Professor Adeeba Kamarulzaman graduated from Monash University in 1987 and trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Monash Medical Centre and Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. She is presently the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Yale University, USA. She established the Centre of Excellence for Research on AIDS (CERiA) that conducts multi-disciplinary research on HIV ranging from clinical to public health and policy research. Professor Kamarulzaman has used her clinical and academic leadership to engage in the national and community response to HIV/AIDS. She is currently Chairman of the Malaysian AIDS Foundation and an Executive Council member of the Malaysian AIDS Council, the peak HIV NGO in Malaysia. At the international level, Professor Kamarulzaman is presently an Executive Council Member of the International AIDS Society and a member of the UNAIDS Scientific Expert Panel on HIV. She has also been an advisor to numerous WHO committees on HIV/AIDS. She has played a key role in the establishment and ongoing activities and collaborations of a regional HIV research network initiative; TREAT Asia. Her achievements have been recognised through several national and international awards including the Tun Mahathir Science and the Merdeka Awards for her role as a member of the University of Malaya’s Nipah Investigative Team. She is the first recipient of the Advance Australia Global Award in the category of Alumni in 2012 and in April 2015 she was honoured with a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) from her alma mater, Monash University. She also has the distinct honour of having been featured in both The Lancet and Science publications in 2013 and 2014 respectively.  

Suraya Hamid completed her for Bachelor of Information Technology (Industrial Computing) 1998 and Master in Information Technology (Comp. Sc.) 2000 from The National University of Malaysia. Obtained Ph.D. from the Department of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne in 2013. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Malaysia. She has also completed her tenure as the Head of Department (Information Systems) from August 2014- July 2017 and Deputy Dean of Students Affair 1/1/22 until 28/2/2025. Suraya was involved in various research in the areas of information systems specifically on social informatics, educational technology, information services, e-learning, and data analytics.  Established collaboration with international and national research collaborators for various research grants. Her works were also published in respectable ISI and SCOPUS indexed journals as well as presented at various international conferences. She actively supervises many students at all levels of study from undergraduate and post-graduate. She active with students’ activities as local and international level.  Suraya also involves with MyAIS and AIS (Association of Information Systems), AKRAB UM and various community projects.

Kiran Kaur (Ph.D., University of Malaya), is a Professor at the Department of Library & Information Science, Faculty of Arts & Social Science, Universiti Malaya. Prof. Kiran was previously the Director of the Quality Management & Enhancement Center (QMEC) responsible for accreditation and quality assurance of all levels of academic programmes in Universiti Malaya. She has had 20 years of experience in quality management systems and academic quality assurance. Prof. Kiran obtained both her Masters in Library and Information Science (1998) and PhD (2011) degree from the University of Malaya. Her research interests include information services, service quality, quality management, academic librarianship, social networking, community information services, social capital and scientometrics. Prof. Kiran's research publications appear in Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science, Library & Information Science Research, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Scientometrics, Information Development, The Electronic Library, Libri, JoLIS, Library Review, Library Management and others. Prof. Kiran is the Co-Editor of the Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science, which is indexed in both Social Science Citation Index and Scopus.  She has served as the President of the Malaysian Chapter for International Library and Information Science Society (ILISS) and an active member of the Consortium of iSchools in Asia-Pacific (CiSAP). Prof. Kiran is currently serving on the Technical Committee of various conferences and is a reviewer/member of the Editorial board of several reputable  journals.