Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic

Dr Hassan Basri holds a Master’s Degree in Public Health from University College Dublin, a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from Manipal University, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Education from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom.

He began his professional career with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF), where he gained early exposure to healthcare delivery, clinical practice, and public health systems. In 2014, he joined the University of Cyberjaya’s Faculty of Allied Health Sciences and was later appointed as Director for the Centre of Collaborative Programmes, overseeing franchise and collaborative partnerships.

He subsequently served as Senior Director of Academic Affairs, leading institutional academic management, governance, and quality assurance. Over the years, he has developed broad expertise in academic management, research development, and policy implementation.

With two decades of professional experience across government service and higher education, Dr Hassan Basri now serves as Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic). In this role, he provides strategic leadership in advancing academic affairs and strengthening research excellence, while ensuring institutional alignment with both national regulations and global standards.

Deputy Vice Chancellor Students Experience and Learning Support

Professor Kanaga Kumari Chelliah graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Medical Imaging from Curtin University, Australia and attained postgraduate qualifications in Education and Medical Physics.

Prof Kanaga started her career in Ministry of Health Hospital as a practicing radiographer. Her strong interest and desire to upgrade the radiography profession in Malaysia became a reality when she was offered to design and implement the Bachelor in Diagnostic Imaging and Radiotherapy (Hons) in 2000 by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. During her illustrious career in MOH and UKM, she held various academic and managerial positions. Prof Kanaga joined Asia Metropolitan University as the Dean of Faculty of Health Sciences on 1st June 2017.

Currently she is a registered Class H consultant with Ministry of Health, responsible to ensure safety standards adhered by X-ray equipment operators. She was appointed by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency as an expert in medical imaging to assess programme standards. She was also in the team to prepare guidelines for the Allied Health Sciences Act. Her contributions in research and publications has been outstanding. Prof Kanaga has been the principal investigator for Science Fund, FRGS and other grants. She has published over 50 articles including chapters in local and international books. She has been invited as a keynote and plenary speaker to various international and national level conferences. Her excellence in teaching and learning has been recognized by various awards for innovation. She has also contributed in many community projects in collaboration with non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

Prof Kanaga’s diversified experience has only helped to contribute more towards the excellence of the faculty.

Bursar

Mr Demudu Naganaidu, Malaysian holds a various number of academic accolades under his wings; Master of Applied Statistics from University Putra Malaysia, Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching Methodology from Asia Metropolitan University, Master of Business Administration from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow U.K., and Bachelor of Statistics(Honors) from National University of Malaysia. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Statistics from University Putra Malaysia.

Prior to holding his current position, DemuduNaganaidu was Senior Vice President of Operations after holding many roles in the organization as Vice President Branch Operations, Chief Branch Officer of Ipoh Campus and Manager of Systems and Methods. He also worked as General Manager Operations of Institute Business Executive Malaysia.

Apart from the education industry, Demudu Naganaidu has had vast experiences in the banking and industry sector, having served in the industry for a total of 11 years prior to joining the education sector.

Registrar & Director, Centre For Academic, Industry and International Collaboration

Ms Massumi is the University Registrar where she is responsible, among others, providing the leadership to plan, organise and manage all the activities related to records, students’ admissions and registration under Admission and Records Department cum Academic Affairs, Examination Department, University Senate and Governance Unit. As the Registrar she is also responsible on the library management and leading the library team on the planning the library collections, exploring resources of knowledge, providing training to academics and non-academics on matters related to publishing, copywriting and other related matters. Ms Massumi is also responsible to lead the convocation team in supervising the coordination, evaluation and certification of all graduation applications, while overseeing the complete graduation process to include all elements of the rehearsal and the convocation ceremony to ensure positive student experiences.

Before joining AMU, Ms Massumi served few other academic institutions in senior management positions such as the Head of Student Affairs, Admissions and Records (STAAR) in a Maritime University for 7 years and was the Programme Coordinator for Foundation Studies for 4 years. She joined AMU in 2019 as a Manager in Admission and Records Department and after a year she was promoted to lead Centre for Academic, Industry and International Collaboration (CAIC) as the Director of the Centre. She served the Centre for 2 years before being promoted as a Registrar in March 2022. Ms Massumi has over 15 years of academic experience and her passion in education has helped students achieving their dreams.

Ms Massumi holds a Master of Science in Information Management from UiTM, Bachelor of Management (Hons.) from Multimedia University, Diploma in Banking from UiTM and Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching Methodology (PGCTM) from AMU. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Management (PhDM) in AMU.

