Biography of Byeong Soo Oh (South Korea), Department of Mechanical Eng. Chonnam National University 300 Yongbongdong, Gwangju, Chonnam500-757, S. Korea |
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Professor/Dr. Byeong Soo Oh got membership of IAHE in 1982 and has attended all the World Hydrogen Energy Conferences (WHECs) since 1990. He started his professional career in the field of hydrogen energy by producing hydrogen from water electrolysis with electric energy of solar cells in 1982. He tried to make a hydrogen gas turbine engine by using hydrogen and oxygen with his graduate students to make pollution-free vehicles, after he returned to Chonnam National University with his Ph. D. degree in 1989 from State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 1997, he visited the Clean Energy Research Center at the University of Miami as a visiting scholar and studied about hydrogen fuel cell vehicles for one year, under the guidance of Professor T. Nejat Veziroglu. He changed his research field from hydrogen heat engine to fuel cell vehicles since then. He founded the Solar Energy Research Center in Chonnam National University in 2001, and became the Founding Director for 2 years. He served as the Director of Automobile Research Center in Chonnam National University for some four years since 2006. He founded the Hydrogen Energy & Fuel Cell Research Institute in Chonnam National University in 2010, and has served as the Director. He is studying about regenerative braking power with fuel cell stacks, batteries and super capacitors, and making many PEM (Polymer Electrolyte Membrane) fuel cell stacks with metal bipolar plates. He teaches various subjects such as Thermodynamics, Applications of Hydrogen Energy, Fuel Cell Power Systems and Fuel Cell Powered Vehicles to his undergraduate and graduate students. He is organizing the 20th World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2014, Gwangju, Korea, as Chairman of the WHEC2014 Committee.
EDUCATION
B.S. Chonnam National University, Mechanical Engineering (1976)
M.S. Chonnam National University, Mechanical Engineering (1981)
Ph. D. State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook, Mechanical Engineering (1989)
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