Joseph D. Smith has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering with over 25 years experience in the Chemical and Petrochemical Industry. Dr. Smith has published over 50 papers, has given more than 70 conference papers, and holds twelve patents. Dr. Smith has contributed to the John Zink Combustion Handbook, the Industrial Burner Handbook and the Handbook of Chemical Engineering. Dr. Smith has served as an expert witness for Flare Performance and Hydrocarbon Processing. Dr. Smith has developed and applied comprehensive CFD models for coal combustion and gasification and optimization of industrial furnaces. Dr. Smith has founded and led three startup companies focused on engineering services for the petrochemical and fossil energy industries and developing advanced wireless sensor systems technology.

Research Interest

Chemical Engineering, Fuels Combustion ,Bio-fuels, oil-sands

Su Ha is an associate professor in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering. He is also a director for the O.H. Reaugh Laboratory for Oil and Gas Processing Research at WSU. He joined the school in 2005 as an assistant professor after completing his Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published over 50 publications in the research areas of energy generations from alternative fuels. His researches have been cited over 4,000 times with h-index of 27. In 2014, he was named as Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters.

Research Interest

Generating hydrogen gas from bio-fuels and abundant natural gases, Developing fuel cells that directly convert the chemical energy of small organic molecules (e.g., formic acid) or logistic fuels (e.g., gasoline and biodiesel) to electrical power, working with natural enzymes to produce electrical power from sugars, and Developing electric field assisted fuel reforming systems.

Peyman Givi is an American materials scientist and engineer currently a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and the James T. McLeod Professor at University of Pittsburgh and previously a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at State University of New York and an Elected Fellow o the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute of Aeronautics, American Physical Society and ASME. His research interests are applied mathematics, stochastic processes, numerical methods, control and systems and machine design, vibration and shock, thermal-fluid sciences and random data analysis.

Research Interest

Thermal-Fluid Science and Engineering, Combustion

Dr. Junzo Watada is currently a Professor Emeritus, Waseda University, Japan as well as an invited researcher at Research Center of Information, Production and Systems (IPS), Waseda University since April 2016.He contributed as a full professor for Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Faculty of Information and Sciences, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia for 4 full years since July 2016 after a Professor of Soft Computing, Knowledge Engineering, and Man- agement Information Systems, Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems (IPS), Waseda University till March 2016. He has been working on education and research in English since 2003 for 17 years totally and he was with Academia for 37 years after he was with Fujitsu Ltd. Co., where he worked on development of software systems as a senior system engineer for 7 years. In the term, He contributed by serving as a Chair of Department, Chair of Graduate School (Osaka Institute of Technology), Head of Field (IPS), etc

Research Interest

Artificial Intelligence, Model building, Deep Learning, Optimization, Big Data Mining, Image Processing, Data Analytics, Soft Computing including Meta Heuristics Fuzzy Systems Rough Set Analysis

Professor A.Y. Zekri received his B. Sc., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California. He has spent more than two decades in the petroleum industry. Professor Zekri worked as a consultant to the management committees of Waha Oil Co., and Agip Oil Company. He has authored and/or co-authored more than 120 papers on new developments and technical issues in the areas of improved oil recovery, flow through porous media, and environmental aspects of petroleum production, petroleum contracts, and Enhanced Oil Recovery. He has edited and refereed technical papers in widely respected journals. Prof. Zekri has completed a number of research projects in the area of IOR/EOR to UAE and International Petroleum Industries. Prof. Zekri served as a Director of the Petroleum Science and Engineering Program at UAEU 2006-2010. Professor Zekri is currently working as Professor of petroleum engineering at the United Arab Emirates University.

Research Interest

Oil recovery, Flow through porous media, and environmental aspects of petroleum production, Petroleum contracts, and Enhanced Oil Recovery

Luigi completed his PhD in 2011 in Mesophases and Molecular Materials (University of Calabria, Italy). He was Post Doc at the University of Calabria and my research goals were directed toward understanding the complex flow behaviour of lyotropic liquid crystals (lamellar, cubic and vesicle phases) by using rheology, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging, rheo-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, rheo-Small Angle Neutron and Light Scattering. He was also working as Contract Researcher at the Physical Chemistry Division of Lund University on cellulose dissolution in alkaline solvents (Prof. Ulf Olsson). He is now working with Prof. Per Persson in collaboration with Prof. Anders Tunlid in the framework of “MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS CONTROLLING SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION” project. In his current project they will use spectroscopic and scattering methods based on conventional, synchrotron and neutron light sources to characterize the structure, composition and heterogeneity of SOM and its interaction with the biotic and abiotic environment, as well as its dynamic behaviour during decomposition by fungi.

Research Interest

Colloidal nature of soil organic matter; Physical chemistry characterization of soft matter; Flow behaviour of complex fluids and solids

Hun-Soo Byun received his Ph.D. from the Kyungnam University in 1993. He had been on the faculty of Chemical Engineering at the Yosu National University for ten and a half years before it merged with Chonnam National University, where he is a Professor of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He has conducted researches in the area of high-pressure phase equilibria, including extensive studies on polymer-supercritical fluid (SCF) mixtures and polymerization in supercritical fluids. His main research interest is in the chemical and polymer thermodynamics of hydrocarbon, homopolymers and copolymers in SCF solvents at high-pressures. His research group has incorporated video techniques with high-pressure techniques to visualize and phase behavior apparatus and they are currently polymerization, cloud-point behavior, phase equilibria, chemical process safety and calculation by Peng-Robinson and PC-SAFT EoS with high-pressure behavior techniques to elucidate and characterize polymer dimensions and intermolecular interactions at the macromolecular length scale.

Research Interest

Chemical and polymer thermodynamics of hydrocarbon, Homopolymers and copolymers in SCF solvents at high-pressures

Michael A.B. Naafs is a Dutch internist-endocrinologist with a long clinical career in internal medicine and endocrinology. At present he works as an independent health consultant (Naafs International Health Consultancy ) and as a Medical Writer. Michael is an editorial board member of a number open access journals and the author of tenfolds of publications

Research Interest

clinical pharmacology , Endocrinology, solid tumors

Prof. Woo is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Pukyong National University in Korea, where he has taught since 1992. He received his B.S. degree (Inha University, Korea), M.S.degree (KAIST, Korea), and Ph.D. degree (POSTECH, Korea) all in Chemical Engineering and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley (1995-1996). In 2003 he was a visiting professor at the Virginia Tech. Woo is a general director of Aquatic Biomass Research Center, a president of the Korean Society of Clean Technology and also a fellowship of National Academic Engineering of Korea.

Research Interest

Heterogeneous catalysis and Chemical reaction engineering

Research Interest

Chemical Engineering, fluid mechanics, heat transfer

Research Interest

Chemical Engineering

Associate Professor at the Chemistry School at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Tenured Professor in the areas of technology in chemical and biochemical processes in the undergrad and graduate studies, and the professional master’s in management

Research Interest

Chemical Engineering

Research Interest

Oil & Gas, Petroleum Geology, Geo mechanics

Research Interest

Nanotechnology, Semiconductor and dielectric physics, Physical bases of energy converters