Dr. Saharuddin bin Mohamad received his Bachelor of Engineering (Bioengineering) in 1998 and Master of Engineering (Bioengineering) in 2000 from the University of Tokushima, Japan. He successfully completed his Doctor of Engineering degree in functional system engineering in 2003 at the same university. Then, he took up a post-doctoral position in bioinformatics at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan until 2004.  He was appointed as lecturer in Bioinformatics Program, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya ever since. His research interest focuses on structural bioinformatics, with special interest in computer-aided drug design and protein engineering. He also engages in molecular bioinformatics research projects related to analysis and data mining of the Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data in genomics, metagenomics, whole-exomic and trancriptomics. Furthermore, he involves in translational bioinformatics research projects with his collaborators from Institute of Medical Research, Malaysia. He actively involves in teaching and development of courses for Bachelor of Science (Bioinformatics) and Master of Bioinformatics at the University of Malaya. He served as Programme Coordinator for Bachelor of Science (Bioinformatics) Degree Program from 2013 to 2014 and re-appointed as the coordinator from 2019 to 2020. He was appointed as Advisory Board Member of MyBioInfoNet (Malaysia Bioinformatics Network) for 2019-2021 session. He was elected as vice president of the Malaysian Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (MaSBiC) for 2018-2020 and 2020-2022 session. He was appointed as the Head of Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science from January 2020 to January 2022.  Currently, he serves as the Head of Centre of Research in Systems Biology, Structural, Bioinformatics and Human Digital Imaging (CRYSTAL), University of Malaya since 2017.

Sufian Raja has graduated with a PhD from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Malaya in in 2022. He has completed B.Tech and M.Tech degrees from ZHCET, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. His resolute research niches are in friction stir welding, friction stir processing, metal matrix composites, and additive manufacturing. He has to his credit one patent and 18 research publications in internationally referred journals and conferences.  

Dr Nur Aulia Rosni is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Malaya (UM). She obtained her Ph.D. from the International Islamic University Malaysia in 2018 and joined UM in the same year. She has published numerous articles, chapters in books, and books related to Land Use Planning, Urban Park and Recreational Planning, GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Urban Planning, Planning Law, and Governance. She is also particularly skilled in technical aspects, especially in utilising GIS and planning practice. Her research interests include land use planning, urban analytics, transportation planning, planning law, and urban management. Her recent research projects focus on land use planning for urban parks, urban placemaking, and physical planning for neighbourhoods that are elderly-friendly.