Dr. Nasnoor Juzaily Bin Mohd Nasiruddin aka Dr. Samba was born in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. He completed his elementary school education at St.Thomas Elementary School, Kuantan, Pahang and continued his high school at one of the elite boarding schools in Malaysia: Sekolah Dato’ Razak (SDAR), Seremban. Upon completed his school-education level, he pursued his first degree in Exercise Physiology at University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and completed his Master degree in M.A Physical Education (Pedagogy) at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo-Michigan, USA. In 2019, Dr. Nasnoor obtained his doctoral degree in Kinesiology (Sport Pedagogy) at Texas A&M University, College Station-Texas, USA. Pertaining his sport background. Dr Nasnoor was a former national elite athlete in rugby and was appointed as a national team captain during the Asia Rugby Cup tournament, 2003. His fields of interest are physical education, measurement & evaluation, survey development, physical activity & motivation, curriculum & instruction, and sport performance analysis  

09/2023 - 12/2024, City University of Hong Kong (HK, CN)Research Associate. Quantum nanophotonics and molecular plasmonics. Ultrafast exciton dynamics in 2D semiconductors. 10/2020 - 09/2023, University of Białystok (PL)Assistant Professor, PI. Laser-driven femtosecond spin currents for non-equilibrium, ultrafast quantum plasmonics. 06/2018 - 10/2020, Radboud University, Nijmegen (NL)Post-doctoral researcher. Nonlinear time-resolved spectroscopy in the mid-IR at the free electron laser facility (FELIX). 12/2014 - 06/2018, Fritz-Haber Institute of Max-Planck Society (DE)Max-Planck-Society fellow. Laser-induced femtosecond spin currents. Spin transfer torque-mediated excitation of high-frequency spin waves. Nonlinear strong coupling of surface phonon-polaritons in the mid-infrared. 12/2010 - 12/2024, Radboud University, Nijmegen (NL)Post-doctoral researcher. Ultrafast laser-induced spin dynamics. Nonlinear magneto-plasmonics.

Dr. Siti Soraya Abdul Rahman is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology. She was appointed as a program leader for ALEPS (Adaptive Learning Environment for Problem Solving) in Pyhsics under the Innovative Technology Research Cluster. Previously, she was the Head of Augmented Human Learning Program, under the Humanities Research Cluster, University of Malaya. Currently, she is the Principal Investigator for a UM Living Labs @ UMSDC entitled "Smart Waste Management System: An IoT-Based Approach For Automated Waste Classification And Bin Monitoring". She also secured an International Research Grant entitled "Personalised Learning Technologies based on Learning Style using Fuzzy Logic" in programming with University of Bengkulu, Indonesia. She is also a University of Malaya Library Committee representing the faculty. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from the University of Glamorgan, UK in 1998 and received a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Malaya in 2003. She was conferred with a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Sussex, UK in 2012. Her current research interests and expertise are in the area of Machine Learning (for structured data) and Deep Learning; Advanced Graph Neural Networks; Social Network Analysis; Generative AI and Explainable AI; Responsible AI; Prompt Engineering; Large Language Models; Natural Language Interface to Databases (NLIDBs); Advanced Topic Modeling; Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) in human activity recognition and waste monitoring; Knowledge Representation and Reasoning; Data Science (predictive analytics, data analytics, text analytics, and sentiment analysis); Cognitive Science (cognition and programming; physics problem solving); Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED); E-learning and Expert System.