Abu Bakar Sulong is a Professor at the Dept. of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, UKM. He graduated with a BEng (Hons) in Mechanical and System Engineering from Gifu University Japan, 2001. He then worked as a trainee engineer in SMK Corporation in Ibaraki, Japan for a year followed by as a design engineer in Malaysia for two years. He then continued his studies in March, 2004. In 2008, he received his PhD from Sejong University, South Korea under Advanced Material Processing Lab, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate of Mechanical Engineering Programme. He served as Editor-in-Chief for Jurnal Kejuruteraan (Journal of Engineering) an indexed ESCI (WoS).
Currently, he is deputy director at Center of Research and Instrumentation Management UKM (CRIM). His specializations are in the area of Composite Material Processing and Powder Metallurgy. He also recipient Top Research Scientist Award 2021 by Academy Science Malaysia. He has experienced as project and programme leader for grants worth more than RM8 million. Based on Scopus data in November 2024, he has 290 published documents, 6864 citations, 40 h-index with nearly 200 manuscripts in Q1 and Q2 journals. He has been invited as keynotes, invited talks and speakers at various international and national conferences.
He is also a Professional Engineer with Practice under Board Engineer Malaysia (BEM). He also serves as engineering programmes accessor and external examiner, panel for grants evaluation and committee of professional organizations.