Professor Khanfar has held many senior positions including Head of Information Security Department, Head of Computer Science Department, Head of Computer Information Systems, Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Information Technology, Dean of Scientific Research, Dean of Students Affairs, Director of e-Learning Center, Deputy Vice President for Academic Affairs, Vice President for Planning and Development, and Acting President. 

He has extensive experience in directing comprehensive strategic plans and operational activities including developing partnerships with universities, developing new programs, and developing new curricula in different universities in different countries (Western and Eastern countries).

Professor Khanfar also served as an Information Technology consultant in the City of New Orleans, and the State of  Louisiana – and has served as an e-Learning consultant at the Ministry of Education, Bahrain. He has conducted seminars in e-Government, e-Learning, and Information and Network Security.

Professor Khanfar has supervised many Master and Ph.D. students and has served as an Editor-in-Chief of The International Arab Journal for Information Technology.

He has served as the Secretary General of Colleges of Computing and Information Society (CCIS), and The International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT).

Professor Khanfar holds Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology, Western Michigan University, and Yarmouk University, respectively. 

Irianto a researcher in multivariate statistical process control. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1982. He received M.Sc. degree in mathematics from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia and Ph.D in applied and computational statistics from Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, in 2020. He has working experience for more than 10 years in educational industry. He worked at University Teknikal Malaysia Melaka since 2012 until now at the Department of Electrical Engineering technology. His research interests include multivariate statistical process control, and mathematical modelling and simulation.

System and GIS interoperability, Spatial Modelling, GIS

Jamil Abedalrahim Jamil Alsayaydeh. He was born in Ras Al khayma in UAE in 1981. He received M.S. degree from the Department of Computer Systems and Networks in Zaporizhzhia National Technical University, Ukraine, in 2010 and Ph.D in National Mining University for Automation of Control Processes, Ukraine, in 2014. Then he joined University Teknikal Malaysia Melaka in year 2015 as Senior Lecturer at the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology in Technical University of Malaysia Malacca. His research interests include formal methods, simulation, Automatic Control of Process, computer system and networks, real time system and internet of things. He supervised 22 undergraduate students and is a reviewing member of various reputed journals.

Sayed Samer Ali AL-SHAMI has a Ph.D. in business and administration and graduated from Faculty of Technology Management & Technopreneurship, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM). The focus of his research is socioeconomic development, entrepreneurship, economy and microfinance. He worked as executive manager in the logistics department in the ministry of health and non-government organizations in Yemen from 2000 to 2007 and as a manager of the finance department for the Motherhood and Childhood Program in Yemen 2007– 2008. Now, he has been woring as lecturer in the Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka from 2017 to now.

Abd Samad bin Hasan Basari received a Bachelor degree in Mathematics from the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in 1998, Master of Science (IT-Education) from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 2002 and a Doctoral degree from the Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) in 2009. He also a certified HTML5 Developer and Rapidminer Analyst. He joined the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, UTeM in 2003 and became an associate professor in 2013. He has published more than 80 journals and proceedings publications. His current research interests are in Computational Modeling, Decision Analytics and Intelligence Computing.

Abdelrafe Elzamly got a Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technology from the Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) in 2016. He received his Master degree in Computer Information Systems from the University of Banking and Financial Sciences in 2006.  He received his B.Sc. degree in Computer from AI-Aqsa University, Gaza in 1999. He is currently working as Assistant Professor in AI-Aqsa University as a full time. Also, from 1999 to 2007 he worked as a part time lecturer at the Islamic University in Gaza. Between 2010 and 2012 he worked as a Manager in the Mustafa Center for Studies and Scientific Research in Gaza. His research interests are in risk management, quality software, software engineering, cloud computing security, and data mining.

