Plenary & Keynote Speakers

Dr. Srinivas Garimella
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Plenary Speaker

Dr. Srinivas Garimella is the Hightower Chair in Engineering and Director of the Sustainable Thermal Systems Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has held prior positions as Research Scientist at Battelle Memorial Institute, Senior Engineer at General Motors Corp., and Associate Professor at Western Michigan University and Iowa State University. He conducts research in the areas of microscale phase change heat and mass transfer, vapor compression and sorption heat pumps, and heat recovery, upgrade and storage. He is a Fellow of the ASME and of ASHRAE. He is Editor of the Int. J. Air-conditioning and Refrigeration, and past Associate Editor of the ASME J. Heat Transfer and ASME J Energy Resources Technology, and of the ASHRAE SBTE Journal. He is Past Chair of the Advanced Energy Systems Division of ASME and was on the ASHRAE Research Administration Committee. He held the William and Virginia Binger Associate Professorship of Mechanical Engineering at ISU. He has mentored over 75 postdoctoral researchers, research engineers and students pursuing their M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, with his research resulting in over 375 archival journal and conference publications, a textbook on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Minichannels and Microchannels (2nd Ed., Elsevier 2014), and books on Condensation Heat Transfer (World Scientific Publishing, 2015) and Adsorption Heat Pumps (Springer Nature, 2021.) He has been awarded seventeen patents. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (1999), the ASHRAE New Investigator Award (1998), the SAE Ralph E. Teetor Educational Award for Engineering Educators (1998), and was the Iowa State University Miller Faculty Fellow (1999-2000) and Woodruff Faculty Fellow (2003-2008) at Georgia Tech. He received the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award (2024), the Georg Alefeld Memorial Award for lifelong contributions to Sorption Heat Pumps (2024), the ASME Award for Outstanding Research Contributions in the Field of Two-Phase Flow and Condensation in Microchannels (2012) and the Prominent Researcher Award at the Micro Flow and Interfacial Phenomena Conference 2022 for sustained and outstanding contributions to the fundamentals of phase change heat transfer at mini‐ and micro‐scales and coupled heat and mass transfer in binary fluids. He also received the Thomas French Distinguished Educator Achievement Award (2008) from The Ohio State University, the Zeigler Outstanding Educator Award (2012), and the Sigma Xi Sustained Research Award (2023) at Georgia Tech.

Topic of Keynote: Condensation at Small Scales: Measuring, Modeling, and Applications
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Dr. Savvas Tassou
Brunel University London, UK
Plenary Speaker

Savvas Tassou is Professor of Energy Engineering at Brunel University London and Director of The Centre for Sustainable Energy Use in Food Chains. Over the years he held several senior positions at Brunel University London including Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Head of School of Engineering and Design and Director of The Institute of Energy Futures. Research expertise covers the areas of heat pumps, refrigeration and air conditioning, energy demand reduction in the built environment, food systems and industry, heat and mass transfer and heat exchangers and heat to power conversion technologies.

Topic of Keynote: Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles and Technologies for High Temperature Waste Heat To Power Conversion

Dr. Jules Thibault
University of Ottawa, Canada
Dr. Jules Thibault

Jules Thibault obtained his bachelor of chemical engineering at the Royal Military College in 1973. He later obtained a PhD in Chemical Engineering from McMaster University in 1978 where he worked on the topic of heat transfer in nuclear reactors. Following his PhD Professor Thibault spent four years in the Canadian Armed Forces, including two six-month postings to Egypt and Cyprus with the United Nations. From 1981 to 1984, he taught in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the Royal military College, after which time he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering of Laval University. In 2000, he moved to the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Ottawa. His research interests are in biochemical engineering, and process simulation, control and optimization.

Topic of Keynote: Estimation and Analysis of Transport Properties in Mixed-Matrix Membranes for Enhanced Gas Separation: An Integrated Experimental and Computational Study
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Dr. Bofeng Bai
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Keynote Speaker

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Dr. Yunting Ge
London South Bank University, UK
Keynote Speaker

Prof. Yunting Ge is currently a Professor of Building Services Engineering at the School of The Built
Environment and Architecture and London South Bank University (LSBU) in the UK. He is also the
Director of the Centre for Civil and Building Services Engineering (CCiBSE) in the school. He gained his
BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees from Xi’an Jiaotong University (BSc, MSc) and Tsinghua University (PhD)
in the field of Thermofluids, Energy, Hydrogen, and Built Environment.
Prof. Ge has accumulated over 25 years of research and development experience in Built Environments,
Energy Conversation Technology, Hydrogen, and Thermofluids. He has unique skills in modelling
development for buildings, different energy systems, and components. He has also developed a CO2
transcritical compressor model which has been used by a famous commercial software ‘Energy Plus’.
Many of his heat exchanger design software has been utilised by companies across the UK. In addition,
He has developed a supermarket energy control system model which has been widely recognised. He is
currently leading some research projects funded by EPSRC & Innovate UK. As a principal investigator
(PI), he has obtained more than £5.16m of research funding to support his various projects. So far, He
has supervised more than 12 Ph.D. students and several post-doctoral research fellows. Furthermore,
he has published over 150 peer-reviewed scientific journals and conference papers. Externally, he is the
President of IIR Commission E1 (International Institute of Refrigeration). In addition, he is currently the
associated editor of the Journal of Energy Report. Furthermore, he has been also a committee member
of several international conferences

Topic of Keynote: High-Temperature Chemical Heat Pump Systems with Alloy Selections, Characterisations, Simulation and Experiment Development
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