International Symposium on Green Technologies and Applications

Bio: Dr Roberto Castello holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Particle Physics from the University of Torino, Italy. He worked as Research Fellow for the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) and later at the CERN Experimental Physics division as a Senior Research Fellow and Data Scientist. In 2018 he joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) as a Senior Scientist and group leader at the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory to work on data mining and Machine Learning for the built environment and renewable energy. He has started and led multiple collaborations with academic and industrial partners in the energy domain. His main research interests focus on spatial-temporal modelling of renewable energy potential, energy consumption forecasting, anomaly detection, and computer vision techniques for an automated classification of the built environment. In 2021 Dr Castello joined the EPFL Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) as a Principal Data Scientist with the mission of accompanying industries, NGOs and international organizations through their data science journey.

More info about Dr Roberto Castello activities and publications can be found in: https://people.epfl.ch/roberto.castello

Bio: Dr Nadia Maïzi is Professor of Applied Mathematics at MINES ParisTech, and is running the Center for Applied Mathematics, where she leads a team of 45 researchers and PhD students involved in energy and climate issues. Since September 2015, she is member of the Sustainable Development Researchers Review Committee for the French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy. Since October 2013, she is the representative of the Ministry of Research in the industrial plan on smart grids in France, and has led two national actions dedicated to training and R&D strategy. She is now President of the Training Council for the Association REI/Smart Grids France. Nadia is also Director of the ParisTech Chair Modeling for sustainable development (www.modelisation-prospective.org) for MINES ParisTech: a 5 years project renewed in 2014 where the ambition of prospective modeling is to provide consistent tools for the dialogue in the energy and climate fields between decision makers, experts and scientists. The Chair is funded by EDF, ADEME, GRTgaz, SCHNEIDER Electric and the French Ministry for Sustainable Development. In this framework, Nadia heads the ParisTech Non Governmental delegation at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change since 2009. Nadia Maïzi is a PhD from the Ecole des Mines de Paris (1992), her first degree is in civil engineering from the same Grande Ecole (Mines, Paris: P85). In 1994 she secured a post-doctoral position at the University of Stanford (Robotics Laboratory and Computer Science Department). She has received the honors of Chevalier de la légion d’honneur, Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite and Chevalier des Palmes Académiques.

More info about Dr Nadia Maïzi activities and publications can be found in: https://www.cma.mines-paristech.fr/en/site-page/nadia-ma%C3%AFzi

Bio: Dr Ah-Lian Kor is part of Leeds Beckett MSc Sustainable Computing Curriculum Development Team. She has been involved in several EU projects for Green Computing, Innovative Training Model for Social Enterprises Professional Qualifications, and Integrated System for Learning and Education Services. She has published work on ontology, Semantics Web, Web Services, Portal and semantics for GIS. She is active in AI research and has developed an intelligent map understanding system and reasoning system.

She is an Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Web Portals; a member of IQN (international quality network for spatial cognition); sits on many international conference program/technical committees (e.g. IEEE Cloud Computing, Cyberlaws Conference, ICT-EurAsia, etc.); an active paper reviewer for journals and conferences (e.g. AMCIS, International Journal of Emergency Services, Inderscience journal, etc.); Editorial Advisory Board Member for International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems and  International Journal on Advances in Security; an associate member of the EPSRC funded e-GISE (e-Government and System Evaluation) Network) and has helped organise an international workshop (eGOV’05) for the network.

More info about Dr Ah-Lian Kor activities and publications can be found in: https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/dr-ah-lian-kor/

Bio: Dr. Wonyong Choi received B.S. from Seoul National University (Korea) in 1988, M.S. from POSTECH (Korea), and Ph.D. from CALTECH (USA) in 1996. He then worked at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1996 to 1998 as a postdoctoral scholar. He joined POSTECH in 1998 as an assistant professor and became a full professor in 2008. In 2022, he moved to Korea Institute of Energy Technology (KENTECH) to establish KENTECH Institute of Environmental and Climate Technology as an inaugural director. His research interests are mainly focused on semiconductor photo(electro)catalysis and photochemistry for solar energy conversion and environmental applications, advanced oxidation processes, and environmental chemistry. Dr. Choi has published more than 340 articles. He was appointed as Namgo Chair professor (POSTECH) in 2012, elected as Academician of Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) and Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2014. He received Young Scientist Award (KAST) in 2005, KAST Science and Technology Award in 2015, Korea Engineering Award in 2018, Doosan Yonkang Environment Award in 2020, and was selected as Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics in 2019, 2020, and 2021. He is currently serving as an editor-in-chief of ACS ES&T Engineering since Jan. 2020. He has been also on the advisory board of Nature Sustainability (since 2020), Energy and Environmental Science (since 2008) and ACS Earth and Space Chemistry (since 2017).

More info about Dr. Wonyong Choi’s activities and publications can be found in: https://epa.kentech.ac.kr/