Biographical Information of Editors
Bidyut Baran Saha obtained his B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc. degrees from
Dhaka University of Bangladesh in 1987 and 1990, respectively. He
received his Ph.D. in 1997 from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and
Technology, Japan. He worked as an Associate Professor at the
interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences of Kyushu
University until 2008. He worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the
Mechanical Engineering Department of National University of Singapore prior to joining the
Mechanical Engineering Department of Kyushu University in 2010 as a Professor. His main
research interests are thermally powered sorption systems, adsorption desalination, heat and
mass transfer analysis, and energy efficiency assessment. He has published more than 200
articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings. He has edited
three books and holds six patents. Recently, he served as one of the Guest Editors for Heat
Transfer Engineering journal for special issue on Recent Developments of Adsorption
Technologies for Energy Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability. He serves as the editorial
board member of Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Open Mechanical Engineering Journal
(OMEJ), and Open Thermodynamics Journal (Others).
Anutosh Chakraborty received his B.Sc. Eng. from BUET, Bangladesh
in 1997. He obtained his M.Eng and Ph.D. degrees from the National
University of Singapore (NUS) in 2001 and 2005, respectively. At
present he is working at the school of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore as
an Assistant Professor. His research interests focus on
micro/nanoscale transport phenomena, thermoelectric generator; adsorption thermodynamics, adsorption cooling, gas storage and desalination. Up to now, Dr.
Chakraborty has published 80 articles in peer reviewed Journals, and international conference
proceedings and holds six patents.
Kim Choon Ng obtained his B.Sc. (Hons.) and Ph.D. from Strathclyde
University in Glasgow, UK, in 1975 and 1980, respectively. He worked
briefly at the Babcock Power Ltd. in Renfrew prior to joining the
Department of Mechanical Engineering of the National University of
Singapore in 1981, and he is now a tenured professor. His areas of
research are two-phase flow, chiller testing and modeling, electroadsorption
chiller, and renewable energy. To date, he has written more than 250 peer-reviewed
journal and international conference articles, six patents, and co-authored a book, Cool
Thermodynamics, printed by CISP (UK). He is a member to the IMechE (UK) and the Institution
of Engineer Singapore, a Chartered Engineer (UK) and a registered professional engineer (S) and
an associate editor of Heat Transfer Engineering, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical
Engineers, Part E, Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering. Recently, he served as one of the
Guest Editors for Heat Transfer Engineering journal for special issue on Recent Developments of
Adsorption Technologies for Energy Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability. He also serves
as the editorial board member of Advances in Mechanical Engineering.