Professor Dr. Ernest Poh Mau Ern is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya. He is also Consultant Respiratory Physician at both University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) and University Malaya Specialist Centre (UMSC). Formerly a graduate of University of Malaya, he has worked both locally and abroad in the United Kingdom being trained in areas of respiratory, critical care, transplant and sleep medicine. He is highly skillful in pleural ultrasound, bronchoscopy and pleuroscopy.  Prior to his return to Malaysia, he was awarded the Specialty Certificate in Respiratory Medicine by the Royal College of Physicians (UK) and British Thoracic Society (BTS).  Professor Dr. Ernest Poh is a top ranked academic in the country. He was awarded the prestigious "Best Lecturer Award" by the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya in 2018. He is well respected and liked by peers and his students.  Aside from treating a variety of respiratory and sleep conditions, Dr. Poh is recognized as an expert in lung cancer, which remains an interest close to his heart. He is an active researcher in many international clinical research trials treating lung cancer, COPD and bronchiectasis. Recognized as a global expert in respiratory medicine, he was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, FRCP (London, UK) and a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, FCCP (USA).  He is also affiliated to the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO), Asian Pacific Society of Respirology (APSR), Malaysian Thoracic Society (MTS), Academy of Medicine Malaysia (AM), American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) and Royal College of Physicians (RCP, UK).  As a doctor, he is known to be kind, compassionate and loving and is very popular amongst his patients. 

Sahar Rasoulikolamaki is a Lecturer in Linguistics at the English Department, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. Her research focuses on critical discourse analysis, social semiotics, and multimodal communication, with particular focus on (multimodal) argumentation, mediated representation, and (social) media discourse. She explores topics such as online radicalisation, extremism, and political violence, and is interested in how multimodal resources reflect and construct identities, power dynamics, and ideological positionings. Her scholarly work has been published in renowned journals including Discourse & Communication, Journal of Language and Politics, Terrorism & Political Violence, and Discourse & Society, among others.

      Badrul Mohamed Jan, SPE is currently an associate professor attached to the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Malaya, Malaysia.  He holds a BS, MS and PhD degrees in petroleum engineering from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA. He spent almost 10 years in the US and he had the opportunity to work in aworld class research center, Petroleum Recovery Research Centre in New Mexico Tech. He joined the Department of Chemical Engineering, UM as lecturer in 2004.    The first project successfully executed is related to the use of Dolomite as alternative weighting agent to Barite in drilling fluids. The outcome of the research indicates a promising opportunity to use Dolomite instead of Barite in drilling fluids. Barite is toxic and expensive compared to dolomite, which can be acquired locally.   Dr. Jan first envisions is to develop and link any upstream oil and gas activity to his research. The major project that he accomplished was in the development of Super Light Weight Completion Fluid, (SLWCF) for 3M Asia Pacific. He managed to come out with a discreet formulation for new completion fluid with the use of glass bubbles from 3M. The formulated fluid has been tested in BKC 3 well at Bunga Raya field near Malaysia and Vietnam border. The field belongs to PETRONAS. The outcome of the field test showed nearly 1,000 barrels of additional oil could be produced daily if well is treated with SLWCF. The findings has been presented in SPE conference in Mexico and also published in the Journal of Drilling and Completion.   In addition Dr. Jan has also worked closely with BCI Chemical Sdn  Bhd, a local company mainly formulating and selling oil filed chemicals for various applications such as Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). Dr. Jan has successfully formulated a novel emulsifier, which is based on palm oil. About 15 ISI journal papers have published from the work.   Dr. Jan has also embarked in making use of industrial waste to improve production of hydrocarbon. In this effort, specific waste from industry has been characterized and extracted for its graphene content. Preliminary work and results indicates as much as 11% of graphene is able to be extracted. Current research is still on going to optimize the extraction process. In addition the extracted graphene will also be added into drilling fluid to investigate the rheological improvement resulting from the addition of the extracted graphene.   Dr Jan next research activities will mainly focus on the use of local dolomite in improving local water quality from a novel “Dolomite Water” system. This new niche area will open up new window of  opportunity for university research to be applied to industry and community.