Scientific program

Oct 21-22, 2019    Toronto, Canada

Frontiers in Green and Sustainable Energy

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Speakers

Registrations
08:00 AM-08:30 AM Hall 1

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Welcome Note
08:30 AM-08:55 AM Hall 1

Welcome Note

Canada

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Introduction
08:55 AM-09:00 AM Hall 1

Introduction

Canada

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Nesrin Ozalp usa
09:00 AM-09:40 AM Hall 1

Title: Sunshine to fuels, power, and commodities for promising new industrial transition

Biography: Nesrin Ozalp is a Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at University of Minnesota Duluth, and an Affiliate Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington’s Mechanical Engineering Department. Dr. Ozalp specializes in the areas of designing novel solar reactors for emission-free generation of fuels. She is the Lead Principal Investigator of research projects totaling more than $4M, the corresponding author of 100+ peer reviewed journal, book chapter, and conference papers, Co-PI of completed Phase I of Solar Carbon Black commercialization with Fraunhofer, supervised 25 graduate students’ theses, served in 7 Editorial Boards and 22 Scientific Advisory Boards of international conferences and associations. She has given 30 invited/keynote talks on her research at institutes including the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Fraunhofer-IWS, NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW), and others. She is an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering, and the recipient of many research and teaching awards including the Outstanding Reviewer Award by the ASME Heat Transfer Division, and the College-Level Distinguished Teaching Award by the Texas A&M Association of Former Students. Dr. Ozalp is an ASME Fellow.

Marc A Rosen Canada
09:40 AM-10:20 AM Hall 1

Title: Enhancing the prospects for biofuels and other forms of renewable energy through the utilization of hydrogen energy systems

Biography: Marc A. Rosen is a Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada, where he served as founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Dr. Rosen was President of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of several journals and as a Director of Oshawa Power and Utilities Corporation. With over 60 research grants and contracts and 800 publications, Dr. Rosen is an active teacher and researcher in sustainable energy, environmental impact, and energy technology (including renewable energy and efficiency improvement). Much of his research has been carried out for industry, and he has written numerous books. Dr. Rosen has worked for such organizations as Imatra Power Company in Finland, Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, and the Institute for Hydrogen Systems near Toronto. Dr. Rosen has received numerous awards and honors, and is a fellow of several societies and organizations.

Aïda Ben Hassen Trabelsi
10:20 AM-11:00 AM Hall 1

Title: Municipal solid waste as a valuable renewable source of energy: trends and future opportunities of energy recovery in Tunisia

Biography: Aïda Ben Hassen Trabelsi, Dr-Ing in Environmental sciences, is currently Associate Professor at the Research and Technology Centre of Energy CRTEn (Tunisia). She took her Engineering degree in Geosciences from the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis (Tunisia) on 2001, her Master Degree (on 2003) and PhD (on 2007) on geochemistry, from Orleans University (France), and her HDR (on 2017) on "Waste Management" from the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis (Tunisia). Aïda Ben Hassen Trabelsi is conducting research activities mainly on biomass recovery and waste management. She is leading the research group "Waste-to-Energy" in CRTEn, working on biomass recovery, waste management, bioenergy, nutrient recovery, green chemistry and circular economy. Her main research interests are are centered in the field environmental geochemistry, focusing in the biomass or biowastes characterization, biofuels production, biochar production and valorisation, biofuels characterization and valorization, innovative technologies for thermochemical conversion of wastes into second generation biofuels environmental aspects associated to biowastes conversion. She has several publications in the environmental field and especially in the solid waste valorization. She has participated in several national and international projects dealing with biowastes valorization as biofuels. She is the coordinator of the MENA Regional Branch of the IWWG (International Waste Working Group).

