Plenary Speakers
Prof. Shih-Cheng Hu
Advances in Micro-Contamination Control for Wafer Automatic Handling System in Cleanrooms
Professor Hu joined the National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT) in 1998 as an assistant professor, after serving as a HVAC engineer for two years in private sector and a staff researcher at the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) for six years. He was promoted to full-professor in 2006 and later elected as a Distinguished Professor in 2014. In 2023, he was awarded the title “University Chair Professor”, an honor professorship for 3% of full-professors at NTUT. The title “University Chair Professor” serves as recognition of the highest academic merit and is awarded to NTUT faculty members who have made a unique contribution to the quality of the University through distinguished accomplishments in research or creative work. Prof. Hu is one of the well-known researchers in the field of micro/ nano contamination control for nano-scale semiconductor manufacturing processes. His novel innovation "a total solution on humidity/oxygen control for wafer automatic handling system” has been imbedded and became a standard-installation for sub. 7nm process equipment utilized today. He established the "Center for Cleanroom Technology Research (CCTR)" at NTUT. Over the 15 years, the CCTR has secured many external research projects/funding/sponsorship and has supervised/mentored more than 150 Master/PhD students as well as post-doctors, who are now mostly active in the facility section of semiconductor manufacturing factories.
Prof. Hu was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clean Technology from 2004 to 2010 (in Traditional Chinese). He is the major co-author of the book “American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Cleanroom Design Guide”, with 21 chapters/425 pages. He has received many University/Government awards, most notably the “National Award for Distinguished Contribution to Industry-Academia Cooperation”, a top award issued by the Ministry of Education, and conferred by the President of TAIWAN. He is a Fellow grade member of the ASHRAE.
Prof. Ruzhu WANG
Sorption based energy-water-air nexus
Prof. Ruzhu WANG is a chair professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Directorof the Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics, Head of the MOE Engineering Research Center of Solar Energy. Prof. Wang has published 12 Books and over 700 co-authored international jour-nal papers and more than 150 patents, his ISI H-index is 85 with a citation over 30,000, His research area includes heat pumps, solar heating and cooling, green building energy systems, and energy-water-air nexus. His achievements have won Chinese National Research Awards in 2010 and 2014 respectively, and received Seven prestigious international academic awards in-cluding the J & E Hall International Gold Medal from the Institute of Refrigeration (UK), the Nukiyama Memorial Award from the Japanese Society of Heat Transfer, the IIR-Gustav Lo-rentzen Medal from the International Institute of Refrigeration, the Peter Ritter von Rittinger International Heat Pump Award from the International Energy Agency, and the Laureate of 2023 Global Energy Prize from the Global Energy Association. Prof. Wang is currently the Deputy editor-in-chief of Energy, associate editor-International Journal of Refrigeration.
Prof. Kiyoshi Saito
Digital transformation of heat pump technology
He is President of Japan Society of Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers (JSRAE), President of Japan Air-conditioning and Refrigeration Testing Laboratory (JATL). Prof. Saito is also working as Dean of sustainable energy and environment open innovation organization (SEES), and President of consortium for research strategy of next generation heat pump technology.
Prof. Yongchan Kim
Advanced Hybrid Heat Pumps for Plus Energy Buildings
Professor at School of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University; Director of New Energy Business, Convergence and Open Sharing System. He was a Dean of College of Engineering (2020-2022), and a Vice President of Research Planning (2015-2019), Korea University. He also served as a President of SAREK (2019). His research interests include renewable energy systems, advanced HVAC systems, zero energy buildings, and electronic cooling systems. He is a member of National Academy of Engineering of Korea, and fellow of SAREK and AUTSE. He received Academic Awards from KSME (2018) and SAREK(2006).