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Stefanie Shamila Pillai is a Professor at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya (UM), and currently heads the Social Advancement and Happiness Research Cluster at UM. Her main research interests include phonetics (especially the sound system of the Malaysian variety of English and Melaka Portuguese or Papia Cristang), language use in multilingual contexts (including language education and language policy ) as well as language documentation and language revitalisation. Her documentation of Melaka Portuguese is digitally archived at the Endangered Languages Archive (https://www.elararchive.org/dk0123/). She also co-convened an exhibition on indigenous languages in Malaysia in conjunction with the International Year of Indigenous Languages in 2019. She has received national and international grants, including the Newton-Ungku Omar Advanced Research Fellowship (with Professor Peter K. Austin of SOAS) for the project on Capacity Building for Language Documentation. Her research on Melaka Portuguese led to the development of materials with community representatives to encourage the use of this endangered language. She is currently working on aspects of food culture and identity with colleagues at UM and Mahidol University in Thailand. Apart from her academic and administrative duties, Stefanie is on the evaluation committee and task force of the Malaysian Higher Education Centres of Excellence programme. She is also part of the training team of the Malaysian chapter of the Internationals Deans' Course (MyIDC) and among the DIES National Multiplication Trainings (NMT) alumni pool of trainers.