Associate Professor Dr. Alexander Loch obtained his medical degree from Schiller University, Germany in 2001 and then went on to do his training in internal medicine in London, United Kingdom where he obtained his Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 2006. He subsequently trained in advanced interventional cardiology at the University of Malaya. He did a fellowship in complex angioplasty for chronic total occlusions (CTO) in Japan at Tokyo Hospital with Professor Toshiya Muramatsu. Professor Loch specialises in a wide field of cardiology, including echocardiography, cardiac MRI, and cardiac devices. He leads the heart failure services at the University of Malaya Medical Centre and has developed a 24/7 cardiac catheterization service in the emergency department. He is also a Member of the College of Emergency Medicine, UK. A dedicated educator, he has trained many fellows in Cardiology and is a speaker at many international meetings. His current research projects include the role of anti-inflammatory drugs in acute myocardial infarction.

Prof. Dato’ Ir. Dr. Mohammed Rafiq bin Dato’ Abdul Kadir is a Professor of Engineering and currently serves at the Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya. He has held the rank of Full Professor since 2014 and has contributed extensively to advancing engineering education, research, and innovation in Malaysia. He also serves as an EAC Council Member at the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) since 2020. Prior to joining Universiti Malaya, Dato’ Rafiq was the pioneering Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), one of the largest engineering faculties in Asia, comprising nearly 700 academics and 10,000 students. His visionary “Business NOT as Usual” approach steered the faculty to international prominence, even during the COVID-19 pandemic. Under his leadership, initiatives such as the Distinguished Lecture Series—featuring 114 professors from 32 countries—and the Captain of Industry Programme—with CEOs from 31 major companies—solidified UTM’s global standing while achieving cost savings of almost RM2 million. In research, Dato’ Rafiq is recognized among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University. He founded the Medical Devices & Technology Group (MEDITEG), one of Malaysia’s most successful research entities, later elevated to a Centre of Excellence (CoE). Under his leadership, the group secured 94 research projects worth RM12 million, graduated 49 PhD and 38 Master’s students by research, and produced 344 Web of Science publications with nearly 8,000 citations. Dato’ Rafiq’s individual h-index is 48, reflecting his strong international research impact. A prolific inventor, Dato’ Rafiq is Malaysia’s No. 1 Inventor (2010–2014) with 27 patents granted during that period, and now holds 38 granted patents and 18 pending inventions. He is an alumnus of both Imperial College London and the University of Cambridge, and is professionally registered as a Professional Engineer with Practising Certificate (PEPC), an ASEAN Chartered Professional Engineer (ACPE), and a Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the UK Engineering Council.

Asrul Sani is a lecturer in the Department of Architecture at the Faculty of Built Environment. His administrative responsibilities include the coordination of the Bachelor of Science and Master of Architecture program, the academic management of the joint studio programs such as UM-NUS in Thailand (2016-2017), UM-UNPAR-ITB in Indonesia 2014-2015 and the inbound joint studio program UM-Deakin in the main UM campus (2023). He has been involved in teaching, research, and consulting projects for the past 20 years. He received his M.A. (Hons) in Architectural Design and his Bachelor of Architecture (RIBA Part I and II) as well as his M.Sc. in Design and Digital Media from the University of Edinburgh. Prior to teaching, he gained professional experience from graphic design, illustration, architectural animation, and built construction projects in Malaysia (GDP Architects) and the United Kingdom (3Di and Richard Murphy Architects). He is also trained as a qualified technician in architectural workshop with special focus on woodworking and digital fabrication tools.  His research interest lies in the intersection between design, technology and architecture education. Currently he investigates architectural design process using digital design and digital fabrication methods and how they affect contemporary architectural design practice and shape the future of architecture education.