Email:ckying7@usm.my  

Dr Ying Chee Keat is a senior lecturer and researcher in the Department of Biomedical Imaging, Advanced Medical & Dental Institute, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). His research interest comprises of charged particle therapy, Monte Carlo simulation on radiation transport and radiotherapy. He is a member of the Malaysia Association of Medical Physics (MAMP) and Institute of Physics Malaysia (IFM) and a research fellow from Centre for Global Sustainability Studies (CGSS), USM. He is also a Tzu Chi volunteer and has been involved in charity, environment protection and community volunteerism since 2006.

Email : tfng@usm.my ; theam.ng@gmail.com

Dr. Theam Foo Ng obtained his B.Sc (Hons) Mathematics and M.Sc (Statistics) from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang, Malaysia. He received his Ph.D degree from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. He was also attached to CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) at Macquarie University, Sydney for a year during his PhD study. He worked with the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Engineering Campus, USM, Nibong Tebal, Penang, Malaysia. He is now with the Centre for Global Sustainability Studies (CGSS), USM where he is currently a senior lecturer. He is a coordinator for the South East Asia Sustainability Network (SEASN). He is also appointed as coordinator for both projects, namely Environmental Protection & Education (EPE) and Active Mobility (EBike) under CGSS, USM. He has the experience as a guest editor, deputy editor, associate editor, section editor and reviewer for a few reputable journals/book series. His research interest is around environmental sustainability, education for sustainable development, machine learning, pattern recognition, computational intelligence, and image processing. 

Email: tehsyin@usm.my 

TEH Sin Yin (Ph.D., CMILT, MLogM) is an Associate Professor of Operations and Business Analytics in School of Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia. She has a strong academic background in Statistics (USM) and Executive Program (Applied Business Analytics) awarded by MIT. She was a fellow of the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC). She is also a World Vision volunteer since 2009 who has volunteered to make a difference and build a sustainable and better world for children in need. 

Dr Mei Lan Tan is an Associate Professor at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia. She is also a registered pharmacist. Prior to joining USM, she has years of experiences working in the pharmaceutical industry, including GlaxoWellcome (now GSK) and Sime Darby Technology Center, community pharmacy and local pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. Her main research interests include drug-herb and drug-food interaction studies and she hopes to provide safety and drug interaction risks data to promote the appropriate use of functional foods, supplements and herbal medicine.  Her other interests include studying the fundamental relationships among different types of cell death elicited by natural products, with much interest in autophagy and ER stress pathway. As a researcher, she has garnered millions in funding, published extensively, received various medals for innovations and graduated many postgraduate students. She is currently an Associate Editor with Heliyon Journal and Lead Editor for their special issue on Ethnopharmacology. She is actively involved as an expert panel in reviewing national and international grant applications. She is also instrumental in spearheading the development of micro-credential courses in her school and recently being awarded the Malaysian Pharmacy Dean's Council award for teaching & learning.  

Life sciences research activities generate a massive amount of single-use laboratory plastic waste and directly contribute to the global plastic pollution crisis. She is currently on a mission to raise awareness of the need to reduce, reuse and recycle laboratory plastics.

Associate Professor Dr Chan Siok Yee is a fully registered pharmacist and a member of academic staff and program chair of discipline pharmaceutical technology in the School of Pharmaceutical Science, Universiti Sains Malaysia. Being a young academic, Siok Yee has proved her ability in outperform her peers in research. She holds a number of research grants including an international grant, industrial as well as government grant for research. Dr Chan Siok Yee is visionary, she established her own research group which is named of Thought Formulation Lab. On top of that, Siok Yee has a great leadership quality which could be seen from her affiliation to several societies such as co-lead of focus area in Global Young Academy, Education specialist of Melaka Action Group for Parent in Education, member of the Malaysian Pharmacy Society, Editor in Chief for Malaysian Journal of Pharmacy, Chair of Science Leadership Working group in the Young Scientist Network and serves as the President for Malaysia Society of Pharmaceutical Technology.

