Biography

Mohd Shahizan Othman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computing, UTM. Nearly, 15 years of his service in an academic field and has been actively involved in teaching, research, publications, professional services, consulting, and administration. He is also been appointed for holding various administrative positions in faculty and university. Beginning on October 1, 2015 and up to now, he serves as Deputy Director (Computing), at the Centre for Information & Communication Technology (CICT), UTM. He has graduated Diploma in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Computer Science at the University of Technology Malaysia in 1995 and 1998. In 2000, he has continued his studies at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and obtained Master of Information Technology (Computer Science) in 2001. He received his Ph.D. Information Science from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 2008. During his tenure as academic staff, he has taught more than 20 different course for undergraduate and postgraduate. His experience gained not only from the aspect of academic, but also from the aspect of maintenance, software development and information management. One of his main contributions toward an effective management in UTM is development of Graduate Studies Management System (GSMS) which aims to preserve the use of technology in the management of UTM post-graduate students. Prior to his position as Senior Lecturer, IT Manager at School of Graduate Studies (SPS, UTM) and Deputy Director (Computing) at CICT, UTM, he produced original works of ten books written either alone or jointly with other authors to be used during the process of teaching. These original books produced are his effort to add to the proceeds of the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, in addition, to further enrich the reference materials in Malay Language. All books published are also suitable for teaching, learning and reference purposes for lecturers, students and general readers.

Dr Mohd Shahizan Bin Othman
Department of Informtion System
Faculty of Computing
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
81310 Skudai, Johor
Telephone: 07-5532034
E-mail : shahizan@utm.my/ shahizan@fsksm.utm.my
Website: https://people.utm.my/shahizan/

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