Research Conference Programme
27 March 2025

Time	Programme
8.00am - 9.00am	Conference Registration Morning Coffee and Tea
9.00am – 9.15am	Opening Address Professor LOW Teck Seng Chairman, Singapore Maritime Institute
9.15am – 10.15am	Research Presentations: Energy transition for Maritime IMO Net-Zero Framework: Latest Progress in International Mechanisms for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ships Professor ZHANG Shuang Researcher, Shipping Development Research Institute Dalian Maritime University Charting a Course Through the Uncertainties of Maritime Energy Transition Associate Professor NG Szu Hui Head, Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore; and Research Track Leader, Centre for Maritime Studies Research Challenges and Opportunities in Shipping Industry’s Pathway to Decarbonisation by 2050 Professor Evangelos BOULOUGOURIS Head Of Department Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering University of Strathclyde
10.15am – 10.30am	Morning Tea Break
10.30am – 12.10pm	Research Presentations: AI in Maritime Operations Systems A Critical Overview of Recent AI Developments and its Role in the Maritime Sector Professor Panagiotis ANGELOUDIS Professor of Transport Systems & Logistics Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London Spatiotemporal AI for Digitalisation and Decarbonisation of Maritime Professor Tao CHENG Professor of Geoinformatics Founder & Director of SpaceTimeLab Department of Civil, Environment & Geomatic Engineering University College London Data-Centric Engineering at Scale: Developing an AI Data Engineer Professor Adam SOBEY Programme Director, Data-Centric Engineering, The Alan Turing Institute; and Professor of Data-Centric Engineering in the Maritime Engineering group, University of Southampton Accelerating Innovations in Maritime Shipping Through Maritime AI Research Dr FU Xiuju Senior Principal Scientist Department of Systems Science Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR Data Analytics for Maritime Sustainability Professor Jasmine LAM Chair Professor and Maritime Chair Technical University of Denmark Department of Technology, Management and Economics Division of Management Science
12.10pm – 1.50pm	Networking Lunch and Poster Showcase Judging
1.50pm – 3.10pm	Research Presentations: Modelling and Simulations for Port and Shipping Understanding and Managing Risks in the Transition Towards Future Maritime Operations Professor CHAN Eng Soon Chief Executive Officer Technology Centre for Offshore and Marine, Singapore A Six-Dimension Framework for Digital Twins of Marine Engine Systems Professor LI Tie Director, Institute of Power Plant and Automation, COSCO-SJTU Joint Laboratory of Green and Intelligent Marine Power Systems Researcher and doctoral supervisor of the Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University From Data to Decisions: AI/ML-Augmented Metocean Digital Twins for Predictive and Actionable Maritime Intelligence Dr Roy HE Distinguished Professor, North Carolina State University Founder and President, Fathom Science, Inc. On MASS Cyber Vulnerability: Rudder Controller Attack Simulation Experiments Professor Sanja BAUK European Research Area Chair, Maritime Cybersecurity Centre, Tallinn University of Technology
3.10pm – 3.20pm	Announcement of Top 5 Research Posters
3.20pm – 3.35pm	Afternoon Tea Break
3.35pm – 4.35pm	Research Presentations: Shipping Emissions Reduction and Challenges Unlocking Insights with Big Data for Clean and Decarbonized Shipping Dr LIU Huan Professor and Doctoral Supervisor School of Environment Tsinghua University, Beijing Wind to Wake Assessment of Future Marine Fuels and Powertrains Professor Dominic HUDSON Shell Professor of Ship Safety and Efficiency University of Southampton Ammonia Bunkering: Understanding Dispersion Behavior in Accidental Releases Dr LIU Ming Research Director Maritime Energy and Sustainable Development Centre of Excellence, Nanyang Technological University
4.35pm – 4.45pm	In Conversation: Innovation Through International Collaboration Dr Mikael LIND (Adjunct) Professor in Maritime Informatics Senior Strategic Research Advisor, Safety and Transport RISE Research Institutes of Sweden Dr CHEN Xinwei Deputy Executive Director Singapore Maritime Institute
4.45pm	Closing Remarks Dr CHEN Xinwei Deputy Executive Director Singapore Maritime Institute

*Programme may subject to change(s).

Research Conference Programme27 March 2025

Research Conference Programme
27 March 2025