Shangeetha Rajah Kumaran is a Senior lecturer at the Department of English Language, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya (UM). She is currently serving her second term as the Head of the English Department, the largest department in the Faculty. Her main areas of research interest are the sociolinguistic aspects of language use in literary texts, culture and society, language maintenance and shift, as well as diasporic writings of the Malaysian community. Her current research work centres on translanguaging practices in the education and medical fields, as well as the visibility of languages in public spaces (linguistic landscape). She is the recipient of the 2025 Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS).

Dr Madiha Baharuddin is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Applied Science with Islamic Studies Programme, Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya (UM). She graduated with first class honours in her first degree of Applied Science with Islamic Studies, University of Malaya, majoring in Information Technology. It is not only the first, but one and only bachelor’s degree in Malaysia that offers a double major programme between Islamic Studies and Science. During her PhD studies, she was appointed as a visiting fellow of University of Paris, France under the mentoring and supervision of one distinguished Emeritus Professor Dr Roshi Rashed. She started her academic career in UM after the completion of her PhD from UM in 2015. Her academic interest is primarily to understand the relationship between the development of science/technology and Islam, particularly within the context of its historical backgrounds, Islamic science, and what science and technology may contribute to the Muslim society. She teaches and supervises both undergraduate and postgraduate courses/students that relate Islam, science and technology. She also has been actively engaging with university’s aim and administration since her appointment. She was appointed by the Vice Chancellor of UM as the Coordinator of Applied Science with Islamic Studies Programme for six (6) years. Throughout those years, she has been actively engaging herself in research as Principle Investigator for one of UM Research Grants entited Applied Science With Islamic Studies Programme: A Research On Its Curriculum Design. Her research also includes proposing a better curriculum in order to integrate Islam and science in higher degree institutions.

Dr Mohd Azmi bin Haron, is a Senior Lecturer at Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ISM), Faculty of Science, University of Malaya (UM).  He received his PhD Finance from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). He has more than twenty years lecturing and teaching experiences at degree and master level and supervised postgraduate MSc and PhD in his specialized area in financial mathematics, economics and actuarial sciences. In addition he has vast industrial working experiences in Banking, Investment, Insurance and Multi National Corporations (MNC's). His primary area of research interest include robust statistics, financial risk, econometrics and actuarial modeling. He is a member of Malaysia Mathematics Society, Spanish Association of International Economics and Finance (AEEFI), Malaysia Finance Association (MFA) and Malaysia Insurance Institute (MII).