Dr. Sameer has a PhD in Social Networking and is presently working as Associate Professor at Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya. He has over two decades of work experience in the industry and academia and also holds a PMP® (Project Management Professional) certification from PMI, USA. Dr. Sameer has been consistently ranked in the World's Top 2% Scientists list (released by Stanford University and Elsevier) from 2021 to 2024 (present) - Field: Social Sciences.  At Asia-Europe Institute (AEI) Dr. Sameer has taught courses at the Masters level on Information Technology K-Economy, Social and economic dimensions of Digital Economy, History of Southeast Asia and Research Methods . He has been the Program Co-ordinator for International Masters in Information Management (2014 - 2016) and is currently the Programme Co-ordinator for International Masters in ASEAN Studies program (2016 -). He is the founding Managing Editor of AEI Insights (an official AEI peer reviewed journal) since 2014. During 2015 he was the visiting scientist at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany.    His current research and teaching interests are in the field of Social Networks, Data Analytics, Educational Technologies, Social informatics, Digital economy in Asia-Europe, and History of Southeast Asia. Dr. Sameer has successfully completed grant-based research projects (High Impact Research and UM Frontier Science Research) as Principal Investigator and a bilateral interational project (ETH- Switzerland funded). He has organised international workshops and events and has chaired panels in international foras. He is the life member of Computer Society of India and member of several national and international research centers and associations. He has several papers published in ISI-Web of Science indexed journals (publishers include Springer, Emerald, Wiley, McMillan Palgrave, Elsevier and others). He has regularly reviewed for top ISI journals including JMIR, PlosOne, JASIST, Scienometrics, and several others and supervises candidates at both Masters and PhD levels. 

Pei Soo ANG (PhD, Macq.) is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Languages & Linguistics, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. She was the Deputy Dean of Higher Degree (2022-2024) and Visiting Faculty at Universitas Negeri Yogjakarta (2022-2024). Her areas of research interest include disability and health discourses, critical disability studies, critical discourse studies, social semiotics and visual communication. Her current research work centers on characterizing disability and health discourses as represented in the Malaysian media, employing a critical semiotic theoretical approach and a multi-perspectival methodology.

Salinah Jaafar adalah pensyarah kanan berjawatan Profesor Madya di Akademi Pengajian Melayu. Memiliki ijazah Sarjana Muda (Bahasa Melayu, 1991), Sarjana (1998) dan Doktor Falsafah (2008) dalam bidang Leksikologi.  Beliau  telah dihantar  ke Pusat Penyelidikan Akademik untuk Bahasa Inggeris (CARE), di Jabatan Bahasa Inggeris di Universiti Birmingham selama 6 bulan  semasa pengajian peringkat Doktor Falsafah. Mantan Pengarah Akademi Pengajian Melayu (2020-2022), merupakan seorang pensyarah dan penceramah dalam bidang Kesantunan Berbahasa,  Linguistik, dan Terjemahan Bahasa Melayu yang banyak menghasilkan penulisan dan penyelidikan dalam bidang tersebut. Salinah Jaafar banyak menulis artikel ilmiah yang diterbitkan dalam jurnal berindeks Scopus dan ISI, serta buku ilmiah yang diterbitkan oleh penerbit MAPIM. Sangat dedikasi dalam pengajaran dan pendidikan , amat tekun dan berbangga dengan kerjaya yang diceburi serta sentiasa berusaha memberikan kualiti pengajaran dan perkongsian ilmu terbaik kepada masyarakat. Di samping tugas rutin, Salinah Jaafar juga terlibat dalam penyelidikan, penerbitan serta menyertai banyak seminar dan persidangan di dalam dan luar negara.  Berdasarkan pengalaman sebagai pentadbir dan ahli pengurusan universiti Malaya dan Akademi Pengajian Melayu,  beliau juga terlibat dalam membuat keputusan yang tepat ketika melatih dan mempromosikan staf, dan merangka kurikulum program. Selain itu, dia juga aktif dalam penyelidikan FRGS dalam bidang Pragmatik, Hubungan Etnik, Perkembangan Korpus Melayu, Linguistik Komputer  dan Terjemahan Hadis.  Beliau telah berkhidmat sebagai pensyarah di Universiti Malaya selama hampir 30 tahun dan sentiasa bersemangat dan penuh minat dan meningkatkan hasil kualiti kerjayanya. Salinah Jaafar is a senior lecturer holding the position of Associate Professor at the Academy of Malay Studies. She holds a Bachelor's degree (Malay Language, 1991), a Master's degree (1998), and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree (2008) in the field of Lexicology. She was sent to the Centre for Advanced Research in English (CARE) at the Department of English, University of Birmingham, for six months during her Ph.D. studies. A former Director of the Academy of Malay Studies (2020-2022), she is a lecturer and speaker in the fields of Politeness in Language, Linguistics, and Malay Language Translation, and has produced numerous writings and research in these areas. Salinah Jaafar has written many scholarly articles published in Scopus and ISI indexed journals, as well as academic books published by MAPIM. Highly dedicated to teaching and education, she is diligent and takes great pride in her career, consistently striving to provide the best quality teaching and knowledge-sharing to the community. In addition to her routine duties, Salinah Jaafar is also involved in research, publications, and participates in numerous seminars and conferences both domestically and internationally. Drawing from her experience as an administrator and management member at the University of Malaya and the Academy of Malay Studies, she is also involved in making crucial decisions when training and promoting staff, and in designing program curricula. Additionally, she is actively engaged in FRGS research in the fields of Pragmatics, Ethnic Relations, Malay Corpus Development, Computational Linguistics, and Hadith Translation. She has served as a lecturer at the University of Malaya for nearly 30 years and remains passionate and committed to enhancing the quality of her career outputs.