Keynote Speaker I
Prof. Sudantha Liyanage
Department of Chemistry, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences
Prof. Sudantha obtained his B.Sc. Special degree in Chemistry at University of Sri Jayewardenepura and obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry, at University of Wales, Cardiff,UK. He was also a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University of Wales, Cardiff and University of Ibaraki, Japan. He was the Chairman of the Royal Society of Chemistry Sri Lanka Section during 2013- 2014. He told Japura Media that his ultimate goal is to make the Faculty as the best Faculty of Science in the Sri Lankan university system.
Keynote Speaker II
Prof. King- Chuen Lin
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
King-Chuen Lin is a Distinguished Professor of the
Department of Chemistry at National Taiwan University and a
Distinguished Research Fellow of National Science Council,
Taiwan. He received his
B.S. degree in Chemistry from National Taiwan University,
Taiwan, his PhD in Chemistry from Michigan State University,
USA, and his postdoctoral career at Cornell University. His
research interests are photodissociation and reaction
dynamics in gas and condensed phases, atmospheric chemistry,
materials designed for sensors and catalysts, and single
molecule spectroscopy. He received Academic Award of
Ministry of Education, Taiwan, in 2014, and serves as an
Associate Editor for J. Chin. Chem. Soc.(Taipei) and a
member of Editorial Board for Scientific Reports (Nature
publisher), Journal of Analytical and Bioanalytical
Techniques (Gavin Publishers), and J. of Modern Chemical
Sciences (Herald Scholarly Open Access). He has published
more than 183 peer-reviewed papers and edited one book on
reaction dynamics and chemical kinetics.
Keynote Speaker III
Prof. M. R. Riazi
Kuwait University, Kuwait
Dr. M. R. Riazi is currently a professor and the chairman of
chemical engineering at Kuwait University. He received his
MSc and PhD degrees from Pennsylvania State University where
he served as an assistant professor of chemical engineering.
He was also a visiting scholar/faculty in both Chemical and
Petroleum Engineering Departments at Illinois (Chicago),
Texas (Austin), McGill (Montreal), Waterloo (Canada), Wright
State (Ohio), Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(Trondheim), and various universities in the Middle East.
He has about 140 publications including 5 books and a
solutions manual as well as about 100 conference
presentations mainly in the fields of petroleum and chemical
technology. He has been invited speaker and consultant to
more than 50 major oil companies and research centers
worldwide including invited moderator and panelist at World
Economic Forum and has conducted about 70 workshops and
short courses in more than 40 different countries.
He is the founding editor and editor in chief of
International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology,
IJOGCT (London, UK) and associate editor of Journal of
Petroleum Science and Engineering (Elsevier). He has been
awarded distinguished researcher and teaching awards at
several universities including an award from the former Amir
of Kuwait. He also received a Diploma of Honor from National
(American) Petroleum Engineering Society and is a Fellow of
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
Keynote Speaker IV
Prof. K. K. D. S. Ranaweera
University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
Director to the Bandaranaike Memorial Ayurveda Research Institute
(BMARI).
Board of Governors in Institute of Food Science and Technology Sri
Lanka.
M.Sc, Ph.D. (Academy of Science, USSR), Fellow Post Doc(UK)
Prof.
K.K.D.S. Ranaweera currently working as the Director to the
Bandaranaike Memorial Ayurveda Research Institute (BMARI) at
Maharagama and a Member of Board of Governors in Institute of Food
Science and Technology Sri Lanka. Till September 2011 he headed the
Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Sri
Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. He is supervising PhD, MPhil and MSc
students of areas related to Food Science and Technology and Human
Nutrition. Prof. Ranaweera also worked in different areas of work
like Java World Congress (JWC) 2010, an International event where
they build up Social capital to help achieving Millennium
Development Goals. International Potash Institute is another
institute he works for.
Research interests: Food Processing and Post Harvest Sciences,
Functional Foods
