Dr. Lani is a viral immunologist and a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya. She received her Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Sciences (2012), Master’s in Medical Science (by research; 2016), and Ph.D. in Virology from Universiti Malaya, Malaysia (2022). Dr. Lani's research interests focus on understanding the immune response to viral infections, with a particular emphasis on developing novel therapeutic and vaccine strategies for infectious diseases. She has published extensively in high-impact scientific journals, including Nature, Elsevier, and MDPI, and is also an active scientific reviewer and guest editor. She is committed to promoting high-quality scientific research and has been recognized for her contributions to the field with numerous awards and honors. She earned critical certifications from the One Health Workforce Academies, Rice University (USA), UC San Diego (USA), The John Hopkins University (USA), and the University of Rochester (USA).

I am currently a Senior Professor at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. My main areas of research include Varieties of English, in particular, Malaysian English, as well as language use in educational and in multilingual contexts. Additionally, I  work on an endangered language, Melaka Portuguese, which I have digitally archived at the Endangered Languages Archive. As part of my interest in indigenous languages and culture, in 2019, I co-convened an exhibition on indigenous languages in Malaysia in conjunction with the International Year of Indigenous Languages. My work and thoughts on endangered languages in general, and more specifically on Melaka Portuguese, have been featured in local and international media. I am a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM) and a 2024 recipient of the ASM's Top Research Scientist. I was the 2013 Ian Gordon Fellow at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, and until recently an Adjunct Professor at Mahidol University in Thailand.  

Kamarul Azam bin Kamarul Azmi is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Asian and European Languages at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics. He obtained his Ph.D. in Language Learning and Assessment from Universiti Malaya. His core research areas include language learning and Japanese as a foreign language, with a particular focus on audiovisual translation in media. He is also a certified translator by the Malaysian Translators Association and the Malaysian Institute of Books and Translation. His current research interests and expertise include sociolinguistics, particularly the use of profane language in gaming, captions and subtitles in television, and Japanese pop culture, such as anime and otaku culture.