Dr. Bee Ee Khoo is an Associate Professor at School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). Her research interests include Computer Vision, Medical image analysis, Industrial Automation, and Artificial Intelligence. She is a senior member of IEEE, life member of SPIE and a research fellow from Centre for Global Sustainability Studies (CGSS), USM. She is also a Tzu Chi volunteer and has been involved in charity, environment protection and community volunteerism since 2007.

Mohd Sukri Shafie. Ed.D. graduated with B.Sc. in Computer Science from Coventry University, UK, M.Sc in Computer Science and Ed.D in Educational Technology and Multimedia from Universiti Sains Malaysia. He is currently a senior research officer in Centre of Education and Training in Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Green Technology (CETREE), CGSS, Universiti Sains Malaysia.

Tiem Leong Yoon Obtained his B. Sc. (Hons) and M.Sc. in physics from the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 1994 and 1997 respectively. His earned his Ph.D. in theoretical high energy physics from the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia in 2002.

He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Physics, USM, Penang, Malaysia and has been an academic faculty there since 2003. His current research interest include computational physics, computational electromagnetism, computational materials science and machine learning.

He is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Global Sustainability Studies CGSS, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. His work is developing and integrating Sustainability Development approaches to advance in Disaster Risk Management (DRM), Issues & Challenging, Climate Change, Education for Sustainable Development and Flood’s Governance. Broadly, His methodological research focuses on DRM for causal inference and prediction. Within Sustainability Development, He works on Sustainability Training, and Teaching Master Program for “Master in Development Practice (MSDP)”. He leads the Sustainability, Issues and Challenging Program at Universiti Sains Malaysia and teaching for first degree students. Beside that he also teaching a few subject “Tourism Policy And Organisation”, “Research Project”, Sustainability Issues, Challenging & Prospect”, “Climate Change” & “Core Entrepreneurship. He also the main adviser for Penang Undergraduate Association (GAPP). He authored for a few books and few international journals. He was selected as a 2015 Silver Medal for Application software called World University Sustainability Assessment (WUSA) from PECIPTA 2015 Malaysia. He has also been involved in a number of consultancy type as well as fieldwork type research projects such as Micro Credit Program, Community Engagement, Strategic Planning for Penang City Council, Squatter Area, Sustainable Transport and Poverty.

Mohd Amirul Mahamud is a senior lecturer at the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia and a research fellow at the Centre for Global Sustainability Studies (CGSS), Universiti Sains Malaysia. His research interest is Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and its application in urban and land use, social and sustainability studies. Currently, he has been awarded a special Short-Term Grant under THE-GIR to apply GIS on sustainability initiatives in USM.

Dzati Athiar Ramli received a Bachelor Applied Science degree in Computational Mathematics & CAGD and MSc. in Mathematics, both from the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia and PhD in Electrical, Electronic & Systems from the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). She is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, USM and her current administration post is as a Quality and Commercialization Programme Chairman. She is also a member of the Intelligent Biometrics Research Group (IBG), USM. She was previously a visiting lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey, UK. Her background includes teaching experience for more than 22 years at the USM for Engineering Calculus, Complex Analysis and Computational Intelligence courses. Apart from teaching, she is also conducting research and innovation. Her areas of interest are Digital Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence with applications to Speech, Palmprint and ECG Biometrics and Blind Source Separation (BSS) as well as in Healthcare Informatics for Stroke Monitoring and ECG Signal Separation. She is also the principal investigator of several projects funded by USM and MoHE grants as well as a co-researcher for the ASEAN IVO International Grant. She has published her research findings in reputable journals and is a reviewer to local and international proceedings, journals, and theses. Others of her major roles include being the chairman of the 11th International Conference on Robotics, Vision, Signal Processing, and Power Applications (RoViSP 2021), invited speaker to the International Conference on Mathematical Sciences and Technology 2022 (MathTech 2022), the Joint International Conference on Emerging Computing Technology and Sports (JICETS 2019) and the Malaysian-French Biometrics Seminar (ICoHSE 2016). She is a senior member of IEEE, silver member od KES International and a certified trainer (TTT) approved by HRD Corp.