Refreshment Break
11:10 AM-11:30 AM

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Group Photo
11:40 AM-12:00 AM Hall 1

Group Photo

Canada

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Workshop
12:00 PM-12:10 PM Hall 1

Workshop

Canada

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Prof Dr Sung Kang - United States
12:10 PM-12:40 PM Hall 1

Title: Harnessing fluid-structure interactions to utilize ambient wind energy for self-powered devices

Biography: Sung Hoon Kang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics at Harvard University and M.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT. He has been investigating bioinspired solutions to address current challenge in engineering materials and mechanical systems with applications including energy, protection, and healthcare. In particular, he and his colleagues have been studying harvesting ambient mechanical energy using rationally designed and/or synthesized piezoelectric materials through the support of the Office of Naval Research and Johns Hopkins University. Throughout his career, he has co-authored 36 peer-reviewed papers, has given over 80 presentations (including ~50 invited talks), and has two patents. He served as an editorial board member of Scientific Reports and currently serves as the Vice Chair of ASME Technical Committee on Mechanics of Soft Materials and will serve as Chair in 2020.

Shams Al Ajrawi
12:40 PM-01:10 PM Hall 1

Title: Investigating feasibility of multiple transmitters in BCI applications

Biography: Shams Al Ajrawi associate faculty of the Department of Cyber Security in University of San Diego, Electrical and Computer Engineering in San Diego State University, and Applied Engineering in National university. Her M.S and Ph.D. degrees at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and San Diego State University (SDSU) under the guidance of Dr. Sarkar and Dr. Ramesh Rao. She received her B.S. degree in Computer Engineering in May 2000 from Technology University. She has worked previously as a research scientist at SDSU, San Diego, CA. Her research interest lies in the area of Wireless Data Networks. She is investigating MAC layer power management algorithms and Quality-of-Service issues and protocols in WBANs, sensor networks, and wireless ad-hoc networks

Arshpreet Singh India
01:10 PM-01:40 PM Hall 1

Title: Re-using machining scrap: An alternative approach

Biography: Dr. Arshpreet Singh is working asan Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, India. He received his PhD degree in the area of flexible forming techniques from Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India in 2017. His research area is prodominantly Manufacturing, with focus on flexible forming techniques, machining, mechanical metallurgy, CAD/CAM, sustainable manufacturing and process analysis through finite element methodology. He has published 14 papers in peer reviewed internal journals and conferences. He has 5 years of teaching and research experience.

Lunch
01:40 PM-02:30 PM Hall 1

Lunch

Canada

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Carla Duarte-Nass
02:30 PM-03:00 PM

Title: Evaluation of microbial induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) process for copper bioprecipitation in wastewater.

Biography: Carla Duarte-Nass is Civil Industrial Engineer and Master of Philosophy degree in Engineering Sciences with Specialization in Biotechnology from La Frontera University in Temuco, Chile. Currently, she is student of the Program of Doctorate in Engineering Sciences with Specialization in Bioprocesses in the same university. Before she started her doctorate studies, she worked for 4 years in the Research and Development Department of Procesos Naturales Vilkun S.A., a berry dehydrating company, developing new technology related with freeze-drying. Now, she is working on a project related with heavy metal bio-precipitation, particularly in copper removal of wastewater from mining industry. She had presented her work on three Chilean congresses and is co-author in the published article “Can Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP) through a Ureolytic Pathway Be Successfully Applied for Removing Heavy Metals from Wastewaters?” (doi.org/10.3390/cryst8110438). Carla grew up in Temuco and loves teaching and make research in food and environmental subjects.

Dr. Murari Mohon Roy (Canada)
03:00 PM-03:30 PM

Title: Comparison of Water and Glycerine-Emulsified Diesel-Biodiesel Blends and Their Performance and Emissions in a Modern Small DI Diesel Engine

Biography: Murari Mohon Roy Received the Doctor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan in 2001. Currently he is serving the Engineering Faculty at Lakehead University, Canada.He has presented or published close to a hundred papers on his research at technical conferences and in ASME, SAE, JSME, IMechE, Elsevier and other journals.

