Speakers
1. KEYNOTE LECTURE
Carbon-Neutral Fuel Application for Net-Zero Emission

Choongsik BaeProfessor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Email: csbae@kaist.ac.kr

Short Biography
Prof. Bae serves as a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science andTechnology (KAIST) and leads the Future Transport Power Lab, since 1998. He isalso leading the CERC (Combustion Engineering Research Center) as a director.
Throughout his academic career, he had the privilege of supervising 34 Ph.D.
students and 50 M.S. students. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace
Engineering from Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, and Ph.D. in
Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London, United Kingdom, in 1998.
He is active in the interaction with the industry that he has worked as a TechnicalAdvisor of Hyundai Motors on the occasion of his sabbatical leave from 2011 to2012. He has been the Dean of the College of Engineering at KAIST during 20192020, working for innovation in engineering education.
Throughout his research career, he made distinguishing research and technological achievements, including 152
international research papers. Several outstanding awards, such as the SAE ‘Arch T. Colwell Merit’ award in 1997,
SAE ‘Harry Horning Award’ award in 2006, the SAE Fellow obtainment in 2012, and Presidential Commendationin 2022 distinguish what he achieved. Prof. Bae is currently working on the research for transport carbon-neutraltransport power, including hydrogen jet formation, hydrogen combustion engine, and e-fuel engine combustion,mobile carbon capture, etc. He also continues research in conventional gasoline engine with the variety ofdiagnostics such as PIV, LIF, LIBs and optical imaging of in-cylinder flow, mixing and combustion process.

2. KEYNOTE LECTUREHow do you explain sushi to people who have never seen it? :The opportunities and challenges of marketing new and unfamiliar
products/technologies

Takeshi Matsui
Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University,
Tokyo Tech Academy of Energy and Informatics, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Email: t.matsui@r.hit-u.ac.jp

Short Biography
Takeshi Matsui is a professor of marketing at the Graduate School of Business
Administration, Hitotsubashi University, co-appointed as a professor at Tokyo
Institute of Technology. His research contributes to the sociology of culture and tothe sociological study of markets, especially market creation through linguisticinnovation, global marketing of creative products, and the emergence anddiffusion of new consumer culture. He has received the Japanese Society ofMarketing and Distribution Encouragement Book Award for his first monographLanguage and Marketing: A Social History of the “Healing Boom” in Japan(Sekigaku-sha 2013). His second research monograph, Gatekeeping Foreign
Cultural Products: Creation of the Japanese Comics Market in the US, waspublished by Yuhikaku in 2019 and it is currently being translated into English. Hehas received the Best First-Time Videography Award at the Association forConsumer Research Film Track 2019 for his videography “ZAKKA: Uncategorized Culture of Uncategorized
Goods, An Oral History of Uncategorized Man.” In 2022, he started a new project “A Historical Analysis of DeEthnicization of Japanese Cuisine in the U.S.”

3. KEYNOTE LECTURE
Electrochemical Interface Phenomena:
Toward the Development of Next-generation Lithium-ion Batteries

Masaaki Hirayama
Professor, Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Email: hirayama@mac.titech.ac.jp

Short Biography
Masaaki Hirayama received the Ph. D degree in science from the Tokyo Institute ofTechnology in 2008. Before taking up his position as a full professor in theDepartment of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
in 2020, he was an assistant professor (2008-2011) and an associate professor(2011-2020) in the Department of Electronic Chemistry, Tokyo Institute ofTechnology. Among others, he was a senior science and technology policy fellow,
cabinet office, government of Japan (2017-2019). His research interests include thedevelopment of ion-conducting solids and understanding of electrochemicalinterfaces in energy conversion/storage devices. Additional information is available
on this website (http://www.hirayama-cap.mac.titech.ac.jp/en/).

4. INVITED LECTURE
Toward Power Efficient HPC: Analyzing Characteristics of Power
Consumption and Optimizations in Supercomputers

Ryuichi Sakamoto
Associate Professor, School of Computing, Department of Mathematical and Computing Science, Tokyo
Institute of Technology
Email: r-sakamoto@gsic.titech.ac.jp

Short Biography
Ryuichi Sakamoto received a Ph.D. from Tokyo University of Agriculture andTechnology in 2015. He was a post-doc at The University of Tokyo in 2015-2016,
Assistant Professor at The University of Tokyo in 2016-2021. He is an Associate
Professor at the Department of Mathematical and Computing Science, Tokyo
Institute ofTechnology from 2021. His research interests are computerarchitecture, system software for large scale systems, and domain-specificarchitectures.

5. INVITED LECTURE
Advanced Materials Development and Simulation of Polymer Electrolyte
Electrolyzers and Fuel Cells for Accelerating Decarbonization

Shawn Litster
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Email: litster@andrew.cmu.edu

Short Biography
Shawn Litster is a Professor and the Russell V. Trader Faculty Fellow in theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in
Pittsburgh, PA. He also has a courtesy appointment in the Department of Materials
Science and Engineering and is an Energy Fellow in the Scott Institute for Energy
Innovation. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford
University (2008) and his B.Eng. and M.A.Sc. degrees from the University ofVictoria in Canada. His current research focus is micro- and nano-scale transportphenomena in energy conversion technologies where electrochemistry andelectrokinetics play a dominant role, including fuel cells, electrolyzers, andbatteries. His research interests also include multiphase flow in porous media andmicro-channels, non-linear dynamics, catalytic gasification, and microfluidic
pumping. He is also the director of Carnegie Mellon’s X-ray Computed
Tomography Facility. In 2019, he received the US DOE’s award for fuel cellresearch and development in recognition of his contribution to the development of platinum-free fuel cells. He is arecipient of Carnegie Mellon’s George Tallman Ladd Research Award, a National Science Foundation CAREER award,
the University of Victoria’s Lieutenant Governor’s Silver Medal, and best paper/presentation awards from The
Electrochemical Society and the American Society for Mechanical Engineers. He is the author of over 90 journal
papers and three book chapters. He is also an inventor for three US patents on fuel cell design.