Nurzal Effiyana Ghazali, Ph.D., graduated from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) with a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical (Telecommunications) in 2007. She holds a Master of Engineering degree from both the Shibaura Institute of Technology (2010) and UTM (2011). After completing her doctorate in 2016 from UTM, she serves Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FKE), UTM as a Senior Lecturer. Currently, she is the Director of the UTM Centre for Engineering Education (CEE) and holds the position of Vice President at the Society for Engineering Education Malaysia (SEEM).
She has authored over 30 journal and conference publications and has received more than 20 national and international grants in the fields of IoT, mobility management, service-learning and engineering education. She consults nationally and internationally in alternative assessment and Outcome-Based Education (OBE), Student-Centered Learning (SCL), Project-Based Learning (PjBL), and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). She is also a Design Thinking instructor and actively organize Service Learning nationally and internationally. She has collaborated with organizations such as the Japan Society for Engineering Education (JSEE), the Philippine Association of Engineering Schools (PAES), and several universities in Japan, Indonesia, and Philippines.
She has gained recognition for her contributions, receiving the IEEE Humanitarian Technologies Board-IEEE SIGHT Special Interest Group of Humanitarian Activities, the UTM-Excellent Service Award, the FKE-Excellent Service Award, the FKE-Teaching Award, the UTM-Knowledge Sharing Award, the UTM-Creative Arts Award, the UTM-Publication Award in Indexed Journals, the FKE-Community Service-Learning Award, the UTM-Blended Learning Awards, the Innovation in Teaching and Learning Awards from national and international exhibitions, and the Japan-Asia Youth Exchange Program in Science from Science and Technology Agency.