Prof. Dr. Zahriladha Zakaria
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Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Dr . Zahriladha Bin Zakaria is an Professor and researcher with research interest in RF & Microwaves, Antenna, and wireless communications. He received the B. Eng. and M. Eng. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 1998 and 2004 respectively. He obtained his Doctorate from The University of Leeds in 2010 in the area of Microwave Engineering. From 1998 to 2002, he was with STMicroelectronics, based in Malaysia where he worked as Product Engineer. He is currently a Manager of Centre of Excellence (CoE), called Centre for Telecommunication Research and Innovation (CeTRI). Prior to the current position, he was appointed as Deputy Dean (Academic) and Head of Telecommunication Engineering Department at the Faculty of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka. As a lecturer, he teaches electronic system, communication principles, microwave engineering, advanced TCP/IP and signal processing in undergraduate and postgraduate programs. He also as an academic program advisor for several public Institute of Higher Learnings (IHLs) in Malaysia.
He and his research members has secured 22 internal and external research grants with total amount of around RM 1.7 million (about USD 500,000.00) and hold 5 intellect property rights. He has published more than 100 scientific papers in journals and conference proceedings. Together with his research team, he has supervised more than 15 postgraduate students (PhD and MSc), and currently supervising more than 25 undergraduate students. Dr . Zahriladha Bin Zakaria has won several awards including gold medal during the research and innovation exhibition at international level such as Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE 2012-2014), International Trade Fair Ideas Inventions New Products (iENA 2012) in Nuremberg, Germany, Seoul International Invention Fair (SiiF 2013) in Seoul, Korea. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of Institute of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) and also a member of Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM).