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Dr. Tan Yie Hua

Planning and Development Office Coordinator | Lecturer Faculty of Engineering

Current Teaching Module

  • Energy Engineering Fundamentals 1
  • Energy Storage Technologies
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Energy Engineering and Planning
  • Mechanical Unit Operations
  • Gas Processing
  • Chemical Engineering Laboratory
  • Energy Engineering Laboratory
  • Group Design Project for Chemical Engineers
  • Group Design Project for Energy Engineers
  • Final Year Project for Chemical Engineers
  • Final Year Project for Energy Engineers

Specialized Area

Chemical Engineering


Research Interest
  • Biomass utilisation
  • Biofuel conversion technology
  • Catalysis development
  • Process optimization
  • Waste management
  • Wastewater treatment


Programme Area

  • Chemical and Energy Engineering

Qualifications

  • PhD in Chemical Engineering
  • BEng (Hons) in Chemical Engineering

 

Career or Professional Bodies/Awards
Professional Bodies
  • Chartered Member, Institution of Chemical Engineers, UK (CEng MIChemE) (100129724)
  • Chartered Engineer, Engineering Council, UK (CEng) (6766934)
  • Professional Engineer (Ir), Board of Engineers, Malaysia (BEM) (P124531)
  • ASEAN Chartered Professional Engineer (ACPE) (ACPE-07994/MY)
  • Fellow, Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Awards
  • Top 2% of scientists in 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 (yearly) by Stanford University
  • Gold Award – Virtual International Innovation for Climate & Ecosystem Resilience 2026 (VIICER2026)
  • Bronze Award – Virtual International Innovation for Climate & Ecosystem Resilience 2026 (VIICER2026)
  • Anugerah Ikon Alumni UNIMAS (Ikon Penulisan) 2026
  • Research Excellence – Universiti Teknologi Brunei Early Career Academic, Special Mentions 2026
  • Bronze Medal in the Local Category 2 of CIPTA 2025 (Creative, Innovative Product and Technological Advancement) 2025
  • Gold Award – Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE) 2023
  • Best Presenter Award – 7th Technology and Innovation International Conference 2023
  • Best Paper Award – International Conference on Digital Applications, Transformation and Economy (ICDATE 2023)
  • Best Presenter Award – International Conference on Digital Applications, Transformation and Economy (ICDATE 2023)
  • Curtin Malaysia Best Early Career Researcher Award (2023, 2022 & 2020)
  • Curtin Malaysia Best Lecturer (Student Choice Award) for Chemical Engineering (2022 & 2023)
  • Gold Award – Innovation and Technology Expo InTEX22 (2022)
  • Silver Award – International Conference and Exposition on Inventions by Institutions of Higher Learning (PECIPTA) (2022)
  • Best Project Award – 3rd Bionanotechnology Research Seminar and Conference (BioNanoSem 2022)
  • Silver Award – Innovation and Technology Expo InTEX19 (2019)
Services and Committee
  • Section Editor - Engineering for Discover Applied Sciences, Q1, Springer Nature (2019 - present)
  • Royal Society Publishing Early Career Researcher Advisory Panel (2025 - present)
  • Event Coordinator, IChemE’s Palm Oil Processing Special Interest Group (POPSIG) (Mac 2021 – Present)
  • Plenary Speaker, The 4th Symposium on Innovation and Sustainability, Biomass and Biochar Utilization in ASEAN context, Thailand (12 Nov 2026)
  • Speaker, Russia–ASEAN Online Summit on Digital Skills and Workforce Development - Presentation: Artificial Intelligence in Education (28 July 2026)
  • Deputy Programme Leader, Chemical and Energy Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Brunei (July 2024 – July 2026)
  • Member, Young Scientists Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia (YSN-ASM) (Oct 2023 – 31 Dec 2026)
  • Committee Member, Palm Oil Sustainability (ARPOS) Network, Malaysia (2023 – 2024)
  • UTB Energy Institute Student Chapter Advisor, Universiti Teknologi Brunei (Dec 2025 – Present)
  • Deputy Chairperson of the Souvenirs & Certificate Committee, UTB-STE CONNECT 2025
  • International Committee, 35th Symposium of Malaysian Chemical Engineers (SOMChE2026)
  • Scientific Committee, Regional Postgraduate Symposium on Planetary Health (Symplanet) (Aug 2026)
  • Facilitator, Beyond Your Degree: Guide to Achieving Chartership and Certification Brunei Affiliate - Society of Women Engineer (13 Sep 2025)
  • Advisory Committee, 23rd EURECA International Engineering Conference 2025
  • International Scientific Committee, Industry-University-Community Summit and 5th Swinburne Sarawak Postgraduate Research Conference 2025
  • Technical Committee, Brunei International Conference on Engineering and Technology (BICET) Conference 2025
  • Souvenirs and Certificate Committee, Konsortium Universiti Universitas Borneo (KUUB) Convention 2024
  • • Scientific Committee, International Conference on Energy Transition and Exhibition 2024 (ICETe 24)
  • • Guest Editor for Carbon Based Materials in Wastewater Treatment, Springer Nature in Discover Water (2023 - 2025)
  • • Guest Editor for Engineering: Biofuels, Springer Nature in Discover Applied Sciences (2023 - 2025)
  • • Guest Associate Editor for Advanced Clean Fuel Technologies - Frontiers in Energy Research (2023)


Publication

 

Links
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Web of Science Researcher:
IDAGH-1735-2022

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