Azah Anir Norman is an associate professor and currently the Chief Digital Officer, Universiti Malaya (UM), Malaysia. She earned her undergraduate degree at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and her master's degree in electronic commerce security from Royal Holloway University of London in the UK in 2004. She completed her Ph.D. from the University of Malaya (UM) in 2014. She specializes in information security management systems (ISMS), secure applications for ICT, privacy and human elements in security, information security governance, security on social platforms, and e-commerce security. She is also very interested in topics pertaining to Islamic ICT (such as Halal and Quran Authentication), Design Thinking, and Teaching & Learning Innovations. Azah Norman published numerous academic papers in reputable ISI and SCOPUS publications in the fields of information security governance, information security management, information security systems, information security & trust, information security & privacy, information security education awareness, information security & assurance, and information security policy & governance. Before entering the academic world, she worked as a Consultant at MSC Trustgate.com, a subsidiary of MDEC and a partner of VeriSign Inc. in the USA. In Trustgate, she provided Internet Security implementation consultation to numerous top 500 companies. Prior to becoming the consultant at Trustgate, she experienced working at VeriSign Inc. in Silicon Valley, San Jose, California, in 2001. As a specialist in information security management systems, she is also part of an expert in the working group WG/G/5-1 Information Security Management System, Department of Standards, Malaysia, and the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO). She belongs to the Association of Information Systems (AIS) and the MyAIS (AIS Malaysia Chapter), an organization that promotes excellence and knowledge progress in the field of information systems research and practice.  She is also a secretary at the Cybersecurity Academia Malaysia Association (CSAM), a national association that promotes cybersecurity teaching, awareness, and research in Malaysia. She received a prestigious award from the Royal Academy of Engineering of the United Kingdom (RAENG) as the Leader of Innovation in 2018.    

Sarel developed an interest in e-learning in 2004 when he volunteered as a participant in a public university’s e-learning project. Leveraging his background in software engineering—a bachelor's degree in computer science with a major in software engineering—he began exploring the design and integration of e-learning with educational concepts and technical functionalities to enhance student learning opportunities. His first official e-learning initiative, diskusiMAYA (accessible at www.diskusimaya.com), was primarily designed to support his part-time students since 2006. Additionally, he conceptualized and developed an innovative e-learning environment tailored for selected teachers as part of the MAYA project, accessible via maya.ilusikreatif.com and maya.sorient.my. His approach incorporates diverse instructional design strategies, including online learning environments and blended learning methods, to sustain student engagement in the learning process. Sarel has also contributed to the development of a virtual learning environment platform for a private university, focusing on how virtual environments function as collaborative spaces to enhance students’ learning experiences. Now, he emphasizes the importance of experience in practicing digital skills in education as a transition to AI Literacy. At the same time, he is an AI trainer in/for education who has produced several GPTs under the Scholar AI Project such as 'Scholar Proposal Mentor', 'Scholar Bloom's Digital Taxonomy', Scholar Intelligence Report, or 'Scholar UM Expert'. According to him, every engagement provided by the community (either lecturers or students) in the online environment is about building up motivation.

Syafiq Faliq Alfan, also known as SEFA, is a theatre and performance studies scholar, performing artist, educator, and cultural researcher specialising in cultural change and memory in Asian traditional performing arts. He is particularly interested in how traditional forms transform across time, media, and space, and how these shifts relate to cultural memory, philosophy of history, and lived experience. He earned his Doctoral Degree from the Faculty of Integrated Arts and Science at Hiroshima University, Japan, in 2022, through research on the methodological construction of analysis towards the traditional dances of Mak Yong and Noh using motion capture technology. As an outsider-artist, SEFA has been a member of the Ipoh artist-collective Projek Rabak since 2011, where he currently serves as director. Since 2007, he has actively participated in numerous local and international performances, focusing on the intersection between Corporeal Mime by Étienne Decroux and the improvisational techniques of Malay traditional performing arts. His performance research centres on the body as subject and its entanglement with elements within its environment, including space, audience, and technology, often drawing on Practice-as-Research as a core method. SEFA is also a creative writer, with works such as Melankolia Bisu (2014) and Novel Eksperimental (2013), among others. Currently, his research interests revolve around memory studies and the philosophy of history to understand Mak Yong history and its multiple trajectories across regions and narratives. He believes that enriching the discourse on Malaysian traditional performing arts, through both theory and practice, will deepen our understanding of their role in shaping local identities and collective memory. He is also interested in engaging Digital Humanities at the intersection of aesthetics, ecology, local wisdom, identity formation, and arts biomechanics. Through media and technology, particularly motion capture, he explores how different experiences and cultures can be understood in greater nuance, especially in relation to various modes of cultural change in performing arts. His work sits at the crossroads of performance theory, cultural and memory studies, media studies, and philosophical inquiry. As a scholar of performance and theatre studies, he believes the role of the performing arts extends beyond the discourse of performance and performativity, and should also engage critically with issues of sustainability, environmental impact, socio-economics, education, architecture, and technology. Potential postgraduate students should be prepared for an integrated and interdisciplinary approach, and be willing to develop practical and high-impact research that benefits society while remaining sensitive to culture, history, and the evolving realities of performance.