Bhagyashree Tiwari
03:30 PM-04:00 PM

Title: Removal of pharmaceutical pollutant from hospital wastewater – Profiling and role of microbial community

Biography: Bhagyashree Tiwari is a doctorate student at INRS-ETE, Quebec, Canada. She graduated in Master’s in Biotechnology from Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology & Sciences, Allahabad, India in 2014. Her doctoral research focused on the removal of pharmaceuticals residues from hospital wastewater using ultrafiltration technology. Further her study reveals the microbial community dynamics during treatment of hospital wastewater in membrane bioreactor. Before joining INRS-ETE, she did her master dissertation from CSIR- IITR, Lucknow, India on degradation of polyaromatic hydrocarbons using selected bacterial strain. Her research interest lies in the treatment of wastewater, identification and characterization of microscopic organisms and on molecular biology approach for emerging contaminant treatment. She is the recipient of prestigious scholarship for doctoral research from INRS-ETE, Canada. She was the recipient of mobility grant from Venice International University to attend the workshop in Venice, Italy. Including 7 book chapters, she has 5 publications and 6 conference presentations.

Break
04:00 PM-04:20 PM

Break

Canada

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Madhu Agarwal
04:20 PM-04:50 PM Hall-1

Title: Biodisel production in Reverse Helical Coil Reactor

Elsayed Elbeshbishy
04:50 PM-05:20 PM Hall-1

Title: " Pretreatment technologies for enhancing anaerobic digestibility of municipal solid wastes "

Biography: Dr. Elsayed Elbeshbishy is an assistant professor at Ryerson University. He is collaborating with different Canadian industries and municipalities for developing new technologies for value-added products recovery from wastes. He investigated different pretreatment technologies for enhancement of biohydrogen and biomethane production from municipal solid wastes. He introduced ultrasonication, for the first time, as a novel pretreatment method for enhancing biohydrogen production from solid waste as opposed to the common application of ultrasonication prior to anaerobic digestion to enhance methane formation. He has more than 50 peer reviewed journal article, 70 conference proceeding, and three book chapters with h-index of 22. Dr. Elbeshbishy focuses in developing new solid pre-treatment technologies to enhance the anaerobic digestion process.

Mr parmjit singh  - Inda
05:20 PM-05:50 PM Hall-1

Title: Experimental Evaluation of the effect of Compression Ratio on Performance and Emission of CI engine fuelled with Argemone Biodiesel blend with Diesel at different loads

Biography: Parmjit Singh is working a Graduate Engineer Trainee in Central Institute of Hand Tools (MSME Tool Room, Jalandhar) Govt of India. He received his Master of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Lovely Professional University at Jalandhar in 2015. During the past decade his work has focused upon developing cost-effective methods for reducing cost of production of Alternative Fuel. He has two years experience in heat treatment and his area of interest including Heat Treatment and Alternative fuel.

Refreshment Break
05:50 PM-06:00 PM

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Sarvar Hussain Nengroo
05:00 PM-05:30 PM Hall-1

Title: Hybrid Photovoltaic and Battery Storage system: An Optimal Strategy to Manage Peak Hours

Biography: Sarvar Hussain Nengroo received his B.Tech. degree in Electrical and Renewable Energy Engineering from the Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Currently, he is a graduate student at Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea. His research interests include renewable energy aggregation, smart microgrids, power system protection, power electronics, and intelligent control for high-power electronics applications.

Speakers

introduction
09:00 AM-09:10 AM

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Sasankasekhar Mandal
09:10 AM-09:50 AM Hall 1

Title: New findings on harnessing the wind resources: The Indian Scenario

Biography: Prof. S Mandal possesses 17 years of teaching experience and has published research papers in the broad area of structural engineering. He has guided 3 PhD theses and 44 M. Tech. dissertations in the broad area of structural Engineering. He has published 19 research papers in peer reviewed journals and 35 papers in National and International Conferences. His main research areas are Wind effects on Structures (WES), Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Advanced Concrete Technology (ACT).

