About The Founder
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Professor Dr. Sreeramanan Subramaniam graduated with BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) in 2000 and Ph.D. in Plant Biotechnology from the same university in 2005. He worked as a Biotechnology Department lecturer at AIMST University Malaysia from July 2004 prior to joining the School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in March 2008. He was awarded Fellow of Royal Biology Society UK (FRSB) in 2019, Top Research Scientist Malaysia (TRSM) in 2020, and Fellow of Malaysian Scientific Association (FMSA) in 2021. His current research interests are in the plant tissue culture of various ornamental plants and horticultural crops, the establishment of cryopreservation technology, secondary metabolites using a cell culture system, genetic engineering of selected plants for fungal disease resistance, induction of hairy roots in selected medicinal plants, LED technology in plant tissue culture, somaclonal variation for crop improvement, an automatically-controlled vertical farming system on soilless strawberry and vegetable cultivation using LED lighting system with the synergistic integration of IoT, AI, and computer vision technologies. To date, he has published more than 285 manuscripts in journals listed under Scopus/ISI, 12 book chapters, research reports, magazines, and 3 academic books. At present, a total of 25 PhD and 42 MSc students (both as main and co-supervisor) had graduated under his supervision and mentoring. Additionally, he is supervising 16 postgraduate students. His primary research collaborators includes CREST (Malaysia), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Kairos Agriculture (Malaysia), Universitas Airlangga Indonesia, AIMST University (Malaysia), MARDI Malaysia, Xiamen University (Malaysian campus), Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK), Universiti Institut Teknologi Mara (UITM), UAEU University Abu Dhabi, Periyar University Tamil Nadu India, Institute of Biology of Mongolia (Mongolian Academy of Science), Rajshahi University of Agriculture Bangladesh, University of Dhaka Bangladesh, , Seedlab Sdn Bhd (Malaysia), United Plantations Sdn Bhd (Teluk Intan Malaysia), Figs Direct Sdn Bhd (Malaysia), OSRAM (Malaysia), and P-Plus Sdn Bhd (Malaysia). He is also appointed as Visiting Professor for Reva University, India and Senior Academic Fellow for Airlangga Universitas, Indonesia. To fulfil his life-long passion as an entrepreneur, he co-founded a USM supported startup company known as BioLED Technology Sdn Bhd together with his trusted and business experienced peers Mr Kuhan and Mr Jay.