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• Ahmad Sobri Hashim received the Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Master of Science (M.Sc.), and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees in information technology from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP). He is a Senior Lecturer with the Computer and Information Sciences Department (CISD), UTP. Since 2014, he has been teaching, and he is very passionate in teaching programming courses including structured programming and web programming. He has published quite a number of research papers, since 2009, and most of the papers are indexed by ISI and SCOPUS. His research interests include IT applications, e-systems, human-computer interaction, educational technologies, learning disabilities, and information systems. He is very concern on the development of society wellbeing. That is why most of the research and non-academic activities that he involved so far significantly contribute to the society. In terms of research, he has completed one research entitled "A Study on Acceptance of Mobile School System in Secondary Education and Walking Into Autism's Minds: Theories, Conceptual Model, and Strategies for Inclusion." Currently, there are still on-going research being conducted which are development of one-fit-all robot kit for teaching and learning basic programming to higher education students, formulation of gestural interaction design model to support car drivers interacting with smartphone user interfaces using AHP technique, and formulation of sentiment analysis model to analyze HSE situational awareness at oil and gas platform using machine learning. From research that he conducted, he achieved significant achievement. He has won the Gold Medal in Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE) 2017, the International Competition and Exhibition on Computing Innovation (ICE-CInno) 2016, the Pertandingan Rekacipta dan Inovasi Institusi Pengajian Tinggi Swasta (PERISTIS) 2016, and the International Invention, Design and Articulation (i-IDeA) 2016s.