Professor Ibrahim Dincer is a full professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at UOIT. He is Vice President for Strategy in International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE) and Vice-President for World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies (WSSET). Renowned for his pioneering works in the area of sustainable energy technologies he has authored and co-authored numerous books and book chapters, more than 900 refereed journal and conference papers, and many technical reports. He has chaired many national and international conferences, symposia, workshops and technical meetings. He has delivered more than 250 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; International Journal of Exergy, International Journal of Global Warming and Internatioanal Journal of Research, Innovation and Commercialism by Inderscience; and The Open Environmental Engineering Journal by Bentham), 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 has actively been working in the areas of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, and his group has developed various novel technologies/methods/etc.

Mr. Tien Duong currently manages the Advanced Battery Materials Research (BMR) Program and the Battery500 Consortium. The BMR program conducts battery research with a strong emphasis on developing, modeling and diagnostics of new materials. He supervises a complex, integrated materials R&D portfolio of over 80 research projects with an annual budget of approximately $35 million. As an integral part of the Energy Storage R&D effort within the Vehicle Technologies Office for more than 24 years, he has served in various positions including Manager of the Energy Storage R&D Effort from 1999 to 2003 and Team Lead of the Hybrid and Electric Systems Team (recently renamed the Batteries and Electrification R&D) from 2004 to 2008. Before joining the U. S. Department of Energy, Mr. Duong was a Senior Electrical Engineer at the U. S. Army R&D Engineering Center at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
He also serves as member of the Technical Advisory and Management Committees of the United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC) which was formed in 1992 under a cooperative agreement between the U. S. Department of Energy and the three U.S. automotive manufacturers (General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler) to jointly develop advanced batteries for electric drive vehicles. Mr. Duong studied Chemistry at the University of Science in Saigon, Vietnam before immigrating to the United States in 1979. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Civil Engineering, both from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Virginia.

Professor Niu is currently Chair Professor of Building, Environment and Energy, at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. In the period from Feb 12, 2017 to Feb. 9, 2019, he held a position of Professor of Building, Environment and Energy, a conjoint appointment of School of Architecture, Design and Planning and School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney. He received his BEng and MSc degrees from Tsinghua University and PhD from Delft University of Technology. He also had an experience of an R&D engineer with a utility manufacturer in UK during his tenure with Tsinghua University, researching on clean coal-combustion technologies. During his tenure with HKPolyU, he secured 16 RGC CERG/GRF grants, along with two ITF grants, two RFCID/HMRF grants and one RGC/NSFC joint grant, and one RGC CRF grant as a Co-PI. His technology contributions are in a broad area linking thermal and fluid sciences with building environment. He is an editor -in- chief of the Elsevier journal Energy and Buildings, and sits in the editorial board of the Elsevier journal Building and Environment and Journal of Building Performance Simulation, IBPSA’s official journal published by Taylor & Francis Journal. He was awarded the fellowship by three leading societies, ASHRAE(American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers), ISIAQ(International Society of Indoor Air Quality) Academy of Fellows, and IBPSA (International Building Performance Simulation Association) Academy of Fellows.

Bin Chen is a distinguished professor of energy system modelling at Beijing Normal University. He obtained B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University, and Ph.D. degree in environmental science from Peking University. Dr. Chen has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious international journals such as Science Advances, Nature Communications, Nature Climate Change, PNAS, etc. He has 8 ESI-Most Cited Articles and 12 Top 25 Hottest Articles (Elsevier). His works are widely recognized and have more than 10000 citations with H-index of 51 according to Web of Science. He is serving as Editor-in-Chief of Energy, Ecology and Environment, Executive Editor of Journal of Cleaner Production, Associate Editor of Frontiers of Earth Science, Subject Editor of Applied Energy, and an editorial board member of Energy, Ecological Modelling, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Hydrodynamics and Ecological Informatics, etc. He was also among the organizers and keynote speakers for various international conferences.

Professor Wei-Hsin Chen is a Distinguished Professor of Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University in 1993. After receiving his Ph.D. degree, Dr. Chen worked in an iron and steel corporation as a process engineer (1994-1995). He joined the Department of Environmental Engineering and Science, Fooyin University in 1995 and was promoted to a full professor in 2001. In 2005, he moved to the Department of Marine Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University. Two years later (2007), he moved to the Department of Greenergy, National University of Tainan. Now he is a faculty member and distinguished professor at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. Professor Chen visited the Princeton University, USA, from 2004 to 2005, the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 2007, the University of Edinburg, UK, in 2009, the University of British Columbia, Canada, from 2012 to 2013, and the University of Lorraine, France, in 2017 as a visiting professor. He was also an invited lecturer in the University of Lorraine in 2019. His research topics include bioenergy, hydrogen energy, clean energy, carbon capture, and atmospheric science. He has published around 400 papers in international and domestic journals and conferences. He is the associated editor of International Journal of Energy Research, and the editorial members of a number of international journals, including Applied Energy, Energies, BMC Energy, Energy, Ecology and Environment, etc. He is also the author of several books concerning energy science and air pollution. Recently, his important awards include 2015 and 2018 Outstanding Research Award (Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan), 2015 Highly Cited Paper Award (Applied Energy, Elsevier), 2017 Outstanding Engineering Professor Award (Chinese Institute of Engineers), and 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher Awards.

Over the last several decades, hydrogen has been considered as a promising green fuel to substitute fossil fuels for heat and power generation. This arises from the fact that hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. Hydrogen is a non-carbon fuel; therefore, no air pollutants are emitted when hydrogen is burned. Meanwhile, hydrogen is a potential energy carrier, so it can be delivered to the appropriate places for its usage. In recent years, significant progress in proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) has been made. Accordingly, hydrogen can be applied in the transportation sector through the applications of PEMFC. On account of foreseeable hydrogen economy in the future, hydrogen production with efficient route becomes a crucial task in the development of hydrogen technology. Thermochemical process for hydrogen production has received much attention when compared to other methods. In this talk, a number of novel methods using thermochemical conversion technologies, such as steam reforming, partial oxidation, autothermal reforming, in different reactors for producing hydrogen will be introduced. Both the experimental and numerical studies conducted in our laboratory will be illustrated. The important findings from these studies will be highlighted.