Dr. Boon Peng Chang received his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2014. He has held positions as a postdoctoral fellow at the Bioproducts Discovery and Development Centre, University of Guelph, Canada (2017-2020), and as a Research Associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada (2020-2021). Currently, he is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. His research primarily focuses on the development of polymeric foam for sports applications, the production and characterization of environmentally friendly polymer blends, renewable and sustainable biocomposites, and the thermochemical conversion of agro-wastes into value-added products. To date, he has authored over 60 publications in his field, including 38 peer-reviewed international journal papers, 20 conference presentations/proceedings, 3 book chapters, and 2 patents.