Van Chien Pham (Ph.D.) is currently a Lecturer at the Maritime Academy of the University of Transport Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He received his Ph.D. in February 2022 from the National Korea Maritime and Ocean University (KMOU), Busan, Korea, majoring in Machine and Material Engineering. He also worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the BK21 (Brain Korea) Group at the KMOU from March 2022 to March 2023. His current research interests include analysis and simulation of combustion and emission characteristics of internal combustion engines; emission reduction technologies for ships; alternative fuels for ship engines; CFD (computational fluid dynamics) and structural FE (finite element) Analysis.