Monday, July 21, 2014

Biodata of Speaker

Hj. Kamaruzaman Jusoff (ResearcherID: F-1014-2010) was born in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia on 28th March 1958. He received a PhD in Forest Engineering Survey (a multi disciplinary field) from Cranfield University, England, UK in 1992 under the Committee of the UK Vice– Chancellor’s Overseas Research Student Award (ORS). His postdoctoral work on Advance Digital Image Processing was with The University of Dundee, Scotland under the sponsorship of British Chevening Research Scholar Award. He was a Professor (Grade VK6/B) with Universiti Putra Malaysia and has been a Visiting Professor/Scholar/Scientist with Harvard, Kyoto, Yale University and an Erasmus Mundus Professor with Lund University, Sweden and ITC, The Netherlands. In April 2013, he was offered a Grade VK5/A Professor with the UTM Perdana School of Science, Technology & Innovation Policy but declined the offer.

He was attached with Universitas Hasanuddin (UNHAS) in Makassar, South Sulawesi for a month as a Consulting Editor for International Journal of Agricultural Systems (IJAS) cum Visiting Expert Professor with UNHAS Program Pascasarjana. He has also been invited twice to deliver keynote talks to postgraduate students and staff at the Oxford University Center for Environment (OUCE), Grenoble Institute of Technology in Grenoble, southern France and University of Maryland@ Baltimore County (UMBC), USA in the area of forestry airborne hyperspectral imaging and advance image processing. He has authored/co-authored and published more than 300 papers on top of his four technical (Airborne Hyperspectral Imaging for Forestry & Agriculture Applications) and four non-technical books including his three popular books entitled “Secrets of Successful Journal Writing & Publication Revealed”, “Academician Career Roadmap” and “The ABCs of PhD”. As of 21 Oct 2013, his has an H-Index (GS) of 13 with 975 total number of citations and 844 number of new citations in the last 5 years (since 2008) to all his cited publications.

He has been invited by almost all the Malaysian public (UPM, UKM, USM, UTM, UM, UIAM, UiTM, UTHM, UTeM, UniMAP, UPSI, UMP, USIM, UUM, UPNM, ASWARA), private universities and colleges (Monash University Sunway Campus, Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus, UNIRAZAK, MMU, UTP, UNISEL, UniKL, KISDAR/KUISAS, KUIS), private organizations/Foundation/NGOs (IKIM, YaPEIM, IEM) Polytechnics (POLIKB, POLISAS), Ministries (Peninsular Malaysia Forestry Dept HQ, IHMMoH, AKEPT-MoHE/MoE) and research institutions (MPOB, MIMOS, NUCLEAR) to conduct 1-4 days Workshops on Journal Writing & Publishing, Postgraduate Research Proposal Writing and Research Methodology since 2007. In 2012-2013 alone, he has been invited more than five times to Indonesia to conduct similar workshops at UNHAS, UNDANA, UNIMED, UMI, and UNHALU to selected Indonesian academics to assist them in international Scopus/ISI ranked journal publishing.




Recently, he has also been invited to conduct High Impact Journal W&P by Beaver & Beaver Management Solutions (PTY) Ltd, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Upon his return from The Harvard Forest, Harvard University in 2010, his deep interest covers the art of journal writing and publishing across a multi, inter and transdisciplinary field of arts, humanities and social sciences applications to the human aspects of forestry, engineering, higher education, academic leadership, IT and Islamic development. He is currently serving 10 international ISI/Scopus/Citation/Direct Open Access indexed journals covering multi/cross disciplinary fields of sciences, social science, arts and humanities as Chief Editor/Editorial Board Member/International Scientific Advisory Board Member. On personal front, Hj. Kamaruzaman’s approachable personality renders him a referral point for advice and insights for budding academics in the world of academia. Having taken the lead, shared and with his noteworthy achievements of lasting value to human kind and of university importance, he seldom, if not hardly fails to let down those who seek his assistance, advice and assurance from his words of wisdom. Indeed, Hj. Kamaruzaman Jusoff, an outstanding persona in the world of academia and leadership, deserves the standing ovation.

Want to know more about Professor Hj. Kamaruzaman Jusoff? Come join us in this workshop;

Course Title: Three Days Workshop on High Impact Journal Writing and Publishing


Date: 22 & 24 August 2014 (Friday & Sunday) 
Time: 8.30 a.m. - 5.30 p.m. 
Venue: MPWS Training Centre, 63-1, 63-2, Jalan Kajang Impian 1/11, 
Taman Kajang Impian, Seksyen 7, 43650 Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor 
Speaker: Professor Hj. Kamaruzaman Jusoff 

Registration Fee: RM450 (early bird rate) until 10 July 2014

                          RM600 (Normal Rate)

Medium: English

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