Norafida Ab Ghafar, has started her teaching career at University of Malaya in 1996 as a lecturer inArchitecture Department. Earned Master in Urban Design from Oxford Brookes University and Ph.D inSustainable Architecture from University of Nottingham. These make her research more holistic whereshe can contribute in macro and micro context scope. She was a Head of UCTA (Urban, Conservationand Tropical Architecture Research Unit) and was the Head of Architecture School. Her researchincludes the Passive solar building, Zero Energy Building, Universal design, and livable city.

Dr Sheena Kaur graduated with a doctoral degree in Applied Linguistics from Lancaster University, U.K. An alumnus of Universiti Malaya (U.M.), Malaysia's leading university, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (English Literature), Diploma in Education (TESL) and Master of English as a Second Language (M.ESL).  She is an Associate Professor at the Department of English Language, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, U.M. She was formerly Head of Strategic Global Alliances Division at the International Relations Centre (IRC), Universiti Malaya from 15 March 2023 to 15 March 2024. She has also held several other administrative positions in her career at the university, most recently as the Deputy Dean of Postgraduate Studies (1 Sept 2020 - 1st Sept 2022) at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, U.M., the Deputy Director of the International Relations Office, U.M. (1st August 2017-31st July 2019), the Head of the Language Unit (17 th Nov 2014-31st July 2016), Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, where she was involved in curriculum planning and design of various English courses for local and international undergraduates. From 2010-2012, she was the Head of the Multimedia Planning Unit at the faculty and was a member of the university's e-learning committee. She is also currently involved in several task force committees under the university's Transformation Plan. Sheena has taught several courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her research interests include applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, and digital humanities. She is a reviewer for several journals including Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy; Pertanika (UPM); Journal of Modern Languages (UM), Gema Online Journal of Language Studies (UKM) and SEARCH (Taylor's College).  She is actively involved in community work, and was the coordinator for the faculty's Community Engagement course during its inception, as well as being a member of the university's advisory board for the course. She led the faculty's first community project for the Community Engagement course with the Semai community at Pos Pantos, Kuala Lipis, Pahang, involving first year undergraduates.  Sheena has recently been awarded the US-ASEAN Fulbright Award for 2024/2025 where she is hosted by Prof Vasti Torres, at Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Her research project on women leadership in higher education compares the challenges of women leaders in higher academic contexts in the US and Malaysia.    

NOR ANIZA ABDULLAH is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FCSIT), University of Malaya, Malaysia. She graduated with Bachelor degree (Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Malaya. (UM)   She has a Master degree in Interactive Multimedia from the Westminster University, London. She obtained her PhD degree in Computer Science from the Southampton University, United Kingdom in 2006. She was the Deputy Dean of the Equitable Society Research Cluster, UM from year 2016 until 2018. She was the Deputy Dean of Undergraduate at FCSIT from 2011 until 2013. She was the Head of the Multimedia Unit of FCSIT from 1999 until 2003, and from 2007 until 2011. She was the Lead Internal Auditor to Faculty of Engineering, UM, during the university's first internal auditing exercise for MS ISO 9001:2000, in the year 2002. She was the Quality Manager for FCSIT from 2012 to 2013. She was the Chairperson for the UM Student Council Selection Audit Committee in 2012. In year 2012-2013 she led a committee to study and enhance the quality of teaching of programming courses at the faculty. She received the UM Excellence Service Awards in year 2001 and year 2013.  Her research interests include personalized learning, multimedia retrieval, multimedia recommender system, machine learning/deep learning, sentiment analysis, mobile crowdsourcing, augmented reality, image processing, and medical imaging informatics. She has authored or co-authored 58 publications in the Web of Science (WOS) with WOS h-index 10, Scopus h-index 13, and Google Scholar h-index-19. Most of her WOS journal publications are in tier-1 and tier-2. She has successfully supervised many postgraduate and undergraduate students.  Kindly visit the following links for further details on her publications: Orcid: 0000-0001-6218-8772, ResearcherID: B-2768-2010; Scopus Author ID: 26659416000