She gained her PhD from The Ohio State University, USA and has been entrusted with the position of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) at Sultan Idris Education University as well as Dean of the Faculty of Education at University of Malaya. She published a variety of national and international academic publications to her credit and is a Fulbright Research Fellow. Subsequently, she presented papers both nationally and internationally and conducted several research projects with UNESCO, the British Council, Australian Universities – such as Melbourne, Sydney and the Sumitomo, Japan. Her research areas are mathematics education, teacher education, computer-assisted assessment, higher education, and comparative education.
She has been the principal investigator for a government-funded research on Development of A Teacher Education Model for Preparing Quality Teachers for the Future and Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM). She is an active member in a research team comprising of members from USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, and China on Classroom for Teaching and Learning of Mathematics. She is also an International Editorial/Advisor/Reviewer for Journal of Mathematics Education, USA and Research Academic Journal, USA.
He is a former President of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education, the world's largest academic development professional organization. During his 40-year academic career, James has worked in Student Services as Director of Counseling, Orientation and Student Development Services and in Academic Affairs as an Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies, Director of Teaching and Learning, and as a full-Professor and doctoral student advisor.
James is the author/co-author/co-editor of numerous book chapters and journal articles, as well as three special topic journals and nine books on the topics of educational productivity and quality, evidence-based teaching, student engagement, cross-cultural perspectives on teaching and learning, student assisted teaching, student success, academic development, and instructor training and development. He is currently co-editing a New Directions for Teaching and Learning journal issue on teaching and learning in the health professions.
Dr. Groccia has presented at conferences, consulted, and conducted workshops throughout the U.S. as well as in Ecuador, Egypt, England, Estonia, Ghana, Hungary, Ireland, Germany, Scotland, Lebanon, Lithuania, Siberia/Russia, and Saudi Arabia.
He is a current member of Phi Beta Delta, the Honor Society for International Scholars and is an International Associate in the Center for Learning Innovations & Customized Knowledge Solutions (CLICKS), based in Dubai, UAE.
Dr. Groccia has delivered many workshops focusing on course design and OBE both in the US and internationally. A critical focus of these professional development activities has been linking academic/educational development and evidence-based teaching to support the development of OBE. Evidence-based teaching rests on a premise that in order to achieve desired student learning as well as institutional outcomes, teachers need to select instructional activities that are based on empirical support, not just prior experience or traditional use.
He has also been actively engaged in private consultative projects in various areas involving: academic (OBE and Learner-Centeredness, Education Research programs, Academic Administration), business and organization (IR Skills, Leadership Competencies, Change Management, Organizational Management) and, clinical (Behavioral Intervention Programs, Psychological Diagnostics and Assessment, Psychometric Test Development).
His professional experiences, academic qualifications, and expertise have brought him to various administrative positions, including his current position in the academe as the Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Education at Mapua University, Philippines.
He is also a consultant to GE Transportation in Erie since 1994 and helps build real-time simulators for aid in design and development of control schemes for the GE locomotives. He served 14 years as a Chair for the ECE department. He published significant research work on outcomes assessment; and offered 10 workshops at BAP/ABET Symposium and FIE conferences on outcomes assessment and accreditation.
With his extensive knowledge and experience in outcomes assessment, he founded MAKTEAM Software; and created EvalTools®, the most comprehensive online assessment tool that covers learning management, outcomes assessment, continuous improvement management, student advising, survey and institutional-wide self-study.
With EvalTools®, he successfully led the ECE department of Gannon through three ABET accreditation cycles with flying colors in 2005, 2011, and 2017 respectively. In addition, he served as Co-Chair for the Gannon's Middle-States Self-Study committee from 2010 till 2013 and led the committee through a two-year preparation effort in writing the self-study report that resulted in Gannon receive its most successful accreditation record in 2013.
