Prof. Hossam A.Gabbar
University of Ontario
Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada
Dr. Gabbar is a full Professor in the University of Ontario
Institute of Technology (UOIT) in the Faculty of Energy Systems and
Nuclear Science, and cross appointed in the Faculty of Engineering
and Applied Science, where he has established both the Energy Safety
and Control Lab (ESCL) and Advanced Plasma Engineering Lab. He is
the recipient of the Senior Research Excellence Aware for 2016,
UOIT. He is leading national and international research in the areas
of smart energy grids, safety and control systems, advanced plasma
systems and their applications on nuclear, clean energy and
production systems. He is leading research in Canada with
international recognition in energy safety and control for nuclear
and energy production facilities. Dr. Gabbar obtained his B.Sc.
degree in 1988 with first class of honor from the Faculty of
Engineering, Alexandria University (Egypt). In 2001, he obtained his
Ph.D. degree from Okayama University (Japan) in the area of Safety
Engineering. From 2001 till 2004, he joined Tokyo Institute of
Technology (Japan), as a research associate in the area of process
systems engineering. From 2004 till 2008, he joined Okayama
University (Japan) as a tenured Associate Professor, in the Division
of Industrial Innovation Sciences. From 2007 till 2008, he was a
Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto, in the Mechanical
Engineering Department.
He has more than 210 publications, including patents, books /
chapters, journal and conference papers. He been invited and
participated in world-known conferences and delivered plenary talks
on number of scientific events and through invitations to
international universities, including: Alexandria University-Egypt,
Helwan University-Egypt, Qatar University-Qatar, PI-UAE, Mayor of
Nanjing-China, Tsinghua University-China, China University of
Petroleum-China, UTM-Malaysia, Oil & Gas Industry-UAE / Kuwait,
University of New Mexico-USA, Durham Strategic Energy Alliance
(DSEA)-Canada, R&D Priorities to Integrate Natural Gas and
Electricity infrastructure to Maintain Flexible-Canada, Canada
Mission to China, Energy Hearing Committee in the House of Commons
in Ottawa-Canada, and Canadian Workshop on Fusion Energy-Canada.
Dr. Gabbar has been active in leading national and international
scientific and community events and activities, including: Nuclear
Safety Standards within CSA – Canadian Standard Association, IEEE
Annual Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE), IEEE
Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Symposium on Real Time
Measurement, Instrumentation, and Control (RTMIC), IEEE Nuclear and
Plasma Sciences Society Symposium on Plasma and Nuclear Systems
(SPANS), and other international events. He is the Editor-in-Chief
of the International Journal of Process Systems Engineering (IJPSE),
and member of IEEE Smart Grid Committees.
Keynote Speaker II
Prof. Gordon Huang
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science,
University of Regina, Canada
Dr. Gordon Huang is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair
in Energy and Environment, and Executive Director of
the Institute for Energy, Environment and
Sustainable Communities at the University of Regina,
Canada. He holds BSC from Peking University (China),
MSc from Simon Fraser University (Canada) and PhD
from McMaster University (Canada). Since the 1990s,
Huang has led over 150 research projects, produced
over 800 peer-refereed international journal papers
(with an SCI-based H-index of 51 in Science Citation
Index under Thomson Reuters' Web of Science), and
supervised over 100 Master/PhD students (with
degrees awarded). Over 20 Huang's PhD graduates were
appointed as faculty members at universities in
Canada, USA, China and Singapore. He is a Fellow of
the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the
President of the International Society for
Environmental Information Sciences. He also acts as
editor-in-chief for Journal of Environmental
Informatics (http://www.iseis.org/JEI/),
and served the United Nations Development Programme
as Chief Scientist for a program of Rural Water
Resources Management and Drinking Water Safety. His
pioneering work in environmental risk management has
been recognized as a significant innovation, and has
influenced government and business approaches for
tackling environmental challenges and formulating
related policies.
Keynote Speaker III
Prof. Jiancheng (James) Zheng
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Ottawa
Jiancheng (James) Zheng is a research scientist
(cold regions chemistry) with Geological Survey
Canada (GSC), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) based
in Ottawa (since 1999). He completed his
undergraduate program in chemistry in Wuhan
University, China, his master program in geosciences
with Ottawa University, Canada and his PhD program
in Environmental Geochemistry in Heidelberg
University, Germany. He is an adjunct professor with
the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Ottawa.
In the past 30 years, James was working on climate
changes and anthropogenic contaminants via studying
snow/ice cores and environmental waters. His major
research areas included archive reconstruction of
inorganic trace metals and paleoclimate variations
as well as monitoring of current climate trends with
ice and snow in the Canadian High Arctic. James
developed his GSC version of ultra clean protocol
for snow/ice sampling, processing and sample
storage/protection for studies of trace elements
with ultra low concentrations. James is currently
working on development of methodologies and quality
control protocols for practical operation in
laboratory and in the filed. He has recently set up
a laboratory for tangential flow filtration systems
for studying mobility and fate of trace elements in
environment waters. James’ interest also extends to
other contaminants, both inorganic and organic,
contaminant source apportionment, the linkage of
archives between ice cores and other records.
Keynote Speaker IV
Prof. Ming J Zuo
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Alberta, Canada
Dr. Ming J Zuo received the Bachelor of Science
degree in Agricultural Engineering in 1982 from
Shandong Institute of Technology, China, and the
Master of Science degree in 1986 and the Ph.D.
degree in 1989 both in Industrial Engineering from
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A. He is
currently Full Professor in the Department of
Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta,
Canada. His research interests include system
reliability analysis, maintenance modeling and
optimization, signal processing, and fault
diagnosis. He is Associate Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Reliability, Department Editor of
IIE Transactions, Regional Editor of International
Journal of Strategic Engineering Asset Management,
Regional Editor of Chinese Journal of Mechanical
Engineering, and Editorial Board Member of
Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Journal
of Traffic and Transportation Engineering,
International Journal of Quality, Reliability and
Safety Engineering, and International Journal of
Performability Engineering. He is Fellow of the
Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers
(IISE), Fellow of the Engineering Institute of
Canada (EIC), Founding Fellow of the International
Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM), and
Senior Member of IEEE.
Plenary Speaker I
Prof. ZhongChao Tan
University of Waterloo, Canada
Prof. ZHONGCHAO TAN is with
the Department of Mechanical & Mechatronics
Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering
(Cross appointed), Department of Civil &
Environmental Engineering (Cross appointed),
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada from July
2017 to now. He is alaso the Senior Visiting
Professor of Department of Thermal Engineering,
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China from May-August
2017. He got the BSc and MSc from Thermal
Engineering of Tsinghua University, China; He got
the PhD from Bioenvironmental Engineering of
University of Illinois. He is the member of Waterloo
Institute for Nanotechnology and Waterloo Institute
for Sustainable Energy.
Keynote Speaker I
Prof. Hossam A.Gabbar
University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada
Dr. Gabbar is a full Professor in the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) in the Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science, and cross appointed in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, where he has established both the Energy Safety and Control Lab (ESCL) and Advanced Plasma Engineering Lab. He is the recipient of the Senior Research Excellence Aware for 2016, UOIT. He is leading national and international research in the areas of smart energy grids, safety and control systems, advanced plasma systems and their applications on nuclear, clean energy and production systems. He is leading research in Canada with international recognition in energy safety and control for nuclear and energy production facilities. Dr. Gabbar obtained his B.Sc. degree in 1988 with first class of honor from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University (Egypt). In 2001, he obtained his Ph.D. degree from Okayama University (Japan) in the area of Safety Engineering. From 2001 till 2004, he joined Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), as a research associate in the area of process systems engineering. From 2004 till 2008, he joined Okayama University (Japan) as a tenured Associate Professor, in the Division of Industrial Innovation Sciences. From 2007 till 2008, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto, in the Mechanical Engineering Department.
He has more than 210 publications, including patents, books / chapters, journal and conference papers. He been invited and participated in world-known conferences and delivered plenary talks on number of scientific events and through invitations to international universities, including: Alexandria University-Egypt, Helwan University-Egypt, Qatar University-Qatar, PI-UAE, Mayor of Nanjing-China, Tsinghua University-China, China University of Petroleum-China, UTM-Malaysia, Oil & Gas Industry-UAE / Kuwait, University of New Mexico-USA, Durham Strategic Energy Alliance (DSEA)-Canada, R&D Priorities to Integrate Natural Gas and Electricity infrastructure to Maintain Flexible-Canada, Canada Mission to China, Energy Hearing Committee in the House of Commons in Ottawa-Canada, and Canadian Workshop on Fusion Energy-Canada.
