Mohd Nizar Hamidon

Short Biography

Mohd Nizar Hamidon is a Professor at Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department and Director of Institute of Advanced Technology at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). He received the B.Sc in Physics and M.Sc in Microlelectronics from Univesiti Malaya (Malaysia) and Universiti Kebangsaan (Malaysia) in 1995 and 2001 respectively. Finally, his Ph.D degrees in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Southampton (U.K.) in 2005. He joined UPM after BSc at Matriculation Center for 5 years before become UPM engineering faculty member in 2000 until now, where he in charge of research program at the department and faculty. Due to his outstanding research activities, UPM have appointed him as a Head of Functional Devices Laboratory at Institute of Advanced Technology in early 2012 but later as Deputy Director in the same year at the same institute. Now he is the Director of the institute staring from July 2017.
His research is primarily concerned with the study of electronic and microelectronic devices including the materials (such as oxide and carbon based) and the systems. Specifically, he has contributed significantly to the development of sensor system such as gas and pressure sensor, and wireless applications. His research has been primarily funded by the international body, government and university internal funding. He has published over 250 technical papers and few book chapters related to his research area. He also had graduated in total of 10 PhD and 15 M.Sc students under his supervision. At the same time he had register one Start-up Company known as Serdang Paste Technology Sdn Bhd.
Mohd Nizar had a good international networking especially with the researchers from Turkey, Japan, Indonesia and Thailand in which they were working together in several different research projects. At the moment his team was involved in “Smart Livestock Tracking” for the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industries Malaysia. His also involved in consultancy work for Ministry of Information, Communication and Culture Malaysia to the Implementation of WSN – Based Structure and Infrastructure Monitoring System and e-halal monitoring system.