Professor Dr. Mohd Hamdi was born in Muar, Johor in 1971. He received his B.Eng. (Mechanical), with Honours from Imperial College, London in 1994 and his M.Sc. In Advanced Manufacturing Technology & System Management from University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST) in 1996. His Doctoral study was in the field of thin film coating for biomedical applications for which he was conferred s D. Eng by Kyoto University in 2003. Professor Dr. Mohd Hamdi started his academic career at University of Malaya in 1994 as a Tutor and later joined the Department of Engineering Design & Manufacture as a lecturer and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007 and Full professor in October 2010, at the age of 39. Professor Dr. Mohd Hamdi has devoted his career in nurturing research and innovation and has mentored over 112 postgraduate students, particularly in the field of machining, materials processing and biomaterials. He has authored more than 150 ISI journals and h-index of 14. He is also a founder of Centre of Advanced Manufacturing & Materials Processing (AMMP Centre) in 2003, in which has grown from modest-size team of researchers and engineers to an interdisciplinary research hub, focusing on machinery related development.