Professor Emeritus Dato’ Ts – Dr. Tengku Mohd T Sembok

Professor Emeritus Dato’ Ts Dr. Tengku Mohd T Sembok

LFBCS (Life-Fellow of British Computer Society)

FASM (Fellow Academy of Sciences Malaysia)

FMSA (Fellow of Malaysian Sciences Association)

FPECAMP (Founder-Fellow Society of Info. Retrieval and Knowledge Mgt)

FAPM (Fellow Academy Professor Malaysia)

MMIT (Member Malaysian IT Society)

Member ICT Cluster (Majlis Profesor Negara)

Professor Emeritus (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)

Professional Technologist (MBOT)

Tengku Mohd Tengku Sembok has over forty years of experience in various fields of Information Communication Technology. He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate programs and managed numerous R&D and consultancy projects successfully. He had supervised 35 PhD students successfully to completion. He obtained his B.Sc (Hons) in Computer Science from Brighton Polytechnic in 1977, MS from Iowa University in 1981, and PhD from Glasgow University in 1989.

He current appointment is as Professor in Computer Science at the International Islamic University Malaysia. His last appointment was Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic and Internationalization) at National Defence University Malaysia. Prior to that, he was the Dean of Faculty of ICT, International Islamic University Malaysia. He also holds a chair of senior fellow in Cyber Security Centre of NDUM where he was Founder-Director of the center. He has held several academic posts at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

Among the posts held were Head of Computer Science Department, Deputy Dean and Dean of Faculty of Information Science and Technology (of which he was the chairman of the founding committee), and Deputy Director of Research Management Centre. Before joining UKM he was with Malaysian Rubber Institute and Daresbury Nuclear Physics Laboratory (England) as a programmer, and Malaysian Prime Minister’s Department as a system analyst.

He has contributed in various international and national committees on ICT such SIGIR Program Committee, UNESCO Ethics in Science and Technology, Terengganu State ICT Council, IRPA Steering Committee in Services Sector (MOSTE), Curriculum Development Committee for Computing Subject (Malaysia Examination Council), and Chairman for Malaysian Qualification Agency in ICT Cluster.

Professor Tengku Mohd has involved in MSC Smart School Flagship Application as Project Director in the development of Mathematics courseware for secondary schools in Malaysia. His current research areas are in computational linguistics (for Malay, English and Arabic), artificial intelligence, information retrieval, multimedia courseware, and big data.

He has published over 200 articles in these areas. He has also received numerous awards in international invention and innovation exhibitions for his research products in Geneve, Brussels, and London.

He was awarded the national ICT Excellent Teacher 2004 jointly by Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Energy, Water and Communication, Malaysian National Computer Confederation, and MAXIS Bhd. He is a Fellow of British Computer Society, Fellow of Academy of Sciences Malaysia, and Fellow of Malaysian Scientific Association. He is also the Founder-Fellow of Society of Information Retrieval and Knowledge management Malaysia. He was a commonwealth research fellow at the Sheffield University.