* PhD with distinction in Chemical Eng. from University of Malaya. *His h-index is 31 with total citations almost 7400 according to Google Scholar. *He published more than 100 ISI journal articles and filed 12 patents with 6 granted patents. He has been awarded many medals in International Expos. Laureate of 10 International Awards. *He is recognized by SciFinder Database as one of the top 20 researchers (ranked 14) in the world in the research field of ‘deep eutectic solvents and palm oil research work’. *He participated in more than 50 International conferences in different countries. * Invited as keynote speaker in Oman, Qatar and Sudan to deliver lectures and seminars as well as to improve the research system in many universities in Sudan. *He has received many certificates and recognition from Elsevier and Thomson Reuters for his published papers. *He received many international awards from Elsevier, United Nation University- Japan, UNESCO-Paris, ICheME- Malaysia, Foundation of Alexander von Humboldt-Germany, and American Oil Chemists' Society-USA. * Laureate 2015 ProSPER.Net-Scopus Young Scientist Award in Sustainable Development for Energy Category in Asia Pacific. * Laureate MAB Young Scientist Award from UNESCO and representing Malaysia. *Publication of the first comprehensive scientific report on Malaysian Biosphere Reserves with support of NESCO. * Recognized as one of the top 100 Scientists in Asia in the 2018 edition of the Asian Scientist 100 (AS100). * Member in Editorial Advisory Committee in Al-Khwarizmi Engineering Journal (ALKEJ). * Member in Editorial Advisory Committee Inform magazine (founded 1917) published under American Oil Chemists' Society. * In 2020,2021,2022 and 2023 and according to ranking generated by Stanford University, recognized as world’s top 2% of Scientists in Eng. In Category of Chemical and Biotechnology Eng.

Azmin Azliza Aziz is a Senior Lecturer in the Decision Science department at the Faculty of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaya. She holds a BSc. in Industrial Mathematics from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), a Masters in Applied Statistics from Macquarie University, Sydney, and a PhD in Operations Research from the University of Warwick. She is currently the Coordinator for the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) program at the faculty. Dr. Azliza’s research interests extend to optimization, digital technologies, IoT, supply chain, halal logistics, and social media studies, areas where she supervises numerous PhD and Masters students. Over the past decade, she has contributed articles to esteemed journals, authored multiple book chapters, and presented at various conferences. Leading recent research grants on mobile health applications and the Internet of drones, Dr. Azliza’s work was honored with two medals at the Malaysia Technology Expo 2021. ‪

Dr. Li Ran is Senior Lecturer at Institute of China Studies, Faculty of Art and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya. She obtained her doctoral degree in Economics from Department of Economics, Universiti Malaya in 2014. Her specialization is in the transformation of China’s state enterprises, state enterprise system and China’s political-economic system, and her current areas of research include China’s global strategy and China-Malaysia economic relations. Her previous writings have appeared in a number of international journals such as China: An International Journal, Cities, International Journal of China Studies, and Journal of Contemporary Asia. Moreover, her doctoral thesis was published as a book by a reputable publisher Palgrave Macmillan. She also wrote for Sin Chew Daily as a column author regularly.