KEYNOTE Speaker
EXPERTS
Jinkeun Kim
Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea
Dr. Kim is a professor of the Department of Environmental Engineering at the Jeju National University since 2011. He received a B.S. in Environmental Engineering at University of Seoul in 1991 and a M.S. in Environmental Health Sciences at Seoul National University in 1994. He worked as an environmental engineer at K-water in Republic of Korea for ten years prior to start his Ph.D course. He received a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2004. His research is in the areas of water and wastewater treatment processes; water quality management and groundwater management. He has published more than 30 papers in peer-reviewed academic journals such as ES&T, Water Research, etc. He is a registered professional engineer (P.E.) and director of Jeju Green Environment Center.
Hyunook Kim
University of Seoul, Korea
Dr. Hyunook Kim is Professor at Environmental
Engineering, University of Seoul, Korea, and Director of R&D Center
of Core Technologies for Water Treatment. Professor Kim earned his
B.S. degree in Environmental Science from Yonsei University, Korea
in 1994, and an M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering from Johns
Hopkins University in 1997, and a Ph.D. from University of Maryland
at College Park in 2000. Before he joined the faculty member at
University of Seoul in 2002, he worked as Environmental Engineer for
US Dept. of Agriculture, MD, USA.
Professor Kim’s research in the area of water pollution control
includes a number of projects on process control and operation of
water and wastewater treatment plants. Especially he is interested
in monitoring and control of contaminants of emerging concern. He
has published numerous journal papers and made conference
presentations. He has been received a few awards for his academic
and research achievements.
Irene M. C. LO
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Irene Lo is
currently a Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology. She is an Elected Member of the European Academy of
Sciences and Arts, and Elected Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of
Engineering Sciences. She is also a Fellow of Hong Kong Institution
of Engineers, and Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
She was appointed by HKSAR Government as Justices of the Peace (JP)
in 2017. She was also Adjunct Professor of Tongji University,
Tianjin University, Jilin University and Harbin Institute of
Technology. She had been Visiting Professor of Technical University
of Denmark and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Prof. Lo is an internationally renowned scholar and is among the
first to invent iron-based nanomaterials and photocatalytic
materials for the removal of heavy metals, organics, and emerging
pollutants such as antibiotics from water and subsurface environment
as well as to investigate the fundamental understanding of the
pollutant removal mechanisms. Her research is ground-breaking and
innovative, sustainable, and the outcome application is economical.
She was the recipient of numerous prestigious international research
awards, such as 2007 ASCE Samuel Arnold Greeley Award, 2009 ASCE
Wesley W Horner Award, and the 2012 ASCE EWRI Best Practice-Oriented
Paper Award. In addition, she received the 2019 Higher Education
Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards in the Natural
Science/Technology Advancement by Ministry of Education, China. She
has been invited to give over 100 plenary/keynote/invited speeches
at many international and regional conferences in Asia, Europe,
Africa, and North America.
Her research interests include advanced oxidation processes and
nanoparticles/nanotechnology for environmental applications. Her
citation is ~21000 with H-index 78, as reported by Google Scholar.
She was recognized as "Top 2% Scientists in the World” by Stanford
university in the past years since 2019.
Speech title "Sustainable
photoelectrochemical technology for sewage treatment with green
energy generation"
