Dr. Mahidzal Dahari is currently Associate Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UM. He is an established academician and a practicing engineer. He has to-date published more than 200 articles in journals and conference proceedings both locally and internationally. His research interest includes instrumentation, automation, robotics and control strategy especially related to manufacturing technology, industrial robots and oil & gas applications. He has supervised more than 50 totals PhD and Masters Students. Dr. Mahidzal is actively involved in many consultancy projects, especially in the field of fluid flow, natural gas and also hydrogen technology. Dr. Mahidzal is a Member of BEM & IEM, Malaysia, and also a Member of IEEE, USA and Chartered Engineer from IET, UK.  

Vilashini Somiah is an anthropologist who is a senior lecturer at the Gender Studies Programme at Universiti Malaya. She received her PhD from the National University of Singapore, an MA from Ohio University, an MRes from Universiti Malaya and a BA from the Universiti Malaya. She maintains a keen interest for underrepresented narratives of women, migrants and Borneans living in the interiors. She is the co-editor of “Sabah From the Ground: The 2020 Elections and the Politics of Survival (SIRD/ISEAS, 2021), and her first book, “Irregular Migrants and the Sea at the Borders of Sabah, Malaysia: Pelagic Alliance'' with Palgrave Macmillan (TBC 2022). Outside of academia, she writes ethnographic articles on the local socio-political landscape.

Dr. Farahin Mohd Jais is a senior lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering. She was a previous recipient of the Programme Mahasiswa Cemerlang under the JPA scholarship during her Master's in Engineering of Science (Environmental) studies, and later pursued her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering under the Skim Latihan Akademik Bumiputera (SLAB) fellowship. She specialized in water and wastewater treatment, with a focus on removing conventional and emerging water pollutants using carbon materials made from biomass waste. To date, she has synthesized water/wastewater treatment materials from a variety of biomass wastes, including spent coffee bean waste, pineapple leaf waste, palm shell waste, and sugarcane bagasse. Her experience in using adsorption technology for water/wastewater treatment has sparked her interest in diversifying into other technology including catalysis and membrane filtration.