Dr. Gabbar has been active in leading national and international scientific and community events and activities, including: Nuclear Safety Standards within CSA – Canadian Standard Association, IEEE Annual Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE), IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Symposium on Real Time Measurement, Instrumentation, and Control (RTMIC), IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Symposium on Plasma and Nuclear Systems (SPANS), and other international events. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Process Systems Engineering (IJPSE), and member of IEEE Smart Grid Committees.
Keynote Speaker II
Prof. Gordon Huang
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Regina, Canada
Dr. Gordon Huang is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Energy and Environment, and Executive Director of the Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Communities at the University of Regina, Canada. He holds BSC from Peking University (China), MSc from Simon Fraser University (Canada) and PhD from McMaster University (Canada). Since the 1990s, Huang has led over 150 research projects, produced over 800 peer-refereed international journal papers (with an SCI-based H-index of 51 in Science Citation Index under Thomson Reuters' Web of Science), and supervised over 100 Master/PhD students (with degrees awarded). Over 20 Huang's PhD graduates were appointed as faculty members at universities in Canada, USA, China and Singapore. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the President of the International Society for Environmental Information Sciences. He also acts as editor-in-chief for Journal of Environmental Informatics (http://www.iseis.org/JEI/), and served the United Nations Development Programme as Chief Scientist for a program of Rural Water Resources Management and Drinking Water Safety. His pioneering work in environmental risk management has been recognized as a significant innovation, and has influenced government and business approaches for tackling environmental challenges and formulating related policies.
Keynote Speaker III
Prof. Jiancheng (James) Zheng
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Ottawa
Jiancheng (James) Zheng is a research scientist (cold regions chemistry) with Geological Survey Canada (GSC), Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) based in Ottawa (since 1999). He completed his undergraduate program in chemistry in Wuhan University, China, his master program in geosciences with Ottawa University, Canada and his PhD program in Environmental Geochemistry in Heidelberg University, Germany. He is an adjunct professor with the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Ottawa.
In the past 30 years, James was working on climate changes and anthropogenic contaminants via studying snow/ice cores and environmental waters. His major research areas included archive reconstruction of inorganic trace metals and paleoclimate variations as well as monitoring of current climate trends with ice and snow in the Canadian High Arctic. James developed his GSC version of ultra clean protocol for snow/ice sampling, processing and sample storage/protection for studies of trace elements with ultra low concentrations. James is currently working on development of methodologies and quality control protocols for practical operation in laboratory and in the filed. He has recently set up a laboratory for tangential flow filtration systems for studying mobility and fate of trace elements in environment waters. James’ interest also extends to other contaminants, both inorganic and organic, contaminant source apportionment, the linkage of archives between ice cores and other records.
Keynote Speaker IV
Prof. Ming J Zuo
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Alberta, Canada
Dr. Ming J Zuo received the Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Engineering in 1982 from Shandong Institute of Technology, China, and the Master of Science degree in 1986 and the Ph.D. degree in 1989 both in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A. He is currently Full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada. His research interests include system reliability analysis, maintenance modeling and optimization, signal processing, and fault diagnosis. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Department Editor of IIE Transactions, Regional Editor of International Journal of Strategic Engineering Asset Management, Regional Editor of Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, and Editorial Board Member of Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, International Journal of Quality, Reliability and Safety Engineering, and International Journal of Performability Engineering. He is Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), Founding Fellow of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM), and Senior Member of IEEE.
Plenary Speaker I
Prof. ZhongChao Tan
University of Waterloo, Canada
Prof. ZHONGCHAO TAN is with the Department of Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering (Cross appointed), Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering (Cross appointed), University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada from July 2017 to now. He is alaso the Senior Visiting Professor of Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China from May-August 2017. He got the BSc and MSc from Thermal Engineering of Tsinghua University, China; He got the PhD from Bioenvironmental Engineering of University of Illinois. He is the member of Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy.