Associate Professor Dr. Lau May Nak serves as an Associate Professor and Consultant Orthodontist at the Department of Paediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya. She obtained her Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) degree from the University of Malaya in 2008. After working as a dental officer in the Ministry of Health, Malaysia for 5 years, she pursued further studies at the University of Malaya, graduating with a Master of Orthodontics (With Distinction) and Membership in Orthodontics from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2017. Joining the University of Malaya as a lecturer in 2018, Dr. Lau is actively involved in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students, conducting research, and treating orthodontic and obstructive sleep apnoea patients. She is among the pioneers who established a multidisciplinary team with various medical and dental specialists at the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) for the management of obstructive sleep apnoea. She also serves in the Combined Oro-Craniomaxillofacial Deformities Clinic and Combined Paediatric Saliva Control Clinic at UMMC. Dr. Lau's research interests span a wide range of topics including orthodontics, anchorage, retention and relapse, teaching and learning methodologies, mandibular advancement appliance therapy, obstructive sleep apnoea, orthodontic materials, 3D printing, and orthognathic surgery. She holds the honorary position of assistant secretary at the Malaysian Association of Orthodontists, and she is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Glasgow. Additionally, Dr. Lau is a life member of the International Association of Student Clinicians – American Dental Association (SCADA).

Dr. Abdul Muneem is currently serving as a Lecturer at the Department of Fiqh and Usul, Academy of Islamic Studies, Universiti Malaya (UM). He holds both a PhD and a Master’s degree from the same department, reflecting his strong academic foundation in Islamic jurisprudence. He completed his undergraduate studies at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) in 2015. Following his graduation, Dr. Abdul Muneem joined the International Shariʿah Research Academy for Islamic Finance (ISRA)—now known as ISRA Institute—as a Sharīʿah Management Trainee in 2015. This role allowed him to delve deeply into research and industry practices within the field of Islamic finance. He also gained hands-on experience through an internship at the Sharīʿah Research and Advisory Department of AmBank Islamic Berhad in 2017. Dr. Abdul Muneem has made meaningful contributions to the development of Islamic finance through his research and academic publications. His areas of expertise include Islamic banking, Islamic finance, takaful, and broader Sharīʿah-related legal issues. His current research focuses on emerging topics such as Islamic financial technologies (fintech), Islamic crowdfunding, digital assets, zakat, and other contemporary issues in Islamic finance. He has authored and co-authored numerous articles in prestigious academic journals indexed by Scopus, Web of Science (WoS), as well as reputable local journals such as MyCite.

Dr. Hanaa Samaha is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of English Language at the Faculty of Language and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. She received her PhD Degree in Syntax, Systemic Functional Linguistics in 2022 from Universiti Malaya. Her research focused on syntax, with her primary interest in functional syntax and Systemic Functional Linguistics, specifically the Cardiff Grammar. Her current research includes Appraisal Theory, discourse analysis, multimodality, and language learning and teaching theories and their implication in second language learning.