Dr. Yonghao Luo was born in 1962, Zhejiang province in China. He is a Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (shortened as SJTU). Dr. Luo received a B.E. in thermal engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1982 and Ph.D. in thermophysics engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1997. Dr. Luo was a visiting scholar at the University of Stuttgart in Germany from 1999 to 2000, and was a visiting scholar at the Joint Global Change Research Institute in U.S.A. in 2002. Dr. Luo was a Research Engineer at Shanghai Power Equipment Research Institute from 1982 to 1988. He has been at SJTU since 1988 until present time. Dr. Luo was the Chairman of the Department of Energy Engineering at SJTU from 1998 to 2001. Now Dr. Luo is the Deputy Director of the Institute of Thermal Engineering at SJTU, Chief Scientist of the Shanghai Clean Energy Research and Industry Promotion Center, and the Director of Chinese Society of Power Engineering.

His research interests are energy efficiency, clean combustion, biomass and hydrogen energy. Dr. Luo retrofitted more than 200 coal-fired industrial boilers by the proprietary technology in China, which was selected as Best Practice Programme by the State Economic and Trade Commission supported by the World Bank and GEF. He also improved the design technology about the hydraulic calculation for the utility boiler. His improvement was recognized as a great achievement by the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the improvement is being disseminated to all of China. Now Dr. Luo leads his team to develop energy efficiency technologies for thermal system, low NOx combustion technologies for coal-fired boiler, power generation technologies by biomass, and broaden research in hydrogen and fuel cell.

Dr. Luo was honored as outstanding young university teacher in Shanghai and key university teacher of the Ministry of Education. Dr. Luo received the Science and Technology Progress Award by the Ministry of Education in 2000, and the Promotion Award for Combining Scientific Technology with Industry by the Shanghai municipal government in 2000, and the Science and Technology Progress Award by the Shanghai municipal government in 2002.