Committee

Officers of ILASS-Asia (2025-2026)

President: Wei-Hsin Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

Professor Wei-Hsin Chen is a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He is also the Honorary Chair Professor at Tunghai University, Chair Professor at the National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Research Fellow of the National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan, and Vice President of the Institute for Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems (ILASS)-Asia. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University in 1993. He was a visiting professor at Princeton University, USA; the University of New South Wales, Australia; the University of Edinburg, UK; the University of British Columbia, Canada; and the University of Lorraine, France. He was also an invited lecturer at the University of Lorraine. His research interests include bioenergy, hydrogen energy, clean energy, carbon capture and utilization, and atmospheric science. He is the Section Editor-in-Chief of Energies, the Associated Editor of International Journal of Energy Research, and the editorial board member of several international journals, including Applied Energy, Scientific Reports, Chinese Chemical Letters, Frontiers in Energy Research, etc. He also serves as a Guest Editor of nearly 15 SCI-indexed journals. His important awards include Outstanding Research Award (National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan), Highly Cited Research and Review Paper Awards (Applied Energy, Elsevier), Outstanding Engineering Professor Award (Chinese Institute of Engineers), Highly Cited Review Article Award (Bioresource Technology, Elsevier), and nine consecutive years (2016-2024) Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) Highly Cited Researcher Award.

Vice President: Mun Soo Chon (Korea National University of Transportation)

Professor Mun Soo Chon is a faculty member in the Department of Automotive Engineering at Korea National University of Transportation (KNUT) in South Korea. He earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea, in 1990, 1992, and 1999, respectively. Following the completion of his Ph.D., he worked as a manager in the Powertrain Test & Development Team at Daewoo Motor Co., Ltd. (now GM Korea) until 2003, when he joined KNUT. In 2009, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Professor Chon has made significant contributions to the research area of Real-Driving Emissions (RDE) measurement and evaluation methods in Korea. He has been a board member of ILASS-Korea since 2004, serving as its vice president from 2016 before taking on the role of president from 2022 to 2023. Additionally, he was a committee member of ILASS-Asia from 2007 to 2022 and served on the board of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers (KSAE) from 2015 to 2019.

Vice President: Jun Hayashi (Kyoto University, Japan)

Jun Hayashi received the BSc. (2003), MSc. (2005) from Keio University. He received Ph.D (2009) in mechanical engineering from Osaka University. He is a Professor of the department of energy conversion science, Kyoto university. His current interests include soot formation in multi-phase combustion, plasma-assisted ignition/combustion, and combustion, heat transfer phenomena in the liquid propulsion system.

Secretary: Xuesong Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

Xuesong Li, Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University with expertise in spray atomization and laser diagnostics, particularly in phase changing sprays. Currently Associate Editor of ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power. PI of several funding such as NSFC, industrial collaboration projects in spray and combustion, etc.

Webmaster: Yi-Kai Chih (National University of Kaohsiung)

Dr. Yi-Kai Chih is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from National Cheng Kung University and has extensive research experience in hydrogen energy, electrochemical sensors, chemical synthesis, and materials engineering. His research focuses on hydrogen production via thermochemical and catalytic processes, biomass energy conversion, and electrochemical sensor development. He specializes in metal catalyst synthesis, polymer material development (polyaniline, polyimide), and transport phenomena in chemical engineering. He has published numerous SCI-indexed journal papers, patents, and conference presentations on energy and material sciences.

AAS regional editor: David Hung (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

 

Committee Members (2025-2026)

  • TaiwanChih-Yung Wu (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

Dr. Chih-Yung Wu is a at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He has 20 years of research experience in aerospace and energy engineering. His research topics include combustion science, fuel chemistry, propulsion, and energy storage. He earned his Ph.D. from National Cheng Kung University in 2003, focusing his dissertation on the blowout mechanism of turbulent jet diffusion flames. After completing his Ph.D., he joined the Defense Industrial Reserve Duty System as a second lieutenant for military service. During this time, he continued to advance his research in various areas of energy engineering and thermal science, including the development of biofuels, combustion physics, and reaction chemistry. Much of his work is relevant to the automobile industry, domestic burners, and industrial furnaces.

In the summer of 2009, Dr. Wu joined the faculty at Kao Yuan University as an Assistant Professor. He transitioned to the faculty of National Cheng Kung University in the summer of 2019. His current research focuses on rocket propulsion, turbine engines, UAV power systems, and energy storage technologies. Dr. Wu has published 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and approximately 100 papers presented at international and domestic conferences on a wide range of topics in energy and fluid mechanics.

