Biography

Mohamad Kamal A Rahim received the B Eng. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University of Strathclyde, UK, in 1987. From 1987 to 1989, he worked as a Management Trainee at Sime Tyres Mergong Alor Star Kedah and Production Supervisor at Sime Shoes in Kulim Kedah. In 1989, he joined the Department of Communication Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Kuala Lumpur as an Assistant Lecturer A. He obtained his M.Eng Science from University of New South Wales Australia in 1992 and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Birmingham UK in 2003. After he received his Master he was appointed as a Lecturer at Faculty of Electrical Engineering. In 2005 he was appointed as a senior lecturer and in 2007 he was appointed as Assoc Professor at the faculty. Now he is the Professor in RF and Antenna at Faculty of Electrical Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. His research interest includes the areas of design of Dielectric resonator antennas, microstrip antennas, small antennas, microwave sensors, RFID antennas for readers and tags, Multi-function antennas, microwave circuits, EBG, artificial magnetic conductors, metamaterials, phased array antennas, computer aided design for antennas and design of millimeter frequency antennas. He has published over 200 articles in journals and conference papers. He is a co author of a book title basic principle telecommunication and several book chapters and editor of three book chapters. He has been appointed as a reviewer for several journals papers at National and International level. Thus far, he has reviewed and edited more than 100 papers. In year 2018 he was awarded as Distinguished Researcher during CITRA KARISMA 2018 and at the same year he was awarded as Top Research Scientist under Academy Science Malaysia. Currently he is having two research grant from MOHE (ERGS and PRGS), one from MOSTI which is EScience, three from International Grant which is MOTOROLA , two from Research University Grant which is Tier 1 and Tier 2 and one LRGS collaboration with USM and UNISZAR. He is the project leader for all these grants. The total amount of these research grants are more than RM 4.0 million. One of his research product has been commercialized through UTM Spin off company. This is supported by UTM Symbiosis programme which is the collaboration between UTM and MTDC. The total amount of grant obtained from this programme is nearly RM 2 Million. Through research, which he has conducted throughout the years, he has been honoured with recognition nationally as well as internationally for the products invention. The total awards that he has received through national competition is 5 gold, 5 silver and 3 bronze. This include Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE 2007), International Invention, Innovation and Technology Exhibition (ITEX 2008) and The International Exposition of Research and Invention of Institution of Higher Learning (PECIPTA2009, 2011). For international competition his product manage to secure 4 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze. The international competition is Seoul International Invention Fair (SIIF - 2008, 2009 and 2011). In addition, he has filed the patent for more than 20 products as a principal inventor. In year 2009 he was awarded as a best fundamental research project in CITRA KARISMA 2009. Meanwhile in 2010 he was the finalist for the best intellectual property award in CITRA KARISMA 2010. MOSTI also has appointed him as an expert assessor to evaluate the proposal application under Research Development and Commercialization He is the chapter chair of IEEE APMTTEMC Malaysian Section for year 2011 and 2012. During his term as a chapter chair, he is continously organised conference under the umbrella of IEEE APMTTEMC. The conferences that chapter organised are IEEE Radio Frequency Microwave (RFM 2011) and IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Applied Electromagnetic (APACE 2012). He received his excellence service award in 2004, 2011 and 2016 for his contribution towards university excellence. He has supervised 25 Phd, 60 Master which includes thesis, project report , dissertation and more than 100 undergraduate students. 12 Phd and 50 Master students have been graduated through his supervision.