2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Mr. Hiroyuki Ishizaki http://orcid.org/0009-0008-7482-2038 Shibaura Institute of Technology [biography]

   Hiroyuki Ishizaki is a Visiting Professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT), a leading Japanese engineering school. His research interests include multidisciplinary teaching and learning, cross-cultural competence, collaborative online international (COIL), technopreneurship, and project/problem-based learning methods. As a Director of the Malaysia Office, he has been expatriated in Malaysia since 2014 and leading the internationalization of SIT and its partner universities throughout the Southeast Asian region. Under his initiatives, various short-term mobility programs and student exchanges have been started. He is also Chair of the Mobility Special Interest Group of Asia Technological University Network (ATU-Net) and initiated a COIL program called Virtual Asia Exploration (VAx) by orchestrating the collaboration of six Asian universities.
   He is also an entrepreneur through his consulting company established in 2004, and has been rendering management consultation services to both small-medium size companies and multi-national enterprises such as global strategy planning, cross-border business entry, middle manager training, and partner development. These business achievements are reflected in his academic activities through the designing of lectures and mobility programs with practical implementation perspectives.
   Ishizaki has been actively presenting and publishing his academic achievements at international conferences in the Asia Pacific region and North America such as APAIE, WERA, and NAFSA.
   He earned a Master of Business Administration majoring in international business at the University of Southern California in the United States of America, and a Bachelor in Law at Hitotsubashi University in Japan.

2. Dr. Maria Anityasari http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4401-0051 Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology [biography]

   Maria Anityasari is the Director of ITS Global Engagement. Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) Surabaya, one of the best sciences and engineering universities in Indonesia. Under her leadership, the university has been building partnerships in engineering and non engineering fields with various universities and institutions in different countries. She initiated many innovative and breakthrough programs, such as Community and Technological (CommTECH) Camp – a very successful world class short program, an intensive training on EMI (English as a Medium of Instruction) for lectures, connecting classroom programs, Global Project based Learning (GPbL) programs, intensive staff mobility between ITS and university partners, MOOC courses, and so on. She also created many programs to assist internationalization of other universities in Eastern Part of Indonesia (EPI). Currently she is the co-chair of Western Australian and East Java Universities Consortium (WAEJUC) for mobility and the vice-coordinator of Special Interest Group (SIG) for mobility in Asia Technological University Network (ATU-Net). She is also a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Industrial and System Engineering, with research interest in the field of life cycle management, sustainability, and system design.

3. Prof. Masaomi Kimura http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3991-4259 Shibaura Institute of Technology [biography]

   Prof. Masaomi Kimura received a Ph.D. degree from The University of Tokyo in 1999. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and
   Engineering in Shibaura Institute of Technology. His current research interests are in the areas of data science and data
   engineering as an application of artificial intelligence.

4. Faiqoh Agustin University of Maryland, College Park [biography]

   Faiqoh Agustin is a Fulbright scholar currently pursuing a master’s degree in international education policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. With over seven years of experience in the field of internationalization in higher education, she has developed a keen interest in international education programs, especially within higher education contexts. Faiqoh is also passionate about advocating for STEM education for girls, reflecting her commitment to promoting equitable access to education.

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