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​Samsul Ariffin Abdul Karim is a senior lecturer at Fundamental and Applied Sciences Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. He has been at the department for more than twelve years. He obtained his B.App.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD in Computational Mathematics & Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD) from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He is a Professional Technologists registered with Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT). He had 20 years of experience using Mathematica and MATLAB software for teaching and research activities. His research interests include curves and surfaces designing, geometric modeling and wavelets applications in image compression and statistics. He has published more than 140 papers in Journal and Conferences as well as eight books including two research monographs and three Edited Conferences Volume and 40 book chapters. He was the recipient of Effective Education Delivery Award and Publication Award (Journal & Conference Paper), UTP Quality Day 2010, 2011 and 2012 respectively. He was Certified WOLFRAM Technology Associate, Mathematica Student Level. He has published six books with Springer.Saiful Azmi Husain is a senior lecturer at Mathematical Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam. He has been in the department for more than 23 years. He obtained his B.Sc. (Ed) (Universiti Brunei Darussalam), M.Sc. (University of East Anglia, UK) and PhD in Mathematical Sciences from Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (ANU). He had many years of experience using mathematical softwares for teaching and research activities. His research interests include mathematical modelling & simulation in the area of material sciences, climate change and agriculture. His research experience as former UBD|IBM Technical Coordinator & former Deputy Director of UBD|IBM centre, collaboratively working with researchers at IBM India, Watson, NY(USA) & Texas (USA) & Brazil on cutting-edge smarter planet modelling topics on regional climate-weather modelling, renewable energy & flood forecasting using high performance computing facilities at UBD, had resulted in some high quality top tier publications and several joint patents of potentially commercial values. In 2019, Dr Saiful was awarded the Doctor Fellow by the Royal Institute of Education, Singapore, in recognition for his meritorious professional experiences & his academic achievements.

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