Dr. Su Tian has been awarded the title of Outstanding National Postdoctoral Fellow in Innovation and Entrepreneurship by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of China and selected into Dongwu Science and Technology Leading Talent Training Database in Jiangsu Province, China. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of China Journal of Science and Technology, and Journal of Global Governance and Sustainability, Academic Editor of Scientific Reports (SCI) and Research on Engineering Structures and Materials (EI), Early Career Editor of Coatings (SCI/EI), Guest Editor of several SCI/EI journals, as well as a Think Tank Expert of the Asia-Pacific Regional Center for the Basel Convention, Committee Member of the Digital Intelligence Expert Committee of the China Technology Market Association, and Committee Member of the Jiangsu Provincial Airport Engineering Specialized Committee. His research mainly focuses on microbial construction technology, green and low-carbon airport construction, intelligent monitoring and structural health maintenance. He has presided over more than 10 research projects including the Singapore Academic Development Program, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, and Key Open Fund Project of the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education. He has published over 70 academic papers including more than 60 SCI/EI indexed papers, authorized 5 invention patents and 5 utility model patents.

Associate Professor Dr. Yong Adilah Binti Shamsul Harumain is an academic leader in transportation planning and a leading researcher on women’s mobility in Southeast Asia at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Malaya. Her expertise stems from extensive research, policy engagement, and long-standing international collaborations with partners in Japan, Indonesia, Korea, the United Kingdom, and South Asia. She is currently the Coordinator of the Dual PhD Programme, having previously served as Coordinator for the Master by Research Programme (2022). At Universiti Malaya, she plays a significant leadership role as Deputy Head of the Centre of Sustainable Planning and Real Estate (Research Centre) and Deputy Head (Pro-tem) of the Smart Mobility Centre of Excellence, while also contributing as a member of the JK Penasihat MRT Universiti Malaya and the Faculty QS World University Rankings Task Force. Her academic supervision spans ten PhD candidates, with research themes including transportation planning, women’s mobility, safe city initiatives, urban design, and inclusive urban planning. Beyond the university, Associate Professor Dr. Adilah was appointed as a Public Hearing Committee Member for the Kuala Lumpur Draft Local Plan (PTKL 2040) under the Ministry of Federal Territories and Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL), reflecting her trusted role in national-level planning deliberations and policy review. She is a mentee of the Asia-Pacific Women in Leadership (APWiL) Program under the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), engaging in regional leadership development and mentoring women in academia. She is also a mentee of the Women Leadership Foundation Programme and recently involved with AKEPT (Higher Education Leadership Academy), contributing to leadership development, governance discourse, and capacity-building initiatives aligned with strengthening academic leadership and institutional excellence in Malaysia’s higher education sector. Dr. Adilah is recognised for her pioneering and community-centred research. She led the first Malaysian exploration of the Machinoeki (Hentian Komuniti) concept in Taiping, inspired by Japanese community infrastructure traditions. This work earned her the Sumitomo Foundation Research Grant twice (2016; 2021), including support for her flagship Safe City for Children initiative. Her international research leadership is further demonstrated through the AHRC–UKRI Research Networking Grant (2018), facilitating collaboration with Coventry University (UK), the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and DesignPAK (Pakistan) on barriers to women’s mobility. Recently she was awarded a grant from the British Council and SEAMEO-Rihed working on projects related to women leadership in collaboration with University of Gadjah Mada and University of West England at Bristol. She is also now working with Majlis Bandaraya Kuantan on understanding the persona of the elderly at the Temporary Relief Centre during disaster with Dr Nik Elyna Myeda and Dr Nur Aulia Rosni and on urban farming and community farming with Associate Professor Dr Nikmatul Adha Nordin.  She actively integrates empirical findings into undergraduate and postgraduate curricula, ensuring their relevance to real-world urban challenges. Her applied work includes close collaboration with the Member of Parliament for Lembah Pantai, community empowerment programs, and advisory roles with the Ministry of Federal Territories, particularly in flood mitigation and urban resilience. She has also secured and contributed to numerous competitive grants, including UMCARES, the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), and the Integrated Research Grant (IIRG) involving cross-faculty collaboration with Engineering and Medicine on active transportation and public health. She authored 2 books, Mobiliti Pengangkutan Wanita and Children in the Built Environment and many other chapters in books.  Her recent accolades include the SATU Grant, supporting collaboration with National Cheng Kung University, IIT Roorkee, and Universiti Sains Malaysia, and the ASEAN University Alliance (AUA) Scholars Grant (2020/2021) for research on women’s mobility with Universitas Indonesia. She contributes to scholarly governance as an Editor for Universitas Indonesia’s in-house journal, and regularly serves as a reviewer and scientific committee member for international journals, conferences, and research platforms. Associate Professor Dr. Adilah is an active member of regional and international professional networks, including the APRU Children and Youth Working Group, the Asia-Pacific Women in Leadership (APWiL) Mentorship Programme, and the Women Leadership Foundation. Professionally, she is a graduate of the Malaysian Institute of Planners, registered with the Board of Town Planners Malaysia, a member of the Transportation Science Society Malaysia, and an affiliate of heritage-focused organisations such as the UM Cultural Heritage Research Centre and the Perak Heritage Society. Through her interdisciplinary scholarship, policy engagement, and commitment to leadership development, Associate Professor Dr. Yong Adilah Binti Shamsul Harumain exemplifies a forward-thinking academic leader grounded in strong planning traditions. Her work continues to advance inclusive mobility, safe cities, urban heritage, and community-based planning, reflecting Universiti Malaya’s ethos as a Home of the Bright, Land of the Brave.

