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Mohd Hafiz Md Hanif is a senior lecturer at the Department of Educational Studies, Faculty of Human Development, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Malaysia. He graduated with a Bachelor Degree in TESL with minor in Literature in 2008, and went on to pick up Masters in Instructional Technology and PhD in Education from University Malaya and University of Warwick respectively. He hosts his own YouTube channel called Dr Hafiz Explains, and provides training for educators in the area of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality (AIVRAR).

He was one of the fellows in CEO@Faculty Programme 2.0 Cycle 2, an academia-industry exchange programme under JPT in 2018, and received a placement and direct mentorship from the chairman of Al-Ikhsan Sports Sdn. Bhd. where he learned to set up an ed-tech startup company. 

He has previously worked on a project that could help accelerate the adoption of Learning Analytics, Big Data Analysis, and Machine Learning-powered systems into our education system, with the help of the Curriculum Development Department and the Performance and Delivery Unit (PADU) under the Ministry of Education Malaysia. The aim is to develop a comprehensive assessment system to support the classroom-based assessment (PBD) in schools. The system has been piloted in selected schools in Malaysia. 

He is currently seconded to the industry as a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for SiagaX Group.