Zahriladha ZAKARIA was born in Johor, Malaysia. He received the B. Eng. and M. Eng. in Electrical
and Electronic Engineering from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 1998 and 2004 respectively,
and the PhD degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the Institute of Microwaves and
Photonics (IMP), University of Leeds, United Kingdom in 2010. From 1998 to 2002, he was with
STMicroelectronics, Malaysia where he worked as Product Engineer. He is currently a Professor at
Microwave Research Group (MRG), Faculty of Electronic and Computer Technology & Engineering,
University Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), where he teaches Microwave Engineering, Antenna
and Propagation, Electronic System, Communication Principles, Wireless Communications and
Signal Processing. His research interests include variety of microwave devices development such as
planar and non-planar microwave filters, resonators, amplifiers and antennas. He also investigates
energy harvesting, sensor and data communications for interdisciplinary applications. He has
published more than 400 scientific papers in journals, proceedings and book-chapters. He holds 8
intellectual property rights and he has won several awards including gold medal during several
research and innovation exhibitions at the national and international level, such as the UTeMEX 2012,
2013 & 2015, Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE 2012-2014 and 2016), ITEX 2016 & 2017,
International Trade Fair Ideas Inventions New Products (iENA 2012) in Nuremberg, Germany, Seoul
International Invention Fair (SiiF 2013, 2016, 2017 & 2019) in Seoul, Korea. Dr. Zakaria is an active
reviewer for prominent journals such as IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
(MTT), IEEE Sensor, IEEE Access, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters (MWCL),
IET Microwave, Antennas and Propagation and etc. He is also the recipient of Top Research Scientist
Malaysia (TRSM) 2021.
