Summary
Nor Badrul Anuar is a professor and technology leader with over two decades of academic and administrative experience, currently serving as Visiting Professor at Universiti Tenaga Nasional and Professor of Network and Cybersecurity at Universiti Malaya. He has steered university-wide digital transformation as Chief Information/Chief Digital Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor, overseeing IT, libraries, archives, infrastructure and data platforms. A prolific researcher with 152 publications, ~7,670 citations and an H-index of 41, his work on intrusion detection, high-speed networks, traffic classification and federated learning has earned recognition among Stanford’s top 2% of scientists. He supervises PhD and master’s candidates and contributes to leading journals such as JNCA, blending deep technical research with practical cybersecurity deployments. Based in Kuala Lumpur, he combines institutional governance (University Senate member) with hands-on research leadership as head of the Centre for Research for Cyber Security & Network. Unusually for a senior academic administrator, he also notes a personal GitHub presence—“one third of my life lies here”—hinting at continued hands-on engagement with code and open scholarship.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science, Network Security, Master of Computer Science, Network Security at Universiti Malaya
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at University of Plymouth
English