Mohd Shahril Nizam Shaharom is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Curriculum and Instructional Technology, Faculty of Education, Universiti Malaya. He completed his PhD in Instructional Technology in Education at Universiti Malaya and has an educational background in software engineering and multimedia in education. He served as Acting Head of Department in 2024. He has served as a committee member of the Public Service Counselling Associates (AKRAB) at the national level in Malaysia since 2022, and has been affiliated with the Malaysia Association of Research and Education for Educators (MAsREE) since 2016. His recent publications include 7 articles listed under WoS, 15 under Scopus, and 1 book chapter. He has also been involved in 73 research project records across university, national, industry, and international project categories from 2018 to 2026. His latest project is “Tutor AI”, where he develops a learning support system that mimics the role of a teacher, using generative pre-trained transformers for almost all secondary school subjects. Apart from that, he is also often called to be a judge and advisor for programs involving entrepreneurship and innovation in the field of education. His research areas include marketing in education, multimedia in education, social media in education, AI literacy, MOOC and e-learning, flipped learning, DDR research, instructional design and technology, and the generation gap involving Generation Z and Generation Alpha.