Chu-Ren Huang is fascinated by what language can tell us about human cognition and we, individually and collectively, interact with natural and social environments. His recent books include Cambridge Handbook on Chinese Linguistics, Reference Grammar of Chinese and Student Grammar of Chinese from CUP, and Routledge Handbook on Chinese Applied Linguistics. His recent papers appear in Behavior Research Methods, Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theories, Intercultural Pragmatics, Language Cognition and Neuroscience, Lingua, Language Resources and Evaluation, Lingua, Natural Language Engineering, PLoS One, among others.

Hanjung Lee received her Ph.D. in 2001 from Stanford University. She held a research position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA and a faculty position at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA. She is currently Professor in English linguistics at Sungkyunkwan University, Korea. Lee's work has been concerned with dynamics of probabilistic grammar and competing motivations that shape grammatical rules and patterns of language use such as on-going competitions between the speaker's interests and the addressee's needs, or between constraints imposed by grammar and those imposed by online processing. She has published papers exploring how these competitions impact a wide variety of systems (case marking, word order, politeness forms, lexical and grammatical choices) in leading journals including Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (2003), Cognition (2007), Journal of Pragmatics (2007, 2013) and Journal of Linguistics (2016, 2022). She has also published numerous articles in influential handbooks and edited volumes such as The Handbook of Korean Linguistics (2015, Wiley-Blackwell), Series in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (2008, Springer), Series in Generative Grammar (2004, Mouton de Gruyter), Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition (2004, Palgrave Macmillan), and Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism (2001, 2003, CSLI Publications). Currently, she is conducting research projects on i) competing motivations in the grammar of ditransitives and ii) the role of communicative efficiency in motivating and explaining case-marking systems using both data-oriented and experimental methods.

Briane Paul V. Samson is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Informatics, and currently the Chair of the Department of Software Technology in the College of Computer Studies at De La Salle University. He directs the Center for Complexity and Emerging Technologies (COMET) and concurrently serves as the Deputy Director of the Dr. Andrew L. Tan Data Science Institute. His research focuses on the integration of human-computer interaction and complex systems research in developing civic media and technologies that promotes prosocial behavior. He develops human-centered and interactive technologies that are designed to improve one's personal productivity and well-being, and to assess and manage urban mobility, transportation services, and disaster preparedness and response. At the same time, he investigates the underlying and complex dynamics of sociotechnical systems (e.g. crowds, social networks), especially with the introduction of technological solutions. Currently, Briane is focused on rethinking navigation applications as a civic technology that encourages drivers to follow unselfish routes, which could help them develop sustainable mobility patterns.

Stefanie Shamila Pillai (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1693-5022) is a Professor at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya (UM). She was previously Deputy Dean (Postgraduate) and Dean of the Faculty. She currently heads the Social Advancement and Happiness Research Cluster at UM. Her main research interests include phonetics, language use in multilingual contexts as well as language documentation and language revitalisation. Her documentation of Melaka Portuguese (MP) is digitally archived at the Endangered Languages Archive (https://www.elararchive.org/dk0123/). She also headed a funded project to develop a mobile application called BibePortMal, a MP-English dictionary. As part of her Newton-funded project with Professor Emeritus Peter K. Austin of SOAS, she organised and conducted trainings on capacity building for language documentation. To highlight and create public awareness about indigenous languages in Malaysia, she co-convened a month-long multi-media exhibition, Voices of the People, in conjunction with IYIL2019 (see https://tinyurl.com/awareindlang. Apart from her academic output, Professor Pillai has also been working with MP community representatives on the development of materials to encourage the use of this endangered language. Apart from the mobile app, these include an audio CD, a course book, and a trilingual children’s illustrated book (see https://youtu.be/w2iJDB__x7w and https://youtu.be/QQXtF3gjnac). She most recently co-edited a book, Selected Research on Orang Asli communities in Malaysia, which features studies on language, education, culture and heritage of indigenous communities in Peninsular Malaysia

Wilkinson Daniel Wong GONZALES is a linguist specializing in language variation, change, language contact, and language documentation in multilingual contexts. After receiving a Ph.D. in Linguistics and earning his post-graduate certificates in Data Science and Cognitive Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, he moved to Hong Kong to join the Department of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is an Assistant Professor of Applied English Linguistics. As a linguist, Wil is particularly interested in sociolinguistics in the Philippines and in wider East Asia. He employs corpus-based, experimental, ethnographic, and computational techniques on diverse datasets, including natural speech data and social media data. He works on Sino-Philippine languages (e.g., Lánnang-uè) and other East Asian linguistic varieties, such as Colloquial Singapore English or 'Singlish' and Philippine English(es). As a data scientist, he has collaborated with and led two cross-functional teams – the Alzheimer’s Disease Machine Learning team at the Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation at the University of Michigan and the Natural Language Processing team of Digital Alpha Technologies headquartered in New York. He develops corpus-making and language analysis programs using machine learning and computational methods. A list of his publications and tools can be found on his website: www.wdwgonzales.com

Huyen Nguyen started to work on Vietnamese text processing in the 2000s. She obtained her PhD in 2006 at LORIA, working on linguistic resources and tools for French - Vietnamese text alignment. For several years, she has been a key member of the Vietnamese board for Language and Speech Processing (VLSP). In 2020, she became the first president of the Association for VLSP. She has contributed to many projects for building Vietnamese lexical, syntactic and semantic resources and tools shared with the VLSP research community. Since 2012, she has been the organizing co-chair of eight editions of the international VLSP workshop series in Vietnam. She is currently interested in building Vietnamese syntactic-semantic linguistic resources and medical text processing.