Ir Dr Mark Ovinis is a Senior Lecturer at the Mechanical Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. He received his PhD from Loughborough University, UK. He earned his master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University, USA and a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, MY. He is a graduate member of the Board of Engineers Malaysia and the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia.  He is also a reviewer for many conferences and journals and has published more than 50 publications, which includes conference proceedings and indexed journals. He has secured several research national and international grants, as well as graduated 3 PhD students. His current research area is in underwater vehicles and machine vision. He has 10 years experience in Matlab Simulink forward looking model development, engineering systems optimizations and battery management system.