Dr. Mohd Azlan Bin Hussain

Biography

Prof. Ir. Dr. Mohd Azlan Hussain graduated in BSc (Chemical Eng) from Sheffield University in 1980 and was design engineer in Esso Production Malaysia for five years before joining the academic field in 1985 at University of Malaya. His research in modeling and process control began after the MSc course in Univ. of Tulsa, USA in 1987. In 1991, he was sponsored by UNESCO to present his research work in aspects of instrumentation design in Bandung, Indonesia. Further, to that in 1991 he was sponsored by the Japanese Society for promotion of Science (JSPS) under a prestigious award for a scientific exchange program at Kyoto University, Tokyo Institute of Technology and Tokushima Universities (all top ranked universities in Japan). In 1992, he was sponsored by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to pursue various  short courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Instrument of Society of America training center for 2 months. His research work on the use of artificial intelligence and nonlinear techniques for modeling and controls developed further after his PhD at Imperial College in 1996, under the Malaysian Government sponsorship. On returning to Malaysia, he started the process control research group including the setting up of various process control laboratories for teaching and research activities in the department. Collaboration research work with Prof. I.M. Mujtaba of Bradford University and Prof. Paisan Kittisupakorn of Chulalongkorn University also started during this period. He was awarded the Royal Society of UK grant to collaborate with Prof. I.M. Mujtaba of Bradford University in 1999 and again in 2004 resulting in writing together a book “Application of neural network and other learning technologies in process engineering” and writing of over 10 research papers. Joint Supervision of 2 PhD students was also done in this period as well as collaboration with Pardova University, Italy. He was also sponsored by the Thailand Science fund to co-supervise PhD and Masters student at Chulalongkorn University Thailand between 1999 and 2003 with Prof. Paisan Kittisupakorn as well as giving various seminars in Thailand Universities. In 2003 and 2006, he obtained the JSPS/VCC Japanese Scientific exchange program grant to collaborate with various researchers in Kyoto University while giving seminars at the university and this collaboration resulted in the production of various papers and research reports.

Research Interest

Advanced and Non Linear Control of Process Systems Modelling and Process Control of Uf Filtration Systems to Produce Clean Water Modelling and Process Control of Fuel Cell Systems Advanced Mathematical Modelling of Gas Olefin Polymerization in Fluidized-Bed Catalytic Reactor Advanced Control for Semi-Active Car Suspension System Optimisation of Chemical Process Systems Development of Software for Online Process Control Artificial Intelligence for Modelling and Control of Process Systems Process Control