Datuk Ts. Dr. Mohd Nor Azman Bin Hassan is currently the Deputy Secretary General (Technology Development) of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. He oversees the policies and development of the science, technology, and innovation ecosystem to support the socio-economic development of the country. His previous positions were in the areas of higher education, the power sector, and technological development including industrial-related technologies such as renewable energy, advanced materials and manufacturing, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. He had extensive engagements with the industry including the SMEs, in particular to communicate government policies and programs relating to STI. Datuk Ts. Dr. Mohad Azman holds a doctoral degree from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA in the field of renewable energy technology and is trained in conducting Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). Datuk Ts. Dr. Mohad Azman is also a registered Professional Technologist (Green Tech) with the Malaysian Board of Technologist.

He is a Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University Malaya. He obtained his PhD in Laser Spectroscopy from Imperial College, London, United Kingdom in 1995. His research interest is in computational chemistry, chemometrics and makerspace.  

She is the Global Coordinator of the BioTrust-ISAAA and the Executive Director of the Malaysian Biotechnology Information Centre (MABIC). She has a PhD in science communication and Master of Biotechnology from the University of Malaya, and a degree in Microbiology from Universiti Putra Malaysia. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Petri Dish – the first science newspaper in Malaysia and also co-founded Science Media Centre Malaysia. She started the Asian Short Course on Agribiotechnology, Biosafety Regulations and Communications (ASCA) and developed the 1st science communication training program for scientists in Malaysia. Maha also initiated the Science Communication Advisory Board under COMSTECH (Pakistan) to promote science communication in OIC Member States. She is an Adjunct Lecturer at Monash University Malaysia and AIMST University; sits on the Industry Advisory Panel for seven universities; and served as a Biosafety Outreach specialist for UN FAO, Sri Lanka. Maha is listed as the world’s 100 most influential people in biotechnology by Scientific American Worldview 2015. She is also listed in the honorific list of Women in Biotechnology Law and Regulation, Biotechnology Law Report (USA) 2015. Maha won the 2010 Third World Academy of Science Regional Prize for Public Understanding of Science for East, Southeast Asia and Pacific Region. She is a board member of the Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT) and is also on the advisory board for Mustafa Science and Technology Foundation (Iran), Alliance for Science (USA); Farming Future Bangladesh; and Genetic Literacy Project (USA). Maha is also on the editorial board of the European Federation of Bioeconomy Journal. She is also on the Selangor Bio Advisory Council to provide advice on bioeconomy development in the state. She has published chapters, papers and articles on science/biotech communication, bioeconomy and biotechnology development. 

He obtained his PhD in Biological Sciences from the Jeonbuk National University, Korea in 2003. He is currently supervising 7 postgraduate students and has secured grants worth 100 million KRW(WON) per year. His research interests include to reveal the mechanism by which the “Axon Guidance” gene is involved in the formation of neural circuits. One major direction emerging in the field of modern neurobiology is to understand the mechanisms that control the formation of complex and sophisticated neural networks at the molecular level. First of all, Drosophila is recognized as an ideal model animal for neurobiological research on this topic because the function of axon guidance genes, which is involved in forming neural networks, is evolutionarily well conserved from Drosophila to human. It is not well known by what exact mechanism these Axon guidance genes are involved in forming networks between cells and what effect they have on adult behavioral patterns when the function of these genes is actually eliminated. Therefore, his team in the neurogenesis laboratory seeks to find answers to these problems through the following research directions. Another research topic that he has recently developed a new interest in is the search for genes that contribute to the development of degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. First, a reporter model Drosophila that mimics the proteolysis-mediated signaling of APP, the gene that causes Alzheimer's disease was developed, and through genetic screening using this, his team have identified many potential candidates expected to be involved in γ-secretase activity or APP metabolic processes. Through follow-up studies on these genes, they will try to reveal the regulatory mechanism of membrane protein cleavage by γ-secretase and the function of APP/Notch intracellular domains.

She obtained her Master's (Petrochemistry) in 1999 and her PhD (Chemistry) in 2005. Her research interests are selective oxidation of light hydrocarbons, complete oxidation of hydrocarbons, VOCs, CO, selective catalytic reduction of NOx, hydroformylation on supported ionic liquid catalysts and nano Au catalysts, and photocatalysis. She published more than 40 ISI papers. She is a committee member of the Vietnam Association of Catalysis and adsorption, and a committee member of the Asia Pacific Association of Catalysis. She is on the Editorial Board of Catalysis Communication.

