Membership/Fellowship/Leadership in Professional and Learned Societies

Member:		Professional Engineers of Ontario (Since 1997)
Fellow:		Royal Society of Canada (Since 2015)
Fellow:		Canada Academy of Engineering (Since 2008)
Fellow:		Engineering Institute of Canada (Since 2009)
Fellow:		Chemical Institute of Canada (Since 1999, member since 1985)
Member:		American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) (Since 1988, life member since 2005)
Director:		Southern Ontario Tsinghua Alumni Association (1995-now)
Director/President:		Vancouver Tsinghua Alumni Association (1985-88, President 1987-88)
President:		Chinese Faculty Members at Western University (1994-2004)
Chairman:		Board of Directors, Canada-China Invention & Technology Trading Association (2000-2016)
Director:		Faculty Association, Western University (2002-06, Executive Committee 2004-05)
Inaugural President:		Canadian Academy of Chinese Professors (Since 2015)
Inaugural President:		Global Academy of Chinese Chemical Engineers (Since 2018)

Main Conference Organizations

Social Program Chair:		41st Conf of Can. Society for Chemical Engineers, Vancouver, Oct. 1991
Co-Chairman		94’s Young Researchers Symposium on Fluidization, Beijing, June 1994
Tech Program Chair		48th Conf. of Can. Society for Chemical Engineers, London, Oct. 1998
Conf. Co-Chair		7th Int. Conference of Circulating Fluidized Beds, Niagara Falls, May 2002
Regional Program Chair		5th World Congress of Particle Technology, Orlando, FL, April 2006.
Conf. Co-Chair		First Multi-Disciplinary Symp of Can Chinese Professors, London, Nov. 2007
DConf. Co-Chair		Second Multi-Disciplinary Symp of Can Chinese Professors, Collingwood, July 2008
Chair/Vice Chair		Fluid-Particle Program Symposia, Annual Meetings for American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Nov. 2008 and 2009 / Nov. 2006 and 2007)
President:		Chinese Faculty Members at Western University (1994-2004)
Conference Chair		Chemical Engineering in 2050 - Frontiers of Chemical Engineering, the First Global Chinese Chemical Engineering Forum, Niagara Falls, Aug. 2009
Conf. Co-Chair		Third Multi-Disciplinary Symp of Can Chinese Professors, Niagara Falls, Aug 2009
Chair:		Symposium on Particle Technology and its Applications, 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Montreal, Aug. 2009
Conf. Co-Chair		Frontiers of Chemical Engineering, the Second Global Chinese Chemical Engineering Forum, Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 2010.
Chair:		International Scientific Committee, Frontiers of Chemical Engineering, the 3rd Global Chinese Chemical Engineers Symposium, Beijing, July 2011
Conference Chair		61st Conf. of Can. Society for Chemical Engineers, London, Oct. 2011
Co-Chair:		Symposium on "Globalization and the Chemical Industry", 61st Annual Conf. of Can. Society for Chemical Engineers, London, Oct., 2011
Chair:		International Scientific Committee, Frontiers of Chemical Engineering, the 4th Global Chinese Chemical Engineers Symposium, Birmingham, UK, Aug 2012
Chair:		International Scientific Committee, Frontiers of Chemical Engineering, the 5th Global Chinese Chemical Engineers Symposium, Xi'an, July 2013
Chair:		International Scientific Committee, Frontiers of Chemical Engineering, the 6th Global Chinese Chemical Engineers Symposium, Hong Kong, July 2014
Co-Chair:		Eighth Multi-Disciplinary Symposium of Ontario Chinese Professors, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, Aug 2014
Chair:		International Scientific Committee, Frontiers of Chemical Engineering, the 7th Global Chinese Chemical Engineers Symposium, Tianjin, July 12-15, 2015
Chair:		International Scientific Committee, Frontiers of Chemical Engineering, the 8th Global Chinese Chemical Engineers Symposium, Singapore, July 2016
Co-Chair		Ninth Multi-Disciplinary Symposium of Canadian Chinese Professors, Kingston, Canada, Aug 2016
Chair		Tenth Multi-Disciplinary Symposium of Canadian Chinese Professors, Niagara Falls, Aug 2018
Conference Chair		Frontiers of Chemical Engineering, the 10th Global Chinese Chemical Engineers Symposium, Niagara Falls, Aug. 2018
Co-Chair:		Frontiers of Chemical Engineering, the 11th Global Chinese Chemical Engineers Symposium, Chengdu, China, Aug. 2-5, 2019
Convener:		Annual Multi-Disciplinary Symposiums Series of Can. Chinese Professors, since 2007
Convener:		Annual Global Chinese Chemical Engineers Symposiums, since 2009
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Selected Plenary Speeches