  • Yueh-Heng Li (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
  • Guan-Bang Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
  • China
  • Zhixia He (Jiangsu Univ., China)
  • Zhijun WU (Tongji University, China)

Dr. Wu Zhijun is a professor at the School of Automotive Studies of Tongji University. He also serves as the Dean of the Undergraduate School, Dean of the College of New Students and Executive Vice Dean of School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Tongji University. The main academic part-time jobs include: Vice Chairman of the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Branch of the Chinese Society of Automotive Engineering; Member of the 8th Combustion Credit Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermo-physics; Executive Director of the 9th Council of the Chinese Internal Combustion Engine Society and Vice Chairman of the Combustion, Energy Conservation, and Purification Branch; Leader of the expert working group at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility Rapid X-ray Imaging Beamline; Member of the Teaching Guidance Committee for Mechanical Engineering Majors in Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education from 2018 to 2022; Executive Director of the 6th Council of the Engineering Education Professional Committee of the Chinese Higher Education Association; Executive Director of China Machinery Industry Education Association. His main research areas include efficient, low-carbon, and zero carbon power systems, and micro and nanoscale flows and phase transitions. He has published nearly 100 academic papers in high-level SCI journals, obtained more than 30 national invention patent authorizations, and received 23 teaching and research awards and honors at the provincial and ministerial levels.

  • Japan
  • Akira Sou (Kobe Univ., Japan)
  • Chihiro Inoue (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
  • Yoshimitsu Kobashi (Okayama Univ., Japan)
  • Korea
  • Hyung Sub Sim (Sejong University, South Korea)

Hyung Sub Sim is currently serving as an assistant professor of Aerospace Engineering at Sejong University in Seoul, South Korea. Before his current position, he held the role of senior researcher at the Korea Agency for Defense Development. Additionally, he worked as a postdoctoral associate at both the Combustion Research Facility at Sandia National Labs and the Energy & Propulsion Research Lab at UCLA. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State University (2016) and his B.S. (2006) and M.S. (2008) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Chung-Ang University in Seoul, South Korea.
His research interests encompass combustion chemistry, multi-phase reacting flow dynamics, spray combustion, nano-engineered energetic/catalytic materials, and advanced combustion/propulsion systems. He is involved as the principal investigator in multiple Korean government-funded projects. In particular, he is developing high-performance fuels/propellants, focusing on the chemical reactions, atomization, and spray combustion of liquid fuels containing nanocatalysts.
He is currently serving as an active board member of ILASS-KOREA, the Korean Society of Combustion (KOSCO), and the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers (KSPE). In 2024, he was honored with the Young Scientist Award from ILASS-KOREA. Additionally, he received the Best Paper Award at the 38th International Symposium on Combustion in 2022.

  • Seoksu Moon (Inha Univ.)

Seoksu Moon received his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering Department of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2007. He worked at Hiroshima University (Japan) and Argonne National Lab. (USA) as a postdoc until 2011, and at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, Japan) as a research scientist until 2018. Now, he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Inha University, Republic of Korea. His research interests are fundamental X-ray and laser-based studies of fuel spray and combustion for conventional and carbon-free fuels (hydrogen, ammonia, and e-Fuel), and thermodynamic and heat transfer analyses of various energy systems (engines, boilers, heat exchangers, and so on).

  • Suhan Park (Konkuk University, South Korea)

Professor Suhan Park serves as a faculty member at the School of Mechanical, Robotics, and Automotive Engineering at Konkuk University in the Republic of Korea. He completed his Ph.D. at Hanyang University in 2011. After earning his doctorate, he furthered his research skills with a postdoctoral position at Advanced Photon Sources, Argonne National Laboratory (Advanced Photon Sources) in the USA from 2012 to 2014. His research focuses on fuel properties, spray atomization, combustion processes, and the reduction of emissions from alternative and synthetic fuels. His main research interests involve laser diagnostics for spray and fluid flow, examining the fuel properties and spray behaviors of alternative and synthetic fuels (such as e-fuels, biofuels, and natural gas), engine combustion, and vehicle testing. Professor Park has received several prestigious accolades, including the Best Paper Award from KSAE in 2020, the Commendation from the Ministry of Environment in 2018 and 2023, and the Young Scientist Award from KOSCO in 2018. His academic influence is highlighted by the publication of more than 120 research articles in esteemed international journals. He currently holds board positions with ILASS-Korea and KSAE (the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers).

  • India
  • Anand TNC (IIT Madras, India)
  • Devendra Deshmukh (IIT Indore, India)
  • Hong Kong
  • Peng ZHANG（Hong Kong Polytechnic University）
  • V. Ravikrishna (Indian Institute of Science, India)