Datuk Professor Dr Awang Azman Awang Pawi  had served in the academia world for 26 years.  The journey of his academic crossing  the institutions such as  Faculty Of Applied and Creative Arts, Center For Language Studies (Now Faculty of Language and Communication Studies), Nusantara Chair, Institute of East Asian Studies ( Now Institute of Borneo Studies) University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) untill Guest Scholar at Leiden University, Netherlands. He has been involved in the Malay Studies for more than 20 years. He graduated in Malay Studies (UM) for his doctorate and Malay Letters for his Master of Arts (UKM) and  Bachelor of Arts Second Class Upper (UKM)(Malay Letters and minor in History). He has researched, written and produced books, chapters in books, refereed journal papers (national and international), mass media and social media. Currently, he is a columnist for Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Kuala Lumpur,  Sin Chew Daily, The Malaysian Insight and Sarawakvoice.com, a social media platform for Sarawak political affairs. His views in socioculture and political affairs appeared in Bloomberg, The South  China Morning Post (Hong Kong), Channel News Asia (Singapore), Nikkei Asian Review (Tokyo), Tempo (Jakarta). His interest in cross-discplinary field in Malay world culture, literature and heritage as well as Borneo ethnics and political culture. He is involved as a life member for Association of National Writer (PENA), Association of South-east Asian Studies in United Kingdom, European Association for  Southeast Asian Studies (EUROSEAS), Southeast Asia Library Group and Sarawak Development Institute (SDI), Now, he is affiliated at Department of Socio-Culture, Academy of Malay Studies, Universiti Malaya.   Field of Research Keywords:  Malay/Indonesia Culture and Heritage (Customs, Ritual, Practices and Contemporary), Malay/Indonesia Literature (Modern, Traditional and Contemporary), Malay/Indonesia Politics (Formation, Rhetoric, Tradition, Invention, Contestant's Identity, Election, Political Culture), Borneo Ethnics Studies (Ethnicity, Worlview,  Identity,  Material Culture, Ritual, Literature and Heritage), Postcolonial Studies and Postmodern (Malay World), Cross-discplinary Approach such as Culture and Literature Studies, Modern folklores in Malay Contemporary's Politic,  Politic of Culture, Cultural Studies, The Idea of National Hero from Malay Literature and Culture etc.          

Dayana Jalaludin is a senior lecturer at the Accounting Department, Faculty of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaya. Her teaching areas include management accounting (basic, intermediate, high level), integrated case study and social and environmental accounting. Her research focuses on behavioural accounting in management accounting, accounting education, auditing, corporate governance, and public sector.

Wenn-Chyau Lee received his BSc (Hons) degree in Biomedical Sciences from University of Malaya, Malaysia in year 2011, and graduated with his PhD in Medical Sciences from University of Malaya in year 2014. Subsequently, he joined Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN, A*STAR) as a research fellow in Laurent Renia’s Laboratory. He was appointed as SIgN fellow after receiving OF-YIRG grant awarded by the National Medical Research Council (NMRC) of Singapore in year 2018. He joined the newly formed A*STAR ID Labs as an investigator in year 2021. Subsequently, he joined the Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya as a senior lecturer. Currently, he is also an adjunct investigator in A*STAR ID Labs, Singapore. As a parasitologist, he has involved in studies encompassing a number of medically important parasites such as the malaria causative agent Plasmodium spp., Toxoplasma gondii that can cause birth defects, Brugia pahangi that can cause symptomatic zoonotic filariasis, as well as several medically important vectors. His main research interest revolves around the immuno-pathobiology of malaria. He has been investigating and deciphering the roles of rosetting (a phenomenon where a Plasmodium-infected red blood cell is stably adhered to uninfected red blood cells, forming a flower-like structure called ‘rosette’) in the pathogenesis of malaria. Besides, he is looking into the potential of applying biocontrol strategy to eliminate different vector borne diseases. He has worked as a research fieldworker in different places including the Thai-Burmese Border, China, peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo. As different laboratory settings are equipped differently, he enjoys adapting and improvising facilities available in the field sites to conduct experiments. Currently, he is also the facility coordinator of the insectary and arthropod containment level 2 (ACL2) research unit in the Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya. To date, he has published (as first/ corresponding author) in a number of reputable journals such as Blood, EBioMedicine, eLife, Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Microbiology, and Trends in Parasitology. Besides working as a reviewer for many scientific journals and grant evaluation committees, he is also an editorial board member of Frontiers in Microbiology.