Composite Solutions for Ballistics

Dr. Yasir Nawab is Associate Professor, currently working as Dean Faculty of Engineering & Technology and leading the Textile Composite Materials Research Group. His research areas are Composite Materials, 2D & 3D woven fabrics and Finite element analysis. Three (3) PhD and twenty-five (35) MS students have completed their degrees under his supervision. He is the author of over 68 peer-reviewed journal articles, 5 books/book chapters and over 35 conference communications. He is the founding Director of National Center for Composite Materials. He received his Ph.D from the University of Nantes, France in the domain of composite materials in 2012, which was declared as Remarkable Ph.D in science & Technology in that year. In 2013, he did his postdoc from the ONERA (The French Aerospace lab) and University of Le Havre, France. He has worked in industry and gained teaching and research experience from local as well as International institutes.

S.M. Sapuan is a Professor of Composite Materials at Universiti Putra Malaysia. He earned his B.Eng degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Newcastle, Australia in 1990, MSc from Loughborough University, UK in 1994 and Ph.D from De Montfort University, UK in 1998. His research interests include natural fiber composites, materials selection and concurrent engineering. To date he has authored or co-authored more than 1300 publications international journals (629 papers), books (17), edited books (13), chapters in books (91) and conference proceedings/seminars (597 papers).S.M. Sapuan was the recipient of Rotary Research Gold Medal Award 2012, The Alumni Medal for Professional Excellence Finalist, 2012 Alumni Awards, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia, Khwarizmi International Award (KIA). In 2013 he was awarded with 5 Star Role Model Supervisor award by UPM. He has been awarded “Outstanding Reviewer” by Elsevier for his contribution in reviewing journal papers. He received Best Technical Paper Award in UMIMAS STEM International Engineering Conference in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. S.M. Sapuan was recognized as the first Malaysian to be conferred Fellowship by the US-based Society of Automotive Engineers International (FSAE) in 2015. He was the 2015/2016 recipient of SEARCA Regional Professorial Chair. In 2016 ranking of UPM researchers based on the number of citations and h-index by SCOPUS, he is ranked the 6th from 100 researchers. In 2017, he was awarded with IOP Outstanding Reviewer Award by Institute of Physics, UK, National Book Award, The Best Journal Paper Award, UPM, Outstanding Technical Paper Award, Society of Automotive Engineers International, Malaysia, and Outstanding Researcher Award, UPM. He also received in 2017 Citation of Excellence Award from Emerald, UK, SAE Malaysia the Best Journal Paper Award, IEEE/TMU Endeavour Research Promotion Award, Best Paper Award by Chinese Defence Ordnance and Malaysia’s Research Star Award (MRSA), from Elsevier.

Dr. Khubab Shaker is currently working as Assistant Professor at National Textile University. He got his doctoral degree from National Textile University in Textile Engineering and his specialisation was polymeric composite materials. His research areas include multilayer/3D weaving, composite materials, residual stresses in composite materials, finite element modelling and auxetic materials. He has served in the weaving industry of Pakistan for three years, while his teaching career spans over 7 years. He is the author of 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, edited one book, contributed in 5 book chapters and presented in over 10 conference papers. He is also working as Deputy Director of National Center for Composite Materials.