Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK, MALAYSIA, Kejuruteraan Komputer, IJAZAH KEDOKTORAN (DOCTORAL DEGREE), , 2013

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (Skudai), MALAYSIA, Matematik / Penyelidikan Operasi, IJAZAH SARJANA (MASTER OF SCIENCE (MATHEMATICS) SECARA PENYELIDIKAN) , 2003

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, MALAYSIA, Kejuruteraan Komputer, IJAZAH SARJANA MUDA (BACHELOR DEGREE), 3.11, 2000

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MAJOR; SCHEDULING, TIMETABLING, META-HEURISTICS, NATURE INSPIRED ALGORITHM OPTIMIZATION

- Operations Strategy (Including Tactical Planning for Logistics in Defence and Security Systems such as Manpower Planning, Inventory Planning, Distribution and Routing, Intelligent Systems, Computation Artificial Intelligence
- Operations Research

International Grant;
Project Leader; UIC171501 - Hybrid Lte-vanets Based Real-time Video Dissemination In Multimedia Vanets, Duration: 1/3/2017 - 28/2/2018

University Grant
Project Leader; RDU1703274 - Solving Universiti Malaysia Pahang Examination Invigilators Scheduling Problem Using Step-counting Hill Climbing, Duration: 30/6/2017 - 29/6/2019

Project Leader; RDU1703212 - An Improved Step - Counting Hill Climbing Algorithm In Vehicle Routing Problem, Duration: 15/6/2017 - 16/6/2019

Project Leader; PGRS170379 - Examination Timetabling With Partial Exam Assignment Approach, Duration: 1/3/2017 - 1/3/2019

Member; RDU180307 - A Cooperative Co-Evolutionary Algorithm For Fuzzy Modelling In Cancer Classification, Duration 1/4/2018 - 31/3/2020

Member; RDU1703324 - A New Approach In Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm For Optimal Search Solution In A Video Tracking System, Duration: 05/10/2017 - 04/10/2019

COMPLETED RESEARCH;
Project Leader; GRS1403136 - Analysis And Optimization Of Examination Timeline Problems Based On Partial Graph Heuristics Algorithm, Duration: 25/11/2014 - 24/11/2016

Project Leader; GRS1403118 - Development Of African Buffalo Optimization
And Its Application To Solving Urban Transport Problems, Duration: 25/10/2014 - 24/10/2017

Project Leader; RDU140383 - A Study Of Examination Timetable Problem On
Overall Satisfaction Open Implementing Open Registration In UMP, Duration 25/6/2014 - 24/6/2016

Project Leader; RDU1303101 - Musk Lime Clarification Base On Color Image
Processing, Duration 1/12/2013 - 30/11/2015

Project Leader; RDU130397 - Hybridisation Of Great Deluge Algorithm With
Graph Heuristics To Solve Capacitated Examination Timetabling Problem, Duration 1/12/2013 - 31/5/2015

Project Leader; RDU050108 - Using Expert System In KUKTEM Timetabling
Module. Duration 4/12/2005 - 11/4/2006

Member; RDU1403168 - Computational Intelligence Techniques For Gold Price Forecasting, Duration 25/12/2014 - 24/12/2016

Member; RDU140310 - Modelling Of Oil Waste Production Based On Vehicle Services Information, Duration 15/3/2014 - 14/3/2016

Member; RDU1303105 - Automated Suspicious Activities Detection System Using Object Movement Detection, Duration 1/12/2013 - 30/11/2014

Member; RDU1303103 - Dynamic Vehicle Routing Plan (Vrp) Based On Actual Waste Produced By Service Center Using Intelligent Technique, Duration 01/12/2013 - 30/11/2014

Member; RDU1303102 - Requirement Elicitation And Traceability Matric For University Malaysia Pahang Open Registration (Or) Timetabling System, Duration 1/12/2013 - 30/11/2015

Member; RDU130360 - Multimodal Biometrics System: Fusion Of Face And Dynamic Signature At Feature Level For Authentication System, Duration 25/6/2013 - 24/12/2015

Member; RDU1203118 - Development Of Dynamic Modeling Simulator Based On Kinetic Model Of Escherichia Coli Central Carbon Metabolism, Duration 15/12/2012 - 14/9/2015

