Bibhya Sharma (PhD) is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of The South Pacific (USP). He has also been the Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching within the Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment at USP since 2010. He is a member of a number of professional mathematics societies and unions and has published more than 70 articles and book chapters in the fields of mathematics education, robotics, biologically inspired processes and the TLPs of higher education.

Shabbir Syed-Abdul (PhD), is a leading researcher and a principal investigator at the International Center for Health Information Technology, and the Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan. He also plays a role as a consultant for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health. His major research interests are Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Wearable devices, Long term care, Telemedicine, mHealth, Translational Medicine, Big data analysis and visualization, Digital Epidemiology, Social Network in healthcare and Hospital Information System and has published about 70 SCI papers in last 5 years. He is the leading educator for several MOOCs on FutureLearn.