Dr Malka N. Halgamuge is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. She currently serves as Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (Victorian Section) and Vice Chair of the IEEE Victorian Section, Australia. From 2007-2021, Malka worked as a Researcher in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Melbourne, where she obtained her PhD. Malka has served as Chief Investigator on multiple grants, including funding from the Australian Government, such as grants from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Department of Defence, Defence Science Institute (DSI), Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), and the Department of Industry. Malka was the Keynote Speaker (COSITE'25, ICEMI'25, ICACMVE'23, EcoSSSoil’19, EPR’18), Plenary Speaker (IEEEPowerCon’24, AIBC'24, ICBET'18), Associate Editor (e.g., IEEE TCE, EAAI), Editorial Board Member, and IEEE Senior Member. She has been awarded prestigious fellowships: Australia-China Young Scientist Fellow (China), Dyason Fellow (UCLA), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) President's International Fellow (Beijing), Solander Fellow (Sweden), Incoming Leaders Fellow (Australia India Institute, Delhi), and Next Step Initiative Fellow (China). She is passionate about research in the IoT, data communications, cybersecurity, AI applications, and the security and energy efficiency of LLMs. Malka has over 120 peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings (Google Scholar citations=5720, h-index=38, i10-index of 94); SciVal Field-Weighted Citation Impact = 2.23 (2019 to > 2025). In addition to 35 book chapters, she is a co-author of 5 books: “Mitigating the Risks of AI Deepfakes”, "Integrating IoT and AI for Indoor Air Quality Assessment", "Indoor Air Quality Assessment for Smart Environments", "Natural Disasters, When Will They Reach Me?", and "Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks: Cellular and Sensor Networks". She has been consecutively listed among the top 2% of the world’s most cited researchers (Stanford University database, 2020-to-date).
Professor Dr Pei-Lee Teh is the Head of Department of Management at the School of Business and the Director of Gerontechnology Laboratory at Monash University Malaysia. She is passionate to drive research on how technology transforms business processes, societal dynamics and individual lives. She leads large-scale, impact-driven research programmes that develop technology-enabled solutions to support healthy longevity, sustainable business transformation, and inclusive innovation ecosystems. Her scholarship is defined by interdisciplinary integration and translational impact, combining co-design methodologies, action research, and cross-sector collaboration with healthcare professionals, industry leaders, policymakers, and community organisations. Professor Teh founded the Malaysia Chapter of the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society (formerly the Technology Management Council) and served as Chapter Chair from 2014 to 2019. Under her leadership, the Chapter hosted the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM) in 2014 and 2022, strengthening global industry-academia collaboration in technology and engineering management. In 2016, Professor Teh established the Gerontechnology Laboratory at Monash University Malaysia, positioning the institution as a regional leader in smart ageing research. She has led and co-led multi-country collaborations aligned with the World Health Organization’s Decade of Healthy Ageing and regional innovation initiatives across Southeast Asia. Professor Teh currently serves on the International Advisory Committee of the Research Institute for Smart Ageing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and holds Associate Editor positions in three international journals, contributing actively to global scholarship in technology management, information systems, and ageing research.
