Dr. Sharifah Aishah Osman is an Associate Professor at the Department of English,   Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Boston University, U.S.A. Her areas of expertise are Children’s and Young Adult Literature in Malaysia, and Nineteenth-century British Literature. She also has research interests in women’s writings, feminist youth literature, and folklore studies. She has published in all these fields, both in edited books, as well as in international journals such as Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature, Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and Southeast Asian Review of English (SARE). She has presented numerous papers in international conferences, where she often promotes the works of authors of youth literature from Malaysia. She also serves as peer reviewer for a number of international journals, two of which are Scopus-indexed. Her current research projects examine the role of feminist folktales and folk tale adaptations in Malaysian youth literature. She welcomes research students working on any aspect of youth literature (especially in Asia), as well as British women's writings from the nineteenth-century.     

Dr. Nurul Japar is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. She earned her Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (Computer Vision) in 2022 and her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) in 2018, both from Universiti Malaya. Her expertise lies in computer vision and machine learning, particularly in object detection, visual recognition, and vision-language models. She also serves as the Head of the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Training and Competency Division at the Centre for Integral Learning (CITRA), Universiti Malaya, where she leads initiatives to enhance academic excellence and professional competency. Dr. Nurul is a member of IEEE Young Professionals, IEEE Women in Engineering, IEEE Signal Processing Society, and an IEEE CertifAIEd Authorized Assessor. Her work advances responsible and impactful AI practices and global collaboration.

Associate Professor Dr. Nor Shahila Mansor is a Malaysian scholar-translator whose work sits at the intersection of multilingualism, sociolinguistics, communication strategies and translation studies. Currently, she is serving as the Head of the Department of Asian and European Languages at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. She possesses native fluency in reading, writing, and speaking the Spanish language. She has an abiding, passionate and almost obsessive interest in the Spanish language and linguistics, and has built a distinctive academic profile that bridges Spanish-Malay-English language scholarship with pressing global concerns such as sustainability and cross-cultural communication. She holds a PhD in Spanish Language and Linguistics from the University of Valladolid, Spain. Trained as a linguist and translator, Associate Professor Dr. Nor Shahila Mansor's research advances a central conviction: language is never neutral. Whether analysing parallel crime news reports across multilingual Malaysian media, interrogating cultural representation in beauty advertising between Malaysia and Spain, or examining localisation in geopolitical narratives, her work reveals how translation practices shape power, identity, and public trust. Her scholarship is marked by methodological rigour, often combining corpus analysis, qualitative inquiry, and digital tools, while remaining firmly grounded in real-world impact. Associate Professor Dr. Nor Shahila Mansor is equally recognised for her work in Spanish language promotion in Malaysia. Through innovative teaching modules, translation training, and intercultural communication courses, she has strengthened Spanish as a foreign language within the Malaysian context. Her publications and forthcoming books, including works on translation from a Malaysian perspective and on the rise of Spanish in Malaysia, reflect her long-term commitment to cultivating multilingual competence in Southeast Asia. Beyond academia, her research agenda aligns with the national and global frameworks, including sustainable development, gender equity, and inclusive access to information. She has led and collaborated on grant-funded projects that address language barriers in poverty alleviation, multilingual sustainability education, and cross-cultural communication in diverse communities. Her approach integrates scholarly depth with societal relevance. An accomplished keynote speaker and research supervisor, Associate Professor Dr. Nor Shahila Mansor continues to mentor postgraduate scholars while publishing in high-impact venues. Her intellectual trajectory reflects both ambition and clarity of purpose: to position multilingualism and translation not as peripheral skills, but as foundational infrastructures for equitable global communication. Through scholarship, teaching, and leadership, she stands as a transformative voice in contemporary translation and multilingual studies, advancing not only academic knowledge but also the ethical and technological futures of language in society.