Associate Professor Dr. Anand Sanmugam is a Consultant Paediatric & Neonatal Surgeon at Universiti Malaya and a dedicated leader in medical education and paediatric surgery. His journey in medicine began at Universiti Putra Malaysia, where he earned his Bachelor of Medical Sciences and Doctor in Medicine degrees in 2004. He became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (Ireland) in 2011. Anand trained in paediatric surgery under the Master of Paediatric Surgery programme at Universiti Malaya and further honed his expertise through a Clinical Fellowship in Paediatric Surgery at Perth Children’s Hospital in Western Australia. He has a special interest in Minimally Invasive Surgery for children. He holds a second Master's degree in Medical Education, which he earned with distinction. He is the Programme (co-) Director of the Master of Paediatric Surgery Programme at Universiti Malaya and one of the core authors of the National Postgraduate Medical Curriculum for Paediatric Surgery. In his current leadership roles, Anand serves as a Malaysian Medical Council Appointed Specialist Programme Evaluation Panel Member, the Co-Chair of the National Postgraduate Medical Curriculum Committee for Evaluation and Quality Assurance, and the Chair of the Specialty Subcommittee for Education (SSc Edu - Paediatric Surgery).  Anand is a member of the Paediatric Surgery Specialty Conjoined Board, which oversees all aspects of paediatric surgical training in the country. Additionally, he is part of the faculty development team within the Medical Education and Research Development Unit (MERDU). He actively participates in the University Malaya Medical Programme, contributing to the Multiple Mini Interview (MBBS intake) taskforce and the Program Quality Assurance (ProAE) team for postgraduate studies within the Faculty of Medicine. He is also chairs the Subspecialty Curriculum Review Committee for Universiti Malaya Medical Centre. Internationally, he chairs the Education Working Group for the Global Initiative for Children's Surgery. He is also a member of the ASEAN Collaborative Evaluation Quality Enhancement Task Force for medical schools. Anand's research interests are diverse, spanning surgical conditions in children, patient reported outcomes, medical education, and translational research in tissue engineering.  Through his clinical, academic, and leadership roles, Dr. Anand aspires to advance healthcare and medical education, ensuring a lasting impact on his field and beyond.

Maria serves as a Senior Lecture in the Department of Political Science, Public Administration and Development Studies, Faculty of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaya. She obtained her PhD in Public Policy from Universiti Malaya under the University's Scholarship Award (SLAB). Her research interests encompass several domains, including policy and governance, public administration and urbanization. She also engages in researching Artificial Intelligence (AI) in relation to emotions and behaviours. Maria specializes in qualitative research, where she emphasizes the significance of human-centric understanding, particularly in conducting research within the social sciences. 

Mohd Fakhrul Zamani Bin Abdul Kadir was born in Klang town, Malaysia. He received Bachelor's Degree in Computational and Electronics Physics from the University of Malaya, Malaysia in 2006. He immediately joined Texas Instruments (M) Sdn. Bhd. as a manufacturing executive before pursuing his MSc. studies in 2007. He has received an award for completing his Ph.D in less than 3 years from the University of Malaya in 2010. He was a Senior Lecturer at the Physics Division, Centre for Foundation Studies in Science, University of Malaya from 2010 to 2016. Since 2016, he has been promoted as an Associate Professor. He was appointed as the Deputy Director (Academic and Development) of Centre for Foundation Studies in Science from November 2014 to July 2016. He is now currently serving Physics Department, Faculty of Science. Since joining the University of Malaya, he has received funding and grants of nearly RM 1.27 Million, published 139 journal papers in ISI-indexed with 42 H index and successfully supervised to completion of 4 PhD, 1 MPhil and 1 MEng. Degree by research candidates. He is an active reviewer for numerous high quality journals, which include publishers from Springer and Elsevier. Since 2010, he has been the Head of Advanced Materials Lab in UM. During his postgrad studies, he has won several prestigious awards from within and outside the country. Among the awards that are the pride of university's and country is the Prize Ministry of Education and Science of The Russian Federation and Silver Medal at the International Trade Fair 2007 (Iena) Nuremberg, Germany which was awarded by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Government. The excellence in his research continues while serving the university as academician where his research work has gained international attention once again when he was awarded the Exclusive 'Physica Scripta Highlights of 2013' Collection for his research entitled "Electrical analysis of amorphous corn starch-based polymer electrolyte membranes doped with LiI". He is listed as one of the World’s top 2 % scientist for the year of 2019 and 2022 by Stanford University.