Keynote Speakers
EXPERTS
Jinkeun Kim
Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea
Biography: 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
Biography: 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
Biography:
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"
