Dr. Ng Kok Haur is a Professor of Statistics at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ISM) and the Deputy Head of ISM (Research), Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya. He also served as the Chairperson of the Centre of Research for Statistical Modelling and Methodology, Universiti Malaya. His research interests include volatility modelling and applications, modelling and analysis of high frequency data arising in financial economics, and statistical control charts. Dr. Ng actively publishes in peer-reviewed journals indexed by Web of Science, Scopus, and other reputable databases. Among those journals including The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Finance Research Letters, International Review of Economics & Finance, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Economic Analysis and Policy, Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, Expert Systems with Applications and European Journal of Industrial Engineering. He has also been awarded with several research grants, including the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia. He is currently supervising Ph.D. and M.Sc. students in various areas of statistics, financial econometrics, finance, and economics. Apart from that, he serves as associate editors for journals such as the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (WoS SCIE-cited Q3), reviewers for various journals, a guest editor for a special issue of the Malaysian Journal of Science, External Advisors for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, thesis examiners, committee members for local and international conferences and invited and contributed speakers at conferences.

Dr. Saw Chaw Yeh is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Universiti Malaya. With a background in archaeology, art history, and anthropology, her research focuses on anthropological archaeology, particularly rock art studies. She has led surveys and documentation of rock art sites across Peninsular Malaysia, exploring their cultural significance and historical connections to local communities and the wider Southeast Asian region.

Sahar Rasoulikolamaki is a Lecturer in Linguistics at the English Department, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. Her research focuses on critical discourse analysis, social semiotics, and multimodal communication, with particular focus on (multimodal) argumentation, mediated representation, and (social) media discourse. She explores topics such as online radicalisation, extremism, and political violence, and is interested in how multimodal resources reflect and construct identities, power dynamics, and ideological positionings. Her scholarly work has been published in renowned journals including Discourse & Communication, Journal of Language and Politics, Terrorism & Political Violence, and Discourse & Society, among others.