Kanagi Kanapathy is Associate Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Malaya. She was the Head of Operations and Information Systems Department from January 2020 to September 2021.Kanagi holds a Doctorate in Business Administration from University of South Australia. A versatile educator and researcher, she has about 23 years of teaching experience in higher education. She also held managerial positions in multinational companies for 10 years, in manufacturing sector prior to joining the academia. Kanagi has published widely in the area of operations and supply chain management in numerous ISI WoS and Scopus journals. She is a core member of Centre for Research in Industry 4.0 (CRI4.0), University of Malaya. Kanagi was a visiting research scholar at Lee Business School, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. She has co-authored a book on Value Added Tax: Country Governance and Economic Efficiency and has contributed a book chapter, Eco-Innovation towards Sustainability in the book, Current and Emerging Issues in Operations Management. Kanagi was awarded the Highly Commended Paper of the year by Emerald Literati Network in 2016.  Kanagi has presented papers at international conferences, which include the reputable IEEE conferences. She has been invited to deliver key note addresses in International Business Conferences such as International Conference on Business, Economics, IT and Management’ 18 and International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research and Innovation (ICMRI 2023). She was invited as a speaker at Malaysian Technical Cooperation Programme (MTCP) 2019: International Training Course on Fostering Maritime Industry Management Through Industrial Revolution 4. She has delivered several virtual Guest Lectures (2020 -2022) at Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow and Hochschule Konstanz University of Applied Sciences, Germany (2023). Kanagi conducted an online Training Course on Productivity Measurement for Service-sector Organizations 2021, organised by Asia Productivity Organisation (APO), Tokyo, Japan. She held a consultant position for 5 months at Agile Management Consultancy, as part of Industry attachment in 2022. Kanagi was invited as a Speaker at APO’s productivity talk which was streamed live over APO’s You tube Channel in June 2023.

Dr. Md Jasim Uddin obtained his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Greenwich, UK. Dr. Uddin has more than 12 years of experience in the areas of Pharmaceutics, Drug Delivery and Formulation Science. His research is mainly focused on the development of transdermal microneedle arrays (using 3D printing or moulding) for the transdermal delivery of active substances (e.g., small molecules or macromolecules). Due to his industrial experiences as a Formulation Scientist, at the Department of Drug Product Design, and the Worldwide Research & Development Unit at Pfizer UK, he also has a strong background in formulation, material sciences and characterization. He has established a strong collaborative network with colleagues in several UK-based academic institutions such as the Queen’s University of Belfast, and the Universities of Kent, Strathclyde and Greenwich. Furthermore, Dr. Uddin has received significant recognition through several poster and presentation awards (e.g., CRS Annual Meeting, PharmSci) over the last few years. As a part of his management & leadership experiences, he has contributed to the organization of several international conferences. He won the Young research scholar award (2022) from the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), UNESCO, the Young Promising Researcher Award (2020) in the ICIBLS, Inventor I & Young Inventor Award (2020) in PHARM-IIDEx, Malaysia etc. He is a scientific advisor of the Drug Delivery & Therapeutics (An non-profit organization to promote science for research, innovation & technology transfer) and has actively played his role in the Special Issue, Recent Advances in Vaccine Delivery 2022, Pharmaceutics, MDPI (Guest Editor), Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery, Taylor & Francis Group, Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, Springer Nature Publishers etc.

Associate Professor Dr. Ng Lee Luan obtained her PhD in Applied Linguistic from University of Otago, New Zealand. She teaches postgraduate courses related to research methodology and second language acquisition at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics. Her current research interest includes computer assisted language learning, online learning, game based learning and the use of computer automated feedback and AI generated output as a tool or aid in academic context, especially in higher education . She is also a certified trainer for the software, NVivo. She has been invited to conduct workshops related to qualitative data analysis and using computer assisted qualitive data analysis software in deciphering research data at various public and private universities locally and abroad. She has also participated in research projects with a interdisciplinary focus. Lee Luan has also been invited to review journal articles for overseas and local  publication such as Frontiers in Psychology - Language Sciences, Pertanika Journal, Malaysian Journal of ELT Research, The Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction.