Personal Comfort Systems for Improving Indoor Thermal Comfort and Air Quality

Faming Wang received his Lic. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Working Environment from Lund University, Sweden. After his PhD training, he joined EMPA (Switzerland) and University of Alberta (Canada) as Marie Curie Fellow (postdoc) and Killam Fellow (postdoc), respectively. In October 2013, Dr. Wang was appointed to a faculty position as Distinguished Full Professor at Soochow University, where he established Laboratory for Clothing Physiology and Ergonomics (LCPE), a research group that is focused on the study of the human body-clothing-environment system. In Aug. 2016, Dr. Wang joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an assistant professor. Recently Dr. Wang joined the Department of Biosystems of KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium) as Associate Professor. Prof. Wang's research interests are focused on built environment, indoor thermal comfort, air quality, human thermoregulatory system modeling, and occupational safety and health. To date, He has published extensively with over 260 journal papers, books/chapters, technical reports and patents. His publications have been cited over 3200 times and this gives him an h-index of 32 in Google Scholar (as of Nov. 2022).

Bin Yang got his joint PhD from Technical University of Denmark and National University of Singapore. He got his bachelor and master degree from Tianjin University (China). He is a researcher with 20 years research experience in thermal comfort, indoor air quality, building energy efficiency and HVAC. He has worked in different countries with world famous research groups such as Technical University of Denmark and University of California Berkeley. He was a tenured professor in Umeå University, Sweden. Now he is a chair professor and school dean in School of Energy and Safety Engineering, Tianjin Chengjian University, China. He has obtained several awards such as REHVA Young Scientist Award, ASHRAE Ralph Nevins Physiology and Human Environment Award, ASHRAE GraduateGrant-in-Aid Award, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, and so forth. He has published more than 100 papers in international journals with h-index 23. He is associate editors and editorial board members for several international journals. His outstanding research achievements were reported by Xinhua News Agency and China National Radio in 2021.

Qihong Deng obtained his PhD degree in civil engineering from Hunan University in 2003, is now a chair professor in Zhengzhou University School of Public Health and vice president for the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ). He has mainly focused on the health risk of air pollution and global warming, with the objectives to design comfortable and healthy buildings/cities. He is associate editors and editorial board members for more than 10 international journals, including Environment International, BMC Medicine, Building and Environment, Energy and Buildings, and Urban Climate. Dr. Deng is now the Fellows of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ), New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM), Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), and Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS). He has published more than 150 papers in international journals with h-index 39 and has been selected as the Most Cited Chinese Researchers since 2015 (Elsevier).

Maohui Luo is an assistant professor at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Dr. Luo hold a PhD in architecture technology from Tsinghua University, China. He received his postdoctoral training at Center for Built Environment at University of California Berkeley. His research interests are sustainable building-energy technologies, currently including localized (wearable) comfort devices, indoor air movement, and radiant heating/cooling comfort. Dr. Luo also teaches R programming online to help students acquire data analyzing skills.

王發明（Faming Wang）在瑞典隆德大學獲得工作環境學的哲學碩士和博士學位。在博士學位培訓結束後，他分別作為瑪麗居里研究員（博士後）和基拉姆研究員（博士後）加入了瑞士EMPA和加拿大阿爾伯塔大學。2013年10月，王博士被任命為蘇州大學的特聘教授，並在那裡建立了衣物生理學和人體工程學實驗室（LCPE），該研究小組致力於研究人體-衣物-環境系統。2016年8月，王博士加入香港理工大學擔任助理教授。最近，王博士加入比利時魯汶大學生物系作為副教授。王教授的研究興趣集中在建築環境、室內熱舒適度、空氣質量、人體熱調節系統建模以及職業安全與健康。迄今為止，他已發表了超過260篇期刊論文、書籍/章節、技術報告和專利。他的著作已被引用超過3200次，在Google Scholar上的h指數為32（截至2022年11月）。

楊斌（Bin Yang）在丹麥技術大學和新加坡國立大學獲得聯合博士學位。他在天津大學（中國）獲得學士和碩士學位。他是一位在室內熱舒適度、室內空氣質量、建築能源效率和暖通空調方面擁有20年研究經驗的研究人員。他曾在丹麥技術大學和加利福尼亞大學伯克利分校等世界知名研究團隊中工作。他曾是瑞典烏梅奧大學的終身教授。現在他是中國天津城建大學能源與安全工程學院的講座教授和學院院長。他獲得了多個獎項，如REHVA青年科學家獎、ASHRAE拉爾夫·內文斯生理學和人類環境獎、ASHRAE研究生獎助金、國家優秀自負盈虧留學生獎等。他在國際期刊上發表了100多篇論文，h指數為23。他是幾本國際期刊的副主編和編委會成員。他的傑出研究成果在2021年被新華社和中國國家廣播電台報導。

鄧啟宏（Qihong Deng）於2003年在湖南大學獲得土木工程博士學位，現任鄭州大學公共衛生學院的講座教授和國際室內空氣質量和氣候學會（ISIAQ）副主席。他主要關注空氣污染和全球變暖對健康的風險，旨在設計舒適和健康的建築/城市。他是超過10本國際期刊的副主編和編委會成員，包括《環境國際》、《BMC醫學》、《建築與環境》、《能源與建築》和《城市氣候》。鄧博士現為國際室內空氣質量和氣候學會（ISIAQ）、紐約醫學院（NYAM）、英國皇家公共衛生學會（RSPH）和英國皇家氣象學會（RMetS）的院士。他在國際期刊上發表了150多篇論文，h指數為39，並自2015年以來被選為最具引用的中國研究人員（Elsevier）。

羅茂輝（Maohui Luo）是中國上海的同濟大學助理教授。羅博士在中國清華大學獲得建築技術博士學位，並在加利福尼亞大學伯克利分校的建築環境中心進行博士後培訓。他的研究興趣包括可持續建築能源技術，目前包括本地化（可穿戴式）舒適設備、室內空氣流動和輻射供暖/冷卻舒適度。羅博士還在線教授R編程，以幫助學生獲得數據分析技能。