Associate Professor Dr. Hazlina Selamat is a lecturer and professional engineer at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). She is also the Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, UTM, since 2014; and the Director and Co- Founder of Apt Touch Pte. Ltd., a start-up that designs and manufactures electronic fuel injection systems for small engines. With a team of control engineers, she co-founded the Malaysian Society for Automatic Control Engineers (MACE), which later became the National Member Organization of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), the world’s most influential control engineering association. She publishes her research works in many high-impact journals, has won several innovation awards and has 3 patents granted. She has been invited as plenary speakers in several national and international conferences and seminars. Dr. Hazlina Selamat’s principal areas of interest are adaptive control, system identification and modelling as well as artificial intelligence. Her current research works are in the area of electronic control unit (ECU) design for automotive applications; crowd modeling, control and simulation for safer building design; and energy optimisation.
Under the Fellowship, Dr. Hazlina will work with the Policy and Strategic Planning Division, Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (MOSTI) of Malaysia.
Dr. Hazlina obtained her PhD and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2007 and 2000 respectively. Before that, she received a full scholarship from Malaysian Public Service Department to do her A-Levels in Roedean School, Brighton, England (1993-1995) and her first degree in Electrical & Electronics at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London (1995-1998).