Associate Professor Dr. Arifah Bahar obtained her Ph.D. in Stochastic Dynamics from The University of Strathclyde. She is the Director of UTM- Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (UTM-CIAM) which is a founding institutional member of Asia Pacific Consortium of Mathematics for Industry headquartered at Institute of Mathematics for Industry, Kyushu University. Playing role in promoting research in the area of mathematical and statistical modelling, simulation and optimisation of industrial process. She is also Editor in Chief for MATEMATIKA: Malaysian Journal of Industrial & Applied Mathematics, and Associate Editor for Malaysia Institute of Statistics Journal of Statistical Modelling and Analytics. Her research encompasses Stochastic Modelling, Groundwater Modelling, Statistical Data Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification