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- Jafreezal Jaafar (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in computer science from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, in 1998, the M.App.Sc. degree in IT from RMIT University, Australia, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Edinburgh, U.K., in 2009. He joined the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP), Malaysia, in 1999, where he was appointed as the Head, from 2012 to 2016. He was the former Head of the Center for Research in Data Science, from 2017 to 2020, which focuses on the implementation of machine learning and predictive analytic in oil and gas (O&G) industry. He is currently Professor and the Dean of the Faculty of Science and Information Technology, UTP.