Professor Geof Tomlinson is currently the Director of the Dainton-Boucher Institute (the DBI). This is a new University of Sheffield initiative to create a stronger research footprint in Singapore. The Institute will act as a hub for research developments in Singapore and will initially focus on the fields of Aerospace Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing. Prior to this, from 2001-2008, Professor Tomlinson was the Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and from 1995 to 2001, he was the Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering. Over the period 1998 to 2007, he was also the Director of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Materials Damping Technologies, a field of research in which he is still very active. He was a member of the Main Panel G (Engineering) and Chair of the Sub-Panel for the General Engineering for the RAE 2008. He has continued working with the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) as a member of the Expert Advisory Panel for the Research Excellence Framework (REF). Professor Tomlinson's current research interests are in the fields of novel damping materials and non-linear structural dynamics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Aeronautical Society, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Chartered Engineer. He holds several external professorial positions, acting as an advisor to the European Institute for Innovation and Technology, several National and International Universities, HEFCE, EPSRC and is a member of the National Technical Committee on Aerospace Materials and Structures. He is on several editorial boards and acts as a reviewer for international journals.

Professor Bijnan Bandyopadhyay is a professor in the Systems & Control Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai India. He was born in 23rd August 1956 at Kirnahar, District. Birbhum, West Bengal, India. He receives his Bachelor in Engineering (Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering) from Bengal College of Engineering Calcutta, Calcutta University in 1978. His Ph. D (Electrical Engineering) was received from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1986. He was appointed as a lecturer in Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi University from 1985 to 1987. He then moves to continue his education career at the Systems and Control Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Bombay from 1987 until now and he was appointed as a professor in October 1998. Professor Bandyopadhyay field of interest includes large scale systems, nuclear reactor control, space launch vehicles (stability and control) and gas turbines (stability and control). He has received several awards including the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany in 1995 and the UK India Education Research and Initiative (UKIERI) Major Award in 2007.

Prof. Bernd Linke is currently the Deputy Director of ATB and Head of the Department of Bioengineering Department at the Leibniz Research Institute for Agricultural Engineering (ATB), Potsdam-Bornim. He obtained his first degree in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Dresden, majoring in waste and wastewater treatment. Further, he received his Doctorate Scientiae Agriculturarum from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the GDR, in the field of anaerobic digestion. Prof. Linke was appointed as honorary professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin, teaching lectures and practical exercises on bioconversion processes. He has published more than 80 journals and granted with 16 patents. Proudly to mention, Prof. Linke received a medal of honour, "Heinz Schulz" of the German Biogas Association. He becomes the national task leader of IEA Bioenergy Task 37. His research is focused on the anaerobic digestion, looking into the evaluation of large scale biogas plants in Germany, kinetics of biogas production from animal manure, biogas crops, organic waste from agroindustry, development of two phase reactor systems, monitoring of methanogenic populations in biogas fermenters.

Prof. Dr. Tatsuo Kitajima is a Professor of the department of Electronic Systems Engineering in the Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), UTM International Campus. He has received the B.E., the M.E., and the D.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1968, 1970, and 1973, respectively. He joined the department of Information Engineering in Technical Junior College of Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Japan, as a senior lecturer and an associate professor in 1973 and 1978, respectively. From 1981 to 1982, he visited the Instiitut für Systemdynamik und Regelungstechnik (Director: Prof. Dr.-Ing. E.D.Gilles) of Universiät Stuttgart, Stuttgart, West Germany (currently Germany), as a Visiting Researcher. Since 1983, he was an associate professor of the departments of Information Engineering, Electrical Information Engineering, and Bio-System Engineering in Faculty of Engineering of Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Japan. In 2003, he promoted to a full professor of the department of Bio-System Engineering in Faculty of Engineering of Yamagata University and retired from Yamagata University on March 2011. Since May 2011, he holds a current post in MJIIT. His research interests have been computational algorithms for the optimal control problem of distributed parameter system and the computational neuroscience research to clarify the mechanism of information processing in the brain. His current research activities are mainly focused on modeling and simulation for phenomena observed in the brain, such as synaptic plasticity and subthreshold resonance phenomena, which are now thought to be one physiological fundamental process for learning and memory. The catch copy of his research is "Approach to mystery of the brain from an engineering point of view".