Similarly, with EvalTools®, he assisted Physics and Engineering program of Frostburg State University; and Computer Science and Engineering programs of Islamic University of Madinah to achieve excellent results in ABET accreditation. He serves as consultant to other schools for their ABET accreditation.
In addition, he worked with K12 schools to create AdamTools® for K12 school districts to manage their student information from admissions to graduation as well as special education to handle Intervention Assistant Team (IAT), Multi-Factor Evaluation (MFE) and Individual Education Program (IEP). His most recent work is the creation of a School Management System based on 7-Pillar principles that allows a district to analyze effectively its management and academic achievement performance. The 7-Pillar School Management System is currently being used in 18 school districts in Ohio.
She was an award winning high school teacher, consults with educators, gives talks around the world, and is the senior author of "Natural Learning for a Connected World". Dr. Renate Caine is best known for her work integrating neurobiology with an understanding of how human beings learn. With her colleague Geoffrey Caine she has been lead author on over 10 books on learning and teaching including "Making Connections, Teaching and the Human Brain", and most recently, "Natural Learning for a Connected World – Education, Technology and the Human Brain".
Her books have been translated into six languages including Chinese, Korean, Swedish, and Turkish and the Caines have consulted in all 50 US states and internationally. Their research and work on Natural Learning is summarized on two websites: http://naturallearner-caine.com and www.nlri.org
She is psychic and intuitive and can see your Soul Mission and help you create that vision now.
Through her company, Mason Works Marketing, she lovingly supports her clients as a seasoned interactive strategy coach and implementer, with a solid background in developing products and publicity across all digital platforms; Internet, TV, Mobile, In-store Marketing, and Social Networks. She is a high energy cause-marketing expert with over twenty years of expertise at rolling-out cutting-edge strategies for business building communications, implementation, training, and book or e-book publication.
The Vancouver School District's alternative programs serve students Kindergarten through 12th grade and above (student 5-21 years of age). She has worked in education for thirty five years, serving students pre-school through high school.
Anita has a BA in Education, a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction from Concordia University and a Credential in Education Administration from Heritage College and Washington State University.
She believes that Education is a Civil Rights issue and that the traditional system of education has failed most students, especially students of color and students living in poverty, where the situation has been even more dire. Moreover, in order to meet the academic, social-emotional and developmental needs of today's students, she is committed to changing the traditional system of education, and regards Outcome Based Education's inclusionary, 'Success for All Learners' philosophy as a critical vehicle for promoting the cultural responsiveness and for dismantling the systematic racism that so many schools must undergo. "It is the work that I have been involved in and strongly believe will make the difference in the lives of our students."
Currently at Flinders University, Prof Conner is Professor in Digital Education and Innovation. She was the Dean People and Resources until end of June 2019 (all matters related to staffing, budgets and staff development) and since February 2019, concurrently the Dean Education (academic development and course quality assurance) in the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work at Flinders. Lindsey was previously the Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor, Associate Dean Postgraduate Research and Dean (Education – teaching and learning) at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
Prof Conner has a strong international profile and led the 7 country Pacific Circle Consortium research project on Teacher Education for the Future. In 2013 Prof Conner was invited as a consultant to NIER (Japan) working with the Ministry of Education Japan on infusing competencies across the curriculum. Prof Conner was also a funded visiting teaching and research fellow at SEAMEO RECSAM, Penang Malaysia (2013) and a consultant in the development of science teaching standards for the South East Asian Ministries of Education (2014).
Prof Conner has developed courses and supported researchers from universities in Bangladesh, China, Malaysia and Korea. She has over 186 research outputs.
Her research on the application of technologies in a wide range of educational contexts and translational research for teaching, has had outstanding impact. For example, Prof Conner was the New Zealand coordinator for the OECD Innovative Learning Environments Project and Education Commissioner for the New Zealand Olympic Committee. Prof Conner has also led an international partnership project on implementing ICT in schools and was Director of the Science and Technology Education Research Hub at the University of Canterbury.
