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Dr. Yong Adilah Binti Shamsul Harumain is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Built Environment, University Malaya. As a researcher, she is trying to further understand women's mobility in transportation, particularly in the Asian region due to the implication of motorization and the rising percentage of working women in recent decades. Dr. Adilah and her team are the first researchers to explore the Machinoeki concept in Malaysia and actively seeking grants and opportunities to develop the concept in Malaysia. She was awarded Sumitomo Foundation Research Grant in 2016 and then in 2021. Her first research on women mobility is in Kuala Lumpur and later expand her research on mobility when she is awarded with AHRC Research Networking UKRI grant that enables her to work with Coventry University, UK, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and with DesignPAK, Pakistan collaborators in 2018. Dr. Adilah incorporates her research into her undergraduate teaching to make it come to life and feel relevant and working closely with the Parliament Member of Lembah Pantai to empower community of Lembah Pantai. Other than lecturing, she is also involved with Community Related Grant (UMCARES) and Fundamental Research Grant awarded by the Ministry. She is working on an integrated based research with the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Medicine in the University of Malaya through her Active Transportation research project. Recently, she received the SATU grant, working with National Cheng Kung University, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) and University Science Malaysia. While her AUA Scholars Grant Award 2020/2021 that allows her to conduct a project with Universitas Indonesia on women's mobility. She is also recently join as a member of APRU Children and Youth Working Group. She is an active graduate member of Malaysia Insititute of Planners, a member of Transportation Science Society Malaysia, and a member of the Perak Heritage Society.