Plenary & Keynote Speakers
11th International Conference on Environmental Pollution, Treatment and Protection (ICEPTP 2026)
We are pleased to announce our plenary and Keynote Speakers for ICEPTP 2026 :
Dr. Mohammed JK Bashir
Central Queensland University, Australia
Dr. Mohammed Bashir is a globally recognized expert in environmental engineering, sustainable development and pollution control, with over 250 high-impact journal publications and an h-index of 52.He currently serves as a senior academic at the School of Engineering and Technology, CQUniversity Australia and adjunct professor at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Malaysia. His research spans key areas such as pollution control, ESG compliance, life cycle assessment, circular economy, and advanced water and wastewater treatment technologies. With over 9,800 citations, Dr. Bashir has led numerous interdisciplinary projects funded by government bodies and industry partners, aiming to bridge science with actionable solutions. His current focus includes emerging contaminants (ECs), microplastics, and resource recovery in wastewater systems. A recipient of over 20 international awards and recognized among the world’s top 2% scientists by Stanford University, Dr. Bashir brings a unique blend of academic excellence and practical innovation to solving global environmental challenges.
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From Waste to Resources: Integrated Approaches for Circular Economy and Low-Carbon Waste Management
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Dr. Winifred Ijomah
University of Strathclyde, UK
Winifred Ijomah is Professor in Sustainable Design and Manufacturing at the Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management (DMEM), at the University of Strathclyde in the UK. She is Founder and Director of The Scottish Institute for Remanufacturing (http://www.scot-reman.ac.uk/), a pan-Scotland expertise hub established to spearhead the Circular Economy in Scotland using product recovery. She has elements of her work incorporated in British Standards Institute, (e.g. BS 8887-220:2010- Design for manufacture, assembly, disassembly) and is member of National and International committees established to assist industry to meet international environmental legislation. She is founder of and untill April 2021 Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s Journal of Remanufacturing (https://www.springer.com/journal/13243), the first academic journal in the remanufacturing field. She established and heads the University of Strathclyde Sustainability and Remanufacturing Research Group, specialising in holistic, interdisciplinary, practitioner-based research aimed at enabling sustainable circular and Netzero manufacturing. She initiated and chaired the first International Conference on Remanufacturing (http://www.remanufacturing-conference.com/); the first international academic conference for remanufacturing; and now a biennial event running in conjunction with Rematec, the world's leading remanufacturing exhibition and trade event. Her work focuses on product end-of-life, particularly remanufacturing and spans both product and process design with a view to enhancing the potential For a circular economy. Winifred has PhD in remanufacturing, 20 years reseaerch experience in the discipline and has graduated over 18 PhD candidates as principal supervisior. Professor Ijomah is a keen STEM and Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador.
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Dr. Xiaodong Liang
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Dr. Xiaodong Liang is a Full Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Technology Solutions for Energy Security in Remote, Northern, and Indigenous Communities at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. Dr. Liang obtained her Ph.D. degree from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in 2013. From 1995 to 1999, she served as a Lecturer at Northeastern University, Shenyang, China. In October 2001, she joined Schlumberger in Edmonton, AB, Canada, and was promoted to Principal Power Systems Engineer in 2009 with this World's leading oil field service company; she worked with Schlumberger for almost 12 years until August 2013. From 2013 to 2019, she was with Washington State University in Vancouver, WA, USA and Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, NL, Canada as an Assistant Professor and later an Associate Professor. In July 2019, she joined the University of Saskatchewan, where she is currently a Full Professor and Canada Research Chair. She was an Adjunct Professor with Memorial University of Newfoundland from 2019 to 2022. Dr. Liang's research interests include power systems, renewable energy and electric machines. She has published more than 290 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, and 6 book chapters. She also holds 3 granted US and Canadian patents. She has served as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications since April 2022, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering since Jan. 1, 2025. From Jan. 2024 to present, she has served as the Chair of the Power System Engineering Committee, and the Technical Committee Papers Review Chair of the Power System Protection Committee; from Jan. 2021 to Dec. 2023, she was the Technical Committee Papers Review Chair of the Power System Engineering Committee, IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS). Currently, she also serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications and IEEE Industry Applications Magazine (2013 - present), IEEE Access (2019 - present), IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics (2021 - present), IEEE Open Journal of Industry Applications (2022-2025), and IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy (2023-present). Dr. Liang is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a registered Professional Engineer in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. In June 2020, Dr. Liang was awarded Tier 2 Canada Research Chair; the Canada Research Chairs Program invests up to $311 million per year to attract and retain some of the world’s most accomplished and promising minds, and chairholders aim to achieve research excellence in engineering and the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences. In August 2022, Dr. Liang was elected a Fellow of IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology); the IET fellowship is awarded only to individuals who have demonstrated recent significant achievement(s) sustained at high levels for a period of at least five years in engineering, technology, or related disciplines relevant to the IET. Since 2019, Dr. Liang has remained on the Stanford List of the World’s Top 2% Scientists, which speaks to her strong research impact in the global map of excellence. In April 2022, Dr. Liang received the New Researcher Award at the University of Saskatchewan; this institutional level award is to recognize significant contributions to knowledge or artistic creativity, two awards may be presented annually. In Jun 2024, Dr. Liang Received 2023/2024 the High Impact Scholarly Work Award at the College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan. In May 2025, Dr. Liang received 2024 Highly Ranked Scholar - Prior Five Years by ScholarGPS in the specialty of "Induction Motor", and she ranked #2 in this specialty worldwide.
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Dr. Christopher Niezrecki
University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Christopher Niezrecki’s primary research includes renewable energy systems, wind turbine dynamics, structural health monitoring and inspection, structural dynamic and acoustic systems, bio-acoustics, manatee detection, parachute systems, smart structures, digital image correlation, signal processing, and smart materials. His goals include expanding the global use of renewable energy, developing technologies that can impact the 1.1 billion people in the world who do not have access to electricity, and advancing sensing technologies to measure and monitor structural systems.
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Dr. Sajal K. Das
Central Queensland University, Australia
Dr. Sajal K. Das is the Research Fellow in the Faculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. Before joining QUT, Dr. Das served as the Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 2014 and later joined National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore as a Research Engineer. He was also a Visiting Academic at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and a Faculty Member of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of American International University-Bangladesh. Dr. Das is currently the Editorial Member of Future Energy Journal and Associate Editor of Frontiers in Smart Grid. He also served as the Associate Editor of IET Renewable Power Generation and Guest Editor in Energies and Sustainability. He presented his work as the Keynote Speaker in a number of conferences and workshops and successfully organized the IEEE 2024 International Conference on Power, Electrical, Electronics and Industry Applications as the Conference Secretary and IEEE 2021 International Conference on Automation, Control and Mechatronics for Industry 4.0 (ACMI 2021) as the Organizing Chair. He received the Best Paper award as coauthor in IEEE PEEIACON 2019 and listed in the top 0.5% of all scholars worldwide according to the 2024 ScholarGPS rankings. Dr. Das is particularly interested to discover the new challenges and find novel solutions to energy transition for net zero in the context of cyber-physical power system. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and his Google Scholar citation counts over 4900.
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