An Associate Professor at the Exercise and Sports Science Programme, School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia. He currently serves as the Secretary-General of the Asian Council of Exercise and Sports Science (ACESS), the Asian-South Pacific Association of Sport Psychology (ASPASP), and the Scientific Committee of World Exercise Medicine. In 2019, Dr. Kuan was appointed as the Chair of the International Network of the Young Scientist Network – Academy of Science Malaysia (YSN-ASM) and as a sport psychology panelist for the National Coaching Academy of Malaysia. He has published over 400 scholarly manuscripts, including more than 170 in high-impact ISI journals, and has acted as an editor for numerous international journals. Previously, Dr. Kuan served as a Senate member at Brunel University, a Council member at Victoria University, and was a contracted sports psychologist with the Australian Institute of Sport, Team Great Britain and Team Malaysia. His research has received multiple international awards, including the 2024 Top Research Scientist Malaysia (TRSM), the 2023 National Sports Innovator Champion, the 2023 Best JCI Malaysia Sustainable Development Goal Award, the 2022 Malaysian Book of Records – Human Achievement, the 2021 International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP) Developing Scholar Award, and the 2021 JCI Top Ten Outstanding Young Malaysian. He also received the 2020 IFPEFSSA International Eminent Educator Award, the A-CIPA Young Researcher Award at the 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology, the International Scholars Award at the ICSEMIS pre-Olympic conference, and the Atsushi Fujita Research Scholarship at the 6th ASPASP Conference. In his leadership role, Dr. Kuan received the Australian Leadership Award and the Victoria Ambassador Award for Young Person of the Year. Outside of his professional commitments, he plays the first violin professionally and teaches various musical instruments to community members.