Ar. Dr. Hazrina Haja Bava Mohidin is a registered professional architect and senior lecturer at Universiti Malaya, with core expertise in architectural design, spatial analysis, housing studies, heritage, and urban design. She has worked in academia for 10 years upon her graduation in 2015. Since joining the Department of Architecture at Universiti Malaya in 2018, she has demonstrated strong leadership and academic service, including her appointment as the Program Coordinator for the Master of Architecture, where she led curriculum development and student support initiatives. Her teaching portfolio spans undergraduate and postgraduate levels, with an emphasis on architectural design studios, architectural history, theory, and master’s and doctoral thesis supervision. Her pedagogical approach integrates critical thinking, cultural context, and real-life application, making her a dedicated and reflective educator. In research, Dr. Hazrina has secured over RM190,000 as Principal Investigator and contributed to multidisciplinary grants as a Co- Researcher. Her projects have addressed key national issues such as improving B40 housing, preserving heritage in Melaka, and designing inclusive educational environments. She has published two books and multiple journal articles, reflecting a growing academic profile. Beyond UM, Dr. Hazrina is an active figure in the wider academic and professional community. She has been invited as a guest lecturer and external assessor for final-year reviews and design studios at prominent institutions including UTM, USM, UPM, UTAR, Taylor’s, USCI, and universities in Indonesia. She has also delivered invited talks at ARCHIDEX and served as a visiting lecturer at Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta and Diponegoro University. She was also recently appointed as Technical Advisory Committee (Academic) by School of Architecture and Interior Design, Faculty of Asia Built Environment, Universiti Geomatika Malaysia (UGM) and Diploma in Architecture, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in their curriculum and accreditation development process. In recognition of her commitment to teaching, she was recently awarded Fellowship (FHEA) by Advance HE, a UK-based international body that grants professional recognition to university educators. This award, effective from 1st July 2025 (Fellowship reference PR283845), acknowledges her attainment against the Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education. She holds corporate memberships with Lembaga Arkitek Malaysia (LAM), Pertubukan Akitek Malaysia (PAM), and ICOMOS (Malaysia and International), underscoring her active engagement with the architectural profession. Dr. Hazrina’s academic trajectory reflects a dynamic and well-rounded profile that bridges teaching, research, and professional engagement. Her ability to integrate design thinking with contextual and community- based approaches demonstrates a clear commitment to architectural education that is both critical and responsive. Through her leadership roles, scholarly outputs, and regional collaborations, she continues to contribute meaningfully to the advancement of architectural knowledge and practice.

Dr. Hidayah obtained her first degree in Bachelor of Science with Islamic Studies specialized in Ecology and Biodiversity from Universiti Malaya in 2009, under Public Service Department Malaysia scholarship. She then continued her interest in Science Biology at the same university under the National Science Fellowship (NSF), Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation scholarship where she obtained a Master of Science in Molecular Taxonomy in 2013. Afterward, she worked as a Research Assistant to expand her experience in the research world before she continued her PhD. In the year 2015, she received a scholarship from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia to pursue her PhD focusing on Bio-ecological and taxonomic studies of Malaysian dragonflies at Universiti Malaya. While completing her PhD, she becomes a recipient of short-term International Program Associates (IPAs) under the International Joint Graduate School Program RIKEN, by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Wako-Shi, Japan in 2016. RIKEN is Japan's largest comprehensive research institution renowned for high-quality research in a diverse range of scientific disciplines. While carrying out her PhD project at RIKEN, she was engaged in the Enzyme Research Team, Biomass Engineering Research Division, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science. The research she has conducted at RIKEN to date aims to demonstrate the micro joint wing properties in the suborder Zygoptera using combined techniques of laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM) to explore resilin elasticity investigations and analyze of protein components. In 2018, she completed her PhD and started her career as a part-timer lecturer, and afterward, she has been appointed as Senior Lecturer in 2020 under Ecology Biodiversity Programme, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya. She currently teaches Animal Behaviour & Ethology and Animal Structure, Function & Physiology subjects to undergraduate students. She has vast experience in teaching and learning starting as a demonstrator back in 2013 and involved in immense research field preliminary back to 2010 and became a reviewer in several peer-reviewed and high impact journals such as PLoS ONE.

Dr. Lee Wan Ling was a practicing clinical nurse in coronary ward from 1992 until she joined the College of Nursing, University Malaya Medical Centre as nurse educator in 2000.  She joined the Department of Nursing Science UM in 2011. She has more than three decades of experience in teaching nursing students and supervising them in clinical areas. After obtaining her PhD in 2018, she is actively involved in research activities with keen interest in mobile-Health, technology in education, coronary nursing, aged care especially in long-term facilities, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of questionnaire, health literacy, nursing education, critical care and non-communicable diseases. Among her current projects in aged care research include the local adaptions and implementation of World Health Organization’s iSupport for Dementia in collaboration with Alzheimer’s Disease Foundation Malaysia and Sunway University (UMG003C-2022). She leads an interdisciplinary program to develop caregiving credentialing and music care module for caregivers and older people (IIRG003-2022 SAH) in collaboration with aged care industry and related NGOs (https://youtu.be/rB9hn6hcbBA). She also leads the Education and Training subcommittee of KENDANA – Malaysian Caregivers Association (https://www.kendana.com/portfolio ). She is expanding the development of electronic activity tracking system (EATs) prototype called UMFit (Grant RF009C-2018) with a team of UM researchers working on project entitled AI-Enabled Application for Personalization and Monitoring of Fitness Among Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients (Prototype Research Grant: PRGS/1/2022/SKK01/UM/02/1) in collaboration with international partners such as Huami and Huawei to build a hybrid cardiac rehabilitation program.