Dr Fadillah Mansor is an Associate Professor at the Department of Shariah and Management, Academy of Islamic Studies, Universiti Malaya (UM). She was a Head at the same department from October 2018 till April 2025. She joins UM since February 2002. Priorly, she was a lecturer cum Head, Department of Muamalat at Selangor International Islamic University (UIS) from 1999 till February 2002. She obtained her PhD (in Islamic finance) from the La Trobe University, Australia. Prior to that, she holds a Bachelor in Shariah (Honours) minor in economics in 1997 and a MBA specialized in Finance in 2001 from the UM as well. Her areas of expertise include Islamic finance, Islamic banking, Islamic investments and capital market, takaful and also Islamic management. She has written numerous articles in Islamic finance and her works have been published in International journals and proceedings. In her teaching tasks, she has taught several subjects in in her field encompass Islamic financial system, Islamic capital market, economics for muamalat, Islamic banking operations at undergraduate levels. Her research interest focuses on Islamic banking and finance including Islamic mutual fund investments, Islamic financial literacy and Islamic financial planning. She is also interested in research related to halal industrial management. Nationally, she is a member of Federation of Investment Managers Malaysia (FIMM) from 2005 until 2016. She is also a panel assessor for Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA), an agency that responsible for programme accreditations before the programme is listed under Malaysian Qualifications Register. As MQA assessor, she has experienced to evaluate more than 50 programmes offered by the IPTA and IPTS in Malaysia in the field of Islamic finance, muamalat, Islamic banking and finance, takaful and also Islamic management. Recently, she is appointed as an acreditation committee member of MQA for year 2024-2025. Besides, she serves as areviewer for refereed journal including International Journal of Emerging Markets;  International Journal of Economics and Management; Applied Economics incorporating Applied Financial Economics;  Journal of Business Economics and Management; and European Journal of Development Research and many more. She is actively engage with the Islamic banking and finance industry and being appointed as a member of Shariah Committee of Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad since 2021. Internationally, she has been listed in the 500 Most Influential Women in Islamic Business and Finance for year 2022 and 2023 by Cambridge International Financial Advisory, UK.

Tutut Herawan is an academician and presently works an associate professor at the Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya. He was a visiting researcher at Parallel and Distributed Computing Research (PARADISE) Lab of Deakin University, Australia. He holds an adjunct professor position at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Brawijaya University, Indonesia (the biggest public university in the country). He has many high international research visibilities including in the Top 2% World Scientists Ranking by Stanford University and Elsevier BV, since 2020-present and his mathematics Erdos number is 4. He is also named as one of the most prolific DBLP-computer science authors and one of the best computer scientists from Malaysia according to https://research.com/ since 2021-present. He received a PhD degree in information technology from Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia in 2010. He has more than 19 years experiences as academic staff and has supervised many Master & PhD students. He has also examined many Master & PhD Theses from Malaysia, Indonesia, India, and China. He presently holds many strategic administrative positions at the Universiti Malaya such as the coordinator of Universiti Malaya academic journal publications, approval manager for Springer Nature Transformative Agreement - a Program under Malaysia Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) with 20 public universities  (as a representative from Universiti Malaya), approval Manager for Universiti Malaya with IEEE OA Affiliate Discount Program (in process), and a member research board at Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, the University of Malaya. He has also demonstrated exceptional leadership in securing over RM 4.5 million in research fundings as PI and Co-PI from numerous prestigious grants from government and institutions partners. He has also served as a research consultant for many higher learning institutions in Indonesia. He is an active researcher and serves as the managing editor of Malaysian Journal of Computer Science (ISI WoS), associate editor of Springer Nature Computer Science Journal (Scopus), editor of International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science, IGI Global (Scopus), and editor-advisory board member of the book series “Information Systems Engineering and Management / ISEM” of Springer Nature. He has a strong international research network with more than 465 authorship collaboration. He has authored and edited many Springer-series books and published more than 345 articles in various book chapters, international journals, and conference proceedings (with Scopus h-index 36 and ISI WoS h-index 29). He is a reviewer for international journals including top reputable journals e.g., Knowledge-Based Systems, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Information Sciences, IEEE Access, and many more. He delivered more than 50 keynote addresses, invited workshop and seminars, and has been actively served as a chair, co-chair, publication chair, program committee member and co-organizer for numerous international conferences/workshops. He is the general co-chair of the WorldCEM - World Conference on Economics and Management as one of the premier events in business and economics, which will be held in Aveiro, Portugal in Nov 2025. His research area includes data science and big data, data engineering and information systems, soft computing and data mining, information technology for tourism and computer in education.

As an educator, researcher, and innovator in Software Engineering, I treat values and purposes with topmost priority. I believe individuals and organisations guided by righteous values and noble purposes make the difference in the world; realistically making the world a better place to live for all. Thus, in my 20 years of career life, I have devoted my time contributing to education, research, and innovation in and beyond Software Engineering, benefiting the current and future generations. My total grants from research, consultancy, and software development projects amounted to nearly RM3,000,000. In recent year, I started a few future education initiatives such as innovation and work-integrated learning lab (iWILL) in response to the changes brought about by disruptive technologies.