Mohd Fadzil Hassan

Mohd Fadzil Hassan is currently the Dean of Centre for Graduate Studies, Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP), a private university fully owned by PETRONAS, the national Oil and Gas Company of Malaysia. His responsibilities include overseeing the development, management and quality assurance of all graduate level courses. Currently UTP offers 9 MSc (Coursework), 10 MSc (Research) and 10 PhD programs which has been accredited by the Malaysian Qualification Agency (MQA). Prior to the current appointment, he served as the Head for Computer and Information Sciences department from 2010- 2012. He joined UTP in 2001 and later promoted to the current position of Associate Professor in 2011. He has been responsible for the development of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) & Business Information Systems (BIS) programs including curriculum design, facility development, quality assurance, student advisory, staff training & development, and R&D. He is an alumnus of the Malay College Kuala Kangsar (MCKK) and graduated in 1999 from the Colorado State University, USA with a BSc (cum-laude) in Computer Information Systems. He obtained his MSc in Artificial Intelligence in 2001 and PhD in Informatics in 2007 from the University of Edinburgh, UK. As a lecturer, he has taught many courses ranging from Structured Programming, System Analysis and Design, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence among others. His research interests are in the area of Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). He is actively involved in research works focusing on these areas and has secured numerous research grants as a principal investigator namely FRGS, ERGS and Technofund from the Malaysian government. He is also actively involved with international collaborative research works particularly with universities from the Middle East and ASEAN region. He has involved in authoring more than 100 indexed publications.

Publications

Handbook of Research on Trends and Future Directions in Big Data and Web Intelligence
Handbook of Research on Trends and Future Directions in Big Data and Web Intelligence
Noor Zaman, Mohamed Elhassan Seliaman, Mohd Fadzil Hassan, Fausto Pedro Garcia Marquez. © 2015. 500 pages.
Big data is a well-trafficked subject in recent IT discourse and does not lack for current research. In fact, there is such a surfeit of material related to big data—and so much...