Trained in Cultural Studies, I am a researcher engaging in interdisciplinary research on culture. My research is primarily concerned with the cultural history of modern and contemporary China through the lens of ‘folk’ or minjian. In particular, I am interested in how ‘folk’ has been discursively constructed by the state and intellectuals throughout the 20th century, and how it continues to be represented at heritage sites, folk art museums, folk art fairs, as well as contemporary art exhibitions in the 21st century. My interdisciplinary PhD training in Cultural Studies in Asia at the National University of Singapore has taught me to be a questioner, committed to promoting critical and creative thinking as a mode of living beyond academia. Being a practitioner of critical pedagogy, I always problematize preconceived ideas that have shaped our understandings of the world. As a lecturer, I believe that classroom is where knowledge is produced and challenged through productive dialogues between teachers and students. Besides teaching in the classroom, I am also an active listener keen on translating students’ personal experience and knowledge into discussion materials. Critical discussion could help students reflect upon how our perception of the world is sociologically constructed. Students are not passive learners but knowledge producers. My role as a teacher is to acknowledge students’ opinions as knowledge and situate their knowledge within a larger socio-political, economic, and cultural contexts so as to allow them to scrutinize their common sense. I am currently not available for PhD supervisions.  Selected Master and PhD projects under my solo supervision:  Art and cultural history: Revolution, Modernity and Historical Narrative: Pictorial Stories in the People's Republic of China (Yang Yuxiang, PhD, graduated) Women’s Art Exhibitions in Contemporary China: Gender as Identity, Experience, and Strategy (Yu Lulu, PhD, ongoing) The Transformation of Cyberpunk in the Chinese Context after the 1990s (Li Lei, PhD, ongoing) Art Education as Pragmatic Vocation: The Influence of the Shanghai Fine Arts College on Henan Modern Art Education in Early Twentieth-Century China (Liu Jie, PhD, ongoing)  Between the Peripheral and the Heroic: The Transformation of Characters in Contemporary Chinese Adventure Comics After the Mid-1990s (Zou Wenyi, PhD, ongoing) R for Rumah, R for Resistance: Artistic Transcript of Shooshie Sulaiman's Selected Installation Works (Nur Aqilah Binti Zulkhairy, Master Mixed Mode, graduated) Conflicting Narratives: Problematics in Malays(ian) Art Historiography (Chung Li, Master Mixed Mode, graduated)   Secular Yet Sacred: De-religionizing Nuosu Bimo Paintings in Contemporary China (Qumu Zhiyin, Master Mixed Mode, ongoing) Popular and visual culture: A New Representation of the Patriarch in Chinese Cinema: A Case Study of the Animated Film Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child (2019) (Li Ruiqi, Master Mixed Mode, graduated) From Funv to Nvshen: The Changing Discourse of Women in Advertising Videos for Women's Day on Jingdong (Li Yichen, Master Mixed Mode, graduated)  The Discursive Construction of Chinese Male and Female Celebrities in Sisters Who Make Waves and Call Me by Fire (Wang, Jingyun, Master Mixed Mode, graduated) The Construction of Soft Nationalism through Audiences’ Online Comments on The Outcast (Ma Sai, Master Mixed Mode, graduated) Ain't We Women: The (In)visibility of Black Women's Oppression in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale (Gracious Yoong Chen Xin, Master Mixed Mode, graduated) Redefining Kinship through the Representation of Duanqin Culture in Douyin Micro-dramas (Sun Jialiang, Master Mixed Mode, graduating) When Death Heals: The Role of Death in Realist-Themed Chinese Healing Film Lighting Up the Stars (2022) and All Ears (2023) (Liu Xingchen, Master Mixed Mode, ongoing) From Concealment to Revelation: A Study on the Diversified Discourses of Chinese Women's Underwear in the Digital Media Environment (Zhang Zihan, Master Mixed Mode, ongoing) The Birth of a Trans-Asian Icon: Michelle Yeoh as Method (Jasmine Manjan Anak Tapah, Master Mixed Mode, ongoing) A Sinophone Rememberance: The Prosthetic Memory of Socio-political Trauma in Manland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan Horror Games (Tang Xiaohui, Master Mixed Mode, ongoing) Culture, society, and politics: Becoming Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Cultural Transformation in Wangchuan Ceremony in Southern Fujian, China (Yan Xinting, Master Mixed Mode, graduated)  Exploring the Experiential Authenticity of Qingming Reverside Landscape Garden in Kaifeng, China (Liu Xinyu, Master Mixed Mode, graduated) From Prohibition to Possibility: The Case Study of the First Female Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritor of Nuo Mask-carving in Nanfeng County in Post-Mao China (Li Pengcheng, Master Mixed Mode, graduated) Becoming Mazu Believers: The Legitimization of the Shiluo mazu Temple in Malaysia (Fan Zhen, Master Mixed Mode, graduated)