Mohabattul Z Bukhari is a Professor of Materials Engineering from Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP). Presently, he is the Directorof The Industry Centre of Excellence (ICoE) (Healthcare Cluster), The Ministry of Education Malaysia (MoE).

Preceding his term at MoE, he was acting for the post of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic & Internationalization), Dean and Deputy Dean of Academic & Internationalization of UniMAP.

He has 25 years working experiences, in which 10 years in industry and 15 years as an academic. Won numerous awards and he is one of the recipients of the Top 100 Leaders in Education to be conferred in December 2019 at Dubai UAE.