow fibre membrane made from waste materials such as palm oil fuel ash, rice husk ash, fly ash, kaolin, ball clay, natural zeolite and bauxite. He and his team have demonstrated the use of those membranes in many water and wastewater treatment applications with an outstanding performances in seawater desalination, heavy metal and ammonia removal, organic contaminant degradation and oil-water separation. He is also currently developing a miniscule version of fuel cell which is known as micro-tubular solid oxide fuel cell (MT-SOFC) and this device is capable to generate high volume of electricity by using biogas and methane as the direct fuels. He has been leading more than 50 projects includes 6 international grants, 4 industrial/consultancy projects, and 1 community project that worth RM6 million. Through these research projects, he has filed more than 30 patents and published over 350 indexed articles with H-index of 34. He is also the main supervisor for 36 PhD students (16 graduated) and 10 Master students (8 graduated).

Some of the research inventions have also been recognized at the national and international level by winning several innovation awards, for instance two times winner for the Best of the Best Award in  Industrial Art and Technology Exhibition (INATEX2019 and INATEX 2017), Special Award in Seoul International Invention Fair (SIIF) 2017, and Asian Invention Excellence Award in 28^th International Invention, Innovation & Tehnology Exhibition (ITEX’17). One of his inventions entitled “Sil-RH Membrane Distillation: From Seawater to Drinking Water” has been selected in the Enabling Intellectual Property Environment (EIE) program under World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He is also one of the board of director of UTM spin off company named as Filt Us Sdn. Bhd. which commercializing the filter-based water treatment product. 

In addition, he is also active journal Editorial member as  Editor of Journal of Membrane Science and Research (Scopus-indexed journal), Editor of Jurnal Teknologi (Thomson Reuter and Scopus-indexed journal), Guest Editor of Journal of Water Process Engineering (ISI-indexed Q1 journal), Guest Editor of Membranes (ISI-Indexed Q2 journal), Editor of Special Issue in Sustainability (ISI-Indexed Q2 journal), Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Chemical Engineering: Sustainable Process Engineering (Scopus indexed journal), Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Chemistry: Catalysis and Photocatalysis (ISI-indexed Q1 Journal), the Lead Guest Editor for the International Journal of Polymer Science (ISI-indexed Q3 journal) and Editorial Board of Journal of Applied Membrane Science and Technology. He has also been invited as plenary/keynote/invited speakers in many international conferences/workshops/seminars worldwide, which among them are  The Regional Conference of Civil Engineering and Sustainable Development Goals 2020 (RCCE & SDGs 2020) (Virtual), Virtual International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Technologies (V-ICSEET-2020) (Virtual), Malaysia-Japan International Conference on Nanoscience, Nanotechnology and Nanoengineering 2020 (Shah Alam, Malaysia), International Conference on Chemical Physics and  Materials Science (ICCPMS2019) (Istanbul, Turkey), International Workshop on Advanced Ceramics (IWAC) 2018 (Nagoya, Japan), 2018 International Symposium on Inorganic Membranes (ISIM2018) (Brisbane, Australia), Dissemination Workshop on Membrane Technology for Water Reclamation 2017 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), Special Talk of Faculty of Science 2017 (Surabaya, Indonesia), 3rd Conference on Emerging Materials and Processes (CEMP 2017) (Islamabad, Pakistan), International Conference on Membrane Technology and its Application (MemSep2017) (Tiruchirappalli, India) and International Reseach Student Seminar Program 2016 (Tokyo, Japan). He has also been appointed as visiting professor in Brawijaya University (Malang, Indonesia) and visiting researcher/academic in Nagoya Institute of Technology (Nagoya, Japan), Shibaura Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan) and Imperial College London (London, United Kingdom).