Prof. Kamarul Arifin Ahmad
University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. Ir. Dr. Hj. Kamarul Arifin Ahmad is currently the Director of the Putra Science Park UPM and professor in Aerospace Engineering Department in UPM. Prof. Kamarul has Bachelor degree from Universiti Sains Malaysia, MSc. in Aerodynamics (Aerospace Dynamics) from Cranfield University and Doctorate from Queens University of Belfast. In 2015, he obtained his Professional Engineer (PE) status from Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM). Between 2016 and 2018, he was seconded to King Saud University, Saudi Arabia in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is also former Head of the Aerospace Malaysia Research Centre (AMRC) UPM and the head of the Aerospace Engineering Department in UPM. He has vast experiences in the Aerospace Engineering field and has been teaching in the same area for more than 20 years. He taught several general engineering related subjects such as Engineering Design, thermodynamics and Dynamics. He also taught aerospace engineering related subjects namely introduction to aerospace engineering, aerodynamics, gas dynamics, and computational fluid dynamics. He has teaching experience in different environment such as in Queens University in Belfast, USM, UPM and also in KSU Saudi Arabia. He has been involved in improving the curriculum of the Aerospace Engineering Degree in USM and UPM. In USM, he was the Deputy Dean of the School of Aerospace Engineering, and was in charged in accreditation of Bachelor Degree Program. His experience and knowledge in Aerospace Engineering has attracted UTHM to appoint him as an External Assessor for the Aeronautical Degree Program. The appointment duration was 4 years between 2013 and 2017. In the past 15 years, he is also deeply involved in the research work. He has successfully completed more than RM 2 million worth of research grants . To date, he has authored or co-authored more than 150 journals and conference proceedings in the area of fluid dynamics, heat transfer, biomedical engineering, and others. He is an editorial board member for several journals namely ASEAN Engineering Journal and Aircraft and Spacecraft Journal, CFD Letters, and King Saud University – Engineering Sciences. He also serves as reviewer for various journals. He has successfully supervised 20 PhD as main supervisor and co-supervisor. His international networking is very strong where he is the co-founder and chairman of the International Conference of Computational in Engineering and Health Sciences (ICCMEH). This conference is an annual event where it is jointly organised by UPM, Manipal University, India and Kyutech Institute of Technology (KIT) Japan.