Prof. Dato Dr. Narimah Samat

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Narimah Samat is a professor of Geographic Information Systems at the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. She obtained her BSc (GIS/Mathematics) from Southwest Texas State University, U.S.A, Master of Arts in GIS and urban modelling from Universiti Sains Malaysia, and PhD in GIS and urban spatial modelling from University of Leeds, United Kingdom. Her work focuses specifically on the application of GIS in urban land use planning and GIS in social issues analysis. Her research project includes addressing spatial inequalities in term of access to health care and higher education and mapping spatial distribution of poverty. At present, she is being reappointed as the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic and International) Universiti Sains Malaysia from May 2024 to May 2026, where her previous appointment was from April 2021 to April 2024. She was the dean for School of Humanities between 2016 to 2021. At the International level, she was appointed as the president of ASEAN European Academic University Network (ASEA-UNINET)�is a network of universities, consisting of European and South-East Asian universities with the goal of promoting the continuous internationalization of education and research. Currently, she is appointed as an adjunct professor at Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia.