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April 4-5, 2013 • DENVER, CO
Dr. Helena Chum
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Currently, Research
Fellow in the Renewable Fuels and
Vehicle Systems Directorate at the
U.S. Department of Energy’s National
Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL),
and a member of the NREL Research
FellowsCouncil. Dr. Chum’s expertise is in
renewable fuels, transportation systems,
and international renewable energy
activities including biomass, biofuels, and biorefineries. Dr.
Chum conducts research on the sustainability of biomass and
biofuels in the global context. She has developed technologies
for the conversion of biomass and a variety of organic wastes
into fuels, including hydrogen, chemicals, electricity, and high
value materials. She directed analytical chemical research
and the development of standards and reference materials for
biomass. To these and other fields she has contributed more
than 110 papers and 20 patents, has lectured and participated
in seminars and conferences worldwide, and is a co–inventor
on 20 patents. She was the Coordinating Lead Author of the
Bioenergy Chapter in the IPCC Special Report on Renewable
Energy Sources and Climate Change (2011), contributed to
the Global Energy Assessment Report of 2012 in Renewable
Energy, and to the 2012 REN21 Global Status Report.
Dr. Chum will discuss
renewable fuels, transportation
systems, and international renewable energy activities
including biomass, biofuels, and biorefineries.
Dr. Mehrdad Ehsani
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Currently,
professor of sustainable energy
engineering at Texas A&M University.
He is the holder of Robert M. Kennedy
Endowed Professorship as well as other
professorships, at Texas A&M University,
University of Hong Kong, and other
universities. He has won numerous US
and international honors and awards,
is listed in Who’s Who in American
Education, Who’s Who in Science and
Engineering, Who’s Who in Finance and Business, Who’s
Who in South and Southwest, Who’s Who in America,
International Who’s Who of Professionals, and Who’s Who in
the 21st Century. He is the Distinguished Lecturer of several
professional societies. He is the co-author of 16 books, over
350
publications, over 20 patents, and has given numerous
invited talks around world on energy systems and social
aspects of technology, over the past three decades. He is a
Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of Society of Automotive Engineers,
SAE, an IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Vehicular
Technology Society, Industry Applications Society, and Power
Engineering Society Distinguished Lecturer. In 2001 he
received the IEEE-VTS Avant Garde Award for “Contributions
to the theory and design of hybrid electric vehicles.”
As a leading expert on sustainable energy, Dr. Ehsani will
discuss
Sustainable Energy Engineering.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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