Universiti Sains Malaysia

Xing Yi Ling is a Professor in Chemistry from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Jiangnan University China. She received her Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from University of Twente, the Netherlands in 2009,and her postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley between 2009-2011. She is the Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry, and received Singapore National Research Foundation Investigatorship, Nanyang Award for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, L’ORÉAL Singapore for Women in Science National Fellowship, Singapore National Research Foundation Fellowship, IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists, and etc.

Prof. Wahab is currently the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation), Universiti Sains Malaysia. Her group particularly interested in applying the tools and technologies in computer aided drug design towards the discovery of novel chemotherapeutic against influenza and dengue as well as obesity and ageing-related disease. In addition, Her group use extensive molecular modelling technique to unravel the mechanisms of actions of drugs and their molecular targets.

Dr. Hooi Ling Lee is an Associate Professor at Universiti Sains Malaysia’s School of Chemical Sciences. With a Ph.D. in Surface Science from Dublin City University, her research focuses on nanomaterials and nanotechnology. She has received numerous grants and has published extensively in ISI-indexed journals. Dr. Lee was a recipient of the 2021-2022 US Fulbright-ASEAN Visiting Scholar Programme and the 2018 Endeavour Research Fellowship. She is a founding member and former Chair of the ACS Malaysia Chapter, an Advisor for the USM ACS Student Chapter, a Fellow of the Malaysian Institute of Chemistry, and a Chartered Chemist of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

JitKang Lim is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and has held a 10-year courtesy appointment as the Visiting Research Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University since October 2011. He was recently appointed as the China-ASEAN Scholar of Tianjin University (TJU) and have received the World Class Professor Title by the Ministry of Education and Culture, Indonesia. As of the beginning of 2023, he serves as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Langmuir, a flagship journal of the American Chemical Society that specialized in interfacial sciences. His current research interests primarily focus on both colloidal behaviors and engineering application of magnetic nanoparticles.