Dr. Chih-Jen Sung is the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund Professor in Sustainable Energy in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Before this position, he served as a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Case Western Reserve University from 1999 to 2009. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 1994. His research work mainly focuses on experimental and computational investigation of combustion and propulsion phenomena, including laser diagnostics, unsteady and high-pressure combustion, flame extinction and ignition, flame stabilization in high-speed flows, aerodynamic and chemical structures of flames, soot and NOx formation, turbulent combustion, combustion instabilities, chemical kinetic modeling, spray dynamics and combustion, alternative fuel utilization, and clean combustion technology. He is author or co-author of over 200 archival publications in combustion, propulsion, and sustainable energy, together with seven book chapters.