Sevia M. Idrus is Professor and member of Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. She received her Bachelor in Electrical Engineering in 1998 and Master in Engineering Management in 1999, both from UTM. She obtained her Ph.D in 2004 from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom in optical communication engineering. She has served UTM since 1998 as an academic and administrative staff. Her main research interests are optical communication system and network, optoelectronic design, and engineering management. Her research output have been translated into a number of publications and IPR including a high-end reference books, ‘Optical Wireless Communication: IR Connectivity’ published by Taylor and Francis, 49 book chapters and monographs, over 200 refereed research papers, 5 patents granted, 36 patent filings and holds 36 UTM copyrights. To date, she has secured and been involved in 38 research and consultation projects with a total value of RM10.2M. She is the founder and Director of a UTM spin-off company, iSmartUrus Sdn Bhd (1057063A). She also the co-founder and Board of Directors of Zen Trillion Sdn Bhd (1139993-H) an ICT company providing smartcity solution and services. She is actively involved in a number industrial and international research collaboration projects, delivered keynote and invited speeches to many international conferences and seminars. She is Senior Member of IEEE and member of Editorial Board of few refereed international journals. She has been appointed as a Guest Professor at Osaka Prefecture University and Tokai University, Japan in 2011 and 2014, respectively.