Member; RDU070364 - Geographical Information Retrieval For Asset Location
Detection Using Web-based Interactive Map, Duration 03/9/2007 - 09/2/2008

Member; RDU070311 - Modelling And Simulation For Quick Steam Food Processing In Vending Machine, Duration 4/1/2007 - 30/3/2008

Member; RDU050119 - Optimization Of Short-patch Distillation Of Ginger Extraction Pilot Plant (Gepp) Process Using Multivariate Statistical Process
Control (Mspc). Duration 01/11/2005 - 31/10/2006

Member; RDU050117 - Defect Inspection System On Textile Web, Duration 15/7/2005 - 14/7/2006

Member; RDU040118 - Finger Print For Password Security, Duration 1/1/2005 - 31/12/2005

Member; RDU040119 - Car Entering System Using Car Plate Recognition, Duration 1/1/2005 - 31/12/2005

PATENT;

Patent; PINTAS; Recycling of Used Cooking Oil to Biodiesel; Registration Number 20080176
Copyright; MYIPO, Tuning of PID Controller Parameters of Automatic Voltage Regulators Using The African Buffalo Optimization Algorithm, Registration Number LY2017002375
Copyright; African Buffalo Algorithm
Copyright; Scalability and QoS Support Unicast Geographic Routing Protocol for Video Streaming over VANETs

Main Supervisor
1) Ashis Kumar Mandal, Partial Examination Assignment Approaches For
Solving Examination Timetabling Problems, (Graduated: 2014 - )
2) Chang Ling Shing, Improvement Method With Partial Graph Heuristic To Solve Examination Timetabling Problem, (2016 - Ongoing)

Main Supervisor;
1) Azamuddin Bin Ab Rahman, Wireless Interference Mitigation For Long Range
Wireless Network, (2018 - Ongoing)
2) Munther Hameed Abed, Solving University Course Timetabling Problem
Using Evolutionary Algorithms, (2018 - Ongoing)
3) Tan Fui Bee, Propose Method For Optimizing Event Correlation In Cyber Security Event Tools, (2017 - Ongoing)
4) Bilal Ahmed Mohammed, Finding Stable Paths In Vanet By Evaluation The
Performance Of Multiple Routing Protocols, (2016 - Ongoing)
5) Ali Nader Mahmed, Optimization In Network Design Using MetaHeuristic
Technique (2016 - Ongoing)
6) Omar Abdulmaged Hammod, A New Algorithm For Enhancing Tfrc And Udp Over Mobile Ip Network (2015 - Ongoing)
7) Julius Beneoluchi Odili, The Design&Nbsp;And Applications Of The
African Buffalo&Nbsp;Algorithm For General&Nbsp;Optimization Problems (Graduated: 2014 - 2017)

Co- Supervisor;
1) Wan Nurulsafawati Wan Manan, An Enhanced Hashing Technique For Identifying Similar Evidence In Digital Forensic Investigation, (2017 - Ongoing)
2) Ahmed Mohammed Fahad, A Security Model Based On Harmony Search
Algorithm To Prevent Malicious Node Attack In Manet, (2017 - Ongoing)
3) Riaz Ul Haq, A Novel Approach Towards Development Of Real
Time Soil Deficiency Determination System Using Wsn, (2017 - Ongoing)
4) Ghaida Muttashar Abdulsahib, An Enhanced Cluster Head Selection Algorithm
For Routing In Mobile Ad-Hoc Network, (Graduated: 2014 -)

Satari, S. Z., Kahar, M. N. M., & Jamil, N. M. (2009). Calculus for Computer Science. Penerbit Universiti Malaysia Pahang.

Kahar, M., & Nizam, M. (2013). Heuristic approaches for real world examination timetabling problems (Doctoral dissertation, University of Nottingham).

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Buku Program 'The 4th National Conference for Postgraduate Research, 2018' (NCON-PGR 2018) - co-editor, INPROGRESS
http://ncon-pgr.ump.edu.my/index.php/en/about/welcome-to-ncon-pgr-2018

Buku Program 'The 5th International Conference on Software Engineering & Computer Systems 2017' (ICSECS 2017), co-editor
http://icsecs.ump.edu.my/index.php/en/program/program-book/file

- Fahad, A. M., Ahmed, A. A., & Kahar, M. N. M. (2017, November). The importance of monitoring cloud computing: An intensive review. In Region 10 Conference, TENCON 2017-2017 IEEE (pp. 2858-2863). IEEE.

