Prof. Osamu Tabata
Fellow IEEE&IEEJ
Kyoto University of Advanced Science,
Japan
Osamu Tabata
received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from
Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, in
1981 and 1993, respectively. Since April
2005, Osamu Tabata has been a Professor at
Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto
University, Japan. October 2019, he moved to
Kyoto University of Advanced Science as a
founding Dean of New Engineering School
launched in April 2020. From 2022 Dec, he is
an Executive Vice President and Dean of the
Faculty of Engineering. He is currently
engaged in research on micro/nano processes,
MEMS, DNA nanotechnology.
He is an editorial board member of the
Microsystems & Nanoengineering and Journal
Sensors and Actuators. From 2020, he has
been serving as a chair of the Robert Bosch
Award Committee for EDS. He is a Fellow of
Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers and Institute of Electrical
Engineer Japan.
Prof. Dae-Eun Kim
Yonsei University, Korea
Professor Dae-Eun Kim is currently a Full Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Professor Kim received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. Professor Kim served as the President of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering and the President of the Korean Tribology Society. He also served as the Editor-in-Chief of IJPEM, Senior Editor of JMST, and Associate Editor of ASME J. of Tribology. He currently serves in the editorial board of several tribology journals including Tribology Letters and Friction. Professor Kim has received many awards from various professional societies and institutions including the Ministerial Commendation from the Korea Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and the Science and Technology Pojang National Award from the Korean President. Professor Kim is a Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP) and a Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. His research interests are tribology, coatings and surface modification.
Prof. Sarawut Rimdusit
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Dr. Sarawut Rimdusit is a full professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. He received his master and doctoral degrees from the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA in 1997 and 2000, respectively. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow under a Hitachi research fellowship in 2005 and 2008 at Toyohashi University and Technology and Monbusho research fellowship in 2003 at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, formerly ISAS). His research is concentrated on multicomponent polymeric systems based on polybenzoxazines and some network forming polymers. His recent research focuses on the use of polybenzoxazine alloys as functional materials including shape memory materials and thermoreversible light scattering polymers. He has published 1 book on polybenzoxazine alloys and composites (Springer), 10 book chapters in English, 4 book chapters in Japanese and more than 70 international papers related to the alloys and composites of polybenzoxazines.
Prof. Jae-Jin Shim
Yeungnam University, South Korea
Prof. Jae-Jin Shim received his BS degree from Seoul National University, Korea, in 1980, his M.S. degree from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1982, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, in 1990. He worked at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) as a research scientist (1982-1986) and as a senior research scientist (1991-1994), and at the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral research associate (1990-1991). He has been a professor at Yeungnam University since 1994, served as Vice-Dean of Engineering, and has been a professor emeritus since September 2023. He also served as the President of the Korean Society of Clean Technology and the Vice President of the Korean Society of Engineering Education. He was the Director of the Institute of Clean Technology (2006-2008, 2014-2023) and the Director of the Clean Energy Priority Research Center supported by the Korean Government (2014-2023). He has written and edited 14 books, published 325 papers in peer-reviewed journals (h-index 67), and filed 38 patents. He served as the Chief Editor of CLEAN TECHNOLOGY and Editor of the Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, and he is now a guest editor of NANOMATERIALS.