Katrina D. Dambul received her B. Eng (Hons) Electronics majoring in Telecommunications and Master of Engineering Science from Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia in 2002 and 2007 respectively. In 2011, she received a Master of Science from University of Oxford, United Kingdom and in 2018, she received her Doctor of Philosophy from University of Malaya.
In 2002, she began her academic work as as a tutor in Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia and she is currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Engineering, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya. Her research interests are specialty optical fiber design and fabrication and optical communications. Her knowledge in this area has led to 17 publications in peer-reviewed indexed journal papers, 9 conference proceedings and 1 book chapter. As of July 2025, from her publications, she has 441 citations and a h-index of 10.
Since 2024, Katrina is the programme coordinator for the Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) Electronics. She is also a Senior Member of IEEE and a graduate member of Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM).