Kuan Shiong Khoo

Biography

ChM. Dr. Kuan Shiong Khoo is an Assistant Professor in Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Yuan Ze University, Taiwan. Kuan Shiong's research focuses on upcycling food waste into microalgae technology. Several research topics that my research expertise on microalgae technology may contributes to the emission reduction of greenhouse gases in the environment; bioremediate toxic pollution in effluent and recycled algae biomass into bio-based products such as biofertilizer, biochar, biofuels and bio-feed products. Besides microalgae technology, his research interest also involves microalgae-bacteria consortium for wastewater, heavy metal, and volatile organic compound bioremediation and incorporation of Internet-of-things (IoT) and machine learning.

He obtained his bachelor’s degree (Applied Chemistry) with a major of Sustainable Chemistry at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia from 2015 to 2018. He has successfully obtained his PhD in Chemical and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at University of Nottingham, Malaysia within two years’ time after obtaining his bachelor’s degree at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. Kuan Shiong has received some prestigious awards and achievements, including the Young Researcher Award 2023 (Yuan Ze University); IChemE Malaysia 2022 Young Researcher Award; Best Presenter Award Postgraduate Colloquium for Environmental Research (POCER) 2019; Top 15 Finalists YSN-ASM Chrysalis Award 2021; and University of Nottingham Malaysia Postgraduate Award Prize 2020/21. He has published over 200+ journal articles (90% are ranked in Q1 journals) during his postgraduate careers (2019 – 2021) and his current h-index is 45 and i10-index is 135 with 7500+ citations in the research field.

Kuan Shiong managed to secure (3) research funding as Principle Investigator as listed below (refer to proposal in package):
• Yuan Ze University R&D Department under the New Faculty Research Start-up Funds (303014-1; 303014-2)
• National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) (NSTC 112-2222-E-155-005)
• TEEP Internship Program 2023 – 2024 under NSTC (222017-10) – Student Recruitment Activity

While, Kuan Shiong is also working closely with UCSI University, Malaysia under an international research funding as co-Principle Investigator as listed below:
• UCSI University Research Excellence & Innovation Grant (REIG) (REIG-FAS-2022/003)

His is as an active reviewer in various high impact journals including, Chemosphere, Bioresource Technology, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, Science of the Total Environment, Fuel, Phytochemistry Reviews, Scientific Reports (Nature), Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, Biochemical Engineering Journal, Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy and Bioengineered He is currently an active Review Editorial in Frontier Sustainable Chemical Process Design and Circular Economy journal. He is also the guest managing editor for Bioengineered journal (Recent advances in bioprocess for sustainable high-valuable bioproducts: current and future perspective (POCER2022)). He is also served as managing and co-guest editor in some reputative journals that includes Chemosphere, Bioengineered and Energy NEXUS. He is the co-chair and organizer from UCSI University for the 6th Postgraduate Colloquium in Environmental Research (POCER 2022) conference: https://www.nottingham.edu.my/Conferences/POCER/index.aspx).