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Dr. Wan Nurhayati is a Deputy Director (Technology Transfer and Commercialisation) of Putra Science Park (PSP) Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FCSIT), UPM. Her academic experience since 2000 in the field of Software Engineering and Information Systems. She has contributed as a tutor, lecturer, senior lecturer, and associate professor within 24 years of her career. Her research interest is in the exploration of quality factors for software and web engineering. She has supervised more than 65 research projects at the levels of bachelor, master, and Ph.D. She has received recognition from UPM for Ph.D. graduate on time under her supervision. She has published more than 70 papers including ISI index journals, citation index journals, conference proceedings, etc. in the related research field. in journals, conferences, and books in the research field.
She has been actively involved in the promotion and commercialisation of UPM’s innovations for eight years, starting as FCSIT innovation champion and UPM InnoHub coordinator. InnoHub is the first market validation hub for the UPM’s technologies and innovations. InnoHub has accepted 83 innovation projects from 2014 till 2022. During her coordination, 30 start-up companies managed to secure a cumulative investment of RM18.3mil.
She leads UPM-industry-investor networking and matching, aimed at collaborating with all the key players in the commercialisation of the innovation ecosystem. To date, UPM has managed to commercialise 238 technologies and innovations. With a complete innovation and commercialisation ecosystem, PSP has become a benchmark for other universities and research institutes. Qualified and experienced in the promotion and commercialisation management, she has conducted a series of training related to commercialisation of technology and innovation to provide exposure and technology transfer skills to different organisations and platforms. She has experience as a panel and speaker at national and international training, seminars, and events that cater to issues on the university commercialisation and start-up market validation.