Noreen Izza binti Arshad is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CISD), Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. She also leads the Positive Computing Research Cluster under the Institute of Autonomous Systems at UTP. She conducts investigation and publish papers in the area of technology for the society that include robotics intervention, stuttering mobile application, content management systems and learning management systems. She has supervised more than 50 final year students on various projects that include development of mobile applications, robots, web applications, business systems and many more. Her ultimate gold is always to drive her students to create good projects that can benefit others in any way possible.

Her research interest is towards understanding ways technology is used, adopted and adapted, and ways it brings value to the society, business or organizations.  She has designed some methodologies, frameworks, tools and assistive technologies that include robots for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and stuttering mobile application for speech therapists and people who stutter.

Dr Noreen is one of the leaders in innovation fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K. She is always interested in exploring how the use of technology could lead to a better living and quality life; and ways to develop and promote technologies as enablers that could assist people in many aspects of life, including education, healthcare, and smart living.