Dr. Dai Yanjun
ProfessorShanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Power Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
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Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Power Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
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Dr. Dai Yanjun is a full Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), P. R. China, Dean of Department of Power and Energy Engineering, SJTU, as well as Vice Director of Engineering Research Center of Solar Energy, Ministry of Education, China. Dr. Dai got his Bachelor degree (1993), Master degree (1996) and PhD degree (1999) in Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. He worked as a Post Doctor Fellow in the School of Power and Energy Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (1999-2001), and was promoted as Associate Professor thereafter. He was promoted as full Professor in 2005. He was nominated as the Dean of Department of Power and Energy Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2015. He was the Research Associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the University of Hong Kong (2001), Visiting Professor in North Dokota State University, USA (2009), and Principle Investigator (PI) for E2S2 project of CREAT program, National University of Singapore, sponsored by NSF, Singapore (2012-2017). His research interests involve Solar Heating and Cooling, Solar Buildings, Desiccant Dehumidification and Moisture Control in Built Environment, Solar Desalination. In these research areas, he enriched the knowledge about Solar Driven two Stage Desiccant Cooling, Novel Fresnel Solar Collector, Hybrid Solar Desiccant Air Conditioning, et al. To date, he has published 4 books or book chapters, over 80 international journal papers, and obtained 20 patents. He has been the principle investigators for more than 40 projects of NSFC, National High-tech programs, etc. He has received several awards at national level, such as National Innovation Award (II), National Natural Science Award (II) etc. As the Coordinator, he took the major responsibility and completed the construction of Sino-Italian Green Energy Lab (GEL), which has been equipped with various kinds of advanced Green Energy facilities, fulfilled with the passive solar building concepts, and was awarded LEED gold medal in 2012. He is now the associate editor of Solar Energy, also the editorial board member of International Journal of Energy Engineering, and the invited reviewers for more than 20 international journals. He has been the guest editor of Energy Conversion and Management for Special issue SET2010, SET2011. In recent years, he completes the reviewing tasks for about 50 journals papers for each year. He has been the invited reviewers for PhD thesis from Sydney University, The University of Nottingham, University of New South Wales, Tsinghua University. He also has been invited as plenary or keynote speaker in World Renewable Energy Congress (2014), International Solar Air Conditioning Conference (2013).