Biography
Dr. Magis received her PhD from Multimedia University, Malaysia in the year 2014. Her PhD research was in the area of Information Systems for Disaster Management. Currently, she is a Chairperson for Centre of Excellence for Knowledge and Innovation Management (CEKIM), and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Management. To date, she has had a distinguished corporate career and academia career spanning over 27 years. She has also obtained several national research grants, awards, and copyrights in the area of information systems for disaster management, knowledge management systems and has published extensively in international journals and conference proceedings. She is a member of the Association of Information Systems (AIS), an Exco member for R&D and a life member of the Association of Information Systems-Malaysia Chapter, Qualitative Research Association of Malaysia (QRAM - Life member) and Association for Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM).Thus far, she has published more than 50 international journal papers. She is also known for NVivo analytical software hands-on training, SLR (Systematic Literature Review), action research, and qualitative research methods. Thus far, she has written 2 books on an easy guide to use NVivo. Her specific area of expertise is Management Information System (MIS), especially on IS success factors, knowledge management systems, IT and disaster management, cybersecurity, IR4.0 education eco-system, and frugal innovation. iCEMAS, an integrated community emergency management, and awareness system, a prototype developed as one of her PhD output was selected as top 10 finalists in National Innovation Award 2013 (Malaysia) for service category, and top 3 finalists at the APICTA Award 2015 for Best e-Government Solution category. In the year 2019, along with Prof Murali Raman, she won the best Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital Excellence Award at the 20th European Knowledge Management Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. She also received Highly commended Finalist for National Outstanding Educator Award 2019 from Private Education Cooperative of Malaysia.