Biography
Dr. Magis received her PhD from Multimedia University, Malaysia in the year 2013 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Murali Raman, MMU. Her PhD research was in the area of Information Systems for Disaster Management. Currently, she is a Deputy Dean (Research and Innovation), a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Management. To date, she has had a distinguished corporate career and academia career spanning over 23 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 also a member of Association of Information Systems (AIS), Malaysian Association of Information Systems (Life Member), Qualitative Research Association of Malaysia (QRAM - Life member) and Association for Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM). She is also known for her NVivo analytical software hands-on training, action research, and qualitative research method. 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, adoption of technology, knowledge management systems, IT and disaster management, cybersecurity, IR4.0 education eco-system, and IT 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.