Prior to her academic career, Ms Massumi was a banker and has served RHB Bank for 12 years in various departments before she decided to change her career direction from banking industry to academic. She has received many incentives and awards during her banking service and besides her academic experience, her industry experience and connections play some crucial parts in her current position as the Registrar.

Director, Centre for Quality Assurance.

Madam Karthiga Murugan is the Director, for the Centre of Quality Assurance. Her responsibilities revolves in defining and promoting quality mindset across entire university while establishing a quality system to ensure the university facilities, equipment, personnel, methods, processes and procedures conform to both internal guidelines and regulatory standards.

Prior to Joining AMU, she has obtained several hands on skills from the manufacturing industries, including managerial exposure in quality management system, supply Chain and production planning. She has attained knowledge on outcome based education practices by attending international conference on iCGPA, obtaining professional qualification on Teaching Methodology and actively engaged in the team work of Curriculum design & review practices at university level and also train the trainer certificate from NIOSH Malaysia. She also conducted internal training for academic staffs related to outcome base education.

Mdm Karthiga gained her tertiary qualification with a Master Of Science in Occupational Safety & Management from University Utara Malaysia , Post Graduate certificate in Teaching Methodology from Asia Metropolitan University and Bachelor of Industrial Technology (Hons) from University Science Malaysia.

Both industrial and professional academic qualification has enthused her to be a passionate trainer as well as an academic , who loves working with people. Her commitment to making learning enjoyable and fun comes from a friendly and interactive style. She has a unique ability to relate to people from all levels that makes her sessions learner oriented.

Director, Centre for Postgraduate Studies

Prior to joining AMU, Associate Professor Dr. Hari is employed full time at Lincoln University College and on part-time basis at several business schools; Malvern International Academic (University of Wales affiliated (UoW)), Knowledge Universe (University of the West of Scotland (UWS), Paris Institute of Management (IPE), University of South Wales and Northern Borneo University College). Hari also served as dissertation examiner for Horizon University of France, Alagappa University of India and Adjunct Lecturer at Guangdong University of Finance.

Associate Professor Dr. Hari completed his PhD in Educational Psychology at a renowned and oldest teacher training university, Sultan Idris Education University Malaysia. His research is on Emotional Intelligence among the youth of Malaysia. Associate Professor Dr. Hari’s journey to a doctorate is empowered by my Master in Management (University of La-Rochelle), Master in Information Technology (Open University Malaysia) and degree in Arts and Social Sciences majoring in International Strategies Studies (University of Malaya). Various degrees had Associate Professor Dr. Hari a multi-disciplinary person.

Associate Professor Dr. Hari’s academic qualifications and previous job experiences as a business development manager have enabled him to move forward confidently in the academic world. He enjoys developing new course modules, course criteria, course proposals and validations.
Associate Professor Dr. Hari had supervised more than 50 MBA and 9 DBA/PhD graduates in completing their respective dissertation.

Director, Centre for Research & Development

Associate Professor CHM. Dr. Mohd Hayrie Mohd Hatta is a chemistry Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Research and Development. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry (2011), Master of Science (Chemistry) and Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry (2019) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He has academic experience in chemical science with 6 years of research and analytics experience as well as in spectroscopy and chromatography. He is also a professional chemist registered with the Malaysia Institute of Chemistry. He has published his research works in ISI, Scopus and WOS journals and has number of collaborators from industries and universities. His niche area and expertise are in inorganic chemistry, green chemistry, material sciences and environmental sciences.

Head, Centre for Foundation, Language and General Studies

Dr Aishah Badruzzaman has completed her Doctorate on April 2017 in Physics from University Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). Her research interest is in therapeutic Physics as she has years of experience in cancer treatment by laser radiation research projects. She also got her master’s and bachelor’s degree in Science Physics from the same institution, UTM in 2012 and 2010.

Before joining Asia Metropolitan University, she was one of the team members from the Centre of Education Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The centre was part of the Iskandar Regional Development Authority and SWM Environment which engaged with schools and students to explore their understanding, awareness and action towards low carbon society. The project was awarded Outstanding Flagship Project for Climate Change by Global RCE Network. She was part of the team, conducting research on eco-life challenge workbook for 326 primary schools in the Iskandar Malaysia region and involved in Problem Based Learning-PBL 2017.

Dr Aishah Badruzzaman was very active in co-curriculum during her studies besides being excellent in her academics. Her goal is to use her extensive experiences and abilities to contribute to the university and the larger community.