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Dr. Wan Nurhayati is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FCSIT), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), and a Deputy Director (Technology Transfer and Commercialisation) of Putra Science Park (PSP) UPM.

Her academic experience since 2000 is in 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 the exploration of quality for software and web engineering. She has supervised more than 65 research projects at the levels of bachelor, master, and PhD. She received recognition from UPM for Ph.D. graduate on time under her supervision. She has contributed to more than 70 publications including ISI index journals, citation index journals, conference proceedings, books, etc. in the related research field.

Her current management mandate from UPM is to make successful technology transfer and commercialisation of UPM technology and innovation. She leads UPM-industry-investor networking and matching, aimed at collaborating with all the key players in commercialisation ecosystem. To date, UPM has managed to commercialise 253 technologies. With a complete innovation and commercialisation ecosystem, PSP has become a benchmark for other universities and research institutions. In addition, PSP has attracted potential industries and investors to become UPM strategic partners and supporters.

Previously she led the promotion and commercialisation of UPM’s innovations for the past ten 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 to 2022. During her coordination, 30 start-up companies secured a cumulative investment of RM18.3mil.

Qualified and experienced in promotion, technology transfer, 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 relevant to university technology transfer and commercialisation, and start-up market validation.