Professor Dr. Hjh. Norma Binti Alias MSc, PhD

Norma Alias is currently the Head of Networking and Linkages Division, Associate Professor and Research Fellow of Center for Sustainable Nanomaterials, Ibnu Sina Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research (IIS), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). She was appointed as an Associate Professor and Research Fellow at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. She is a member of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society.

AP Dr. Norma possessed a Ph.D. degree in Industrial Computing (Parallel Computing) in 2004. She has a diverse field of specializations including mathematical modeling, big data simulation, industrial computing, scientific computing, high-performance computing, a shared-distributed parallel computing system, grid computing, and software development. She has supervised 13 Ph.D. students and 32 MSc with Philosophy.

AP Dr. Norma is an active innovator, having earned 2 product patent disclosures in 2015, 4 Intellectual property declarations, and 16 medals won in product innovation and invention expo since 2004 and having 2 products for commercialization. With her extensive experience in innovation and invention, she has been entrusted with conducting innovation and creativity courses at the university level, therefore, the innovation and creativity can be delivered in the form of structured knowledge.

She also has extensive experience in service-based commercialization activities. From 2007 to 2018, she has a number of service-based commercialization products in terms of software services, workshops, training, conferences, seminar, and consultation. Since 2016, the commercialization has been run under CSNano Technology Sdn Bhd, IIS, UTM.