Dr. Jie Lin is a lecturer at School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Queen's University Belfast. With a PhD dissertation in decoupled latent and sensible cooling, he has been conducting research on dew-point evaporative cooling, membrane-based dehumidification and thermal management, and extending his interests to battery energy storage such as characterization, diagnostics and modeling. He has developed significant expertise in design, model, fabrication, characterization and test of many sustainable energy devices and systems for energy conversion and storage, air conditioning, and thermal management. He has published 28 international top journals articles, including in leading journals in the field, such as Communications Engineering, Small, Energy Conversion and Management, and Applied Energy, with a current 672 citations since 2016 and 15 h-index. He has successfully been awarded the "Futures Early Career Award" twice by UK Science and Technology Facilities Council and the"Innovation/Entrepreneurship Practicum Award" by National University of Singapore. He has also served as a Guest Editor for several reputable journals in MDPI.
Dr. Kian Jon Chua is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore. He has been conducting research on renewable energy systems and heat recovery systems since 1997. He has conducted both modelling and experimental works for specific thermal energy systems including thermal desalination. He is highly skilled in designing; fabricating; commissioning and testing many sustainable energy systems to provide for heating, cooling and humidity control for both small and large scale applications. He has more than 200 international peer-reviewed journal publications, 6 book chapters and two recent monographs on advances in air conditioning. He has been elected to several fellowships including Fellow of Royal Society, Fellow of Energy Institute and Fellow of IMechE. He was highlighted among the top 1% of scientists in the world by the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network and top 2% of energy researchers in the Stanford list of energy researchers. His works has garnered more than 12,800 over citations with a current h-index of 60. He is the Associate Editor of several reputable journals in Elsevier, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis. He is on the editorial boards of numerous journals in Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, and MDPI. Further, he owns more than 10 patents related to several innovative cooling and dehumidification systems. On a regular basis, he has been invited to deliver many plenary and keynote talks on his research findings. He is the Principal Investigator of several multi-million competitive research grants. Additionally, he has been awarded multiple local, regional, and international awards for his breakthrough research endeavors.
林杰博士是貝爾法斯特女王大學機械與航空工程學院的講師。他在脫耦潛熱和感熱冷卻方面的博士論文中，一直在研究露點蒸發冷卻、基於膜的除濕和熱管理，並將他的興趣擴展到電池儲能，如特性、診斷和建模。他在設計、模型、製造、特性和測試許多可持續能源設備和系統方面具有豐富的專業知識，包括能源轉換和儲存、空調和熱管理。他已發表了28篇國際頂級期刊文章，包括在該領域的領先期刊，如通信工程、Small、能源轉換與管理和應用能源，自2016年以來已經被引用了672次，具有15個h指數。他曾兩次獲得英國科學與技術設施委員會的“未來早期職業獎”，並獲得新加坡國立大學的“創新/創業實習獎”。他還擔任了幾本MDPI期刊的客座編輯。
蔡建中博士目前是新加坡國立大學機械工程系的副教授。自1997年以來，他一直在可再生能源系統和熱回收系統方面進行研究。他對特定熱能系統，包括熱脫鹽，進行了建模和實驗工作。他在設計、製造、調試和測試許多可持續能源系統方面具有高度技術能力，可為小型和大型應用提供供暖、冷卻和濕度控制。他在國際同行評審的期刊上發表了200多篇文章，6篇專書章節，以及關於空調進展的兩本最新專著。他當選為皇家學會院士、能源學會院士和IMechE院士。他被全球通用科學教育和研究網絡評為全球頂尖1%的科學家，以及斯坦福能源研究者名單中頂尖2%的能源研究者。他的作品已經獲得了超過12,800次引用，目前的h指數為60。他是Elsevier、Wiley和Taylor & Francis等知名期刊的副編輯，並擔任Elsevier、Springer、Taylor & Francis和MDPI等多本期刊的編輯委員會成員。此外，他擁有與幾種創新冷卻和除濕系統相關的10多項專利。他經常應邀發表關於他的研究成果的主題演講和專題演講。他是幾個數百萬競爭性研究資助項目的首席調查員。此外，他還因其突破性的研究成果獲得了多個本地、區域和國際獎項的殊榮。
