Mr. Nguyen Trung Hieu
Deputy General Manager
Toyota Motor Vietnam Company
Head of Passenger Vehicle Technical Sub-committee, Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (VAMA).
Joined Toyota since 2001, Hieu is currently the Division Head in charge of Business Planning, Government and Technical Affairs for Toyota Motor Vietnam. He specializes in Automobile Industry Policy in Vietnam and ASEAN countries. During 2012-2014, he contributed to build Vietnam Automobile Master Strategy by 2025, vision 2035.
Since 2015, his team has been focusing on electrification, decarbonization solutions for Vietnam, as well as other mega trends of the automobile industry in the world. His network in Vietnam covers top management of car makers and suppliers, leading university researchers and key policy makers.
He holds a Master degree from the ESCP Business School in Paris, France and an MBA from Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand.
Mr. Mai Van Tai
Researcher
Institute of Energy Viet Nam
Mr. Tai, researcher, is currently working at the Key Laboratory for High Voltage Techniques, Institute of Energy, Ministry of Industry and Trade. The Institute's activities now, after 60 years of development, include research on national energy/electricity development policy, strategy, and planning; scientific – technological and environmental research, and energy development; science and technology consulting services. The National Power Development Plan VIII and the National Energy Master Plan for the period 2021–2030, with a vision to 2050 are two significant national sector planning projects that the Institute is currently working on.
Doan Thi Thanh Van
Head of Electric and Electronic Division
Vietnam Standards and Quality Institute
Ms. Doan Thi Thanh Van is working as a researcher, Head of Electric and Electronic Division. After graduating a Bachelor program in Automation Control, she continued her higher education of Master program in Hanoi University of Science and Technology in 2001.
With more than 20 years during her career, she has extensive experience in developing national standards and national technical regulations. She is a secretary of National Technical Committee on Energy transfer systems for electrically propelled road vehicles which in charge in development of national standards (TCVN) for charging stations and relevant electric systems. She also involved in a planning process for national standard development in her responsible fields.
Assoc. Prof. Dam Hoang Phuc
Director of Automotive Engineering Program
Hanoi University of Science and Technology
Assoc.Prof. Phuc is a Director of Automotive Engineering Program at Hanoi University of Science and Technology. He received both engineering and master in automotive engineering from Hanoi University of Science and Technology in 2004 and Ph.D degree from Tokyo University and Technology, Tokyo, Japan in 2011. Since 2011, he has been back to the Hanoi University of Science and Technology as a lecturer at Automotive Engineering Department. His research interests in vehicle dynamics control and electric vehicle.
Nguyen Van Quyen
Engineer
Lead Auditor of QUACERT
His major at university is Automation Engineering.
He has nearly ten years’ experience in Petroleum field and 17 years in the field of Conformity Assessment.
Now he is Head of Incentech center, which covers the Lab for testing of Lithium Batteries and Lighting products.
He has contributed with great efforts and expertise in the development of QUACERT.
Dr. Lionel Moh
Head of Energy Storage Systems
Genplus Pte Ltd
Dr. Lionel Moh graduated with his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017 and is currently the Head of Energy Storage Systems at Genplus Pte Ltd.
He is highly experienced in the field of battery technology with a deep understanding of battery design, certification, repurposing, and integration in various applications such as microgrids and marine systems.
His current research interests and areas of expertise include battery energy storage system and management system, second life batteries for energy storage systems, marine battery and hybrid systems.
Lionel is also an active member of UL TC 1974, a committee responsible for developing standards for the evaluation and repurposing of batteries.
Dr. Chiam Sing Yang
Technical Director
Singapore Battery Consortium
Deputy Executive Director
Institute of Materials Research & Engineering (IMRE), Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR)
Co-Lead
Urban Green Technology Horizontal Tech Coordinating Office, A*STAR
Technology & Research Consultant
National Electric Vehicle Centre, Land Transport Authority
Dr. Chiam graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (1st Class Honours) from the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the National University of Singapore. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from the Department of Physics at Imperial College London, together with the Diploma Imperial College (Materials Science).
Dr. Chiam Sing Yang also assumed the appointment as Deputy Executive Director of IMRE in December 2020. IMRE is a leading materials research institute in Singapore with over 400 research scientist and engineers that focus both on cutting edge science and translation efforts. Dr. Chiam has also been the Founding Director for the Singapore Battery Consortium since Nov 2019, currently group with >40 industry and >60 academic members. As the consortium lead, he helps formulates the strategy and direction for battery related developments for Singapore. He is now appointed as the consortium’s technical director from February 2023. In January 2021, Dr. Chiam also assume the role as the co-lead of the Urban and Green Technology Horizontal Technology Coordinating Office. The office oversees the plans, strategy and activities in A*STAR for the urban and green technology sector that includes carbon capture, utilization and storage, circular economy, built environment and energy efficiency. In May 2021, Dr. Chiam was appointed as Technology and Research Consultant for National Electric Vehicle Centre (NEVC) at Land Transport Authority (LTA). At NEVC LTA, he takes care of technology, research and development related to electric vehicles and infrastructure and help set up the EV Centre of Excellence. Apart from the official appointments, Dr Chiam also contributes in other different activities across Singapore, for example, as technical advisors for industries, review panelist and battery standards development.
