Professor Dr. Kamila Ghazali is the Associate Vice-Chancellor (International) at University of Malaya. Since 2001, she has held several management roles at the faculty as well as university levels. She was previously the Director of International and Corporate Relations (ICR), Deputy Dean at the Institute of Graduate Studies, Chief Quality Auditor of UM, and Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics. As an academic, she belongs to the Department of English Language, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics. Her areas of academic expertise are critical discourse analysis and sociolinguistics with research on political discourse, media discourse, and ethnolinguistics where she delves into the language and culture of the orang asli (indigenous peoples). Her interest in indigenous languages has brought her to the longhouses in Sarawak where she conducted a preliminary sociolinguistic survey of the Tatau, Lugat, and Punan Ba to the jungles of Endau, Johor, to research on the Jakun community. Holding management roles had given rise to her interest in organizational discourse in which she had presented papers and published. Another area of research interest is in postgraduate research and training. Her later publications are on peer group learning in research writing.   

Khadher bin Ahmad, dilahirkan pada 23 April 1982 di Kampung Pondok Chegar, Pendang, Kedah Darul Aman. Mendapat pendidikan awal di Sekolah Kebangsaan Kampung Chegar sehingga tamat darjah 6. Selepas itu melanjutkan pengajian di Sekolah Menegah Ugama Raudzatul Ulum, Langgar, Kedah dari tingkatan 1 hingga 3. Selepas itu, berpindah dan menaiki tingkatkan 4 di Maktab Mahmud Alor Setar sehingga tingkatan 5. Selepas menduduki Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM)tahun 1999, menyambung pengajian di peringkat Pra Ijazah di Akademi Pengajian Islam, Universiti Malaya Cawangan Nilam Puri, Kelantan selama 2 tahun. Pada tahun 2002 berpindah ke Akademi Pengajian Islam, Universiti Malaya, kampus induk sehingga tamat Ijazah Sarjana Muda pada tahun 2005. Selepas itu, terus menyambung pengajian dengan pengkhususan dalam bidang hadith pada tahun yang sama di peringkat Sarjana Usuluddin dan lulus pada tahun 2008 dengan tajuk penyelidikan: "Sumbangan Syiekh Abd al-Samad al-Falimbani Dalam Bidang Hadith: Analisis Terhadap Kitab Hidayah al-Salikin. Pada tahun yang sama, mendapat tawaran Skim Latihan Akademik IPTA (SLAI) untuk melanjutkan pengajian di peringkat Ijazah Doktor Falsafah di Universiti yang sama iaitu Universiti Malaya. Setelah berhempas pulas, akhirnya dianugerahkan Ijazah Doktor Falsafah pada tahun 2012 dengan tajuk penyelidikan: Analisis Hadith Mengenai Rawatan Sihir Dalam al-Kutub al-Sittah: Aplikasi di Pusat Rawatan Islam di Malaysia. Kini bertugas penuh masa di Universiti Malaya, di bawah Jabatan al-Quran dan al-Hadith, Akademi Pengajian Islam.English:KHADHER BIN AHMAD, was born on 23rd April 1982 in Kampung Pondok Chegar, Pendang, Kedah Darul Aman. Received his early education at Sekolah Kebangsaan Kampung Chegar until the end of grade 6. After that, he continued his studies in secondary school at Sekolah Menegah Ugama Raudzatul Ulum, Langgar, Kedah from form 1 to 3, then moved to level 4 at Maktab Mahmud Alor Setar until form 5. After sitting examination in Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) in 1999, he continued his studies at the Undergraduate level at the Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya Nilam Puri Branch, Kelantan for 2 years. In 2002 he moved to the Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya, the main campus until completing his bachelor’s degree in year’s 2005. After that, he continued his studies with a specialization in the field of hadith in the same year at the Master of Usuluddin level and graduated in 2008 with the research title: “The Contribution of Sheikh Abd al-Samad al-Falimbani in the Field of Hadith: An Analysis of the Book of Hidayah al-Salikin. At the same year, he received an offer from the IPTA Academic Training Scheme (SLAI) to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the same University. His researched relate to topic “The Black Magic (Sihir) in al-Kutub al-Sittah (The Six Books): An Application at the Islamic Treatment Center in Malaysia”. Currently he works full time in University of Malaya under Department of al-Quran and al-Hadith, Academy of Islamic Studies. His expertise on hadith studies and Islamic alternative medicine. His interest in research about the hadith studies related to hadith and technology or digital hadith, thematic studies in hadith and so on.

Dr. Ng Kok Haur is a Professor of Statistics at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ISM) and the Deputy Head of ISM (Research), Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya. He also served as the Chairperson of the Centre of Research for Statistical Modelling and Methodology, Universiti Malaya. His research interests include volatility modelling and applications, modelling and analysis of high frequency data arising in financial economics, and statistical control charts. Dr. Ng actively publishes in peer-reviewed journals indexed by Web of Science, Scopus, and other reputable databases. Among those journals including The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Finance Research Letters, International Review of Economics & Finance, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Economic Analysis and Policy, Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, Expert Systems with Applications and European Journal of Industrial Engineering. He has also been awarded with several research grants, including the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia. He is currently supervising Ph.D. and M.Sc. students in various areas of statistics, financial econometrics, finance, and economics. Apart from that, he serves as associate editors for journals such as the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (WoS SCIE-cited Q3), reviewers for various journals, a guest editor for a special issue of the Malaysian Journal of Science, External Advisors for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, thesis examiners, committee members for local and international conferences and invited and contributed speakers at conferences.