Adam Wong Yoon Khang was born in Miri district of Sarawak, Malaysia, in 1982. He completed his B. Communication Engineering from University Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia in year 2006. He received his Master degree in Telecommunication Engineering from University Teknologi Malaysia based at Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, in year 2012. In 2012 also, he continues his PhD study in Telecommunication Engineering at Skudai, Johor Bahru of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and had successfully completed it in year 2018. He then joined Fakulti Teknologi Kejuruteraan Elektrik dan Elektronik, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) in year 2018 also as Senior Lecturer position. At UTeM, he is a research member at Center for Telecommunication Research and Innovation. His current research interest are Internet of Things, Hybrid Optical Wireless, simulation optimization, ad hoc network and passive optical network but not limited to the mention topic here. Currently he supervised some postgraduate students as co-supervisor and is a reviewing member of various reputed journals. He also as a Professional Technologists for Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT).

 Hajaj S. M. Foujo is employed as a part-time data analyst working on producing preparing and presenting quantitative data for assessment and analysis. He has worked in collaboration with the Brighton Education / National   University of Malaysia (UKM) research team for the evaluation of the TELL programme. Hajaj has a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from Al- Azhar University, Gaza, Palestine, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) and is in his final year of his Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) in Finance at the National University of Malaysia (UKM)

 Lloyd Precious has taught at The Free University of Berlin, The American College of Greece, The American University of Beirut, and The Middle Eastern Technical University in Turkey. He was associate Dean of Arts and Science and Full Professor at the University of Balamand in Lebanon and Dean of the Modern Language Centre in Sanna Yemen.   From 1998 – 2004 Dr. Precious was the Director for the British Council in Northern Syria, Aleppo. In 2006 Dr. Precious was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Rockford Illinois USA. The author of several text and scholarly books as well as numerous other academic publications, Dr. Precious is a member the German Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as a Review Board Member for The Philosophical Quarterly, The Middle East Journal of Literature & Language, Malaysian English Language Teaching Association and The Southeast

Journal of English Language studies, UKM. Dr. Precious was Head of Research and Development with Brighton Education in Malaysia, and has worked as a Senior Research Fellow on a number of major Educational research Projects for the Ministry of Education Malaysia.

Samy Abu-Naser was born in Gaza, Palestine, in 1964. He received the B.S. and M.S.

degrees in Computer Science from the University of Western Kentucky, USA in 1987 and 1989

respectively and the Ph.D. degree from North Dakota State University, USA in 1993 in Computer

Science. He has been working as Professor in Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Al-Azhar University, Gaza, Palestine since 1996. He was appointed as a Teaching Assistant at the Western Kentucky University, USA, 1988-1989. He was appointed as a Research Assistant at the North Dakota State University, USA, 1990-1993. He has worked as Field Information Systems Officer at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, Gaza 1993-1996. His areas of interest are Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Expert Systems,  Knowledge Management Systems, and Compiler Design

Ahmed Y. Mahmoud was born in Gaza, Palestine, in 1975. He received  BSc. in Computer Science from Al-Zaytoonah University, Amman, Jordan in 1997, an MSc. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science and PhD in Computer Engineering from Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus, in 2001 and 2012, respectively. From 2001 to 2006 he was a Lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Al-Azhar University, Gaza Strip, Palestine. From September 2006 to September 2011 he was with the Computer Engineering Department at Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus. Since January 2012 he has been an Assistant Professor in the Information Technology Department at Al-Azhar University, Gaza Strip, Palestine, and, since 2017, he has been an Associate Professor of the department of Information Technology Department, Al-Azhar University, Gaza Strip, Palestine. His research interests are in the areas of information security, parallel programming, and management information systems.

Dr. Yousef A. Yousef is an Assistant Professor for Management Information System (MIS) at Al-Aqsa University, Gaza, Palestine, Department of Computer & Information Sciences. Dr. Yousef's primary research interest is in the area of MIS, Big Data Analysis and software risk management . Dr. Yousef received a B. Sc in Computer Science, Alaqsa-Gaza University and M.S. At Computer Information System (CIS) of the Arab Academy of Banking and Financial Sciences, Amman, Jordan. He subsequently received a Ph.D. in MIS from AL-Jinan University, Lebanon, in 2017. Dr. Youssef held numerous administrative positions at Al-Aqsa University, including the Assistant Vice President for Information Technology Affairs, and he is now head of the Department of Computer and Applied Information Technology.  

Computational Modelling, Decision Analytics & Intelligence Computing

Computer and Applied Information Technology

Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Expert Systems

Automation of Control Processes & Computer Systems & Networks