Hossam Gaber
09:50 AM-10:30 AM Hall 1

Title: A Technological Review for Pyrolytic Oil Production Derived from Biomass Using Rapid Pyrolysis

Biography: Dr. Hossam Gaber is leading research in the area of waste-to-energy with advanced plasma technologies. He worked in international research projects related to biomass/biofuel (Japan), plastic production chain with recycling (Japan), and leading research group to plasma-based plastic-to-oil pyrolysis and MSW gasification process technology. He the founding chair of the IEEE technical committee on Intelligent Green Production Systems (IGPS) and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Process Systems Engineering (IJPSE). He is expert in intelligent safety and control systems and their applications on clean energy technologies. This research facility will extend the research capabilities in the research group within UOIT and will allow ROI for energy from waste. It will support the research activities in plasma generation, diagnostics, and control, and their applications on high performance waste-to-energy process technology.

Dário Oliveira da Silva Júnior
10:30 AM-11:10 AM Hall 1

Title: Biosustainable impacts of the use of macroalgae used as biofertilizers

Biography: Dário has his expertise in investment management, import, export and international representation services. He has 20 years of experience in international business and also works in social project management. He knows how to make the connections between suppliers with their national and international buyers. He has many connections in Brazil and other investor countries to whom his partners' projects and other products are presented. He conducts business roundtables and international business missions to bring partners closer to investors. For each completed trade, he uses 3% of the profit to be invested in social projects and thus help the communities that will benefit from these projects.

Break
11:10 AM-11:30 AM Hall 1

Break

Canada

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Workshop
11:30 AM-11:50 AM

Workshop

Canada

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Muhammad Usman Khan
11:50 AM-12:20 PM Hall 1

Title: Anaerobic digestion of lignin to produce methane; influence of Wet Explosion Pretreatment

Biography: Muhammad Usman Khan is a graduate student of Biological Systems Engineering and is working on anaerobic digestion of different substrates after pretreatments to enhance methane production. Lignin is considered inert under anaerobic conditions. Mr. Khan is working on lignin pretreatment to enhance its degradation during anaerobic digestion. Lignin conversion to biogas will open new pathway for biofuel industry this abundantly available raw material.

Bhoomika Yadav
12:20 PM-12:50 PM Hall 1

Title: Microbial production, characterization, and application of extracellular polymeric substances using wastewater sludge with crude glycerol

Biography: Bhoomika Yadav is a Ph.D. student at INRS-ETE, Quebec, Canada. She has completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s in Biotechnology from Amity University Rajasthan in 2018. In her master’s dissertation, she has worked in National Centre for Microbial Resource, Pune on antibiotic resistance profiling of bacterial population from wastewater treatment plants and how they are responsible for the spread of bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes. Her doctoral research is focussed on the downstream processing of microbial proteins during the recovery of high-value added intracellular products. Currently, she is working on extracellular polymeric substances production and their potential applications. Her research interest focuses on the production of bioplastics, treatment of wastewater, bioprocess and downstream processing of proteins. She has received a prestigious scholarship of FONCER TEDGIEER in her doctoral program. In addition, she has 1 publication and 6 book chapters.

Medan Kumar Gauli Napal
12:50 PM-01:20 PM Hall 1

Title: The probability and challenge of Green Nanotechnology in developing nations: A Case Reality in Nepal

Biography: Confident, motivated and articulate with 12+ years’ experience in Academic and Management Sectors Key skills in academic deliveries, critical analysis of different management principles and thoughts and training and coaching people Capable of developing creative solutions through formulating, implementing and evaluating action plans Major strength in training, counselling, marketing, communication, and thriving new challenges

Lunch
01:20 PM-02:10 PM

Lunch

Canada

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Bhagyashree Tiwari
02:10 PM-02:40 PM Hall 1

Title: Removal of pharmaceutical pollutant from hospital wastewater – Profiling and role of microbial community

Biography: Bhagyashree Tiwari is a doctorate student at INRS-ETE, Quebec, Canada. She graduated in Master’s in Biotechnology from Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology & Sciences, Allahabad, India in 2014. Her doctoral research focused on the removal of pharmaceuticals residues from hospital wastewater using ultrafiltration technology. Further her study reveals the microbial community dynamics during treatment of hospital wastewater in membrane bioreactor. Before joining INRS-ETE, she did her master dissertation from CSIR- IITR, Lucknow, India on degradation of polyaromatic hydrocarbons using selected bacterial strain. Her research interest lies in the treatment of wastewater, identification and characterization of microscopic organisms and on molecular biology approach for emerging contaminant treatment. She is the recipient of prestigious scholarship for doctoral research from INRS-ETE, Canada. She was the recipient of mobility grant from Venice International University to attend the workshop in Venice, Italy. Including 7 book chapters, she has 5 publications and 6 conference presentations.