Before joining UIU, he had been serving as an Associate Professor in the same Department of Brac University (BracU). He had also served as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science under the Faculty of Computer and Information Systems at Islamic University of Madinah (IUM), Saudi Arabia. Before travelling to IUM, he had been working as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department of Islamic University of Technology (IUT), OIC, Gazipur, Bangladesh.
He has been awarded PhD in Computer Engineering from Kyung Hee University, South Korea in the field of Smart Internet of Things (IoT) in 2013. Dr. Motahar had also served as the Chief Technical Officer of BERNET (Currently BdREN) of University Grants Commission of Bangladesh (UGC).
As the community service, he has been working as an Associate Editor of International Journal of Computers and Applications, Taylor & Francis Group, UK since 2017. He has published around 70 research articles in the reputed international journals and conferences.
His research interest includes Smart IoT, NB-IoT, IP-WSN, Cloud Computing, Network Virtualization, Edge Intelligence, Machine Learning etc.
For the last four years, Dr. Motahar had been actively engaged in outcome based education (OBE) for ABET and BAETE. He led the OBE Committee, Curriculum Committee and supervised the Cloud Computing Research Lab at BracU. He also served as the adviser of IEEE CS students chapter at BracU.
Mr. Munir obtained his MBA in 1998 from Lamar University in Texas, USA. He is a certified professional of "IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI)" software and worked extensively with data warehouse-based BI projects in USA. The clients that Mr. Munir served as business analyst in USA includes Mattel Inc., Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), Fuelman, Washington Mutual (WAMU), Fremont Insurance, Smith Blair and Sky-Tell Communications.
Regarding the academic experience, the institutions Mr. Munir worked include American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) in Bangladesh, Jubail University College and Al Yamamah University in Saudi Arabia.
Mr. Munir is proficient in institutional quality assurance systems, standards and procedures and has proven expertise in setting-up and managing quality assurance and accreditation activities. As a seasoned trainer, Mr. Munir conducted hundreds of trainings locally and internationally in management, quality assurance and skill-development topics with the audiences of faculty members, students, administrative personnel and general public.
He is a confident educator of business with consulting experience in the corporate and industrial sectors covering telecom, manufacturing, medical, insurance and business areas. Possessing superior interpersonal skills, Mr. Munir has the ability to create, foster and enhance business relationships that assist in achieving organizations objectives.
Currently he is working as a Director (In-Charge) of the Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) at United International University (UIU), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Contact: Email: munir@iqac.uiu.ac.bd | Phone: +88-01720044444
Since then, I got involved into teaching Computer Science and Engineering in the Institute of Science and Technology. I had a passion to work with deep science and therefore managed to get a PhD in Applied Physics, Electronics and Communication in 2006. Here I worked in a completely different dimension from my earlier work. Here I worked with Simulation of Semiconductors.
Research Grant received to build the "Mobile-Web based Electronic health records System for patient management in heart diseases" from innovation fund of 2015-16 ICT Division, Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and IT, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh of around 15500 USD, June 2016. Here, we have developed a mobile application for the use of doctors and nurses. This application simplifies the access of patient state through using of smart phone by doctors.
Research grant received for Preparation and Characterization of Plasmonic Metal Nanoparticles deposited on glass from United International University of around 10,700 USD, March 2016. In this research work, we managed to build a A Facile Arc-Discharge Method to Deposit Metal Nanoparticles on Glass Substrate. This work has been published in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letter in 2019.
Research Grant received to build the first Bangla Optical Character Recognizer (OCR) from Access to Information programme (A2i) of Prime Ministers Office (PMO) of around 28000 USD, October 2013. We developed the first successful Bangla Optical Character Recognizer. This OCR was capable to convert printed Bangla text into editable document in bangla font. More than a dozens of publication is available where I worked with Bangla OCR.
