Portrait
Faiz Ahmad is Professor of Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia. His Ph.D. is from Brunel University, UK, and his B.Sc. in Metallurgy & Materials Science Engineering from Punjab University, Pakistan. He worked as Principal Research Officer for the Pakistan government in his early career. After that, he joined the National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad. Since 2003, he has been with his present employer, and his major research secured $9 million in research grants. He published 335 articles, 03 books, and 11 patents. He is Fellow of two technical societies and professional Member of several societies. He is Member of three committees of ASTM on developing standards.
Taib Iskandar is currently Associate Professor at Mechanical Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia. Previously, he worked at Mechanical Engineering Technology Department, Yanbu Industrial College, and was Head of Research Project Unit at YanbuResearch Center, both under Royal Commission of Yanbu—Colleges and Institutes (RCYCI) Division, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Additionally, he is entrusted to lead RCYCI’s Renewable Energy Center and is Editorial Board Member for Yanbu Journal of Engineering and Science. Previously, he worked at the National University of Malaysia (UKM) as Senior Lecturer at the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering between 1996 and 2015. He was also Founding Deputy Head and Associate Senior Fellow at the Centre for Automotive Research. He completed his Ph.D. at Cranfield University (2006), M.Eng. at Vanderbilt University (1999), and BSME at University of Arizona University (1996). His research interests lie in natural gas engines, direct fuel injection, and engine component design. His continuing interest in advanced engines includes TCDI, RCCI, and GCI engine. His secondary interest is solar thermal engineering, particularly in the development of a solar hot water system using polymer thermal absorbers. To date, he has completed three funded research projects with about SAR800,000 total funding from government of Malaysia. In 2013, his SAR2 million project proposal to Saudi Arabia’s NSTIP funding on turbocharged direct injection gas engine in collaboration with Clean Combustion Research Center at KAUST and Water & Energy Research Institute at KACST. He has more than 70 technical publications in refereed journals, chapters, a book, and various conference proceedings. He is Regular Reviewer for reputable journals in energy area—Energy Conversion and Management, Fuel, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Review, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, Proceedings of IMechE – Journal of Automobile Engineering, Applied Thermal Engineering and many more. His teaching specialties are thermodynamics, power plant engineering, renewable energy systems, and internal combustion engines. In 2010, he received an "Excellent Educator" Awards while in UKM. In the same year, he led a team of students to win the Gasoline Alternative Category awards in the Shell Eco-Marathon Asia 2010 with their LPG-converted engine with 479km/liter.
Khairul Habib obtained his B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Eng. degrees from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and National University of Singapore in 2002 and 2005, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in 2009 from the Kyushu University, Japan. He worked as a Research Scientist in Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore prior to joining the Mechanical Engineering Department of Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS in 2011 as a Senior Lecturer. His main research interests are thermally powered sorption systems, nanofluid enhanced heat transfer, zero energy building, and energy efficiency assessment. He has published more than 95 articles in peer reviewed journals and international conference proceedings. He is a registered Chartered Engineer from Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE),UK and a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
