Dr. Saaidal Razalli Azzuhri holds a BEng in Telecommunication from the University of Malaya. He began his career as a Wireless Network Engineer at eB Technologies, a second-tier ISP in Malaysia, and later joined Telekom Malaysia, the country's largest ISP, as a Network Engineer. He obtained his MSc in IT (Computer Networks) from the Malaysia University of Science and Technology (MUST) via a collaborative program with MIT. In 2014 he completed his PhD in Wireless Network Systems at the University of Queensland, Australia, focusing on wireless ad-hoc routing systems. He is currently an Associate Professor and Deputy Dean (Research & Innovation) at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya. In 2018 he established UM's first Blockchain Technology Lab with private funding, and later secured a government-to-government grant to study China-Malaysia transborder blockchain infrastructure (sponsored by MyEG Services Berhad). He has also received government and industry grants for AI applications in wireless communications and drone systems, and an International Newton Mobility Grant for optical microfiber research. He holds two patents on UAVs and fiber optic biosensors and is frequently invited by the media to comment on cybersecurity and 5G.
