Keynote Speakers

 

Byoung Ryong Jeong
Byoung Ryong JEONG, Professor Emeritus, obtained his BS (Gyeongsang National Univ., GNU) and M.S. (Seoul National Univ.) degrees in Republic of Korea, and his Ph.D. in Horticulture in 1990 from Colorado State Univ., USA on a topic of nitrogen nutrition in bedding plants. He had postdoctoral training on 1) water relations in plants at Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, USA and 2) environmental control for plant production at Faculty of Horticulture, Chiba Univ., Japan. Since 1992, he has been affiliated with Dept. of Horticulture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, GNU, Korea, where he once served as the department chairperson and the dean of the college. During his tenure at the GNU, he also worked as a visiting professor at the Environmental Horticulture Dept., University of California-Davis and a Research Professor at the Plant and Environmental Science Dept., Clemson University. His current job includes teaching in the Smart Agriculture Study Program at IPB University in Indonesia. His fields of specialty are controlled environment agriculture (CEA), and his research interest and topics include, but not limited to, organogenic and embryogenic micropropagation, and propagation, transplant (micropropagated and plugs) production and hydroponic culture of floricultural, medicinal and rare/endangered plants in CEA such as the greenhouse and plant factory systems; lighting technology in horticulture for control of flowering and photomorphogenesis; silicon nutrition in horticultural crops; and use of plants for removal of fine dust in the air. He has published more than more than 500 research papers, and books and book chapters, 30 patents, and 50 research reports. He has more than 700 abstracts presented during various scientific society meetings such as ASHS, ISHS, & KSHS, more than 260 education/training articles for horticultural growers, teachers etc. (https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=ko&user=vSvVOdUAAAAJ; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Byoung-Ryong-Jeong-2/stats). He was honored to be recognized by Highly Ranked Scholars™ with ScholarGPS™ Ranks of 0.05% or better in 2024 (https://scholargps.com/scholars/79620010545477/byoung-ryong-jeong; https://scholargps.com/scholars/79620010545477/byoung-ryong-jeong?e_ref=e1a4fafc641e04c639c3). He has been an academic adviser for 21 post-doctoral fellows, and 31 PhD and 63 MS students, and also has served on dissertation committees for 74 Ph.D. and 87 M.S. degree students including 6 from India, 7 Malaysia, and 1 Pakistan. He also served as the president of several scientific societies and editor-in-chief for several international journals, including Horticulture, Environment and Biotechnology published by the Korean Society for Horticultural Science, Frontiers in Plant Science, and International J. of Molecular Science.

 

 

Kokyo Oh
Center for Environmental Science in Saitama, Japan

Prof. Dr. Kokyo Oh is a senior researcher in Center for Environmental Science in Saitama, Japan. He obtained Ph.D. degree (soil science) in 1995, and was honored as a research fellow by Japan Science and Technology Agency (STA) from 1997 to 1999. His research areas include soil science, environmental conservation, environmental chemistry and biology, and environmental agronomy. He has published more than 200 major academic papers, has presided over and participated in more than 100 scientific research fund projects, and has been invited to be the chairman of more than 20 international conferences.

 

 

Atsushi Matsumura
Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan

Assoc. Prof. Atsushi Matsumura was awarded PhD in Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University in 2007. Assistant Professor of Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University (2010-2023), and Associate Professor of Graduate School of Agriculture, Osaka Metropolitan University in 2024. Research fields are agronomy (sustainable cropping systems, crop-environment interactions), and soil science (sustainable soil fertility management, soil microbial ecology). Recent research topics include genetic improvement of soybean for low phosphorus tolerance, nitrogen and phosphorus cycles in agricultural soil by green manure introduction, and evaluation of unused resources as a substitute for chemical fertilizers.

 

 

Satoshi Soda
Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Prof. Satoshi Soda was born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan in 1972. Awarded MSc and PhD in Engineering from Department of Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of engineering, Osaka University in 1997 and 1999, respectively. Assistant Professor of Department of Global Architecture (1999-2008), and Associate Professor of Department of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering, (2008-2017), Graduate School of engineering, Osaka University.
Professor at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan since 2017, and Associate Fellow of Ritsumeikan Advanced Research Academy since 2022.
The research focuses on wastewater treatment using bacteria and aquatic plants. Recent challenging topics are (1) nitrogen removal from domestic wastewater using simultaneous heterotrophic denitrification and anammox, (2) activated sludge for excess sludge reducing using earthworms, (3) algal-bacterial system for removing LAS and methyl paraben, (4) trickling filters followed by constructed wetlands with edible plants, (5) constructed wetlands for removing azo dyes from Batik wastewater, (6) constructed wetlands for mine drainage treatment in Japan, (7) bioreactors for removing of antimony from wastewater, (8) growing eelgrass using magnesium ammonium phosphate recovered from sewage, (9) methane recovery from rubber seed residue by anaerobic digestion, and (10) Monitoring of seasonal change of algae and bacteria populations in an inner lake of Lake Biwa.

 

 

 

Hyunook Kim
University of Seoul, Korea

Dr. Hyunook Kim is Professor at Environmental Engineering, University of Seoul, Korea, and Director of R&D Center of Core Technologies for Water Treatment. Professor Kim earned his B.S. degree in Environmental Science from Yonsei University, Korea in 1994, and an M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1997, and a Ph.D. from University of Maryland at College Park in 2000. Before he joined the faculty member at University of Seoul in 2002, he worked as Environmental Engineer for US Dept. of Agriculture, MD, USA.
Professor Kim’s research in the area of water pollution control includes a number of projects on process control and operation of water and wastewater treatment plants. Especially he is interested in monitoring and control of contaminants of emerging concern. He has published numerous journal papers and made conference presentations. He has been received a few awards for his academic and research achievements.