Rosila Bee Mohd Hussain is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. She completed her PhD from The University of Western Australia. Her areas of research interest are social inequality, identity, youth, cross-cultural study and contemporary social issues (social capital, disability studies, gender and social threats). Her expert opinions on various sociological issues has often been shared on various media platforms like newspapers, talk shows and and radio interviews in Malaysia.  She has also completed and secured internal and external grants in the past years in relation to youth, social inequality and identity issues. Among others are UMRG (UM), FRGS (Malaysia), Ungku Aziz Centre for Development Studies and Japan Society for the Promotion Science (JSPS) as Principal Investigator or Research Collaborator. She has published more than 50 journal articles, book chapters and proceedings from her research to share.  Her current research work centers on issues of social threats, lifestyle and digital society.

Dr. Yanti Idaya Aspura binti Mohd Khalid is an Associate Professor at the Department of Library & Information Science, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, where she also serves as Deputy Dean (Undergraduate). She began her teaching career in 2001 as a Lecturer at Management and Science University and later served as Senior Librarian at Dar al-Hikmah Library, International Islamic University Malaysia (2003–2015) before joining Universiti Malaya in 2016. She holds a Bachelor in Human Sciences (Political Science) (2000) and a Master of Library and Information Science (2001) from the International Islamic University Malaysia, and earned her Ph.D. in Systems Science and Management from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 2014. Her research interests include data librarianship and open science, bibliometrics and scholarly publishing, information systems, and information retrieval. Dr. Yanti has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and actively contributes to advancing scholarly communication and digital preservation practices. She currently serves on the editorial board of the Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science (JIF 0.423, JCR 2012) and has played a key role in academic leadership and curriculum development to strengthen the field of library and information science. She is also a Certified Data Steward (511650) from CDS eLearning Curve.

Dr. Noor Azlin Yahya is a Professor at the Department of Restorative Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Universiti Malaya. She has held several key leadership roles, including Head of the Dental Materials and Operative Dentistry Disciplines, Coordinator of the Biomaterials & Thermal Characterization Research Laboratories, and Head of the Biomaterials and Technology Research Group. Dr. Noor Azlin’s academic journey began with a prestigious Federal Scholarship for Dentistry in New Zealand, under the Collaborative University of Malaya-University of Otago Programme. She furthered her expertise through postgraduate studies in Restorative Dentistry at the Leeds Dental Institute, University of Leeds, UK. Her research, centred on the synthesis, characterization, and testing of dental materials, has led to numerous ISI publications and the supervision of over 50 undergraduate and postgraduate projects. Dr. Noor Azlin’s academic excellence is recognized globally, with more than 40 awards, including gold medals at prestigious international research expositions in Brussels, Nuremberg, and Geneva. In addition to her academic contributions, Dr. Noor Azlin plays a prominent role in professional associations, serving as President of the IADR Malaysian Section, Vice President of the Malaysian Dental Materials Society (MDEMS), and as a board member of the Asian Network of Dental Materials Societies (ANDeMS). She is also an Adjunct Professor at Universitas Airlangga and a Visiting Professor at Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia.