Harith Ahmad
University of Malaya
Malaysia
Professor Datuk Dr Harith Ahmad FASc obtained his in BSc in Physics with First Class Honours from the
University of Malaya in 1979. Subsequently, he obtained his MSc from the University of Wales in 1980,
followed by his PhD in 1983 from the same institution. Upon returning to Malaysia in 1983, he became a
member of the academic staff of UM, and since then has led the university’s research into the area of
photonics. He is currently a Distinguished Professor, and is also the director of the Photonics Research Centre
of the University of Malaya, a Higher Education Centre of Excellence (HiCoE) under the purview of the Ministry
of Education, Malaysia (MOE). His substantial contributions in the area of photonics has been acknowledged
with multiple awards and recognitions, including as a Fellow of Akademi Sains Malaysia and recipient of the
Malaysia-Toray Science Foundation Award, Merdeka Award for Scholastic Achievement and ASEAN
Outstanding Scientist and Technology Award. He is very active as both a researcher and an academician, with
numerous ISI ranked research publications to his name, as well as supervising numerous undergraduate and
postgraduate students in photonics.
