Pioneering Approaches in Intelligence, Optimization, and Viability for Renewable Energy Development

Dr. Karthickeyan Viswanathan is an Associate Professor at the Dr. N.G.P. Institute of Technology, India, and a Visiting Associate Research Professor at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Jiangsu University, China. Dr. Viswanathan has published more than 70 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and holds 3 industrial design patents in India. He works on projects under the Department of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Government of India. Stanford University has selected his research profile as one of the Top 2% of Scientists from 2020 onwards. He has been selected as a Research Fellow Under NCKU 90&Beyond Scheme, Ministry of Education, Taiwan. He is an International Association for Carbon Capture (IACC) Executive Member.

Prof. Wei Wu is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1995. He was a recipient of the Professor Tsai-Teh Lai Award from the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers (2016), the Excellent Research Award from Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (2018), and the Excellent Research Award from National Cheng Kung University (2019). His research interests include process design, renewable energy, and circular economy.

Prof. Shuang Wang is a Professor at the School of Energy and Power Engineering at Jiangsu University, China. His research interests include thermo-chemical conversion, the renewable energy sector, economic studies, solid waste-based energy development, and molecular simulation. He has received grants from the country's leading funding agencies, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Post Doctoral Research Funding Scheme of Jiangsu Province in China, and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. He has published more than 200 publications in well-reputed peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Sivakumar Esakkimuthu is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Energy and Power Engineering, Jiangsu University, China. He holds a Ph.D. in Microbial Biotechnology from Bharathiar University, India. His research has focused on methods to enhance the potential of renewable biofuels, and he has experience in microalgal-based bio-energy production and exploiting the biochemical composition variation in microalgae to benefit fuel production.