Mohammad Irfan is presently working as an Associate Professor at CMR Institute of Technology, Bangalore. Prior joining to CMRIT, he was associated with the School of Business, AURO University, Surat, Gujarat for five years. He is MBA (Finance and Marketing) and M.Com (Account and Law). Dr. Irfan has done this Ph.D. from the Central University of Haryana. He has qualified UGC-SRF/NET in Management and UGC-NET in Commerce. Dr. Irfan has also qualified NSEs Certification of Financial Market in Capital Market Model and BSEs Certification of Islamic Finance, Banking and Capital Market. He is working on seed money project, minor project and major project on social empowering issues. He has to his credit various research papers published in Scopus indexed journals including International of Business International Journal of Business Excellence (IJBEX), Montenegrin Journal of Economics-(ELIT), International Journal of Economics and Management (IJEM), Indian Journal of Finance (IJF). He is an editorial board member/reviewer in several national and international journals. Dr. Irfan has been teaching Graduate and Postgraduate Subjects for the last thirteen years in the areas of Security Analysis and Portfolio Management, Financial Analysis and Decision, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Block chain, Cryptocurrency, Data Analysis for Business, Financial Engineering, Financial Analytics, Financial modeling in Excel, Green Finance, and Alternative Finance. Dr. Irfan presented papers in the National and International conferences organized by leading institutions like IIM-A, IIM-C, IIM-Indore, IIM-Shillong, IIT-Roorkee, Indonesia, Malaysia, Switzerland, Nigeria sponsored by Islamic development bank (IDB-Saudi Arabia), Bank of Indonesia (BI), Malaysian Finance Association Conference (MFAC), Walisongo University (UIN Walisongo) Indonesia, and many more.
Salina Kassim has a great passion in writing scholarly articles in various areas of Islamic banking and finance. She has published extensively in academic journals with nearly 200 scholarly articles in the areas of her research interests. She has also published several books mainly in the areas of Islamic finance. In recognition to her dynamic role as a subject matter expert, she has been appointed as member of the editorial boards of several reputable international and local journals. At present, she is supervising (and has supervised) nearly 80 post-graduate candidates at the PhD and Masters levels. She has also served as internal and external examiners for Masters and PhD theses in several universities, apart from being appointed as Adjunct Professor, Visiting Research Fellow and trainer at several universities and institutes, locally and abroad.