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MJAA Symposium 2025

TalentCorp Travel Grant

Congratulations on the success of the MJAA Symposium 2025 and on delivering such an impactful presentation! Your insights and sharing, especially within your field of expertise, have been invaluable to many young talents. TalentCorp deeply values Malaysian talents both at home and abroad, and it is TalentCorp’s mandate to encourage and empower them through the brain circulation. The travel grant serves as a recognition of your efforts in proudly representing Malaysia on the global stage. 

  • 1. Prof. Dr. Lau Wee Yeap

    Universiti Malaya
    Economics: Financial Economics

    Lau Wee Yeap is a Professor at the Faculty of Business and Economics and an academic board member of the Asia-Europe Institute, Universiti Malaya. He was a MEXT Scholar at the University of Osaka, where he received his PhD in Economics with a dissertation in Financial Economics. He was a visiting scholar at the Risk Management Institute, National University of Singapore, AUA Scholar at UAE University and a visiting scholar under the National Taiwan Library Fellowship. He also attended an Executive Education Program at the Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University. He has professional credentials from the Securities Institute of Australia and CPA Australia in accounting and finance. To date, he is a full member of CPA Australia and Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA), a member of the CFA Society of Malaysia, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. Throughout his career, he has received Best Paper Awards at conferences organised by the Malaysian Finance Association and the Institute for Capital Market Research Malaysia. He also received the Best Journal Paper Award in Humanities and Social Sciences (National Index) at the 15th MAPIM-KPT Award Ceremony held at the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, Putrajaya.

  • 2. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Abdul Nasir bin Abd Ghafar

    Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah
    Engineering: Embedded systems, mechatronics, robotic systems, applied electronics

    Associate Professor Ts. Dr. Abdul Nasir Abd. Ghafar is an Assosiate Professor, Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Technology, Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA), Malaysia. He received his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics System Engineering, Master in Electronics System and PhD in Systems Engineering from Okayama University of Science, Japan in 2011, 2013 and 2016 respectively. His research focused on applied electronics, embedded system, optimization and simulation, artificial Intelligence, robotics, and rehabilitation devices. He has teaching experience in undergraduate fields of Electrical and Electronics Engineering for 7 years and supervised postgraduate students in both Master and PhD levels. He was former President of Japanese Graduates Alumni Yayasan Pelajaran MARA and active member of Alumni Look East Policy (ALEPS).

  • 3. Assoc. Prof. Ts. Dr. Lim Seng Joe

    Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
    Food science: Functional Food

    LIM SENG JOE is an Associate Professor at the Department of Food Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). He is a Registered Food Analyst (MJMM001103) and Professional Technologist (PT22120413), specialising in functional food, food analysis, and chemistry. He holds a B.Sc. (2010) and Ph.D. (2014) from UKM and currently leads the Centre of Excellence–Innovation Centre for Confectionery Technology (MANIS). He also serves as Editor for Sains Malaysiana. Dr Lim received Erasmus Mundus (ALFABET) (2015) and ASEA-UNINET (2020, 2023) scholarships, supporting postdoctoral work at BOKU, Austria. He was Visiting Professor at Prince of Songkla University (2019), Gifu University (2022), and is currently Adjunct Professor at Universitas Airlangga (2025). Recognised as a Top 1% Peer Reviewer by Publons (2019), he is active in national committees including Young Scientist Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia (YSN-ASM), National Codex Committee, and the National Food Analyst Council. His accolades include the National Young Scientist Award (2024), MyRA Excellence Award (2019, 2021, 2022, 2023), Commercialisation Award FST, UKM (2019,2020), and several innovation competition wins. To date, he has a H-index of 26, with 6 patents, 1 utility innovation, 32 copyrights, 2 trade secrets and 2 trademarks in his intellectual property profile. His research, particularly on edible bird’s nest, has been successfully commercialised and recognised by UKM as a “Blockbuster Project.”

  • 4. Dr. G. Manickam Govindaraju

    Taylor’s University
    Public Relations and communication: Framing theory, multicultural communication, and media discourse in crisis and CSR

    Dr. G. Manickam Govindaraju is a Senior Lecturer and researcher in Public Relations and communication studies at the School of Media and Communication, Taylor’s University. Holding a PhD from the University of Malaya, her field of research spans through framing theory, multicultural communication, and media discourse in crisis and CSR. Dr. G. Manickam is also an Accredited PR Practitioner by IPRM and an Associate Member of PRCA. Bronze Award recipient in the category of “Best PR Practitioner” at the 4th Asean PR Excellence Award, she continues to win national and international awards for the campaigns she mentored as well as Gold and Silver Awards at the International University Carnival of e-Learning for innovative pedagogy since 2022. Dr. Manickam’s contribution extends to curriculum innovation and mentoring future PR practitioners equipped to engage diverse multicultural and digital audiences.