Keynote Speakers

 

Kyung Hoi Lee		President, Korea Research Institute of Eco-Environmental Architecture (Korea)	Sustainable Building Design Technologies in Korea
Robert F. Boehm		Distinguished Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada (USA)	Concentrating Solar Power
Qingyan (Yan) Chen		Professor, Mechanical engineering, Purdue University (USA)	Energy Implication of Sustainable Building Design
Ibrahim Dincer		Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Ontario Inst. of Tech. (Canada)	Hydrogen Energy Systems and Sustainable Development
Michael R. Hoffmann		Professor, Environmental Science, Caltech (USA)	Waste to Energy Conversion for Sustainability: The Photovoltaic Elimination of Chemical Wastes in Water with the Concomitant Production of Molecular Hydrogen
Noam Lior		Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, (USA)	Energy Resources and Use: the Present Situation and Possible Sustainable Paths to the Future
Shuzo Murakami		Chief Executive, Building Research Institute (Japan)	Transforming the Building Market through Assessment of Building Performance
Saffa B. Riffat		Professor, School of Built Environment, University of Nottingham (UK)	Low/Zero Carbon Homes for Sustainable Cities

 

▶ Kyung Hoi Lee
	● ● ●   ● ● ● ●	Professor Emeritus, Yonsei University President, Korea Research Institute of Eco-Environmental Architecture Adviser, The National Assembly Research Organization of Environment Policy for Sustainable Development Fellow, The National Academy of Engineering Korea Fellow, The Korean Academy of Science and Technology Honorary fellow, American Institute of Architects (HFAIA) Honorary member of the Society of Heating, Air-conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan
	Kyung-hoi has completed his bachelor and master degrees at Yonsei University and received MSc at University College of London. He obtained Ph. D in building science at Stracthclyde University (U.K.). He has been a well-known researcher and educator in the field of sustainable architecture. He brought the concept of passive design and sustainable architecture into Korea in 1970s and has contributed to the spread of sustainability issues by teaching related curriculums at Yonsei University and by serving as a president to a number of institutions, including Architectural Institute of Korea, Korean Solar Energy Society and Korea Institute of Ecological Architecture and Environment. Kyung-hoi has special interest in architectural environment and building science, methodology of architectural design, eco-architecture, indoor air quality, and passive solar system. He published more than 290 papers and wrote more than 10 books including 'Architecture Environmental Science'. During last 30 years, he has been advising committee member of a number of government organizations including Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs and Seoul Metropolitan City. In September, 2004 he became a Professor Emeritus from Yonsei University and founded KRIEA, a non-profit research organization and consulting firm focused on environmentally effective architectural design. His consulting area includes energy conscious design, eco-architecture design　＆ construction, sustainable building design & construction, environment simulation, and intelligent building system design &　evaluation.

 

 

▶ Robert F. Boehm
	● ●   ● ●	Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, USA Director of the Center for Energy Research at UNLV. The Center employs 45 people and has a current level of external funding of $4.5M. Technical Editor of Energy-The International Journal, published by Elsevier since 1976. Dr. Boehm has 10 books and over 450 technical publications to his credit.
	His principal work has been in the fields of heat transfer and thermal system simulation, with specific applications in energy production components and systems.　His research interests are in the design and evaluation of thermal systems, particularly with emphasis to the utilization of renewable sources of energy such as solar and geothermal.　He has special interests in this area that include system simulation, and thermal performance modeling and measurement. He has been honored for his various contributions by election to the grade of Fellow in the ASME.　He has also been awarded outstanding teaching and research prizes.   His academic work was includes a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.　He was with the General Electric Atomic Power Equipment Department in San Jose, California.　He became Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah and moved through the ranks.　He served as Chairman of the Department there for four years.　He has also served on the staff of Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, working on solar central receiver topics.　He has served as a Technical Editor of the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering and is a Registered Professional Engineer (PE).　Currently he serves as Technical Editor for Energy-The International Journal.　He has been awarded a number of honors including the Harry Reid Silver State Research Award and the Rudolf W. Gunnerman Silver State Award for Excellence in Science and Technology.   Work has included over 60 funded research projects from Federal, State, and power industry sources. He has served on several DOE program review panels and he was a member of the ASME National Energy Committee. He has worked with several solar projects in Southern Nevada. Additional work has taken place in solar water heating, portable photovoltaic solar systems, concentrating solar power system projects, energy conservation in buildings, and hydrogen generation and utilization. He has organized and teaches courses on solar energy applications. At UNLV he was the first Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department, which was formed when he joined the University in 1990. He also served as a technical liaison to DOE in a position funded by that agency. In this position, he was responsible for developing DOE research projects within the University of Nevada System. He has also held the position of Director of Research for the UNLV College of Engineering.

▶ Qingyan (Yan) Chen
	● ●     ●	Professor of Mechanical engineering at Purdue University, USA Principal Director of the National Air Transportation Center of Excellence for Research in the Intermodal Transport Environment (RITE), a center consisting of seven universities and sponsored mainly by the Federal Aviation Administration. Editor-in-Chief of Building and Environment, the international journal of building science and its application, published by Elsevier since 1965.
	Dr. Chen earned his B.Eng. in 1983 from Tsinghua University in China and M.Eng. in 1985 and Ph.D. in 1988 from the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands. He conducted his post-doctoral research as a Research Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich) and worked as a Project Manager for TNO in the Netherlands. Before he joined Purdue University, he was a faculty member at TU Delft and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Chen has many other parallel appointments in his career, such as Otto Monsted Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Denmark, Professorial Fellow at the Cardiff University in the UK, Changjiang Chair Professor at the Tianjin University in China, part-time professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology in China, Research Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Visiting Professor at the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland, Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in China, and Guest Professor at the Southeast University in China. In addition, he has co-supervised Ph.D. students from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, the University of Cagliari in Italy, and the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Chen is also a Director and Partner of the Boston International Design Group, an architectural design firm, and a Partner of Building Energy and Environment Engineering LLP, a consulting company. Dr. Chen has been working in the thermo-fluid aspect of mechanical engineering. He is actively involved in the fundamental research in turbulent flow and heat transfer and its applications in the HVAC industry. Dr. Chen's current research topics include indoor environment, aircraft cabin environment, and energy-efficient, healthy, and sustainable building design and analysis. He has published two books and over 200 journal and conference papers, and has been invited to deliver more than 80 lectures internationally.   In recent years, Chen has received several technical paper and poster awards and Distinguished and Exceptional Service Awards from the ASHRAE. He is a recipient of the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation in the United States. Dr. Chen has also received the Willis J. Whitfield Award "for significant contributions to the field of contamination control through numerous published papers, studies, and reports" from the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology. He is a fellow of the ASHRAE and the International Society of Indoor Air Quality. Before he became the Editor-in-Chief of the Building and Environment journal, he served as an associate editor of the HVAC&R Research journal and was a member on the editorial boards of six other journals.

▶ Ibrahim Dincer
	● ● ●	Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Univ. of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Energy Research Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Exergy
	Ibrahim Dincer is a full professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at UOIT. Renowned for his pioneering works in the area of sustainable energy technologies he has authored and co-authored several books (the most recent one on Exergy by Elsevier) and book chapters, more than 400 refereed journal and conference papers, and numerous technical reports.   He has chaired many national and international conferences, symposia, workshops and technical meetings. He has delivered over 100 keynote and invited lectures. He is an active member of various international scientific organizations and societies, and serves as editor-in-chief (for International Journal of Energy Research by Wiley and International Journal of Exergy by Inderscience), associate editor, regional editor, and editorial board member on various prestigious international journals.   He is a recipient of several research, teaching and service awards, including the Premier’s research excellence award in Ontario, Canada in 2004. He has made innovative contributions to the understanding and development of sustainable energy technologies and their implementation, particularly through exergy. He is the chair of a new technical group in ASHRAE, named Exergy Analysis for Sustainable Buildings. He has actively been working in the areas of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, and his group has developed various novel technologies/methods/etc.

▶ Michael R. Hoffmann
	● ● ●	James Irvine Professor of Environmental Science, Caltech (1996 - ), USA Dean of Graduate Studies, Caltech (2002 - ) Prof. Hoffmann has published more than 240 scientific articles in the field of environmental chemistry and environmental technology. He has been recognized by ISI Web of Science & Citation Indices as one of the most Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering in the world (http://isihighlycited.com/). For example, his 1995 paper on “Semiconductor Photocatalysis” has been cited 2624 times.
	Michael Hoffmann received a BA in 1968 from Northwestern University, a PhD from Brown University in 1974, and post-doctoral training in Environmental Engineering at the California Institute of Technology from 1973 to 1975. From 1975 to 1980, he was member of the faculty at the University of Minnesota and since 1980 a member of the faculty at Caltech. Dr. Hoffmann is the holder of 7 patents in the subject areas of applied chemical kinetics, aquatic chemistry, atmospheric chemistry, environmental chemistry, catalytic oxidation, heterogeneous photochemistry, sonochemistry, electrochemistry, and pulsed-plasma chemistry.   Prof. Hoffmann has served as the Chairman of the Gordon Research Conference, Environmental Sciences: Water and as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research. He is currently on the Editorial Boards of Environmental Science and Technology and the Journal of Physical Chemistry. He also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry.   In 1991, Prof. Hoffmann received the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for his research and teaching in environmental chemistry. In 1995, he was presented with the E. Gordon Young Award by the Chemical Society of Canada in recognition of his work in the field of environmental chemistry. In 2001, Prof. Hoffmann was presented with the American Chemical Society Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology for "his fundamental and lasting contributions to the science of aquatic chemistry, to the development of aquatic remediation processes, and to understanding heterogeneous and multiphase processes in the atmospheric environment."   Prof. Hoffmann has been honored recently As “Davis Memorial Lecturer” at the University of New Orleans, “Dodge Distinguished Lecturer” in Chemical Engineering at Yale University, the “Johnston Distinguished Lecturer in Chemistry at UC-Berkeley, and the “Gordon Distinguished Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Toronto.” He has also served as a Distinguished Lecturer at the Hebrew University (Jerusalem), the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), and the University of Buenos Aires. In October 2003, Prof. Hoffmann received the Jack E. McKee Award Medal for his work in environmental remediation technology. Many of his former graduate students and post-doctoral fellows are now professorial faculty members at major universities around the USA and also abroad. http://www.hoffmann.caltech.edu/former%20students.htm

