Professor Valliappan RajuProfessor Valliappan Raju specializes in research methodology and spearheads Research division at Perdana University, Malaysia. In his 20+ years of experience, he has served over 18 years in Higher Education institutions. Having his Ph.D. in Accounting and Postdoc in FinTech, he focuses on financial researches. He serves in adjunct roles at Brno University of Technology in Czech Republic and at Arden University in Germany.
He has held a position of Program Leader for Ph.D. program in his earlier assignments. On April 2022 he was conferred full Professorship and holds visiting positions at universities in India, Thailand and China. As per ResearchGate statistics, he has published 256 manuscripts whereby majority are indexed in Scopus, SSCI, EI indexed journals. He is appointed as External Examiner to assess Ph.D. Viva defenses since 2017. Under his supervision, 63 candidates have graduated with Ph.D. degree. Vally has upskilled in AI tools to simplify the research process, and his related videos in social media has widely earned a recognition.
He is appointed as reviewer at numerous top-indexed journals. He actively reviews World Bank Conference Journals (USA). He holds two patents in technology reengineering. Vally is the founder/editor of Journal of Reproducible Research (JRR) and PIJHS. He is also the Editor for a book series Navigating Ethics and Innovation in the World of Banking which is indexed in Scopus and SCI. Vally’s book ‘Fundamentals of Thesis’ was well received among the research community. He has secured research grants from public and private institutions worth of USD $250,000+ as on 2022. As a passionate researcher his interests remain on Anthropology, research methodology, data analytics and FinTech research. Recognizing his academic talent, he was given Resident Pass-Talent (RP-T) Visa by Immigration of Malaysia.