Plenary Speakers

Dr. Pawel Wargocki　＜Technical University of Denmark＞
Presentation title
The role of healthy buildings and HVAC in the green transition

Pawel Wargocki, a professor at the Technical University of Denmark, specializes in indoor air quality (IAQ). With over 30 years of research experience, he has expertise in environmental psychology, physiology, and exposure monitoring. He graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology and earned his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Denmark. His seminal work demonstrated the impact of poor indoor environmental quality on office work and learning. He has collaborated with leading institutions and companies worldwide and held leadership roles in ISIAQ and ASHRAE. He has published extensively and received numerous awards for his contributions.

Dr. Lin Fu　＜Tsinghua University＞

Presentation title
Zero carbon urban energy system based on coordination of electricity and heat

Prof. Fu mainly engages in urban energy planning and district heating research. He put forward the urban energy carbon neutralization model of electric-heating-gas coordination, presided over energy or heating plans in many large cities in China. Absorbent heat transfer technology has been invented by him and has been widely used in northern cities in China. A large temperature difference long-distance heating technology has been developed by him, and many large long-distance heating projects have been completed in Chinese relying on his technology. An integrated process of flue gas waste heat utilization and emission reduction based on spray heat transfer is proposed by him, which is widely used in natural gas, coal-fired boilers and thermal power plants.

Dr. Cheol-Soo Park　＜Seoul National University＞

Presentation title
Where we are with AI? Real-life cases and emerging challenges for HVAC operation

Professor Cheol-Soo Park has shown his academic achievement in the area of building simulation through his extensive publication record and the mentoring of students who have achieved prestigious global and domestic awards under his guidance. Professor Park's career spans impactful positions serving as a member for the President of Republic of Korea (ROK)’s advisory council on science & technology, the chair of IBPSA-world awards and fellows committee, the representative of IBPSA-Korea and the 15th president of the Korean Institute of Society of Architectural Sustainable Environment and Building Systems (KIAEBS). His recent research interests include MPC for real-life cases, physics-informed AI, federated learning model, causality-based model, model calibration, and occupant behavior.

Dr. Masaya Okumiya<Nagoya University>

Presentation title

Energy management for buildings and communities aiming for a carbon-neutral society

Prof. Masaya Okumiya is a Professor Emeritus at Nagoya University. His research on energy conservation and renewable energy utilization in buildings and cities is widely respected in Japan and abroad, especially in optimal design and control methodology for energy storage systems and associated simulation techniques. He developed predictive models for optimizing control and established optimal design and control methodology by extensive experimentation, demonstrations, and numerical analysis. His research is regularly implemented in both R&D and in practical applications in the design and control of advanced energy utilization systems and ZEBs. As a contribution to Japanese society, he was a president of the Society of Heating, Air-conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan in 2016-2017.