Prof. Hong Qi

Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Hong Qi, Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1980. Professor and doctoral advisor, Associate Dean of the School of Energy, Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Aerospace Thermal Physics under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Youth Longjiang Scholar, core member of the "Leading Goose" team, Head of the “Young Scientist Studio” at Harbin Institute of Technology, and selected talent under the Young Top-notch Talent Recruitment Program (Professor). His main research interests include photothermal radiation transport and coupled heat transfer, measurement of photothermal radiation properties, and inverse radiation problems.

As principal investigator, he has received funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program and Young Scientists Fund), the Key Laboratory Fund of Civil Aviation, and subprojects of major instrumentation from the National Natural Science Foundation, among others. He has published 202 journal articles, including 180 SCI-indexed papers, 2 ESI highly cited papers, and 5 cover papers. He holds 50 authorized invention patents and 24 software copyrights. Additionally, he has authored 2 monographs in Chinese and contributed 4 invited chapters to English monographs.

His awards include the Second Prize of National Defense Technology Invention (2015), First Prize of Teaching Achievement at Harbin Institute of Technology (2015), Second Prize of Provincial Higher Education Teaching Achievement (2017), and First Prize of Technological Invention of Heilongjiang Province (2024).

Prof. Haitao Li

Jiangsu University, China

Doctor of Engineering, Distinguished Professor of Jiangsu Province. Graduated in July 2013 from the Institute of Functional Nanomaterials and Soft Matter at Soochow University with a Ph.D. in Engineering. From 2013 to 2018, conducted postdoctoral and independent research at Monash University and the University of Sydney, Australia.

In recent years, his research has focused on the design of novel carbon-based functional materials and their applications in catalysis, sensing, and clean energy. He has led 6 research projects in China and 4 in Australia and participated in numerous others. His research findings have been published in over 90 SCI-indexed papers in leading academic journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Advanced Energy Materials, and ACS Catalysis. These publications have been cited over 12,000 times (Google Scholar) with an h-index of 37. Four of his articles have been selected as cover papers, and nine have been recognized as ESI highly cited papers. Several of his works have been featured as highlights by NPG Asia Materials and the Australian Chemical Society. He holds 10 authorized Chinese patents.

Prof. CHONG KOK KEONG 

Huanghe University of Science and Technology, Malaysia

Prof. Dr. Chong Kok-Keong received B.Sc. (Hons) 1st class degree from University of Malaya in 1998 and Ph.D. (Optical Engineering) degree from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2002. He is also Fulbright visiting scholar in Princeton University, USA in 2015. Currently, he is Senior professor in Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman. For research experience, he has been working in the field of solar energy engineering for more than 25 years and his research interest including emerging solar cell technologies, concentrating solar power, nanomaterials, and green technologies.

For publication, he has published more than 133 articles in high impact journals including Nature, which has made him in Stanford University’s list of top 2% rank worldwide. Up to today, he has been principal investigator for ten external grants with total amount of RM 7 million including multi-disciplinary research fund. For consultancy work, he has completed more than 32 consultancy projects, including principal consultant for State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) China and Ecosys Group Sdn Bhd etc.

For recognition, he has been honoured to receive Top Research Scientists Malaysia (TRSM) 2018, Malaysia Toray Science Foundation (MTSF) Science & Technology Award 2017, JCI Ten Young Outstanding Malaysian (TOYM) Award 2013, Fulbright Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative, Gold Award in PECIPTA’17, as well as UTAR Research Excellence and UTAR Innovation Excellence 2012 & 2014. To date, he has been elected as Fellow of Academy of Science Malaysia 2019, Fellow of ASEAN Academy of Engineering & Technology (AAET) 2018, Global Young Academy 2014, Young Affiliate of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) 2011, Young Scientist Network Malaysia 2012, and Honorary Treasury of Fulbright Alumni Association Malaysia. For editorial services, he is Associate Editor of Frontiers in Energy Research and International Journal of Photoenergy (Hindawi).