Professor Dato’ Dr Shamala Subramaniam

Professor Dato’ Dr Shamala Subramaniam is a Professor and Dean in the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia. She serves as the Chairman for Ph.D. and Master’s Thesis Supervisory Committee (17 graduated and 9 currently pursuing). She has a high number of cited publications in reputed high impact and indexed journals. She has authored Chapter (s) in book and lecture series. She has been recognized as a Member of Editorial Advisory Board in national and international journals. She has addressed keynote in several national and international conferences. She specializes in the area of wireless networks and distributed systems. She has secured a wide-spectrum of research grants encompassing from fundamental to applied. Her research grants in the area of wireless network and distributed systems is approximately RM 4.1 Million.

Prof Shamala’s research in integrating wireless and distributed into sports has resulted in the first Games Management System developed in partnership with the National Sports Council. The project known as iGames has evolved from being used domestically to cater one of the largest multi-sports Games (SUKMA 2018 and SUKMA 2022) to an international platform which was the South East Asia Games in Cambodia 2023.

Subsequently, another research project known as the IoSRocks© has been copyrighted and has been harnessed to become commercially viable. She has founded the startup U Empower Sdn Bhd through the university program known as Innohub which is aimed at transcending research to the commercialization domain. The IOSRocks© has won two gold medals at International Exhibition and won the Best Innovation Award at the International Innovation, Technology and Research Exhibition and Conference (ITREXC 2023) which was held in conjunction with the 4th Selangor R&D & Innovation Exhibition (SRIE).

She is currently leading a project of half a million ringgit on the Digital Transformation of the Ministry of Higher Education Accreditation System. Prof Shamala is a Council Member of the Academy Professors of Malaysia. Prof Shamala is very passionate about sports. She represented the national women’s senior and junior hockey team and has served in many national and international administrative sports positions. These include the positions she held as the Vice President of the Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) 2018-2021, Board Member of the Asian Hockey Federation (2010-2023), Deputy President of the Malaysian Hockey Confederation (2015-2023), Director of the National Olympic Academy (2015-2019), Board Member of the National Sports Institute (2011-2021) , Director of the Women’s Division of the National Sports Council (2006-2008) and First Malaysian to be appointed as one of the coordinators of the International Olympic Academy Youth Session in Greece (2000-2003). She also won the Olympic Council of Malaysia Women in Sports Award (2011), was awarded the Asian Hockey Federation Order of Merit (2019) and the President’s Award (2014) and the Selangor State Sports Leadership Award (2023). She is currently the President of the Research Empowered Sports Politics, Education, Communication and Technology of Malaysia abbreviated as RESPECT.

Prof Shamala was conferred the Darjah Setia Bakti Negeri Sembilan award by the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan Tuanku Muhriz which carries the title “Dato”.