Dr Muhammad Raza Ul Mustafa is an Associate Professor at Civil & Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. He has over 10 years of working experience as an academician, researcher, and channel design engineer. His expertise includes hydrological modelling, water quality, sediment transport, soil erosion management practices, flood protection works and channel design. He has authored 77 papers indexed in several databases including the ISI and Scopus indexed journals and proceeding (Scopus ORCID: 0000-0002-1763-4152) with over 47.32 cumulative ISI impact factor.  He has secured 17 research grants from various agencies in Malaysia, which makes a total sum of approx. 1.548 million MYR. He has graduated 6 PhD students and 3 MSc students by research. He has won several awards including 7 Gold, 6 Silver, 5 Bronze, best paper, best presenter, best poster and outstanding researcher award at university, national and international research platforms. In addition to the academic and researcher positions, he has lead several taskforces and involved in committees / boards / teams / activities such as editorial board of journals, editor of conference proceedings, scientific advisory board, technical committees, Q1/Q2 journals reviewer, keynote speaker, PhD/MSc thesis examiner, chairman, trainer, organizer, facilitator, panel of judges in research exhibitions etc.

Dr. Abdul-Lateef Balogun received his B.Sc. degree in Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, his M.Sc. degree in Geoinformatics from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia and his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering (Geoinformatics) from the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. He received the best student award in his M.Sc. programme and was a recipient of the UTP graduate assistantship funding for doctoral study from 2010 to 2014. Dr Balogun won an excellent (best) paper award at the international conference on future environment and energy, Singapore in 2012, was the winner of the Golden Key International Honor Society (GKI) essay writing competition, UTM in 2008 and second runner-up in the national quiz for public institutions of higher learning in Malaysia, 2009. He is currently a faculty member at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) and coordinator of UTP’s Geospatial Analysis and Modelling Research (GAMR) Laboratory. He has over 10 years of teaching, research, consultancy, and industrial experience and has authored papers in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Handbook of Extreme Weather and Climate Events (Springer). He specializes in the application of geospatial and machine learning techniques in geo-hazard management, smart and sustainable cities, disaster management and risk reduction, and climate change modelling and adaptation.