Associate Professor
Department of Software Engineering.
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Malaysia
Associate Professor Dr Mohd Shahrizal Sunar is the Director and Founder of Media and Game Innovation Centre of Excellence (MaGICX), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He obtained his PhD from National University of Malaysia in 2008. His major field of study is real-time and interactive computer graphics and virtual environment. He received his MSc in Computer Graphics and Virtual Environment (2001) from The University of Hull, United Kingdom and BSc degree in Computer Science majoring in Computer Graphics (1999) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He served as academic member at Computer Graphics and Multimedia Department, Faculty of Computer Science and Information System, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia since 1999. Since 2009, he had been given responsibility to become the Head of Department and leading the Virtual, Visualisation and Vision research group (ViCubeLab). The current research program that he lead are Augmented Reality, Gamification, Natural User Interaction, Driving Simulator and Creative Content Technology. He had published numerous articles in high-impact international as well as national journals, conference proceedings and technical papers including article in magazines. Dr. Shahrizal is an active professional member of ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE Computer Society and International Association of Engineers (IAENG). He is also a member Malaysian Society of Mathematics and Science (PERSAMA) and Exco Member of Malaysian Muslim Scientist Association (PERINTIS). He serve to the government as Malaysia Qualification Agency (MQA) panel of assessor in the field of Computing and Multimedia since 2005. Dr Shahrizal had invented a number of innovation product to be commercialised from his research. He was also mentoring technology startup companies and entrepreneurs in his related field. Since 2016, MaGICX become subsidiary company of UTM joint-venture with Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA) where he is currently the Chief Executive Officer. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Shahrizal Sunar Director UTM-IRDA MaGIC-X (Media and Games Innovation Centre of Excellence) Institute of Human Centered Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 81310 Skudai Johor MALAYSIA Department of Software Engineering Faculty of Computing Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 81310 Skudai Johor MALAYSIA Office: Ground Floor, T03, UIRL Building, UTM e-mail: shahrizal{at}utm.my || shahrizal{at}magicx.my Tel: +607-5610237 Fax: +607-5538822 Web: http://www.magicx.utm.my
B. Comp. Sc. (UTM) M.Sc. Comp. Graphics & Virtual Environments (Univ. of Hull, UK) Ph.D. Computer Graphics (UKM)