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I am a Professor at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya (UM), and currently the Dean of the Social Advancement and Happiness Research Cluster at UM. My areas of research include phonetics, varieties of English, language use in multilingual contexts, language documentation, language revitalisation, and English language education. I have been working with Melaka Portuguese (MP) community representatives on language documentation and revitalisation efforts. My initial work on MP is archived at the Endangered Languages Archive at SOAS. More recently, I developed BibePortMal, a mobile dictionary in collaboration with several MP speakers. I have also co-produced a series of videos of a Malaysian folktale (Sang Kancil dan Buaya) voiced in several Malaysian indigenous languages. Apart from my research activities, I am involved in the task force for the national higher institutions centres of excellence (HICoE) programme. I am also a member of the training team for the Malaysian Chapter of the International Deans' Course, which is organised in collaboration with the Higher Education Leadership Academy (AKEPT). I was the 2013 Ian Gordon Fellow at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and a recipient of the Newton-Ungku Omar Advanced Research Fellowship (2018-2019). I have been keynote, plenary and invited speaker at several international conferences held in Germany, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Macau, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. I am also an external programme assessor for language and linguistics programmes at several public and private universities in the country.