Born on 5th September 1964 in Jelebu, Negeri Sembilan, Prof Dr Rose Alinda Alias was appointed as the UTM Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic & International) at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia on the 15th of January 2012.

She was the Chairperson of Malaysian Deans of Graduate Schools Council (MyDEGS) from 1 Jan 2010 until 12th Jan 2012. She has been a long-time academic administrator at UTM, having held the posts of UTM School of Graduate Studies Dean (1 Aug 2009 -14 Jan 2012), UTM Graduate School of Engineering Dean (1 Aug 2007 – 31 July 2009), Deputy Dean (Project Management & Finance), UTM Research Management Center (1 April 2005 - 31 Mar 2007), and Deputy Dean (Graduate Studies & Research) UTM Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems FSKSM (1 July 1998 - 31 Mar 2005).

In 2005, Prof Rose Alinda was appointed as UTM Professor of Information Systems Management at FSKSM where until December 2012 she has graduated 12 PhD students and is currently supervising 16 PhD students. She obtained her PhD in Information Systems from University of Salford United Kingdom in January 1998, and MBA, MSc (Computer Information Systems), and BSc Computer Science from University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA in 1985 and 1986.

Her research area of expertise is in Knowledge Management, Information Systems Strategy & Planning, and Information Systems Quality.

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