ZAILAN SIRI was born in Melaka, Malaysia, in 1977. He received the BSc degree in Computational and Industrial Mathematics from the University of Malaya, Malaysia, in 2001, and the MSc in Applied Mathematics from Univeristi Putra Malaysia in 2004. In 2012, he received  PhD degrees in Applied Mathematics from the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.  In 2002, he joined the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as a Tutor, and in 2004 became a Lecturer. Since July 2012, he was a Senior Lecturer. He has taught a variety of courses in Applied Mathematics at undergraduate programme and supervised some postgraduate MSc and PhD candidate.   His current research interests include Computational Fluid Dynamics, Numerical Methods/Analysis and Mathematical Modelling on Retirement Sheme in Malaysia. He is a Life Member of the Malaysia Mathematics Society and Golden Key Association. 

Rauzah Hashim developed her interest in computational science, since her days in the University of Southampton, B.Sc. (1980) and Ph.D (1985),  and with a thesis entitled "The Compter Simulation of Model Liquid Crystals". “Strange as it may seemed now, prior to 1990, computational science was unheard of in Malaysia”,  but  this did not deter her from pursuing the same research in simulation and modeling of materials, making her the pioneer in this field in Malaysia. In those days she faced scientific isolation and lack of general facilities in computing. Unconventionally, she rectified the "scientific isolation issue" by seeking external grants and continuing her collaborations with her fellow researchers all over the world. These activities turned out to be useful in the later years, as she built up an extensive network of international research collaboration and developed her own internationalization capacity, which enabled her to make  "the whole world her laboratory".  In addition, and quite unusual for a chemist, she set up the Internet facility in her department in 1992 (the kimia network, @kimia.um.edu.my, with over 70 nodes). The kimia network was four years ahead of the University Malaya campus wide network (1996).  In fact the @kimia.um.edu.my was probably amongst the earliest network in the world to provide direct internet accessibility to faculty members from their individual office rooms.  From 1990, for 10 years, Rauzah, tirelessly conducted seminars and workshops to popularize the computational science in Malaysia. Subsequently many High Performace Computer centers were established reflecting her ideas, including the MIMOS High Performance Center (2003). She was a member of the University of Malaya Campus Network Technical Committee, the MIMOS GRID Initiative as well as a member of the ICS-UNIDO Expert Group for the Combinatorial Chemistry and Related Sciences. She obtained many external grants including those from the Royal Society of Chemistry United Kingdom, AbdusSalam, International Center for Theoretical Physics (Italy), Nippon Sheet Glass (Japan), she was a member of the "Intergrating Nanomaterials in Formulations" under the European Union Framework Program (EU-FP7) and was invited to the Beijing Chinese Academy of Science (Theoretical Physics).  She won numerous local grants amounting to millions of Ringgit. In 2002, she led the MOSTI Top-Down strategic program “Glycolipid Science and Technology”.  This project developed and synthesized the nature-like branched-chain glycosides and had won many awards  including the Gold Medal and Special Award from Taiwan at the ITEX Geneva 2005. She also led another major grant, the High Impact Research (HIR) grant  on the Fundamental Science of Self-Assembly (2011-2016), the motto of “the future is now!”.  This means, her group, presently conduct and continuously seed future research. Rauzah's group contributed actively to high impact publications, and had contributed significantly to improve the University of Malaya's QS world ranking and it is now in the top 100 universities.   Since 2016, she retired from the goverment full professorship position and is now an honarary Professor to the University of Malaya, but she continues her membership in the Centre forFundamental and Frontier Sciences in Nanostructure Self-Assembly, a center she built. She continues to publish with her group members and collaborators (old and new ones) from all over the world and on a variety of research topics. She has over 100 scientific papers in high impact peer reviewed journals (H-index 24, on the Web of Science). And she writes popular science articles in the local mass media.  She was a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRSC), a Chartered Chemist (C. Chem) and a Chartered Scientist (C.Sci).  She is a Fellow of the Academy of Science Malaysia (FASc).

Asyraf Isyraqi Bin Jamil is a Senior Lecturer at Islamic Education Programme, Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Previously, he worked as Substitute Teacher at Sek. Men. Keb. Sg. Layar, Sungai Petani, Kedah and Instructional Designer for Arabic language courses at Al-Madinah International University (MEDIU), Shah Alam, Selangor. He was born in Kedah on April 30, 1984 (29 Rajab 1404 AH). His educational journey started at Islamic primary school of Ma'had al-Tarbiyyah al-Islamiyyah Dar al-Ma'arif, Sungai Petani, Kedah. Then, he attended Islamic secondary schools of Da'irah al-Ma'arif al-Wataniyyah (DMW), Kepala Batas, S.P.U., Pulau Pinang as well as Maktab Mahmud, Alor Setar, Kedah to complete his secondary education. He received the Arabic Language Certificate from Pusat Bahasa Arab, Nilam Puri, Kelantan and Diploma of Islamic Studies from Madrasah al-Hidayah and Majmak Ilmi Ali (MINDA), both in Sungai Petani, Kedah to start his educational journey at higher level. He continued his study and graduated with honors from al-Azhar University (Tafahna al-Ashraf Branch), Egypt and Islamic University of Madinah, Saudi Arabia, both in Islamic Studies. He was then offered to further study under scholarship of IPTA Academic Training Scheme from Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia and University of Malaya, before embarking on his career at the university itself. He is now a PhD-graduate from University of Malaya with areas of expertise in thought, institution, history, administration, and comparative of Islamic education. Born as a Malaysian, he is absolutely a native speaker of Malay language. He also speaks Arabic and English, both as his second intermediate languages. Moreover, he has the basic knowledge pertaining Persian, Turkish, and Mandarin languages.