Summary
Ahmad Ayob is an Associate Professor and maritime principal consultant with 11 years of experience turning naval architecture research into practical ocean intelligence solutions. He leads the Vehicle Simulator Group at Universiti Malaysia Terengganu and runs VSG Labs, where he combines ship design, systems integration and AI to advance ocean digitalization. With a PhD from UNSW and a background spanning academia, industry R&D and international office leadership, he bridges multidisciplinary teams, policy and technical delivery. He also contributes code on GitHub—sharing snippets that support his research prototypes—and recently expanded into industrial roles focused on ocean-focused systems at PETRONAS-UMT CEFORE. Known for blending classical naval design with deep learning-driven optimization, he excels at bringing complex marine systems from concept to deployable tools.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelors Degree, Mechanical Engineering at Universiti Malaya
UNSW Sydney
Bahasa Malaysia, English, Arabic