- Odili, J. B., & Kahar, M. N. M. (2016, September). African buffalo optimization approach to the design of PID controller in automatic voltage regulator system. In National conference for postgraduate research, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Pekan, Pahang (pp. 24-25).

- Mustaffa, Z., Sulaiman, M. H., & Kahar, M. N. M. (2015, August). LS-SVM hyper-parameters optimization based on GWO algorithm for time series forecasting. In Software Engineering and Computer Systems (ICSECS), 2015 4th International Conference on (pp. 183-188). IEEE.

- Odili, J. B., Kahar, M. N. M., Anwar, S., & Azrag, M. A. K. (2015, August). A comparative study of African buffalo optimization and randomized insertion algorithm for asymmetric travelling salesman's problem. In Software Engineering and Computer Systems (ICSECS), 2015 4th International Conference on (pp. 90-95). IEEE.

- Mandal, A. K., & Kahar, M. N. M. (2015, August). Combination of graph heuristic with hill climbing search for solving capacitated examination timetabling problem. In Software Engineering and Computer Systems (ICSECS), 2015 4th International Conference on (pp. 118-123). IEEE.

- Mustaffa, Z., Sulaiman, M. H., & Kahar, M. N. M. (2015, June). Training LSSVM with GWO for price forecasting. In Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV), 2015 International Conference on (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

- Mandal, A. K., & Kahar, M. N. M. (2015, April). Solving examination timetabling problem using partial exam assignment with great deluge algorithm. In Computer, Communications, and Control Technology (I4CT), 2015 International Conference on (pp. 530-534). IEEE.

- Mandal, A. K., & Kahar, M. N. M. (2015, April). Solving examination timetabling problem using partial exam assignment with hill climbing search. In Computer Applications & Industrial Electronics (ISCAIE), 2015 IEEE Symposium on (pp. 84-89). IEEE.

- Odili, J. B., & Kahar, M. N. M. (2015). African buffalo optimization (ABO): a new meta-heuristic algorithm. Journal of Advanced & Applied Sciences, 3(03), 101-106.

Odili, J. B., Kahar, M. N. M., & Noraziah, A. (2018). Swarm Intelligence Optimization Algorithms: A Review. Journal of Telecommunication, Electronic and Computer Engineering (JTEC), 10(1-4), 139-142.

Odili, J. B., Kahar, M. N. M., & Noraziah, A. (2017). A Comparative Study of Neural Networks Methods and the African Buffalo Optimization for the Travelling Salesman’s Problems. Advanced Science Letters, 23(11), 11044-11047.

Odili, J. B., Kahar, M. N. M., Noraziah, A., Zarina, M., & Haq, R. U. (2017). Performance Analyses of Nature-inspired Algorithms on the Traveling Salesman’s Problems for Strategic Management. Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, 1-11. (ISI Impact Factor= 0.351, Q4)

Odili, J., Kahar, M. N. M., Noraziah, A., & Kamarulzaman, S. F. (2017). A comparative evaluation of swarm intelligence techniques for solving combinatorial optimization problems. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 14(3), 1729881417705969. (ISI Impact Factor = 0.615, Q4)

Odili, J. B., Kahar, M. N. M., & Noraziah, A. (2017). Parameters-tuning of PID controller for automatic voltage regulators using the African buffalo optimization. PloS one, 12(4), e0175901. (ISI Impact Factor = 3.057, Q1).


Odili, J. B., Kahar, M. N. M., Anwar, S., & Ali, M. (2017). TUTORIALS ON AFRICAN BUFFALO OPTIMIZATION FOR SOLVING THE TRAVELLING SALESMAN PROBLEM. International Journal of Software Engineering and Computer Systems, 3(1), 120-128.

Mandal, A. K., & Kahar, M. N. M. (2016). PARTIAL GRAPH HEURISTIC WITH HILL CLIMBING FOR EXAMINATION TIMETABLING PROBLEM. Journal of Theoretical & Applied Information Technology, 88(2).