Prof. Dr. Darminto graduated from the Doctor Program in Physics, from Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia, in 2000 and continued his post-doctoral research program at Twente University, The Netherlands, from 2001 to 2003. He returned then as a lecturer at the Physics Department, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), where he was appointed as a professor of condensed matter physics in 2011, focusing on superconductivity, magneto-electronics, 2D- and nano-materials. He has established collaborations with RIKEN Nishina Center, the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin, Germany, and Synchrotron Light Research Institute (SLRI), Thailand. He has also been networking with several universities in Japan, Taiwan, Southeast Asian countries, and Europe. These collaborations have been financially supported by national as well as international research grants. Besides having graduated around 150 undergraduate and master's students, as well as 20 doctorates, he is currently supervising 10 students in the doctoral program and has produced around 500 working papers (articles, posters, books, chapters, and scientific and academic reports). He has also been active in scientific/professional communities: Indonesian Physical Society, Indonesian Magnetics Society (President, 2018-2020), Materials Research Society Indonesia, American Physical Society, American Association for Advancement of Science, International Association of Advanced Materials, Asia-Oceania Neutron Scattering Society (Executive Committee, 2016-2019).

He graduated in 2012 from University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. His research interests include Big Data and Data Science, Machine Learning, Wavelet Analysis, Temporal and Spatial Analysis, Data Mining, Civil Engineering, Climate Change, Water Quality, Air Quality, Water Resource, Hydrology, Engineering Education, Human Resource and Management. He has published more than 150 scientific publications. He has secured more than ten research grants worth more than RM450,000. Currently he is the Vice President of Malaysia Institute of Statistics (ISMy).

She obtained her B.Eng (Computer System and Communication) from Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia and her PhD in Image Processing from the University of Surrey, United Kingdom. She has more than 18 years of research experience in imaging technology and precision agriculture. She is a Chartered Engineer (CEng.) at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK; and certified as an Engineering Technologist (Ts.) from the Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT). Her research interests are in imaging technology, precision agriculture, remote sensing, artificial intelligence and internet of things. She publishes more than 170 scientific publications. She has 2 patents and 9 copyrights. To date, she has grants worth more than RM6 million. Her research has been recognized with the acceptance of 8 international awards.

Prof. Dr. Irmanida Batubara is the Head of Postgraduate study program in chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, IPB University. She is also the Head of Analytical Chemistry Division. She obtained her PhD in Agriculture from Gifu University, Japan in 2009. Her research interest is in analytical chemistry of natural products. 

She received her  Ph.D. in 2010 from Mahidol University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of  Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, USA, and currently is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Materials Science, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University. Her research interests are focused on the development of new solution-chemistry methods to fabricate low-dimensional semiconducting nanomaterials as well as their characterization. Her current work is to investigate structural and physicochemical properties of binary and ternary semiconducting nanowires (CdS, CdSe, CdTe, PbS, PbSe), nanowires alloys (e.g. PbSexS1-x), and heterostructures (ZnSe/CdSe and CdSe/CdS core/shell nanowires/quantum dots system). Besides one-dimensional (1D) nanomaterials, I am also working on zero-dimensional (0D) quantum dots and two-dimensional (2D) nanosheets (CdSe, CdTe, TiS2, MoS2) including their applications.

She graduated in 1979 from Drew University, USA with the B.A. degree in Mathematics, and received the Master of Applied Statistics degree from The Ohio State University, USA, in 1981. In 1995, she received her Ph.D. degree from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. She has more than 35 years of research experience on robust statistics, linear and logistic regressions, experimental designs, quality control, and many other topics in statistics. To date, she has published more than 190 scientific publications, 120 scientific proceedings, and 5 teaching modules that are still being used by UPM’s students today. She also has supervised 28 PhD students and 9 MSc. students. She also has led more than 25 research grants worth more than RM1.2 millions. She has accepted 25 awards that recognize her contributions in her teachings and research. She is also the current President of Institut Statistik Malaysia (ISMy).