Kasturi Dewi Varathan, is currently an associate professor at the Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya, Malaysia. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the National University of Malaysia. Her main research focus is in the field of Data Analytics, Text Mining and Information Retrieval. Dr.Kasturi has published in several high-ranked journals and conferences. Her research on data analytics won several awards in international and national level competitions. Research institutions too have gained from her expertise. She has served as visiting scientist to the Information Systems Research Group of the Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, Switzerland as well as research fellow at the Institute of Visual Informatics, National University of Malaysia. She has been appointed as Adjunct Professor at Veltech University, India. Dr.Kasturi has also secured national and international grants. Some of the prominent grants that she has received are Applied Research Partnership Grant funded by ETH Zurich(Switzerland), People Exchange Grant funded by Swiss Education, Research and Innovation Grant(Switzerland) and Prototype Research Grant from the Ministry of Higher Education (Malaysia).  She is also a recipient of the prestigious Leadership in Innovation Fellowship award by the United Kingdom and Malaysian Government.   

Tan Chin Joo is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UM. He obtained both his Bachelor of Engineering degree and Master of Engineering Science degree from UM in year 1999 and 2003, respectively. He was a tutor in UM 1999 and later be promoted to a lecturer in 2003. In 2005, he was offered a scholarship by JICA for his doctoral study in Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan. After completing his study in 2008, he joined TOPY Industries Limited, Japan. After 3 years of working in TOPY (2 years in R&D Dept. and 1 year in Production Dept.), he returned to Malaysia and joined Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR). He joined UM in December, 2011. His research interests include stamping of lightweight parts, finite element analysis of metal forming processes, laser hardening, green forming processes, tube forming.      

PROFESSOR DR ISHAK SULIAMAN is currently a Head Department of Al-Quran and Al-Hadith at Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya and a Professor in the field of the Hadith Studies. He is a Chief Editor of Journal al-Bayan of which is indexed by Web of Science, Scopus and published by Brill Publishers. He received his Ph.D degree from The University of Wales, Lampeter UK in 2005 in the field of Hadith Muamalah. His interest also in Digital Hadith and Psycho Spiritual of Sunnah. In 2013, he awarded as a Visiting Researcher at Islamic University of Medinah, Saudi Arabia. He served as Director for the Department of Malaysian Studies, Cairo University, Egypt from the 1st January 2016 until the end of December 2018. Prior to that, he was a Deputy Director for Postgraduate Studies at Academy of Islamic Studies, UM from 2009 to 2011. He was also served as Acting Deputy Director for R&D at Academy of Islamic Studies, UM from September 2011 to January 2013. He was also served the country as a Deputy Chairman of Lajnah Tahqiq Hadith KDN (Hadith Review and Assessment Committee under the purview of the Home Ministry of Malaysia from 2019 to December 2022. He also serves as external accessor for Bachelor Degree of Al-Quran and Al-Sunnah of Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM). For Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), he had served as Secretary General of Muslim Scholars Association of Malaysia in 2000. Besides, he served as a President of Muafakat for MRSM Ulul Albab, Negeri Sembilan in 2010 and as a Deputy President of Alumni Association of Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya. In terms of academic experiences, he received UMRG (University Malaya Research Grant) as a Project Leader for research project entitles ‘Preserving The Authenticity of The Digital Hadith’ in 2014 and completed in 2017. One of the outcomes for this project is android application namely ‘Digitalhadith’. This project awarded 1 Gold and 1 Silver in 2018 and 2019 at International Competition of Ideas, Inventions and Innovations (i-Fame) organised by UiTM. He has an ongoing collaboration research projects of Fundamental Research Grant (FRGS) in the field of Waqf of Infrastructure and in the field of Astrometry of Prayer Times. In 2022, he received Industrial Funding from Rimbunan Islamic Media Sdn.Bhd with the amount RM150,000 as a Project Leader for research project entitles 'Research on Translation of Sahih Muslim'.