Dr. Pedro Coelho
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal – CSP 2027 Plenary Speaker
Professor Pedro Coelho graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1984 and received his Ph.D. in 1992 from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of IST. He has about 120 papers published in international journals, and 150 papers presented at international conferences. He is co-author of a book on Combustion (in Portuguese) for undergraduate and master students. His research focuses on the numerical simulation of heat transfer and combustion processes. He is President of the Eurotherm Committee for the Advancement of Thermal Sciences and Heat Transfer since August 2026, and member of the Scientific Council, Assembly and Executive Committee of the International Centre of Heat and Mass Transfer. He is associate editor of the J. Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Int. J. Thermal Sciences, and member of the advisory board of Computational Thermal Sciences, Heat Transfer Research and Int. J. Energy for a Clean Environment.
Dr. Boo Cheong Khoo
National University of Singapore, Singapore – CSP 2027 Plenary Speaker
BC Khoo graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA (Honours, 1st Class with Distinction). In 1984, he obtained his MEng from the NUS and followed by PhD from MIT in 1989. He joined NUS in 1989.
From 1998 to 1999, he was seconded to the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC, Singapore) and served as the deputy Director and Director of Research. In 1999, BC returned to NUS and spent time at the SMA-I (Singapore MIT Alliance I) as the co-Chair of High Performance Computation for Engineered Systems Program till 2004. In the period 2005-2013, under the SMA-II, he was appointed as the co-Chair of Computational Engineering Program. In 2011-2012, BC was appointed the Director of Research, Temasek Laboratories, NUS. He was the Director of Temasek Laboratories (2012-2025), and Director of Temasek Defense Systems Institute (2023-2025), both Research Institutes at NUS. BC Khoo serves on numerous organizing and advisory committees for International Conferences/Symposiums held in USA, China, India, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia and others. He is a member of the Steering Committee, HPC (High Performance Computing) Asia. He has received a Defence Technology Team Prize (1998, Singapore) and the prestigious Royal Aeronautical Prize (1980, UK). Among other numerous and academic and professional duties, he is on the Editorial Board of International Journal of Thermofluid Science and Technology, Ocean Systems Engineering (IJOSE), Advances in Aerodynamics (AIA), International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems (IJIUS), The Open Mechanical Engineering Journal (OME), The Open Ocean Engineering Journal, Journal of Pipeline Science and Engineering, and Journal of Drainage and Irrigation Machinery Engineering. At Mechanical Engineering Department, BC has supervised/co-supervised and graduated more than 50 PhD students over the years and an equal number of MEng students. In the last couple of years, BC has engaged with numerous PhD students from Chinese Universities attached to the Department for purpose of research and sponsored fully by the CSC Scholarships.