Keynote Speaker I
Prof.
Hiroyuki Nakamura
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Hiroyuki Nakamura was received his PhD from Tohoku
University under the supervision of Professor Yoshinori
Yamamoto in 1996. He became an assistant professor at Kyushu
University (1995-1997) and at Tohoku University (1997-2002).
He worked as a visiting assistant professor at University of
Pittsburgh with Professor D. Curran (2000-2001). In 2002, he
was appointed as an associate professor at Gakushuin
University and promoted as a professor in 2006. In 2013, he
was appointed as a professor at Tokyo Institute of
Technology. He received the Chemical Society of Japan Award
for Young Chemists in 1999 and the Incentive Award of the
Japanese Society for Molecular Target Therapy of Cancer in
2007. He became president of the Japanese Society of Neutron
Capture Therapy in 2015. His research interests include
synthetic methodology, medicinal chemistry, chemical
biology, photodynamic therapy, and neutron capture therapy.
Professional Societies
Chemical Society of Japan
American Chemical Society
The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
International Society of Neutron Capture Therapy (Board of
Councilor, 2004-present)
Japanese Society for Neutron Capture Therapy (Committee,
2003-present)
The Japanese Society for Molecular Target Therapy of Cancer
(Committee, 2009-present)
The society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (Editorial
Committee, 2010-present)
Keynote Speaker II
Prof. Mariano J. Savelski
Rowan University, USA
Dr. Mariano J. Savelski is Professor and Department Head of
Chemical Engineering at the HMR College of Engineering at
Rowan University. He joined Rowan as one of the founding
members of the college of engineering in 1999. He was is
charged of creating the design sequence curriculum and the
unit operations laboratory in preparation for the first ABET
accreditation.
Dr. Savelski holds a chemical engineering degree from the
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, ME in chemical
engineering from The University of Tulsa and a Ph.D., also
in chemical engineering, from The University of Oklahoma.
He has five years of industrial experience as a process
engineer designing chemical and food manufacturing plants
and two years as food quality and safety engineer at Kellogg
in Argentina.
Dr. Savelski’s research area includes process design and
analysis, life cycle analysis and carbon footprint of
industrial processes, sustainable manufacturing, and food
manufacturing processes. He has authored well over fifty
peer reviewed publications and presented his work worldwide.
Keynote Speaker III
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 IV
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).
