ICEMP 2016 has invited Prof. Lazim Abdullah from School of Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia to deliver a plenary speech! 

Lazim Abdullah is a computational mathematics professor at the School of Informatics and Applied Mathematics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu. He holds a B.Sc (Hons) in Mathematics from the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur in June 1984 and the M.Ed in Mathematics Education from University Sains Malaysia, Penang in 1999. He received his Ph.D. from the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, (Information Technology Development) in 2004. His research focuses on the mathematical theory of fuzzy sets and its applications to social ecology, environmental sciences, health sciences, and manufacturing engineering.  His research findings have been published in over two hundred publications,  including refereed journals, conference proceedings, and chapters in books, and research books.  Currently, he is a Deputy Dean of his school and a member of editorial boards of several international journals related to computing and applied mathematics. He is also a regular reviewer for a number of local and international journals, member of scientific committees of several symposia and conferences at national and international levels. Dr Abdullah is an associate member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, a member of Malaysian Mathematical Society and a member of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making.