Lei Zuo
02:40 PM-03:10 PM Hall 1

Lei Zuo

USA

Title: Large Scale Vibration Energy Harvesting from Vehicles and Oceans

Biography: Lei Zuo completed his PhD in mechanical engineering (2005) and MS degrees in both mechanical engineering and electrical engineering from MIT. He is currently a full professor at Virginia Tech and serves as the Director of NSF Industry-University Collaborative Research Center (I/UCRC) for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems. Lei Zuo’s research interests include energy harvesting, mechatronics design, vibration control, and advanced manufacturing. He authored over 100 papers in academic journals and over 160 papers in technical conferences, including 5 with best paper and 2 with best student paper awards. He has secured over 13 million US dollars of research funding (over $11M as the PI) from NSF, DOE, ONR, EPA federal funding agencies, NY and VA states, and various industry companies. He has advised 10 PhD and over 40 MS students to completion and is currently advising 11 PhD and 6 MS students. The ASME recognized him as “a pioneering researcher in energy harvesting, especially at larger energy scale” with its 2015 Thar Energy Design Award. Zuo is also the sole recipient of the 2017 ASME Leonardo da Vinci Award. He won R&D100 Awards twice (2015 and 2011) from R&D Magazine, which recognizes the top 100 technology innovations in the word of the year. Lei Zuo is an elected Fellow of ASME. He is a general co-chair of the ASME 2019 IDETC/CIE conference.

Dr. Tae-In Ohm
03:10 PM-03:40 PM Hall-1

Dr. Tae-In Ohm

S. Korea

Title: Combustion Characteristics of solid refuse fuel for power generation

Biography: Dr. Tae-In, Ohm has been working as a professor at the department of environmental engineering, Hanbat National University, Korea since 1995. He majored mechanical engineering to design the incinerator for municipal and industrial solid wastes. Currently, his main research topics are CFD study to design the combustor for solid refuse fuel and development of the recycling process for the waste refrigerant and plastics.

Refreshment Break
03:40 PM-04:00 PM

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Farokh Kakar
04:00 PM-04:30 PM

Farokh Kakar

Canada

Title: Resource Recovery from municipal wastes by Combining Hydrothermal Pretreatments and Fermentation

Biography: Farokh Kakar is a PhD candidate in a Canadian university and an instructor in the civil engineering school in a college. She holds a MASc in civil engineering and currently pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Civil Engineering department of Ryerson University focusing on Resource recovery from industrial and municipal waste. She has more than 5 years of project management owning her own company and teaching experience in university as an assistant professor and vice dean. She has presented her research work on effect of hydrothermal pretreatment on biological treatment of waste and resource recovery in many conferences. She is actively involved in community volunteer works by leading two programs in Society of Women Engineers and Canadian Association for Water Quality. She is a young water professional passionate about contributing in solving major global challenges of Global Warming and Energy Crisis and changing the future of water works in remote areas of developing countries.

Sebastian Zapata
04:30 PM-05:00 PM Hall-1

Title: Long term effects of renewables diffusion on the Colombia power market

Biography: Sebastian Zapata is a system engineer and PhD in computer science. He holds his PhD in Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and he made a research stay in Imperial College London during 6 months in which he studied the Argentine electricity market. He has also been involved in outbreak investigations of Colombian, Brasil and UK electricity. He has papers in Energy Policy, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy, Energies and Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments. Daniel grew up in a small town in Colombia and he likes to play basketball and play videogames.

