Dr. Raja Syamsul Azmir Bin Raja Abdullah received his BEng. Degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2000 and MSc. Communications System Engineering in 2001 from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He received his PhD in 2005 from the University of Birmingham majoring in Radar and Microwave System.
Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Dr. Abdullah has held various administrative positions including the Head of Wireless and Photonics Networks Research Center in 2009-2011, Development coordinator and Industrial Training coordinator. Later, he was seconded to UPM Holdings Sdn Bhd in 2011 – 2013, a company owned by the Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Dr. Raja Syamsul Azmir is an internationally-renowned researcher focusing on the Radar Systems and Wireless Sensor. He is among the pioneers in developing advanced practical Forward Scattering Radar (FSR) System used for civil, defense and medical applications. Apart from being a reviewer for many impact factor and flagship journals, he is also a Visiting Academic, Researcher, member of the expert panel, as well as the programme advisor at the University of Birmingham.
Dr. Abdullah has performed many national and international consultancy, advisory and speaker roles and has received many awards, including UPM Excellent Consultant Award in 2014 and a medal in MTE and PECIPTA Research and Development exhibition.
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