Yuan-Chung Lin

National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan

 

Currently serving as a distinguished professor and general affairs director at the Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University. During the academic tenure, honored with the distinction of being a specially-appointed professor for industry-academic collaboration and academic research at National Sun Yat-sen University, receiving awards for outstanding teaching, academic research, and industry-academic research. Also recognized with the Senior Category Collaboration Industry-Academia Motivation Award (2022). Numerous external honors include the 73rd Engineering Thesis Award from the Chinese Institute of Engineers in 112th year, the Excellent Engineer Award from the Environmental Engineering Association in the 110th year, the Engineering Professor Award from the Kaohsiung Branch of the Chinese Institute of Engineers in the 109th year, and the Silver Award at the Silicon Valley International Invention Exhibition in 2019. Over the past five years, executed 36 relevant projects under the Ministry of Science and Technology and industry-academia collaborations, published 42 articles in international journals, and secured 15 patented technologies.

 

 

 

 

Hao Zhang

Zhejiang University, China

 

Hao Zhang is a Research Associate Professor in the College of Energy Engineering at Zhejiang University, China. He received his PhD degree at Zhejiang University in 2016 and then worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the same institution from 2017 to 2018. From 2019 to 2021, he worked as a Humboldt Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at Bielefeld University and the Institute of Combustion Technology, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany. He joined his current position since Feb. 2022. His research focuses on plasma applications for sustainable chemistry, combustion chemistry, and plastic chemical recycling. He has published over 65 peer-reviewed papers with >1780 citations and an h-index of 23. He is also the inventor of 12 patents. He has given over 10 invited talks at academic conferences and has chaired 3 conference sessions.