Key-Note Lecture I:
Hydro-Elastoplasticity Approach to Ship Hull Girder Collapse in Waves

Biography:
​Prof. Masahiko Fujikubo is Professor at the Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Osaka University, Professor Emeritus, Hiroshima University, and currently President of The Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers (JASNAOE). He graduated from Osaka University in 1979, and received his MSc in 1981 and PhD in 1988 from Osaka University. He worked for Hiroshima University in 1982-2007 and has been working for Osaka University since 2008. His research areas are the ultimate strength of ships and offshore structures and nonlinear structural analysis of floating structures in waves. He was engaged in the Mega-Float project in Japan from its initial phase in structural design and analysis. He is recently leading the research project on the hydro-elastoplastic collapse analysis of ship hull girder in waves and on the development of the digital twin for ship structures. He served as a Chairman of International Organizing Committee of TEAM 2017, Osaka. He was Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Marine Science and Technology, JASNAOE, and now is Editor of Marine Structures and Associate Editor of Journal of Ship Research. He is a member of the standing committees for ISSC2015, 2018 and 2022. He has received the Best Paper Awards from JASNAOE, OMAE, ISOPE and Journal of Ships and Offshore Structures.

Key-Note Lecture II:
Using High Performance Computing in Oil and Gas Upstream Industry

Biography:
​Dr. Ali Dogru is the Saudi Aramco Fellow and a member of US National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Dr. Dogru received his PhD in Petroleum Engineering/Applied Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1974. He spent his early career in academia in teaching and research: The university of Texas at Austin- Department of Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology-Chemical Engineering and Norwegian Institute of Technology. He joined the industry in 1982 at Mobil R&D in Dallas, Texas. In 1988, he transferred, initially on a loan basis until he transferred permanently to Saudi Aramco in 1996. He presently leads Strategic Modeling Technology for the past twenty years, and started part time teaching at MIT since 2011. Dr. Dogru has published over seventy technical papers and holds twenty five U.S. Patents. He has received SPE’s John Franklin Carll, Reservoir Description and Dynamics, Honorary & Distinguished Membership and World Oil’s Innovative thinker award. In 2018, he was named Earth Resources Laboratory Fellow at MIT. His current research is focused on developing next-generation billion to trillion cells parallel reservoir and basin simulators, modeling multiphase flow in pipes, porous media pipe flow interaction, gas condensate systems thermodynamics, optimize hydrocarbon recovery in mature onshore and offshore fields, helping Exploration finding new onshore and offshore hydrocarbon resources.

Key-Note Lecture III:
The Role of Hydroelasticity in Green Ship Technology

Biography:
​He graduated in 1975, in Naval Architecture, from Istanbul Technical University. He then obtained MSc and PhD degrees, in 1976 and 1980, respectively, from University College London. He then joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brunel University, until 1993, when he moved to the University of Southampton, Department of Ship Science. He became Professor of Hydroelasticity in 1999, a position he held until his retirement in 2018. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects. He has extensive experience of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems and, in particular, hydrodynamics, hydroelasticity, including slamming, seakeeping, CFD of fluid-flexible structure interactions, structural dynamics, manoeuvring and stability. He has developed a wide range of software relevant to these subject areas.

Key-Note Lecture IV:
Development of Natural Fiber Wind Turbine Blades Using Design Optimization Technology

Biography:
​Prof. Yeon-Seung Lee is a faculty professor at the department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering at Hongik University of Korea. She received her doctoral degree from the Technical University of Berlin and subsequently worked for the two largest shipyards of the world, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), during the first decade of the millennium. Professor Lee is a leading figure in Korea’s shipbuilding and offshore wind energy industries. She also served as the chairman of the Korea Maritime Transportation Safety Authority (KOMSA) under the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries of Korea for the last three years until February, 2021. She was appointed to the international technical committee of TEAM this year.

Key-Note Lecture V:
Research and Development of Inland Green and Smart Ship Technologies in China

Biography:
​Professor Zhiyong Pei is professor and director of Green & Smart Ship, Cruise and Yacht Research Center, Wuhan University of Technology. He was awarded a PhD degree by Hiroshima University in 2005. Afterwards, he had been contributing exceptionally in the field of structural lightweight design in Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. He returned back to Wuhan University of Technology as a high-level talented researcher and was awarded the “Chu Tian Scholar” by the Educational Department of Hubei Province. Recently, Professor Zhiyong Pei has been devoted to the development of inland ship types with energy conservation, environmental protection, economy and efficient performance as well as the research of the green and smart ship technologies.

Key-Note Lecture VI:
Simulations and In-Situ Measurements of Pile Driving Underwater Noise from Offshore Windfarms

Biography:
​Prof. Rong-Juin Shyu is a distinguished professor at National Taiwan Ocean University in Taiwan. He received his doctoral degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. He has been working at National Taiwan Ocean University since 1996. He is one of the leading figures in the field of sound and vibration in Taiwan. He was the chairman of the Chinese Society of Sound and Vibration between the years of 2003-2005. He has been serving as committee member at the Chinese Society of Sound and Vibration since 1999. He has been also committee member and correspondent of Taiwan at International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC).