Professor Ahmad Zuhairi Abdullah
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Professor Dr Ahmad Zuhairi Abdullah received his B. Tech (Hons), MSc, and PhD in 1995, 2000, and 2004, respectively. He was the Deputy Dean (Industry and Community Network) at School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia between 2010-2012 and Deputy Dean (Research and Postgraduate Studies) between 2013-2018. He will also serve his deanship of the school in 2022-2024. He is registered as a Professional Technologist at Malaysian Board of Technologists (MBOT) and a Fellow Member of Institut Kimia Malaysia. His research works mostly involve the use of ordered porous materials in oleochemical reactions, renewable energy, waste treatment, and waste valorization. He has nearly 300 refereed publications in journals and book/book chapters mainly as the main author, and also involves as a technical committee member to nearly 150 international scientific conferences. He is often invited to share his research experiences in international conferences held in Malaysia, Laos, Indonesia, Vietnam, Pakistan, The Philippines and China. In addition, he is an evaluator for research proposals from different agencies locally as well as from several international scientific bodies in the USA, Oman, Qatar, Kazakhstan, and Chile. He is also an expert panel of the Department of Environment Malaysia for the evaluation of Environmental Impact Assessment reports for various proposed projects related to petrochemical complexes, paper mills, metal smelting, chemical, lead-acid battery recycle plants, etc. He is one of the recipients of the Top Research Scientists Malaysia (TRSM) award in 2014 and listed in the List of World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University in 2020 and 2021. His h-index (Scopus) currently stands at 54 with more than 10,000 citations.

Assoc. Prof. Muhammad Irfan

Middlesex University, United Kingdom

Prof. Muhammad Irfan is currently working as an Associate Professor at Middlesex University, United Kingdom. He is also an adjunct Faculty Member at Lebanese American University, and a visiting Professor at ILMA University. He is serving as an Editor-in-Chief of the Energy Technologies and Environment, Journal of Comprehensive Business Administration Research, and Editor of The Journal of Strategic Information Systems. Prof. Irfan is the leading guest editor of top-notch International Journals, including Energy Economics, Resources Policy, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Sustainability, Frontiers in Environmental Science among others. His research achievements have been published in the form of over 200 research papers in top international Journals. According to Elsevier and Stanford University, he has consistently been ranked among the top 2% of scientists worldwide in 2022 and 2023 and is awarded top 1% highly cited researcher across WOS researcher database in 2023. He is among the top 5% of economists in the world, according to the IDEAS/RePEc database. He is the highly cited Researcher of 2023 by Elsevier and Shanghai Ranking database. He was given the Best Scholar Award by the University of the Punjab, the Best Paper Award by North China Electric Power University, and the Outstanding Scholarship Award by the China Scholarship Council (CSC). Many of his highly cited papers fall under (top 1%) and (top 0.1%) categories. He has over 12,000 scholarly citations, and h-index is 64.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kang Hooi Siang

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia

Associate Prof. Dr. Henry Kang serves as the Director of the Marine Technology Center at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). Alongside this role, he holds membership as an associate member of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) in the United Kingdom, and membership in the International Association of Offshore Engineers (IAOE) in the United States, as well as in the Society of Floating Solution (Singapore). He has published over 120 international journal articles and conference papers. He is an editorial board member for the Journal of Marine Engineering & Technology by the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science &Technology, and Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology by the Korean Society of Ocean Engineers. Additionally, he serves as a scientific committee member for prestigious conferences such as the International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Green Technology (SEGT) and the International Conference on Marine Technology (MARTEC). He has been involving in numerous international projects in ocean engineering. Notably, in 2019 and 2023, he received recognition as a visiting scholar at Institute Superior Técnico, the University of Lisbon, as part of the European Union-funded Horizon 2020 project. His research focuses on marine sustainability, marine structures and fluid-structure interaction.

Prof. Xiaorong Wang

Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, China

Wang Xiaorong is a professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Jiangsu University of Science and Technology. She has long been engaged in research in the fields of mechanical and power engineering, as well as new energy. Currently, she serves as the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of Tway Machine Tool Co., Ltd. and is a member of the Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics. She has presided over multiple research projects, including the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Province Graduate Education and Teaching Reform Projects, subprojects of the Army General Armament Project, and other horizontal projects. Professor Wang has received two third-prize awards for scientific and technological progress at the provincial and ministerial level, two second-prize awards for scientific and technological progress at the municipal and departmental level, and one third-prize award for outstanding scientific and technological papers in Zhenjiang City. She has also been honored with a third-prize award for graduate teaching reform achievements in Jiangsu Province, a second-prize award in the Jiangsu Province Micro-lecture Teaching Competition, and the title of "Advanced Individual in Teacher Ethics in Zhenjiang City."
As the first or corresponding author, she has published over 20 academic papers, with 7 of them indexed by SCI/EI. She holds 2 authorized invention patents as the first inventor. In her teaching career, Professor Wang is responsible for teaching 3 core courses in her specialty and has supervised 15 graduate students, among whom 1 has received the Jiangsu Provincial Outstanding Master's Degree Thesis Award, 2 have received the Jiangsu University of Science and Technology Outstanding Master's Degree Thesis Award. She has also guided undergraduate students to win a third-prize award in the Jiangsu Division of the National Collegiate Contest of Mechanical Innovations and Design, as well as a third-prize award in the National College Students' 5G IoT Innovation Contest.

Prof. Yifei Wu
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Yifei Wu was born in Zhejiang, China. He is now a professor in Xi'an Jiaotong University (top young talent) and supported by the national youth talent plan. He has hosted over more than 10 scientific research projects including the NSFC, the Key R&D Program of Shaanxi Province, and the State Grid Corporation's Science and Technology Project. He also published more than 70 SCI/EI papers in high-level journals at home and abroad, including 30 SCI papers as the first/corresponding author. He is a senior member of IEEE, authorized 19 national invention patents, 10 U.S. patents, 2 European patents. He won the Second Prize of Science and Technology of Shaanxi Province.

Professor Guangping Zheng
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University , China

Dr. Guang-Ping Zheng received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 2002. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology from 2002 to 2004. He is currently a Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr. Zheng's research is in the areas of computational materials science, nanomechanics, and applications of nanomaterials in energy conversion and storage. In the capacity of Principal Investigator, he has secured 13 research grants from government agencies, including 6 RGC GRF, 4 ITF/GTF and 3 Guangdong municipal research funds. Dr. Zheng has published over 230 papers in refereed scientific journals. He is a member of editorial boards of several journals in his research fields.

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