While I was the Departmental Head, I always had the question that why we are failing to develop a comprehensive and successful ERP Software to run University. So I approached our Honorable Vice Chancellor Prof. M Rezwan Khan back in around 2009-2010 and got his patronage to carry out a research on engineering a Comprehensive University Management System. Later we came up with a fantastic prototype that was able to be a very good candidate to work as a comprehensive management software.
Finally we initiated a startup EDUSOFT CONSULTANTS LTD in 2013 to promote the scaling and commercialization of the University management system ERP known as UCAM. Currently UCAM is being used as the major management system in some of the frontline universities like BUP, MIST, BSMEMU, BSMRAU, IBA-DU, BOU, UIU, UAP, UITS, BUFT, MIU, GUB, BRUR, ISU, GLOBAL UV, etc.
Currently we have come up with the first Outcome Based Education Software in Bangladesh. This is another milestone of myself in developing a software which will help Bangladeshi universities and the Engineering departments to start the practicing of Outcome Based Education in a quicker way. 2 universities are now using this software.
Before joining UIU, I worked as an Assistant Professor at North South University, Bangladesh. I also worked as an FRQNT Postdoctoral Fellow at the Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications (EMT) center of Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), Montréal where my adviser was Dr. Jean-Charles Grégoire. I completed my PhD in June 2008 from Computer Science and Software Engineering Department of Concordia University under the supervision of Dr. J William Atwood.
He is also enriched with Professional degrees like Diploma in Industrial Safety from Annamalai University; Master of Human Resource Management, from Annamalai University; and has been the member of several professional bodies like Institution of Engineers India, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers etc.
Dr. Altaf Hussain, started his career as Assistant Professor, at Padmasri B.V.Raju Institute of Technology, a subsidiary of Raasi Cements and Vishnu Cements, and subsequently grown up to the level of Professor, HOD and Director of Research & Consultancy, and served to more than 50 companies in India and abroad.
After serving 18+ years, he joined Lords Institute of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad in the year 2016 as the Principal, subsequently he has been elevated to Director in the year 2018.
Dr. Altaf Hussain, has delivered more than 150 invited lectures to different educational Institutes like NIT Warangal, JNTUH Hyderabad, JNTUA Anantapur, Kakatiya University, and several private as well as Government Organizations including Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Aurobindo Pharma Ltd., Chettinad Cements, Indian Air Force Academy Dundigal and several other organizations.
Dr. Altaf Hussain has rendered several consultancy assignments in India and abroad, significant projects include:
Dr. Altaf Hussain has 2 patents awarded / published and 5 patents in pipe line. He has guided more than 20 M.Tech projects and 2 Ph.Ds, as well as currently guiding 3 Ph.D students, and published more than 20 publications in National and International Journals. He has been the member of Board of Studies of JNTUA, BVRIT, CBIT etc.
He has 25 years of experience in teaching, research, administration and institutional development.
Presently, four Ph.D. scholars who have registered under JNTU Kakinada are working under his supervision in the field of Signal and Image processing. Dr. Narasimhulu has published four patents to his credit. He has published more than 45 papers in refereed international journals and presented several papers in both national and international conferences.
He has been reviewer and session chair for several international and national conferences. Dr. Narasimhulu was granted Rs 4.98 lakhs by AICTE, New Delhi under the scheme of Faculty Development Program for 2018-19.
He has authored a textbook titled "Digital Image and Video Watermarking" and the same was published in June 2020 by LAP international publisher.
Dr. Narasimhulu has organized several workshops/conferences, exhibitions, and FDPs. He has also acted as a resource person for several technical events organized by some of the reputed engineering colleges of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
He is a member of BoS, ECE for TKRCET, a UGC autonomous institution. He has acted as a subject-expert on staff selection committees of various reputed JNTUH affiliated engineering colleges in and around.
