Prof. Ir. Dr. Zulfadzli received his B.Eng. (first class honours) in electronics and communications from the University of York, U.K in 1999. He then completed his PhD in optical communications at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK in 2004, where he studied applications of nonlinear effects in photonic crystal fibers in optical communications. He has been a member of the academic staff of Multimedia University (MMU) since 1999. He is currently a professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (FAIE).
He specializes in photonics and optical communication. He had taught numerous undergraduate and postgraduate subjects in the field of photonics and communications. He has also conducted training and short courses for various companies in the area of telecommunications, specifically related to photonics technologies. He is a recipient of a number of research grants from various sources worth more than RM 14.5 million. To date, he has published over 150 research papers in international journals and conferences with more than 1900 citations.
He won Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 2009 to spend 6 months at the University of Sydney, Australia to study nonlinear effects in photonic nanowires. In 2020 he received the prestigious Top Research Scientist Award by Akademi Sains Malaysia.