Daniel Chow Ung T’chiang (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. He was the former Deputy Dean (Research, 2022) and former Deputy Dean (Research and Development, 2020-2022). His areas of interest include English for Specific Purposes and Critical Genre Analysis. He is currently involved in research projects on Professional Discourses and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Daniel is the Treasurer of the Malaysian Association of Applied Linguistics (MAAL), an affiliate of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA), and the Treasurer for the AILA2024 Congress.

Rauzah Hashim developed her interest in computational science, since her days in the University of Southampton, B.Sc. (1980) and Ph.D (1985),  and with a thesis entitled "The Compter Simulation of Model Liquid Crystals". “Strange as it may seemed now, prior to 1990, computational science was unheard of in Malaysia”,  but  this did not deter her from pursuing the same research in simulation and modeling of materials, making her the pioneer in this field in Malaysia. In those days she faced scientific isolation and lack of general facilities in computing. Unconventionally, she rectified the "scientific isolation issue" by seeking external grants and continuing her collaborations with her fellow researchers all over the world. These activities turned out to be useful in the later years, as she built up an extensive network of international research collaboration and developed her own internationalization capacity, which enabled her to make  "the whole world her laboratory".  In addition, and quite unusual for a chemist, she set up the Internet facility in her department in 1992 (the kimia network, @kimia.um.edu.my, with over 70 nodes). The kimia network was four years ahead of the University Malaya campus wide network (1996).  In fact the @kimia.um.edu.my was probably amongst the earliest network in the world to provide direct internet accessibility to faculty members from their individual office rooms.  From 1990, for 10 years, Rauzah, tirelessly conducted seminars and workshops to popularize the computational science in Malaysia. Subsequently many High Performace Computer centers were established reflecting her ideas, including the MIMOS High Performance Center (2003). She was a member of the University of Malaya Campus Network Technical Committee, the MIMOS GRID Initiative as well as a member of the ICS-UNIDO Expert Group for the Combinatorial Chemistry and Related Sciences. She obtained many external grants including those from the Royal Society of Chemistry United Kingdom, AbdusSalam, International Center for Theoretical Physics (Italy), Nippon Sheet Glass (Japan), she was a member of the "Intergrating Nanomaterials in Formulations" under the European Union Framework Program (EU-FP7) and was invited to the Beijing Chinese Academy of Science (Theoretical Physics).  She won numerous local grants amounting to millions of Ringgit. In 2002, she led the MOSTI Top-Down strategic program “Glycolipid Science and Technology”.  This project developed and synthesized the nature-like branched-chain glycosides and had won many awards  including the Gold Medal and Special Award from Taiwan at the ITEX Geneva 2005. She also led another major grant, the High Impact Research (HIR) grant  on the Fundamental Science of Self-Assembly (2011-2016), the motto of “the future is now!”.  This means, her group, presently conduct and continuously seed future research. Rauzah's group contributed actively to high impact publications, and had contributed significantly to improve the University of Malaya's QS world ranking and it is now in the top 100 universities.   Since 2016, she retired from the goverment full professorship position and is now an honarary Professor to the University of Malaya, but she continues her membership in the Centre forFundamental and Frontier Sciences in Nanostructure Self-Assembly, a center she built. She continues to publish with her group members and collaborators (old and new ones) from all over the world and on a variety of research topics. She has over 100 scientific papers in high impact peer reviewed journals (H-index 24, on the Web of Science). And she writes popular science articles in the local mass media.  She was a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRSC), a Chartered Chemist (C. Chem) and a Chartered Scientist (C.Sci).  She is a Fellow of the Academy of Science Malaysia (FASc).

Dr. Jamilah Syafawati Yaacob completed her B.Sc (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & Biotechnology) from University of Melbourne, Australia in 2007, and her M.Sc (Crop Biotechnology) from University of Nottingham (Malaysia campus) in 2009. She received her PhD in Biotechnology from University of Malaya in 2013 and was one of the recipients of the University of Malaya Excellence Awards in 2014 for completing her PhD in less than 4 years. In 2010, during her PhD candidature, she had also won a Gold Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Biosciences & Biotechnology during University of Malaya Innovation and Creativity Expo. After successfully completing her PhD, she then joined the Institute of Biological Sciences at the Faculty of Science, University of Malaya as a Senior Lecturer. Since then, she has taught and coordinated various undergraduate courses such as Biology of Organisms, Genetic Engineering in Animals and Plants, Cell and Tissue Culture and Higher Plant Physiology. At the postgraduate level, she has also helped in teaching Research Methodology, a compulsory course upon entry into postgraduate studies at the department. Since her employment as an Academic, she has served the department and University in various administrative duties, such as the programme coordinator for Bachelor of Science with Education (ISB), BSc in Biotechnology, academic advisor, final year project coordinator and many more. Her current research interest is on manipulation of plant tissue culture system for biotechnological applications, with special emphasis on stress-induced plant secondary metabolites and proteins for medicinal applications and sustainable production of functional food colorants. Her present research works include projects on understanding and manipulating plant’s response towards abiotic stress for over-expression of valuable bioactive compounds, such as in Azadirachta indica (neem). The regulation of proteins involved in the biosynthesis of these bioactive compounds or secondary metabolites are analyzed through proteomics-based approach, to allow for a better understanding of the biosynthesis pathways that has been affected. In addition to that, she is also working on the epigenetics aspect of plant phenotypic plasticity, to understand the epigenetic regulation (with focus on histone modification) in DNA repair and somaclonal variation. In recognition of her work and scientific achievements, she has won several awards such as a Gold Medal at International Invention, Innovation & Technology Exhibition (ITEX) in 2013 and a Bronze Medal at Bioinnovation Awards/BioMalaysia & Bioeconomy Asia Pacific 2013. Other than that, she is also actively participating in the scientific community and the public by taking on various roles as a judge or jury in scientific competitions and innovation programs at national and secondary school levels. These include her role as a judge for Malaysian Agricultural Invention Show (MAgIS) competition organized by Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry in 2016, and judge for science videos and scientific poem recitation competitions organized by Ministry of Education in 2017-2018, among others. Professionally, she was also one of the representatives in the working group for pineapple planting material for preparation of Malaysian Standard (organized by SIRIM Malaysia) in 2018. Outside of work and research, she also loves to join various events that promote sustainability and green environment.