▶ Noam Lior
	●	Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, USA
	●	Editor-in-Chief of ENERGY - The International Journal, and of the “Advances in Water Desalination” book series, and Regional Editor for North America and Europe of the Energy Conversion and Management Journal, and is a member of the board of editors of Desalination, The International Journal of Desalting and Water Purification, and of the Thermal Science and Engineering journal (Japan).
	Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He is intensively and internationally involved in education, research and consulting in the energy field for about 34 years, and in water desalination for about 40 years. His research partially in collaboration with scholars from Asia and Europe, includes solar, fossil fuel and nuclear energy, water desalination processes, as well as their ecological impacts.    He has more than 200 publications in the fields of energy, water desalination, heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics, is a frequent invited keynote speaker about the world energy and water desalination technology and situation at international conferences.

▶ Shuzo Murakami
	●	Chief Executive, Building Research Institute, Incorporated Administrative Agency, Japan
	Major Area of Experience:
			1970-1974 Lecturer, I.I.S. University of Tokyo 1974-1985 Associate Professor, I.I.S. University of Tokyo 1985-2001 Professor, I.I.S. University of Tokyo 2001-2008 Professor, Keio University 2003- 　　Emeritus Professor, University of Tokyo 2008- 　　Chief Executive, Building Research Institute, Incorporated Administrative Agency   1996-2000 President, Japan Association for Wind Engineering 1998-1999 President, Japan Society of Computational Fluid Dynamics 2000-2001 President, Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics 2005-2007 President, Architectural Institute of Japan 2007　　　ALAN G. DAVENPORT MEDAL (IAWE)
	Major Publications
			"Computational Fluid Dynamics - Foundation and Application－", University of Tokyo Press(1992) "Computational Environment Design for Indoor and Outdoor Climate", University of Tokyo Press(2000) "Towards the Architecture for a Global Environment", Shokokusha, (2002) "Environmental Management for the Sustainable Building", Shokokusha,(2004) "Environmental Design in the Regional Contexts for Generations", Shokokusha, (2004) "CASBEE Guide", Nikkei-BP, (2004) "Sustainable Building as System Life", Kyoritsu Shuppan, (2006)

 

▶ Saffa B. Riffat
	● ●   ●	Professor, School of Built Environment at the University of Nottingham, UK Chair of the Sustainable Energy and Head of the Institute of Building Technology and Head of the Institute of Sustainable Energy Technology. Professor Riffat has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Science (DSc) from the University of Oxford for his research contribution in the field of heat pumps and ventilation technology. He is named as the inventor on 20 International Patents.
	His grade/salary is equivalent to a Pro-Vice Chancellor level. He has a wide range of experience of renewable energy, sustainable buildings, refrigeration, heat transfer, heat pumps, ventilation and air quality. He has obtained grants in excess of ￡19 million from the EPSRC, EU and industry and published over 400 refereed papers.   Professor Riffat’s Chair is supported by Baxi Group Limited and he is a founder member of Midlands Renewable Energy Technology Transfer (MRETT). He is a member of the EPSRC College of Peers as well as the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Thermal Engineering, the Journal of Green Energy, Journal of Renewable Energy, Journal of Ambient Energy, Journal of the Energy Institute and the Journal in Architectural Engineering and Design Management. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Low Carbon Technologies. Professor Riffat has been awarded honorary Professorships by 9 leading Universities including: Chongqing University, Dalian University, Donghua University, Harbin University, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China for his research achievements. He is also a Distinguished Chair at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is a Fellow to the World Innovation Foundation. He is a Trustee Member of the National Energy Foundation. He has also been awarded the Community Award for Exceptional Individual, the Euro Solar Award, Energy Globe Award and the CIBSE Baker Silver Medal.   Professor Riffat is a member of the Advisory Boards of several companies including Baxi Group Limited, David Wilson Homes Limited, ISAW (China), Premas International Limited and Brian Warwicker Partnership PLC. Professor Riffat has acted as the chairman of several conferences including the Sustainable Energy Technologies 1-4 and the Energy Conversion & Application Conference 2000. He has given numerous keynote papers and chaired sessions at International Conferences including Heat Powered Cycles Conference, CIBSE Conferences, Sustainable Construction Forums, COGEN Conference and World Renewable Energy Congresses.