Odili, J. B., KAHAR, M., NIZAM, M., NORAZIAH, A., & ODILI, E. A. (2016). AFRICAN BUFFALO OPTIMIZATION AND THE RANDOMIZED INSERTION ALGORITHM FOR THE ASYMMETRIC TRAVELLING SALESMAN'S PROBLEMS. Journal of Theoretical & Applied Information Technology, 87(3).

Odili, J. B., Kahar, M. N. M., & Noraziah, A. (2016). Convergence analysis of the African buffalo optimization algorithm. International Journal of Simulations: Systems, Science and Technology, 17(44), 44-41. (Scopus, SJR = 0.1, Q4)

Odili, J. B., & Mohmad Kahar, M. N. (2016). Solving the traveling Salesman's problem using the African Buffalo optimization. Computational intelligence and neuroscience, 2016, 3.

Odili, J. B., & Kahar, M. N. M. (2015). African buffalo optimization (ABO): a new meta-heuristic algorithm. Journal of Advanced & Applied Sciences, 3(03), 101-106.

Odili, J. B., Kahar, M. N. M., & Anwar, S. (2015). African buffalo optimization: a swarm-intelligence technique. Procedia Computer Science, 76, 443-448.

Odili, J. B., & Kahar, M. N. M. (2015). Numerical function optimization solutions using the African buffalo optimization algorithm (ABO). British Journal of Mathematics & Computer Science, 10(1), 1-12.

Kahar, M. M., & Kendall, G. (2015). A great deluge algorithm for a real-world examination timetabling problem. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 66(1), 116-133.

Kahar, M. M., & Kendall, G. (2014). Universiti Malaysia Pahang examination timetabling problem: scheduling invigilators. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 65(2), 214-226.

Kahar, M. N. M., & Kendall, G. (2010). The examination timetabling problem at Universiti Malaysia Pahang: Comparison of a constructive heuristic with an existing software solution. European journal of operational research, 207(2), 557-565.

Research Methodology & Project Proposal
Data Communication & Networking
Programming Techniques
Computer Architecture & Organization
Current Issues In Ict
Programming Techniques
Introduction To It
Calculus
Microprocessor Application & Interface

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- Heart Attack Detection For Monitoring System, SILVER, CITREX 2018

Silver Medal: 28th International Invention, Innovation & Technology Exhibition 2017 (ITEX 2017), Malaysia (Dr Suryanti Awang, Dr Mohd Nizam Mohmad Kahar, Dr Julius Beneoluchi Odili, Assoc Prof Dr Noraziah Ahmad, Dr Muhammad Aizzat), “Intelligent PID Controller for Automatic Voltage Regulators”, 11-13 Mei 2017

- A Novel Intelligent Authentication System, BRONZE, Malaysia Technology Expo, 2017

Gold Medal, International Competition and Exhibition on Computing Innovation 2016 (iCE-Cinno 2016) (Jolius Odili, Assoc Prof Dr. Noraziah Ahmad, Dr Nizam Kahar), “African Buffalo Optimization for PID Parameters Tuning of Automatic Voltage Regulators”, 6-8 Dec 2016

- Implementation Of Image Processing For Car Plate Location Detection, Finger Print Detection And Defect Inspection On Textile, GOLD, R&D IPTA Expo 2005

- Implementation Of Image Processing For Car Plate Location Detection, Finger Print Detection And Defect Inspection On Textile, GOLD AND SPECIAL AWARD, Malaysia Technology Expo, 2006

- Multimodal Biometrics System; Fudion Of Face And Dynamic Signature At Feature Level For Authentication System, BRONZE, Malaysia Technology Expo, 2017

- Hadiah Sanjungan Kategori Penerbitan (Jurnal), Anugerah Cendekia Bitara 2013, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, "A Great Deluge Algorithm For A Real-World Examination Timetabling Problem"

Non-Academic Recognitions;
- Anugerah Perkhidmatan Cemerlang (APC), Universiti Malaysia Pahang 2016
- Anugerah Perkhidmatan Cemerlang (APC), Universiti Malaysia Pahang 2013
- Anugerah Perkhidmatan Cemerlang (APC), Universiti Malaysia Pahang 2007
- Anugerah Perkhidmatan Cemerlang (APC), Universiti Malaysia Pahang 2004