Expansion of the Fluidization Concept: Upflow, Downflow And Counter Flow", 49th Annual Conference of Canadian Society for Chemical Engineers, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Oct. 3-6, 1999 (Award Speech for the Syncrude Canada Innovation Award, CSChE)

"Sustainable Development and its Balance with Environment/Society", Symposium on Technology Development and Sustainable Development, The 5th Guangzhou Convention of Overseas Chinese Scholars in Science and Technology, Guangzhou, China, Dec. 28-30, 2002

"Circulating Fluidized Beds - Recent Developments and Research Requirements in the Near Future", The 8th International Conference on Circulating Fluidized Beds, Hangzhou, China, May 10-13, 2005

"Manipulating Fine Particles for the Best Industrial Practice", 57th Annual Conference of Canadian Society for Chemical Engineers, Edmonton, Alberta, Oct. 28-31, 2007 (Award Speech for the Bantrel Award in Design and Industrial Practice, CSChE)

“The Application of a New Type of Fluidized Bed Reactor in Biochemical Engineering - an Example of Simultaneous Process Integration and Intensification”, 5th Chinese National Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Annual Meeting, Xi'an, China, Oct 28-30, 2008

“From History to Now, from China to the World – Where are We and Where We are Heading Into”, Frontiers of Chemical Engineering, the First Global Chinese Chemical Engineers Forum, Niagara Falls, Canada, Aug 20-22, 2009

“Status of Pulmonary Drug Inhalation in Canada and a New Powder Inhalation Device”, Inhaler Drug Delivery Conference (IDD 2010), Yangzhou, China, March 26-27, 2010

“Technology Innovation and Globalization”,The 3rd Australia-China Symposium on Science, Technology and Education, (In conjunction with Frontiers of Chemical Engineering, the Second Global Chinese Chemical Engineering Forum), Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 6-8, 2010.

“International Education, Chinese-Western Culture Differences and the Implications to Technology Development”, DIPC Forum of Art, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Dalian, China, July 12, 2013. “Fluidization Regimes and Operation Ranges”, 7th National Fluidization Conference, Sept. 25-27, 2013.

“Fluidization – the Past, the Present and the Future”, 63rd Annual Conference of Canadian Society for Chemical Engineers, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Oct. 20-23, 2013. (Award Speech for the R. S. Jane Memorial Award (Career Award), CSChE).

“A Revolutionary Technology Transformation in Tablet Coating – from Liquid to Powder Coating”, 2013 Annual Conference of Chinese Society of Pharmaceutical Process Engineering, Hangzhou, Dec. 6-8, 2013.

“Small Particles Hoisting Gigantic Industrial Processes – the Application of Particle Technology in the Real World”, The 8th International Symposium on Chemical Engineering among the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong,Xi'an, China, Sept. 8-11, 2015.

“An Expected Paradigm Shift, from Liquid to Powder Coating for Pharmaceutical Dosages”,International Forum on Leading Edge Technologies on Crystallization Engineering and Pharmaceutics Development, Tianjin, China, Oct. 15-16, 2016.

“Fluidization 100 year – History and Future Perspectives”, 9th National Fluidization Conference, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, Aug. 25-27, 2017 .

“Particuology and Smart Applications”, 2018 Int Forum on Engineering and Smart Manufacturing, Tianjin, China, May 22-25, 2018.

“Industrial Applications of Particulate Biofilm Intensification Technology”, 3rd Forum on Frontiers of Chem & Environmental Engng - Ind. Wastewater Control and Sustainable Development, Beijing, China, May 23-25, 2018.

“Fluidization in its 100th year - the Past, the Present and the Future”,6th Asian Conf on Innovative Energy and Environmental Chemical Engineering (ASCON-IEEChE 2018), Riruetai, Taiwan, China, Nov. 4-7, 2018.

“Fluidization in 100 Years - Future Perspectives”, Fluidization XVI – the 16th International Conference on Fluidization, Guilin, China, May 26-31, 2019.

“Liquid-Solid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Circulating Fluidized Beds as Biochemical and Environmental Reactors”, The 14th International Conference on Gas-Liquid and Gas-Liquid-Solid Reactor Engineering (GLS-14), Guilin, China, May 30-June 3, 2019.