Prof. Dr. Yunus A. Çengel is currently the Vice President of The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. He received his Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1984 from North Carolina State University in USA. Before joining YTU in 2010, he served as a faculty member at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA for 18 years, and as the director of the Industrial Assessment Center at UNR. Professor Çengel is the author or coauthor of the widely adopted textbooks Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, Fundamentals of Thermal-Fluid Sciences, Heat and Mass Transfer: Fundamentals and Applications, Fluid Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications, Essentials of Fluid Mechanics, and Introduction to Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, all published by McGraw-Hill. Some of his textbooks have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian, Greek, and French. He is the recipient of several outstanding teacher awards, and he has received the ASEE Meriam/Wiley Distinguished Author Award twice. He currently serves as the advisor the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources and the Ministry of National Education in Turkey.

Prof. Dr. Shoichiro Ikeda is a Professor of the department of Environmental and Green Technology in the Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), UTM Kuala Lumpur. He has received the B.E., the M.E., and the D.E. degrees in applied chemistry from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in 1968, 1970, and 1973, respectively. He joined the department of Industrial and Synthetic Chemistry in Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, as an assistant professor and a senior lecturer 1974 and 1976, respectively. From 1984 to 1985, he visited University California Santa Barbara, USA (Director: Prof. J. H. Kennedy, Chemistry Department,) as a Visiting Researcher of JST. Since 1989, he was an associate professor of the departments of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan. In 2005, he promoted to a full professor of the department of Environmental and Urban Planning in Graduate School of Engineering of Nagoya Institute of Technology. He was elected the dean of Tsukuri College of Nagoya Institute of Technology between 2006 and 2008, and retired from Nagoya Institute of Technology on March 2009. He also lectured in Faculty of Engineering, Aichi Institute of Technology as a part time lecturer since 1989 until 2011. He worked as a technical advisor of a private venture company, Shion co., ltd. in Nagoya, Japan from 2009 until 2012. Since February 2012, he holds a current post in MJIIT. His research interests have been related to applied electrochemistry and industrial inorganic chemistry, solid electrolytes (Solid State Ionics) and nano-materials for energy generation and storage, chemical- and bio-sensors, and environmental chemistry (Fixation of carbon dioxide to useful materials by electrochemically and photo-electrochemically). His current research activities are mainly focused on carbon nano-materials and their application to energy generation and storage and the other applications such as additives for lead-acid battery regeneration and environmental friendly non-oily lubricants. The catch copy of his research is "Environmental Green Technologies for Sustainable World".

Prof. Ka Ming NG is Chief Executive Officer of Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Ltd. and Chair Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. From 1980 to 2000, he served as Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He was Head of Department from 2002 to 2005 in Hong Kong. He held visiting positions at DuPont, MIT and the National University of Singapore. His research interests center on product conceptualization, process design and business development involving water, biochemicals, natural herbs, polymers, pharmaceuticals, nanomaterials, semiconductors and other advanced materials. He is currently Corporate Science and Technology Advisor of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation; he was a team member in the development of a novel 50,000 tonne monomer plant that won The Japan Petroleum Institute Award for Technological Progress in 2004. He is a member of the editorial boards of Korean J. Chem. Eng., Chinese J. Chem. Eng., Comp. & Chem. Eng., Chem. Eng. Res. Des. (UK), and Reviews in Chem. Eng. Prof. NG is the recipient of the General Electric Outstanding Teaching Award. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers where he received the Excellence in Process Development Research Award in 2002.

Prof. Dr. Kanao Fukuda is a Professor and Head of Tribology & Precision Machining Research Laboratary, Mechanical Precision Engineering, Malaysia – Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia. He is also a guest Professor and Research Professor for Kyushu University, Japan. He received his Bechelor of Sceince and Master in Mechanical Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He had his PhD of Engineering from Kyushu University. He has 20 years'of working experiences as a researcher, senior researcher, manager and general manager in Nippon Steel Corp. Japan. And its subsidiary company (1986 – 2006). He was then appointed as an Associate Professor and Professor for the International Research Center for Hydrogen Energy, Kyushu University (2006 – 2011). He has contributed his expertise as an editor and reviewer for the Japanese Society of Tribologist Journal from 1996 – 1997 and the Online English Journal from 2009. He has received several awards and the most recent was a Winner of Distinguished Presentation Award, International HYDROGENIUS and I2CNER Joint Symposium on 3rd February 2011.

Prof. Dr. Khalid Ibrahim Alhumaizi is currently the Dean for the Engineering Faculty, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is a Professor in the department of Chemical Engineering and has since been in the academia field since 1986. He received his Bechelor of Sceince in Chemical Engineering from King Saud University and later received his Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1990. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1994. His research in the reactor reactor fields also includes reactor sytem, modeling, simulation, heat transfer studies and catalyst studies. He also involves in research projects such as Principle Investigator – "Dynamic analysis and control of ethylene dimerization reactors" (2003-2005) and Principle Investigator – "Modelling, simulation, optimization and control of gas-phase polyethylene reactors" (2001-2002).