Suhana Koting received the Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Civil Engineering (2005) from University of Malaya, Malaysia. In 2009, she finished her Master of Engineering Science in Civil Engineering-Pavement Materials Design at University of Malaya. She was awarded Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) from University of Malaya in 2017. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya. Her research interest is in Asphalt Mix Design, Concrete Materials, Transportation Planning, Traffic Engineering, and Statistical Analysis and Modelling. 

Dr. Hanira Hanafi is currently an associate professor at the Department of Shariah and Law, Academy of Islamic Studies, Universiti Malaya. She holds a PhD in Islamic Finance from the Durham University UK (2012) and Master of Comparative Law  (2003) and Bachelor of Law (2002) from International Islamic University Malaysia. She was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 2004. Her research interest lies broadly in the area of Islamic Finance, law and public policy particularly related to Digital Economy and Person with Disabilities. She has also published numerous articles in national and international journals on those areas. She has also contributed in term of administration as a Deputy Director of Ungku Aziz Centre for Development Studies from 2017 until 2019. 

I received all of my degrees at the University of Chicago. My research interests are modern Korean history since the late 16th century, Korea-Japan relations since the 19th century, Korea-U. S. relations in the 20th century, the Korean War, the Cold War, the San Francisco Peace Treaty and territorial sovereignty. I have published in Acta Koreana, Asia-Pacific Viewpoint, Korea Journal, and Territory, Politics, and Governance, among others. I am the author of Japanese Judicial Imperialism and the Origins of the Coercive Illegality of Japan's Annexation of Korea, 1876-1910 (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2023), The Dawn of War in South Korea, 1947-1950 (Springer, 2024), and East Asian International Relations in History: The Long and Stormy 20th Century (Springer, 2024).