WSGESD-2025

Dr. Hwai Chyuan Ong is currently appointed as Distinguished Professor at School of Engineering and Technology, Sunway University, Malaysia and as Adjunct Professor at Faculty of Engineering & IT, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His research interests are under the general umbrella of renewable energy system, energy & fuel, green technology, environmental sustainability, solar thermal system, and waste management. He has published more than 250 high impact SCI journal papers with H-index 70 (WOS). And, he is invited and delivered several keynotes, plenary and invited talks at international conferences. He had secured and completed several grants as principal investigator from ministry, university and private nationally and internationally. He had completed the supervision of 11 PhD and 13 Master degree postgraduates. He is listed as Highly Cited Researcher (Engineering) by Clarivate Analytics in 2019-2022. In 2021, he also named as Australia’s top early career researcher in sustainable energy. In 2018 & 2017, he received the Malaysia's Research Star Award (frontier researcher) and in 2016, received the Malaysia's Rising Star Award (young researcher) by Ministry of Higher Education and Clarivate Analytics. In 2018, he also received the outstanding research award and the most highly cited paper award by University of Malaya Excellence Award. Currently, he is Associate Editor of Alexandria Engineering Journal, Senior Editor of e-Prime as well as editorial board member for few other journals.