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Where is the end of the road to thermal solution for electronic devices?

Chien-Yuh Yang is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Thermal Management Research Center at the National Central University, Taiwan. He also currently serves as a member of the Executive Board of the Taiwan Thermal Management Association. He received his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in 1994, and stayed at the same university as a post-doctoral research fellow following his graduation until the next year. Then he went back to Taiwan and joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Central University in 1995. His current research interests include electronic devices cooling, two-phase heat transfer, heat exchanger design, heat transfer enhancement and micro-scale heat transfer. His research has strong connection with related industries. He has led more than two hundred heat transfer-related research projects, most of them were collaborated with industrial companies. He has published nearly two hundred journal and conference papers and holds more than 20 heat exchanger-related patents. He was named to Stanford University’s World 2% Scientist List from 2021 to 2025.

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Momentum Transport in Turbulent Bubbly Flows: Time-resolved Three-dimensional Measurements

Biography: Prof. KC Kim received his BA degree at Pusan National University, Korea in 1979. He received MS and Ph.D degree at KAIST, Korea in 1981 and 1987 respectively. Since 1983, he is a professor at School of Mechanical Engineering in Pusan National University (PNU), Korea. He was invited as a visiting professor from Ottawa University in Canada for 1989-1990. He joined at the department of theoretical and applied mechanics in University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA as an invited professor for 1996-1997. He was invited as a special foreign professor from the University of Tokyo, Japan for 2009-2010. On the basis of his research outcomes, he became a member of National Academy of Engineering in Korea in 2004. He received Nakayama award in 2012 and Asanuma award in 2014 and Leonardo da Vinci award in 2025 based on contributions in world Visualization society. KC Kim was selected as a PNU Distinguished Professor in 2018 and designated as a chair professor at Harbin Institute of Technology. He is currently serving as an Editor in Chief for Journal of Visualization. In 2020, he was selected as the director of Regional Leading Research Center for Eco-friendly Smart Ship. He was the chairman of ISTP-35 in 2025. His research interests include: Turbulence, Two-Phase Flows, Flow Visualization, and Artificial Intelligence.

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The challenges of divertor cooling for magnetic fusion energy

Minami Yoda did her undergraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology, and her graduate studies at Stanford University. Her research interests in fluid mechanics and optical techniques include the thermal-fluids of high heat flux plasma-facing components for magnetic fusion energy, boiling heat transfer and super-resolution imaging. Dr. Yoda is Chairperson of Mechanical Engineering and Red Cedar Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University. She was a von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at TU Berlin in Germany, and a visiting researcher at the Delft University of Technology and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. She is former Chair of the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics and the American Nuclear Society (ANS) Fusion Energy Division, an editor of Fluid Dynamics Research, and Fellow of ANS, APS and ASME.