Keynote Speaker

Fariborz HAGHIGHAT (Fellow of the ASHRAE)

Concordia University, Canada

Dr. Fariborz Haghighat is a professor at the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering – Concordia University, Canada. His current research focuses on the fundamental of heat and mass transport in the built environment, and on its applications in the design and analysis of energy-efficient, healthy/immune, and sustainable buildings/communities.

Professor Haghighat is a Fellow of the ASHRAE and an elected member of the International Academy of Indoor Air Science. He is the Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Sustainable Cities and Society and the Co-Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Energy and Built Environment, and a member of the Editorial Board of several international scientific journals. He has published more than 300 journal and conference papers and presented numerous talks on selected aspects of Energy and Environment.
 

Invited Speaker

Hongyu Zhu

Inner Mongolia University of Technology

Dr. Hongyu Zhu is a recipient of the Young Talents Support Program (Doctoral Special Project) by the China Association for Science and Technology. She has long been engaged in research on the collaborative response and optimal operation of distributed flexible resources in source-grid-load-storage systems. Dr. Zhu has served as the principal investigator and participated in numerous national and provincial-level projects, including the China Association for Science and Technology's Young Talents Support Program (Ph.D. Special Project) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She has published over 30 SCI-indexed papers, and has received the Second Prize in the National University Electrical Engineering Course Experimental Teaching Case Design Competition and the Baosteel Education Award.