Overview

Annual meeting of the Palm Oil Processing Special Interest Group (POPSIG) covers the illustration of the important achievements attained in 2025 and outlines the future prospect and planning of POPSIG. It also serve as a platform for two-way dialogue between the SIG chair/committees and the members.

Speaker

Viknesh Andiappan, Chair, IChemE POPSIG

Viknesh is the associate director of the school of research at Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus. He also serves as an associate professor at the faculty of engineering, computing and science where he does research and teaching. He leads the sustainable and clean energy research cluster under the centre of sustainable technologies.

He is the author and lead editor a book titled Optimisation for Energy Systems and Supply Chains: Fundamentals and Applications, published in 2022 by CRC Press. His area of specialisation centres on developing process systems engineering tools to design and optimise net-zero energy systems and supply chains. He developed several computational methods to perform energy planning for greenhouse gas emission reduction. His work also aims to create software, techniques and algorithms to solve large-scale problems relevant to decarbonisation of the energy sector.

Viknesh is well-published and well-cited for a young researcher (over 100 publications with an h-index of 19) and presented several papers at various conferences. He has also won several accolades for his research. In 2022, he was awarded the Processes Journal Young Investigator Award and he entered the world's Top 2% of scientists for a single year. Most recently, in 2023, he was awarded the National Outstanding Young Researcher award by EduCoop. On top of this, he was inducted into the I&EC Research Journal’s 2023 Class of Influential Researchers for the Asia and Pacific region.

He is an editorial board member for Process Integration & Optimization for Sustainability (Springer Nature) and International Journal of Energy Research (Wiley). He is also one of the co-founders for the of Process and Systems Engineering for Sustainability (HOPES). Aside from research, he also volunteers with IChemE as a trained Chartered Engineer assessor and currently serves as the Chair of the Palm Oil Processing Special Interest Group.

The material presented has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter’s own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Palm Oil Processing Special Interest Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.

Time

18:00–18:40 MYT.

Software

The presentation will be delivered via Microsoft Teams. We recommend downloading the app from the Microsoft website, rather than using the web portal.