Professor Dr. Loo-See Beh is Professor of HRM & Public Administration at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and formerly the Head of Department of Administrative Studies and Politics, and the Deputy Dean (International and Higher Degree), Faculty of Economics and Administration, as well as Interim Head of Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Business and Economics. She holds a PhD in Training Management, M.A. in Political Science, and B.A. (Hons.) in History and Political Science. Her research interests includes public administration, innovation, smart city development, public policy, human resource management, organizational behaviour, governance, education, political science, and socio-political/cultural studies. She is also a Research Fellow and HRD Thought Leader with the National Human Resources Centre (HRD Corp), Ministry of Human Resources, Malaysia since 2020. She has been awarded the 2017 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence - Outstanding Paper (Highly Commended) in Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, (Emerald) and also Best Paper Award for an article “Charting Ethics in Asia Pacific HRM; Does the East meet West Ethically?” in Review of Public Personnel Administration & ASPA in 2014. She has also been recognized as an Outstanding Contributor as a Reviewer by Elsevier in 2017. She sits on several committees and coordinators of several programs, collaborative research projects and seminars locally and abroad, resource person and as associate member with a number of local and international institutions including Malaysian Qualifications Agency; Malaysian Association of American Studies; Global Studies Association, UK; International Political Science Association Research Committee on SOG, USA;  American Society for Public Administration, USA; Council of Local Authorities for International Relations (Japan; Singapore).  She has held the position of research and visiting appointments at  Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, Griffith University, Australia, Yonsei University, Korea, and Sunway University, Malaysia. She has published widely and sits on the editorial board of several international peer-reviewed journals including serving as external examiners for theses, programs, and staff promotions in other universities as well as reviewers for many reputable high-ranked international journals and books. She is a panel member of evaluators for various research grants schemes at the university and national level. She is an acknowledged merit peer reviewer as can be accessed from her profile at https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/170934  Her most recent publications have appeared in journals Public Management Review, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Journal of Asian Public Policy, Educational Research Review, Studies in Higher Education, Review of Educational Research, Australian Journal of Public Administration, The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, Supply Chain Management: an International Journal, Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, Business Process Management Journal, PLoS One, Peer J, The Bottom Line, BMC Research Notes,  etc., and also a recent book on Culture and Gender in Leadership: Perspectives from the Middle East and Asia  published by Palgrave Macmillan, UK (2013).  Her profile links can also be assessed via Loo-See Beh on ResearchGate, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7061-9317,http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=51664718400, and google scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&user=wUbPfyIAAAAJ.  

  Dr. Zahiruddin Fitri is a Senior Lecturer in the Building Surveying Department at the Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Malaya. Specialising in building pathology (or the science of what goes wrong with buildings), he earned his PhD in Concrete Technology from the University of Dundee in 2012. From 2014 to 2024, he served as Head of E-Learning at the university and was Deputy Director of the Academic Development Centre (ADEC) from 2020 to 2022.   A key resource in teaching and learning, he has conducted extensive training for academics and co-authored university policies on e-learning. He has also played a crucial role in shaping Malaysia’s higher education landscape through his involvement in MEIPTA, a national think tank for e-learning policy and European-level projects like Erasmus+ CBHE.   Passionate about pedagogical innovation, he actively writes on technology-enhanced learning and contributes to national and international education initiatives, and have given several keynote speeches on the topic.    He can be seen riding his bicycle every day to work.

Dr. Mohd Yazed Ahmad is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Universiti Malaya. His academic and research journey centers on interdisciplinary innovation, particularly the fusion of engineering, medical technology, and embedded systems. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering with a focus on wireless passive sensing, RF-based system design, and intelligent embedded diagnostics. Dr. Yazed’s research interests span across smart healthcare systems, AI-powered sensing, and low-power wireless communication technologies. He has led and contributed to multiple impactful projects including novel modified-Hemlholtz coil for wireless power transfer tested for wireless capsule endoscope, novel weatstone-bridge antenna for fine grain positioning within RF near-field extending RFID capabilities, passive LC sensors for intraoral diagnostics, RF energy harvesting for wearable health monitoring, and real-time IoT platforms for Smart City solutions such as street lighting and waste management systems. He is also actively involved in national innovation programs such as MyHackathon, from which he founded a solution team, offering engineering and smart infrastructure solutions. He supervises researc projects in biomedical AI systems, e-stethoscopes, and embedded medical electronics, and regularly collaborates with clinicians and industry partners. In his role as an educator, he is also the course coordinator for Programming and Numerical Methods, emphasizing MATLAB and C++ for biosystem modeling. Dr. Yazed contributes to institutional advancement through curriculum design, industrial training coordination, and as an advisor to the Biomedical Engineering Student Club. His goal is to bridge medical needs and technological advancements through ethical, sustainable, and high-impact engineering innovations.