Dr. Seong Lin DING is Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya. She was formerly an OeAD scholar and a Korean Foundation for Advanced Studies Fellow. She has held visiting positions at the University of Manchester (UK), Lancaster University (UK), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK), Yonsei University (South Korea), and University of Glamorgan (University of South Wales, UK). She has also been invited to present lectures and seminars at the University of Zadar (Croatia), University of Graz (Austria), and National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan). Her research focuses on minority/heritage languages and communities. She is also interested in sociology of education, language and identity, and linguistic landscape. Her academic articles have appeared in leading journals in linguistics (e.g., Applied Linguistics Review; Current Issues in Language Planning; International Journal of Bilingualism; International Journal of Heritage Studies; Language in Society; Lingua; Multilingua; Social Semiotics), and educational research (e.g., Australasian Journal of Educational Technology; Educational Technology Research and Development; Innovations in Education and Teaching International). She particularly welcomes opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations with researchers of shared interests in the area of heritage/minority language and migration. 

Mohammed Taha is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Arabic Language and Middle Eastern Languages. He holds a PhD in Linguistics (theoretical) from the National University of Malaysia (2016), an MSC in Linguistics from the University of Malaya (2012) and a Bachelor of TESL from Omdurman Islamic University (2007). His main expertise lies in linguistic structures (Syntax), how words are put together to create structures (Morphology). Syntax has connections with other fields of language, including meaning, sound structure, word structure, and language use. His research interests include Syntactic Theory, Interfaces in Syntax (with Morphology and Semantics), Ecolinguistics (the interdisciplinary field that looks into the relationship between language, culture, and the environment), and Sociosyntax (the variation of syntactic structures due to social factors).

Dr. Ng Ching Ching obtained her Ph.D. from Osaka University, Japan in 2003. After which, she joined Universiti Malaya as a lecturer. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Programme, Institute of Biological Sciences. Throughout her service at Universiti Malaya, she has had the privilege of becoming a visiting researcher in RIKEN, Japan (2006, 2010) and the University of Sydney, Australia (2015). Her area of expertise includes molecular genetics, human genetics and genomic medicine. Her current research focus is on the genetic susceptibility and pathogenic mechanisms of cancers and some common complex diseases, the genetic basis of rare diseases and HLA pharmacogenetic markers of drug-induced severe cutaneous adverse reactions (SCARs). She works closely with clinicians with the aim to translate her research into practice and policy.