Dr. Ng Kok Haur is a Professor of Statistics at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ISM) and the Deputy Head of ISM (Research), Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya. He also served as the Chairperson of the Centre of Research for Statistical Modelling and Methodology, Universiti Malaya. His research interests include volatility modelling and applications, modelling and analysis of high frequency data arising in financial economics, and statistical control charts. Dr. Ng actively publishes in peer-reviewed journals indexed by Web of Science, Scopus, and other reputable databases. Among those journals including The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Finance Research Letters, International Review of Economics & Finance, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Economic Analysis and Policy, Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, Expert Systems with Applications and European Journal of Industrial Engineering. He has also been awarded with several research grants, including the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia. He is currently supervising Ph.D. and M.Sc. students in various areas of statistics, financial econometrics, finance, and economics. Apart from that, he serves as associate editors for journals such as the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (WoS SCIE-cited Q3), reviewers for various journals, a guest editor for a special issue of the Malaysian Journal of Science, External Advisors for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, thesis examiners, committee members for local and international conferences and invited and contributed speakers at conferences.

Dr Adina Abdullah has a decade of experience in primary healthcare delivery, health systems research and the development and implementation of digital health interventions in Malaysia. She has built strong networks with relevant policy, health system and community stakeholders. Dr Adina is a family medicine specialist and a professor at the Department of Primary Care Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya (UM). Dr Adina graduated with a Bachelor of Medical Science (hons) in 1997 and Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1999 from the University of Nottingham, UK. She obtained a Masters of Medicine (Family Medicine) and PhD at the Universiti Malaya. Her interest in digital health evolved after she became a member of the core team responsible for the implementation of the Hospital Information System at the Ministry of Health Hospitals in 2004. Stemming from her Masters’ thesis, she was involved in the development and implementation of home blood pressure telemonitoring which was developed by a Universiti Malaya spin off company, UMCH Sdn Bhd.  Dr Adina is also a committee member for the non-profit organization, Digital Health Malaysia. She co-leads the mHealth and telehealth division at the Universiti Malaya eHealth Unit. Since 2012, she has been leading research and publishing papers on the use of telemonitoring, patients’ perspectives on digital health, prevalence of health literacy and patients’ use of online health information to make decisions on medications. Through her research, Adina has also worked closely with stakeholders from the Malaysian Ministry of Health, academic institutions and the industry.

Dr. Samsul Farid Samsuddin is a Senior Lecturer at Department of Library & Information Science in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of Malaya. He was a Senior Librarian at Universiti Putra Malaysia Library (2010 - 2018) before joining the University (UM) in 2018. He graduated with Diploma in Building Surveying in 2003 and Bachelor of Science in Information Studies (Library & Information Management) in 2010 both from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM). Dr. Samsul Farid obtained his Master degree in Library & Information Science (MLIS) from Universiti Malaya in 2012 and his doctorate (PhD) in Rural Advancement from Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2017. His research is geared towards Community Development in Behavioral and Information Studies (library services & information management, information literacy, digital literacy, user needs & behaviour, information services for rural advancement, the use of ICT for development and community development). He's an expert in his fields and has published numerous articles in the library literature, systematic literature review papers and presented at various conferences.