Director, Center for Prediction, Reasoning and Intelligence for Multiphysics Exploration, USA
Venkat Raman is the James Arthur Nicholls Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. He is also the Director of the Center for Prediction, Reasoning and Intelligence for Multphysics Exploration (C-PRIME). He has served on the faculty at UM since 2014, before which he was a faculty member at UT Austin. He is a recipient of the George J. Huebener, Jr. Research Excellence Award from the University of Michigan. He was elected Fellow of the Combustion Institute in 2022 and serves as an Associate Editor of Combustion and Flame and the AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power. As a faculty member, Raman has advised/is currently advising 40 PhD students and has published more than 225 peer-reviewed articles in archival journals and conferences. Raman’s research interests lie in the broad area of computational propulsion, but have more recently focused on the use of machine intelligence for scientific research.
Senior Technology Advisor, Resource, Energy & Environment Business Area, IHI Corporation, Japan
Dr. Fujimori received his Ph.D. in Mechanical engineering from Tohoku University and has been engaged in the research and development of combustion technologies for gas turbines and boiler power generation for over 37 years since joining IHI in 1988. He has also contributed to the development of fluidized bed gasification technology and CO₂ recovery oxy-fuel boiler technology. In the field of alternative fuels, he served as the PI for the national SIP project from 2014 to 2018, promoting the development of ammonia combustion technologies for gas turbines and boilers. Currently, he is responsible for formulating and advancing strategies for next-generation energy technologies, including ammonia fuel power generation and hydrogen production technology through natural gas pyrolysis. From 2022 to 2023, he served as the President of the Combustion Society of Japan and is currently also a Professor at the Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University.
University of Maryland, USA
Arnaud Trouvé is an internationally recognised expert in fire dynamics, computational fire modelling, and combustion science. His research focuses on the development and application of advanced fire modelling techniques, including Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), zone modelling, direct numerical simulation (DNS), and large eddy simulation (LES) of turbulent reacting flows. He has extensive expertise in high-performance scientific computing, cyber-infrastructure, and the use of data assimilation to improve fire and combustion modelling.
His work spans a broad range of fire-related phenomena, including turbulent combustion, soot formation, toxic combustion products, radiation and heat transfer, fire suppression systems, material flammability, flame spread, explosions, and wildland fire propagation. Through his research, he contributes to improving fire safety, risk assessment, and the scientific understanding of complex fire behaviour.
Junior Research Group Leader, Universität Stuttgart. Institute of Combustion Technology for Aerospace Engineering (IVLR), Germany
Dr Fabian Hampp's research focuses on turbulent reacting multiphase flows, combustion diagnostics, machine learning-assisted data analysis, and the development of low-emission combustion technologies for sustainable energy systems.