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I am a Professor at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya (UM). My main areas of interest are the acoustic features of spoken languages, particularly Malaysian English and Melaka Portuguese (MP). I also worked on capacity building for language documentation with Emeritus Professor Peter K. Austin under a Newton Ungku-Omar Advanced Researcher Fellowship. I strongly believe that there needs to be a move away from a Grab-and-Go type of research to one that engages communities, and thus, I have been working with representatives of the MP community on language documentation and revitalisation efforts. My initial work on MP is archived at the Endangered Languages Archive. More recently I developed a mobile application, BibePortMal, a mobile dictionary in collaboration with several MP speakers. Apart from this, 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).