2026 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Development and Energy Resources (SDER 2026)

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Prof.Tongyi Zhang

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China & Shanghai University

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Biography:

Prof. Tongyi Zhang is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Professor at Shanghai University, a Chair Professor at The Hong Kong University of Science andTechnology (Guangzhou), and the Dean of the Materials Genome Institute of Shanghai University, with expertise in materials science, engineering science, and solid mechanics. In December 2011, he was elected as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Prof. Zhang serves as Vice President of the Far East and Oceanic Fracture Society and as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Conference on Fracture. His honors and awards include the State Natural Science Award (Second Class, twice), the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, the ASM International Fellow Award, the Young Science and Technology Award from the China Association for Science and Technology, and the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress.

Prof. Marc A. Rosen
Ontario Tech University, Canada
Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering

Biography:
Marc A. Rosen, Ph.D., is a Professor at University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada, where he served as founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Dr. Rosen has served as President of the Engineering Institute of Canada and of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering. He has acted in many professional capacities, including Editor-in-Chief of various journals and a Director of Oshawa Power and Utilities Corporation. With over 70 research grants and contracts and 900 technical publications, Dr. Rosen is an active teacher and researcher in sustainable energy, sustainability, and environmental impact. Much of his research has been carried out for industry. Dr. Rosen has worked for such organizations as Imatra Power Company in Finland, Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, the Institute for Hydrogen Systems near Toronto, and Ryerson University in Toronto, where he served as Chair the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Industrial Engineering. Dr. Rosen has received numerous awards and honours, and is a Fellow of numerous societies .

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Prof. AGUSTIN VALERA-MEDINA

Cardiff University, UK

Professor at Cardiff School of Engineering. He has participated as PI/Co-I on 43 industrial projects with multi-nationals including PEMEX, Rolls-Royce, Siemens, Ricardo, WWU and FloGas (>£41M). He has published +270 papers (h-index 53), most concerning ammonia power. Prof. Valera-Medina led Cardiff’s contribution to the Innovate-UK ‘Decoupled Green Energy’ Project (2015-2018) led by Siemens and in partnership with STFC and the University of Oxford, which aims to demonstrate the use of green ammonia produced from wind energy. He is currently PI of various projects (incl. SAFE-AGT, FLEXnCONFU, OceanREFuel, CAIPIRINH3A, etc.) to demonstrate ammonia power in turbine engines, Internal Combustion Engines, boilers and furnaces. He has been part of various scientific boards, chairing sessions in international conferences and moderating large industrial panels on the topic of “Ammonia for Direct Use”. He has supported two Royal Society Policy Briefings related to the use of ammonia as energy vector, and he is principal authors of two books concerning ammonia combustion. He chairs the topic of “Ammonia Firing” for the British Standards Institute, and he is Co-Director of the Institute of Net Zero Innovation, Director of the Centre of Excellence on Ammonia Technologies (CEAT), Cardiff University. He is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and the Mexican Academy of Engineering.

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Assoc. Prof. Yunlong Zi

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China

Prof. Yunlong Zi, PhD, FInstP, SMIEEE, FIAAM, is an Associate Professor in Thrust of Sustainable Energy and Environment in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – Guangzhou (HKUST-GZ). Prof. Zi received his Ph.D. in Physics from Purdue University in 2014; his Bachelor of Engineering in Materials Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2009. Before joining HKUST, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong during 2017-2022, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology during 2014-2017. Prof. Zi is an active scholar in the field of triboelectric nanogenerator for high-performance energy harvesting. He coined the field of tribo-photonics toward the self-powered wireless sensing solutions. He has published over 150 journal publications with total citation of over 16000. Prof. Zi was honored as Fellow of Institute of Physics (FInstP) 2023; Senior Member of IEEE (SMIEEE) 2023; MIT Technological Review 35 Innovators Under 35 Asia & Pacific 2022; Nano Energy Award winner 2021. He was also as Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM) 2021; Vebleo Fellow 2021; the winner of MRS Postdoctoral Award by Materials Research Society in 2017; the Emerging Investigators by Journal of Materials Chemistry C in 2018; MINE Young Investigator Finalist in 2018; and one of “5 students who are transformation makers” as highlighted in Purdue homepage in 2013.