Sarvar Hussain Nengroo
05:00 PM-05:30 PM Hall-1

Title: Hybrid Photovoltaic and Battery Storage system: An Optimal Strategy to Manage Peak Hours

Biography: Sarvar Hussain Nengroo received his B.Tech. degree in Electrical and Renewable Energy Engineering from the Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Currently, he is a graduate student at Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea. His research interests include renewable energy aggregation, smart microgrids, power system protection, power electronics, and intelligent control for high-power electronics applications.

Awards & Closing Ceremony
05:30 PM-06:00 PM

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Speakers

10:00 AM-10:30 AM Hall 1

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10:30 AM-11:00 AM Hall 1

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11:00 AM-11:15 AM Hall 1

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11:15 AM-12:35 PM Hall 1

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Medan Kumar Gauli Napal
12:35 PM-12:55 PM Hall 1

Title: The probability and challenge of Green Nanotechnology in developing nations: A Case Reality in Nepal

Biography: Confident, motivated and articulate with 12+ years’ experience in Academic and Management Sectors Key skills in academic deliveries, critical analysis of different management principles and thoughts and training and coaching people Capable of developing creative solutions through formulating, implementing and evaluating action plans Major strength in training, counselling, marketing, communication, and thriving new challenges

Debabrata Das india
12:55 PM-01:15 PM Hall 1

Title: Improvement of gaseous energy generation from organic wastes by Biohythane process

Biography: Dr. Debabrata Das has pioneered the promising R&D of Bioenergy production processes by applying fermentation technology. He is actively involved in the research of hydrogen biotechnology for a period of last twenty years. His recent work on biohythane process for the maximization of gaseous energy recovery from the organic wastes is worth mentioning. He has 6 books, 150 research publications in the peer reviewed journals (h-index 48) and 36 chapters in the books published by International publishers. He has two Indian patents. Recently, he successfully demonstrated 10 m3 biohydrogen pilot plant study for the commercial exploitation of biohydrogen production process. He IAHE Akira Mitsui Award in 2008 and BRSI Malaviya Memorial award (for senior faculty) in 2013 for his biohydrogen research work. He is the member of the editorial board of International Journal of Hydrogen Energy;Indian Journal of Biotechnology; Biotechnology for Biofuels; The Open Microalgae Biotechnology Journal; INAE Letters

01:15 PM-02:05 PM Hall 1

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Shams Al Ajrawi
02:05 PM-04:05 PM Hall 1

Title: Investigating feasibility of multiple transmitters in BCI applications

Biography: Shams Al Ajrawi associate faculty of the Department of Cyber Security in University of San Diego, Electrical and Computer Engineering in San Diego State University, and Applied Engineering in National university. Her M.S and Ph.D. degrees at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and San Diego State University (SDSU) under the guidance of Dr. Sarkar and Dr. Ramesh Rao. She received her B.S. degree in Computer Engineering in May 2000 from Technology University. She has worked previously as a research scientist at SDSU, San Diego, CA. Her research interest lies in the area of Wireless Data Networks. She is investigating MAC layer power management algorithms and Quality-of-Service issues and protocols in WBANs, sensor networks, and wireless ad-hoc networks

04:05 PM-04:20 PM Hall 1

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Prof Dr Sung Kang - United States
04:20 PM-06:10 PM Hall 1

Title: Harnessing fluid-structure interactions to utilize ambient wind energy for self-powered devices

Biography: Sung Hoon Kang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics at Harvard University and M.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT. He has been investigating bioinspired solutions to address current challenge in engineering materials and mechanical systems with applications including energy, protection, and healthcare. In particular, he and his colleagues have been studying harvesting ambient mechanical energy using rationally designed and/or synthesized piezoelectric materials through the support of the Office of Naval Research and Johns Hopkins University. Throughout his career, he has co-authored 36 peer-reviewed papers, has given over 80 presentations (including ~50 invited talks), and has two patents. He served as an editorial board member of Scientific Reports and currently serves as the Vice Chair of ASME Technical Committee on Mechanics of Soft Materials and will serve as Chair in 2020.

06:10 PM-06:30 PM Hall 1

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