DR. NORFAEZAH BINTI MD KHALID

Dr. Norfaezah Md Khalid is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Education, University Malaya, and is also a Registered Counsellor with the Malaysian Board of Counsellors. She earned a Bachelor of Counselling with distinction (2009). She was awarded the University of Malaya Book Prize, followed by a fast-track PhD in Counselling (2016) under the Skim Latihan Akademik IPTA (Ministry of Higher Education). She teaches counselling and basic psychology courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She specializes in counselling, marriage and family therapy, and family functioning. Her research centers on family functioning, caregiving experiences, social vulnerability, mental health, and psychological instrument development. With interests spanning family caregiving and intervention, family and counselling assessment, counselling, and mental health, she applies her expertise through leading research grants, publishing in WOS and Scopus, authoring books and chapters, contributing to media and scholarly outputs, conducting evaluation work within and beyond the university, and supervising PhD and master's students. Beyond research, Dr. Norfaezah is deeply engaged in academic leadership and community service. She is actively involved in community-based mental-health initiatives, youth-empowerment programs, and professional training for practitioners such as the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development (LPKKN, LKM), and serves as a volunteer counsellor for the Pertubuhan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (PERKIM). Her work reflects a strong commitment to translating research into practice, building resilience among families and vulnerable communities, and promoting holistic psychological well-being. Having previously served as the Programme Coordinator for the Master of Professional Counselling program, she leveraged the experience gained to take on broader academic and leadership responsibilities, including contributing to university-level curriculum reviews, preparing core academic documents, and serving as an academic program assessor for institutions such as UTM. She also prepared key documents for the Diploma Executive Counselling under the UMCCED and delivered workshops for academic staff, including at the Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. Recently, she was appointed as the Programme Advisor for the Diploma in Counselling at Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology.

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TS. DR. CHANG SIOW WEE

Ts. Dr. Siow-Wee Chang is a senior lecturer in the Bioinformatics Programme at the Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. She earned her Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (AI) from Universiti Malaya. To date, she has published over 40 papers in reputable journals and conference proceedings at both local and international levels. Her research spans artificial intelligence (AI), data science, bioinformatics, and medical informatics, with a strong interdisciplinary approach that bridges life sciences, medicine, and computer science. She applies AI to advance biomedical research, focusing on disease diagnosis & prognosis, biomarker discovery, and drug discovery & repurposing. Her studies integrate AI-driven methods, multi-omics data integration, gene expression analysis, and spatial transcriptomics to identify potential disease biomarkers and therapeutic candidates. She also applies computational drug screening, molecular docking, and AI-driven predictive modeling to accelerate pharmaceutical research.  Beyond biomedical research, Siow-Wee Chang applies machine learning and deep learning in agricultural studies, particularly in plant species identification and crop disease detection. Her works focus on uncovering patterns in crop data and analyzing their relationships, contributing to advancements in precision agriculture, plant health monitoring, and data-driven farming solutions.

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DR. SITI AISYAH BINTI SAMUDIN

Siti Aisyah Samudin is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Syariah and Law Department, Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya, Malaysia. She graduated with a Diploma in Syariah and Islamic Jurisprudence with honors class one from the International Islamic University College of Selangor in 2011. In 2015, she was awarded a Bachelor Degree in Syariah and Law with honors class one from the Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya. She completed her doctoral studies in 2019 at the same university in which she specialized in Islamic tort and Islamic criminal justice. Her areas of expertise and research interests are Islamic criminal law, negligence, tort and consumerism. Her current research is on the need for an approach of harmonisation between diyya and existing compensation method including Malaysian law and insurance, to provide comprehensive protection to victims of road accidents. She is currently active in research and writing articles, especially on compensation for road traffic accident victims in Malaysia, the role of Insurance and Takaful as well as the potential of diyat in the area of damages. She was the recipients for Gold Medal Poster Exhibition Research University Malaya 2019. She is currently supervising 1 masters students and upcoming 5 PhD students. Outside the University, she is an exco member of al-Mukhlisin Foundation (an NGO).

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RECENT PUBLICATION

  • Islam, Ameena; Md Syed, Md Azalanshah (2026). Journalistic Professionalism in a Time of Paradoxes: ntv Online and "alternative Voice" in Bangladesh. Journalism Practice


  • Adams, Donnie; Sothinathan, Jayanti S.; Radzi, Norfariza Mohd (2026). Science Mapping The Evolution of Middle Leadership Research, 2002-2023. Educational Management Administration & Leadership


  • Ooi, Ai-Yee; Lim, Kian-Ping (2026). Multiple Blockholders and Governance Through Voice: Evidence from Blockholder Board Representation. Applied Economics Letters


  • Azahari, Ahmad Fikri Azfar Ahmad; Naim, Wan Naimah Wan Ab; Sari, Nor Ashikin Md; Lim, Einly; Mokhtarudin, Mohd Jamil Mohamed (2026). Advancement in Computational Simulation and Validation of Congenital Heart Disease: a Review. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering


  • Furuoka, Fumitaka; Gil-Alana, Luis; Yaya, OlaOluwa S.; Vo, Xuan Vinh (2026). Convergence of Gender Unemployment Gaps in Africa: New Evidence from Fourier Adf and Kpss Unit Root Tests With Break. Applied Economics


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