Azhar Kassim Mustapha is the Chief Executive Officer of Nervesis, Malaysia (http://www.nervesis.com). Azhar has outstanding tracks of designing, developing and implementing advanced technologies. Azhar builds ZYGY, Nervesis’ Artificial Intelligence (AI), to grow four products: ZYGY (http://www.ZYGY.com) on Identity Management and Single Sign On, and Midas Non-Existent Domain (NXD) Advertising (http://midas.nervesis.com). He lands a smart partnership with a major Telco, Telekom Malaysia. He passes Google Challenge Level 5 as a Hiring candidate. He was a speaker for World Islamic Economic Forum on Artificial Intelligence.

Azhar is a grad of the highly renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, USA. He receives his Bachelor of Science and Master in Engineering in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. Azhar has a total of three Patents to his name - one in the US with COMSAT Laboratories (now part of Lockheed Martin) and two in Malaysia – in the areas of underwater and space communication and compression, speech recognition and hardware interpreter/translator. The patent in US is at http://www.google.com/patents/US6233552. Although more than 15 years, people still refer to the work. NATO used the work for its submarine communication during the time when Azhar was with Comsat Lab. Azhar also is an expert in Natural Language Processing, a branch of AI to grasp human language.

In addition to his role as the CEO of Nervesis, Azhar was also a Research Specialist at Multimedia University of Malaysia (MMU), where he led a team conducting research and development (R&D) work funded by the Matsushita Corporation of Japan. Azhar has written and published numerous scientific papers at the International level.

Awards

2014: 1- Innocert Award Nervesis received an 1 innocert award which Innovation Certification for Enterprise Rating and Transformation (1- InnoCERT) is a certification programme used to recognise and certify innovative enterprises & SMEs and to encourage entrepreneurs to venture into high technology and innovation-driven industries by SME Corporation Malaysia. Our company achieved AA Rating Grade.

2006: NERVESIS RECEIVES AN INNOVATION AWARD TOGETHER WITH UNIVERSITY MALAYA Nervesis received an innovation award together with University Malaya for its Central Authentication Management System (CAMS) deployed successfully in the university. The award is called Anugerah Inovasi Penyelidikan Bersama Antara Sektor Awam Dengan Sektor Swasta Tahun 2006 (AIPB 2006). CAMS is based on Nervesis' product, ZYGY. ZYGY is an Enterprise Identity Management System (EIMS). The award includes an exhibition of CAMS held in Dewan Besar, Wisma Darul Iman, Kuala Terengganu.