Kolin Low
Regional Director
UL Standards & Engagement
Mr Kolin Low is the Regional Director of UL Standards & Engagement (ULSE), a not-for-profit organization that develop standards in multiple sectors such as battery and battery-powered devices, fire safety, sustainability, autonomous products, among others. Mr Low is passionate about advancing ULSE’s mission of creating a safer world through strategic partnership with Asian stakeholders, promotion of standardization as a platform for global collaboration to identify sound solutions that support emerging technologies by addressing their unintended hazards. He manages a team that has direct responsibility for the regions of ASEAN, Japan, Korea, Australasia and Middle East.
Previously, Kolin Low was the Regional Manager for International Organization for Standardization (ISO). In this role, he setup the ISO Regional Engagement Initiative (REI) office in Singapore for the Asia Pacific region, developed and executed the ISO regional engagement plan for the region. Mr Low represented ISO in various regional fora such as the ASEAN Consultative Committee on Standards and Quality (ACCSQ) as dialogue partner and the APEC Subcommittee on Standards and Conformance (SCSC).
Prior to joining ISO, Mr Low worked for Enterprise Singapore (formerly known as SPRING Singapore) under different roles including International Policy for Standards and Quality, Accreditation and Metrology. He was also the lead officer for Calibration & Measurement field under Singapore national accreditation program.
Kolin Low earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering (Electronics) from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Dr. David Steel
Executive Director
UL Standards & Engagement
Dr. David Steel is executive director of UL Standards & Engagement, leading the organization’s development of safety standards and translation of the knowledge gained from safety science research into practical policy initiatives and advocacy.
An experienced corporate reputation leader, Steel guides the nonprofit organization’s efforts to develop policy partnerships and campaigns focused on improving human health and safety. He spent more than two decades working across global communications, public affairs, marketing, and corporate citizenship in senior roles at Samsung Electronics. Most recently, he was Samsung’s executive vice president and head of corporate affairs for the United States.
Prior to joining Samsung, Steel worked at McKinsey & Company and as a researcher at Argonne National Laboratory. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Oxford University, an MBA with honors from the University of Chicago, and a doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Steel spent 2017 as an Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University.
Carl Wang, Ph.D.
R&D Director, Corporate Fellow
UL Solutions
Dr. Wang is a R&D Director and Corporate Fellow at UL Solutions, responsible for UL R&D’s materials science, batteries, and sustainability research teams. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Southern California in 2002, then worked in a research institute, followed by a start-up company prior of joining UL in 2008. He managed the expansion of UL research footprint in Asia, and has led research initiatives focusing on various applications such as batteries, bio-fuels, photovoltaics, wire & cable, materials aging, product forensic analysis etc. His research team has been conducting battery safety science research for more than 16 years and has led UL’s several lithium-ion battery forensic projects such as Samsung Note 7, Boing 787 battery failure investigations.
Rebecca Le
Principal Engineer
UL Solutions
Rebecca Le is the principal engineer for motive batteries, ultracapacitors and portable power packs, one of the Distinguished Members of Technical Staff of UL.
Rebecca has been working with UL for more than 16 years in product safety certification focused on portable, motive, and stationary batteries for consumer, commercial and industrial applications. She is responsible for battery standards development and provides support for technical inquiries and project reviews related to battery products. She represents UL on several technical committees including UL1974 and UL2271 /UL2580 as well as other industry standards and battery committees across ANSI, SAE, IEC and SAC.
Richard Lee
Staff Engineer
UL Solutions
Richard Lee is a staff engineer at UL Taiwan, where he is responsible for evaluating the safety of power supply and battery charger products. He has been with UL since 2003 and began his career evaluating small linear transformers (UL5085) and power supplies such as cell phone chargers (UL1310). Over the years, he has advanced to evaluating larger power supplies and battery chargers, including Uninterruptible Power Systems (UPS) and Electric Vehicle (EV) chargers. Currently, Richard serves as the regional lead reviewer for General Power Supplies (UL1012), UPS (UL1778/IEC62040), and EV Chargers (UL2594/2202/2231 and IEC61851 series).
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