Since he started his career in 2012, he has received numerous prestigious academic awards, including the recent Highly Cited Researcher 2022, World’s Rising Stars of Science in 2022, Ten Outstanding Young Malaysian 2022, Tan Sri Emeritus Professor Augustine S H Ong International Special Award on Innovations and Inventions in Palm Oil in 2021, APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education (“ASPIRE”) Malaysia Award 2020, Malaysia Young Scientist 2019 Award, The DaSilva Award 2018, JSPS Fellowship 2018, Top 100 Asian Scientists 2017, Asia’s Rising Scientists Award 2017 and Winner of Young Researcher in IChemE Award 2016. He has graduated more than 20 PhD and MSc students and is leading a team of 20 members consisting of postdoctoral, PhD and MSc research students. Up to today, he has published more than 850 journal papers in less than 10 years of his career. His publications have been cited over 25,000 times over the past 5 years. His current h-index is 75, placing him among the top leaders of his chosen field (Microalgae Technology). He is also the Primary Project leaders for more than 35 projects from International, National, and Industry Projects, with total amount of more than 5.0 million.