Bryan Raj was born in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, in 1997. He received the B.CompSc. degree in computer systems and networking and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2020 and 2023, respectively, specializing in wireless sensor networks, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Cloud Computing, and optimization algorithms. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Systems and Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya. He is a certified Microsoft Azure Administrator. He supervises more than ten postgraduate students and has published a few articles in ISI-indexed journals. He holds a cumulative total of internal and external grants that values around 200,000 Ringgit Malaysia. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, clustering algorithms, methods, and optimization algorithms. Dr. Raj served as a member of the Judging Panel for the Global Undergraduate Awards (GUA) from 2023 to 2026.