Keynote Speakers

Kokyo Oh/ Center for Environmental Science in Saitama, Japan

Prof. Dr. Kokyo Oh is a senior researcher in Center for Environmental Science in Saitama, Japan. He obtained Ph.D. degree (soil science) in 1995, and was honored as a research fellow by Japan Science and Technology Agency (STA) from 1997 to 1999. His research areas include soil science, environmental conservation, environmental chemistry and biology, and environmental agronomy. He has published more than 200 major academic papers, has presided over and participated in more than 100 scientific research fund projects, and has been invited to be the chairman of more than 20 international conferences.

 

Prof. Hyunook Kim/ University of Seoul, Korea

Dr. Hyunook Kim is Professor at Environmental Engineering, University of Seoul, Korea, and Director of R&D Center of Core Technologies for Water Treatment. Professor Kim earned his B.S. degree in Environmental Science from Yonsei University, Korea in 1994, and an M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1997, and a Ph.D. from University of Maryland at College Park in 2000. Before he joined the faculty member at University of Seoul in 2002, he worked as Environmental Engineer for US Dept. of Agriculture, MD, USA.
Professor Kim’s research in the area of water pollution control includes a number of projects on process control and operation of water and wastewater treatment plants. Especially he is interested in monitoring and control of contaminants of emerging concern. He has published numerous journal papers and made conference presentations. He has been received a few awards for his academic and research achievements.

 

Prof. Miwako Hosoda/ Seisa University, Tokyo, Japan

Dr. Miwako Hosoda, Professor of Seisa University, Project Researcher of University of Tokyo Institute of Medical Science, has been conducting her sociological research though observing human relations in the healthcare field. Using knowledge from her prior research on patient advocacy, healthcare policy, and public participation in medicine, she has been making collaborative efforts with local residents with illnesses and disabilities she had engaged. Together, they are continuing to seek out ways to help the recovery in their communities.
Dr. Hosoda graduated from the Department of Sociology at the University of Tokyo in 1992, and received an MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of Tokyo. After working as a research fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS), she studied at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health as associate, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as research fellow. Upon returning to Japan, she joined the Seisa University in 2012 and served as vice president from 2013 to 2020.
Dr. Hosoda was elected as president of ISA (International Sociological Association), Research Committee of Sociology of Health (2018-2023), and APSA (Asia Pacific Sociological Association (2017-2020). She is currently Vice President of APSA, Representative Director of the Japanese Society for Brain Injury Caring Communities, Representative Director of IAFA (Inclusive Action For All).

 

Prof. Yi Huang/ Chengdu University of Technology, China

Yi Huang, female, professor, doctoral supervisor at Chengdu University of Technology (CDUT). She is the academic and technical leader in Sichuan Province, China. She is the deputy director of the Key Laboratory of Synergistic Control and Joint Remediation of Soil and Water Pollution of National Environmental Protection, the member of Chinese Society of Mineralogical and Petrographic Geochemistry, the director of the Soil Fertilizer Society of Sichuan, and the member of the European Geological Union (EGU) and the American Chemical Society (ACS).
Prof. Huang is mainly engaged in the research of environmental geochemistry and ecological restoration of mining area. In the past ten years, she has presided more than 15 research projects. She has established a new isotope tracer method to quantitatively identify the source of heavy metals, revealed the migration and transportation pathways and the laws of heavy metals in the ecological chain, and created a triple barrier technology to prevent and control the migration of heavy metals in multiple environmental media. She has published more than 110 academic papers, 3 monographs, and authorized 12 invention patents. She was awarded the second prize of National Environmental Protection Science and Technology, and the second prize of Sichuan Provincial Scientific and Technological Progress.