Concertmaster Yi-Li Chang, who carried it off with confident virtuosity.... - The Boston Musical Intelligencer - A native of Taiwan, Dr Yi-Li Chang has been recognized by Boston Musical Intelligencer as a baroque violinist with “confident virtuosity, and blend as necessary, adding a rich warmth to the group’s sound.”. A founding member of Incendium Novum, she performs regularly across Asia and the U.S. She has participated in festivals such as the Macau International Music Festival and the Boston Early Music Festival and given lectures at numerous institutions, including Universiti Putra Malaysia and National Taiwan Normal University. Yi-Li has performed in prestigious venues like Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay in Singapore, Dewan Filharmonik Petronas in Malaysia, Boston University in the U.S., and National Concert Hall in Taiwan. As an orchestral musician, Yi-Li has played with the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra and the Lexington Symphony Orchestra. She also served as concertmaster and coach for various ensembles, such as Longy Early Music Orchestra, Philharmonia Moments Musicaux Baroque orchestra, and as guest artist and coach at Tufts University and Montserrat College of Art in U.S. Yi-Li received her master degree (2007) and Ph. D. (2014) in violin from National Taiwan Normal University under Professor Nanette Chen. After receiving her PhD, she went aboard to study historical performance and graduated with a Master of Music degree (2015) and Graduate Performance Diploma (2016) in Early Music from the Longy School of Music of Bard College, under baroque violinist Dana Maiben. During her studies at Longy, she was the winner of the Honors Competition and granted the prestigious Roman Totenberg Award. A well-rounded musician, Yi-Li ‘s knowledge of music goes beyond the modern and baroque violin. In addition to baroque performance, her interests extend to harpsichord, she has studied the harpsichord and continuo accompaniment with Avi Stein and Vivian Montgomery, Dana Maiben, and Douglas Freundlich, and viola da gamba, which she has studied with Jane Hershey and Sarah Cunningham. The most recently she performed the harpsichord concerto of J.S.Bach with KLPAC orchestra in Malaysia. Besides being soloist and being with these groups, Yi-Li is also a dedicated educator, which she has been the faculty of New School of Music, Longy School of Music of Bard College in U.S. As a researcher, Yi-Li is specialized in performance practice in strings, and historically informed performance practice, which some of research has been published. Dr Yi-Li Chang is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Universiti Malaya, Malaysia.

“Professor Dr. Saad Mekhilef is a Charted Engineer (CEng) and Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is an Associate Editor of various top journals such as IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and the Journal of Power Electronics. He is a Professor at the Department of Electrical, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, since June 1999. He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and the Director of Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Research Laboratory (PEARL). He authored and co-authored for more than 400 publications in academic journals and proceedings including 253 International Scientific Indexing, ISI publications, and five books with more than 34,500 citations and 90 H-index. A total of 116 Philosophy Doctorate (Ph.D.) and Master Degree candidates have successfully graduated under his supervision. He has filed six Intellectual Property (IP) in his expertise. He is frequently invited as honorary keynote lectures at international conferences, congress, meetings, and symposiums. Saad Mekhilef has been listed by the Thomson Reuters (Clarivate Analytics) as one of the Highly Cited (Hi.Ci) engineering researchers in the world, and included in the "Thomson Reuters’ The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds: 2018 - 2021". He is actively involved in industrial consultancy for major corporations in the Power Electronics and Renewable Energy projects. His research interests include Power Conversion Techniques, Control of Power Converters, Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT), Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Smart Grid, Microwave and Wireless Technologies.”

Dr Fan Pik Wah, was born in the state of Kedah in Malaysia. Her ancestral home is Zhaoqing, which is a district of the province of Guang Dong, China, making her a member of the Hakka dialect group. Her primary and secondary education was in Chinese schools in Malaysia. After graduating from the University o f Malaya with Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in Chinese Studies, she furthers her PhD study to Peking University, China in Chinese Classical Literature. Now is the associate professor and head of deparment in Department of Chinese Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Science in University of Malaya. Her research areas include classical Chinese literature, Malaysian Chinese literature and culture. She has written on literary articles in news paper and academic papers on Chinese Shici, Malaysian Chinese literature and Malaysian Chinese in cultural and society.潘碧华，出生于马来西亚吉打州，祖籍广东肇庆高要，毕业于居林觉民中学、马来亚大学中文系，马大中文系硕士、北京大学古代文学博士，现任教于马来亚大学中文系副教授兼主任，马来西亚华文作家协会会长。专业研究中国古代诗词、马来西亚华文文学和华人文化。