I am a gender and development researcher with experience in qualitative research, policy analysis, and program evaluation across various academic and development contexts. My work centers on issues of gender-based violence, women’s empowerment, social inclusion, and intersectionality in South Asia, particularly among marginalized and vulnerable communities. My research focuses on a range of themes, including women’s agency and leadership, masculinity and patriarchy, post-conflict education, and gender mainstreaming in public policy and development programming. I have led and contributed to several multi-country and national-level research and evaluation projects in collaboration with international organizations. My expertise includes designing research tools, conducting fieldwork, analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, and producing policy reports and publications. Research Interests: Gender-based violence and social/cultural norms Women’s empowerment and leadership Women and Conflict Masculinities and patriarchy Gender mainstreaming in policy and practice Education in conflict-affected regions Feminist and qualitative research methods Intersectionality and social justice in South Asia Gender and Culture Gender and Health Muslim Women in South Asian Women and Digital Space Supervision and Collaboration: I welcome students interested in pursuing Master’s or PhD research aligned with my research interests (mentioned above).  

  Dr Benedict Francis is a psychiatrist at the University Malaya Medical Centre. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya and was selected for the Brightsparks scholarship to pursue his Masters in Psychological Medicine at his alma mater, the University of Malaya. Subsequently, he completed a fellowship program in Aged Healthcare Services at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, in 2019. Dr Benedict is a keen researcher and is involved in several international, multi-centre clinical trials involving novel antipsychotics and antidepressants. He has also published in several international and regional peer-reviewed journals and presented in international congresses. Dr Benedict is a clinical expert in treatment resistant depression. He was part of the Ministry of Health’s  National Advisory Board committee that drafted the guidelines for prescribing and dispensing Esketamine, a novel adjunct antidepressant treatment. Dr Benedict is regarded as a Key Opinion Leader (KOL) in the fields of treatment resistant depression and schizophrenia, and is regularly invited as a speaker at both local and regional events. His passion and interest is in the mechanism of action of rapid-acting antidepressants and treatment optimization of patients with treatment resistant depression. 

Completed Bachelor of Information Technology (Information Science) in 2000 at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaya), and my Master of Software Engineering in 2001 at Universiti Malaya. Completed PhD at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne in 2011. PhD supervised by: Prof. Alistair Moffat PhD Advisory Committee: Prof. Justin Zobel and Prof. Tim Baldwin. Currently she is a Professor at the Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. She is also serving as the Director, Centre for Integral Learning. She has also completed her tenure as the Head of Department from Aug 2017 - Sep 2019. She has also served as the Program Leader/Coordinator for Master of Computer Science from Jan 2012 to July 2017. Her research interest is in Information Retrieval Evaluation, Text Retrieval and Heuristics, Data Science, Data Mining and Machine Learning. She has won a couple of Best Paper Awards at International conferences. She actively delivers keynotes and guest lectures at International and National conferences and Research Seminars. She is also very active in having research collaboration with International researchers from well established Universities. Some of the universities she has collaborated with are Hong Kong University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK), University fo Auckland (NZ), University of Melbourne (Aus), University of Leeds (UK), Alagappa University (India), Amity University (India), Akshaya College of Engineering and Technology (India), Shiraz University (Iran), Mulungushi University (Zambia) and National University of Science and Technology (Pakistan), University of Gunma (Japan). At National level, she is active in the Society of Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management (PECAMP) and has been appointed as commitee member (Assistant Secretary). She has also served as the Secratary for the conference (Fourth International Conference on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management) organized by PECAMP in 2018. Recently in Dec 2020, she served as the General Chair for the virtually and internationally organized SIRKM 2020 (Seminar on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management) She is also the recipient of the competative AUA Scholars Award 2019-2020 - Host Institution is The National University of Singapore (Host Professor CHUA Tat-Seng - https://www.chuatatseng.com/ Sri Devi Ravana is also actively involved in community services. She has served as the Vice Chairman (Women Wings) for the Telugu Association of Malaysia (TAM). She is a actively involved in Girl Guides activities locally and internationally. She was also awarded the Queen Guides Award in 1995. At Universiti Malaya she championed the establishment of the Universiti Malaya Girl Guide Movement (Pasukan Pandu Puteri Siswi) in 2020. She currently serves as the Mentor of the Pasukan Pandu Puteri Siswi Universiti Malaya (UM Girl Guides Clovers).