Professor Dr Azween Abdullah

Azween Abdullah is a professional development alumnus of Stanford University and MIT. His work experience includes thirty years as an academic in institutions of higher learning and as director of research and academic affairs at two institutions of higher education, dean of faculty, vice-president for educational consultancy services, fifteen years in commercial companies as Software Engineer, Systems Analyst and as a computer software developer and IT/MIS consultancy and training. Azween Abdullah has several patents under his name and has been actively serving as an expert reviewer and editorial board member for several high-impact technical journals. He has guided and produced more than thirty post-graduate students.   He is a fellow of the British Computer Society and a senior member of IEEE.  He has been consulting for some technology companies in content development and has researched emerging areas of networked and quantum security. He has been involved with several government and semi-government organizations in Malaysia as an external consultant, and he currently works with several government-linked companies and industries to promote cybersecurity capacity development. He has also published over 170 publications in various technical journals and conference proceedings and has given technical talks at several key international conferences, industry summits, and forums. 

Area of Expertise

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Formal Models of Computation
• Cybersecurity
• Trustworthy Computing and AI
• Security and Privacy
• Software Systems
• Data Privacy
• Programming Languages