Dr. Narasimhulu is a life member of many professional societies namely IETE, ISTE, MIE, and IEEE. In addition to being a passionate and caring teacher, he has proven himself as an able administrator by demonstrating exceptional outcomes in every activity taken-up with a clear vision. With a perfect blend of energy, enthusiasm, and knowledge, he mentors the students and leads the faculty members with vigour to achieve the institutional goals. He always asserts "doing is learning" and encourages students to get involved in innovative projects for an effective overall learning experience.
Dr. R. Hafeez Basha is Advisor and Member – Industry Expert Evaluation Committee of National Education Alliance for Technology (NEAT), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE); Member–National Rural Entrepreneurship Mission, Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education (MGNCRE), Coordinator, Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA), President, Institute Innovation Council (IIC), Panel Member Smart India Hackathon 2020 & Toycathon 2021 which are all under Ministry of Education, Government of India.
He is also Advisor / Expert at Engineering Reforms Section, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC); Mentor at Entrepreneurship Development Centre (EDC), Development Commissionerate, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME); and Mentor-of-Change, Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), National Institution for Transforming India (NITI-Aayog) the erstwhile Planning Commission of India.
Prior to joining Lords Institute of Engineering and Technology, he was the CEO – Technology Business Incubator at Chandigarh University, Director – Incubation Center, Industry Interface, Foreign Relations and IQAC at Ashoka Group of Institutions, Hyderabad. He was earlier Dean R&D and CEO - Incubation Center at Bharat Institute of Engineering and Technology; Officer-on-Special Duty (OSD) to Protem Chancellor, K L University, Guntur; Research Analyst (Patents), Thomson Reuters Corporation and GIS Engineer at Satyam Computers (Tech Mahindra).
He has been Social Entrepreneurship Consultant at Canada based SOPAR-Bala Vikasa International Center where he partnered it with the Prime Minister's India-Israel Innovation bridge program and Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES-2017) organized by NITI-Aayog which hosted Ms. Ivanka Trump. He also delivered series of Workshops on Social Entrepreneurship for Women at Telangana Government Colleges of Tier-2 & Tier-3 cities with funding from the office of US Consulate General, Hyderabad through KIIT University.
He was Waste-to-Energy Consultant at Peepal Renewables Pvt. Ltd. where he deployed biogas plants around 10,000+ in Adilabad, Telangana and 15,000+ in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh with CSR funding from France based TOTAL Gas and Energy Ltd.
He did his Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad (JNTUH) in 2007, Master of Technology (M. Tech) in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur in 2010 with sponsorship from Thomson Reuters, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D) in Advanced Technology / Renewable Energy from Kumamoto University, Japan with Monbukagakusho Scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Govt. of Japan. He was also presented Dean's Award for Research Excellence during convocation in 2016.
He is also Career Counsellor for higher education abroad and promotes Government Scholarships and free education programs of French and Japanese Universities through their Embassies. He visited 13+ countries with full funding, delivered Guest Lectures at 67+ Institutions in India and abroad including BITS Pilani, NIT-Karnataka, NIT-Rourkela, etc.
He is Editor and Reviewer at various SCI / SCOPUS Indexed Journals published by Elsevier and Springer as well as Technical Chair for IEEE Conferences. He served as IEEE Branch Chairman and IEEE Branch Counsellor. He is also two times recipient of Young Scientist Award in 2009 and 2014 respectively.
He Co-founded Cafet-Innova Technical Society in 2007 to motivate students towards R&D and support them with its resources which benefitted 1,600+ Research Scholars publish papers in Journals, obtain their Ph. Ds and later pursue their scientific careers. He started BRCORP in 2011 catering to requirements of educational institutions in establishing Centers-of-Excellence through Industry-Academia collaborations. In 2018 he started STATION-H as Incubation, Acceleration and Co-working services for Start-ups that helps educational institutions manage their E-Cells and set-up Innovation and Incubation Centers by pursuing the Government Schemes and CSR Funds. He was also awarded Young Entrepreneur Award by National Foundation for Entrepreneurship Development (NFED-India) in 2015.
