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.  

She is the distinguished recipient of the highly prestigious Anugerah Tokoh Akademik Bahasa Melayu 2024, a remarkable honour bestowed by the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia. The first milestone of her commendable journey began when she was conferred the Anugerah Penghargaan Makalah Jurnal Terbaik in the year 2021, a notable recognition by MAPIM-KPT. With a distinguished academic background, she holds a First Class Bachelor's Degree (Malay Language Programme) from the Department of Malay Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya (1989). Subsequent to her undergraduate studies, she embarked on a journey to acquire a Diploma in Education from the Faculty of Education, University of Malaya (1990) and henceforth, served as a dedicated teacher in a full-boarding school (SBP) in Kuala Lumpur. Her illustrious career as a lecturer commenced in 1996 following the completion of her master's degree and was further amplified when she was granted the Hadiah Latihan Cuti Belajar, enabling her to pursue her Ph.D in 1999. During her remarkable Ph.D journey, she was accorded an opportunity to partake in a six-month training at Leiden University, Netherlands, to learn the PRAAT software, a vital tool in her field of study at the Ph.D level, Acoustic Phonetics. Her exemplary skills in the Malay language led her to be appointed as a visiting lecturer at the Yunnan University of Nationalities, Kunming, China, and as a visiting professor at Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. Her profound expertise in the Malay Language, Malay Studies and the Malay World has been acknowledged by the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, leading her to be entrusted with roles such as Head of the Phonetics/Phonology Panel, Panel Penilai Buku Terbaik MAPIM-KPT, Penilai Buku Terbitan MAPIM, Malay Language Editor, Penilai Geran Penyelidikan Fundamental Research Grant Schemes (FRGS), and Penilai Artikel for Scopus-indexed, ESCI and MyCite journals. She was also appointed to the editorial board of two prestigious journals in Indonesia and often referred to as an expert in research instruments. She has been invited as a Keynote Speaker and Invited Speaker in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. From an administrative perspective, she has held notable positions such as Head of the Malay Language Department, Coordinator for the Academic Writing course, and Deputy Dean (Research, Value Creation, and Enterprise). Currently, she holds the esteemed position of Deputy Dean (Postgraduate Studies, Research & Innovation). She has also contributed significantly as a Course Developer for the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), University of Malaya for the course Introduction to Malay Language. In addition, she has taken on the responsibility as the Chairperson for the APM (Akademi Pengajian Melayu/ Academy of Malay Studies) social service for Sekolah Dalam Hospital (SDH), at the University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC).

Dr. Teoh Hooi See currently Senior lecturer at the Department of Chinese Studies, University of Malaya, having joined the University in 2011. Prior to this, she obtained her Bachelor and Master’s degrees from the University of Malaya and her PhD from the University of Peking, Beijing, China. She also was the recipient of the International Students Academic Award (first class) from the University of Peking in 2011. Dr. Teoh’s academic research focuses on classical Chinese drama, modern & contemporary Chinese literature and Mahua Literature. Her published research papers include “Private Assistant, Local Drama and Native Consciousness: The relationship between Yang Enshou's Assistant Career and His Concern in Drama” and “Traditional Women and Qing politics: the Image of Li Xiang Jun in Tao Huashan”. She has also published an anthology of poems entitled “Standing on the other side of forgotten” and a series of essays entitled “Xinshi Honghong”. She has won several literature awards, including Flower Trace (Hua Zhong) of the World Chinese Literature Award, Li He of the Chinese Prose Award, and Chao Qing Youth Literary Award. Currently, Dr. Teoh lectures on classical Chinese drama, modern Chinese literature, and Malaysian Chinese Literature.