Keynote Speakers Details

Dr. Asyraf Abdul Halim is a Senior Lecturer at University of Malaya, specializing in Shariah-compliant equity markets with focus on asset pricing anomalies and multifactor models. Awarded Best Empirical Research in Islamic Finance at IFESDC 2025 (World Bank HQ), he leads a FRGS grant project on AI-driven alpha generation in Islamic asset pricing. His publications in Q1 journals (e.g., Borsa Istanbul Review) examine dividend effects and debt screening impacts on firm behavior. Dr. Halim teaches quantitative courses including Econometrics and Financial Mathematics, while contributing to policy projects for Malaysia's National Institute of Valuation (INSPEN) and serving as reviewer for Scopus-indexed Islamic finance journals.