Keynote Speakers

SPEAKERS

Meet the Leading Minds on the World Conference on Floating Solutions 2026

Meet the visionary leaders, innovators, researchers, and industry pioneers shaping the future of marine infrastructure at the World Conference on Floating Solutions 2026.

Torgeir Moan

Prof. Em.Torgeir Moan

Torgeir Moan is a professor emeritus of Marine Technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), a former Director of the research excellence, CeSOS, and is currently professor at Ningbo University. Professor Moan’s main disciplines are structural analysis and design, with a focus on safety assessment. He has carried out research as well as engineering of innovative concepts of ships, oil and gas platforms, floating bridges, offshore wind turbines and aquaculture facilities.

Dr. Moan has served on the Royal Inquiry Commission of the Alexander L. Kielland accident and other accident inquiries and on various committees for standardization of offshore structures (e.g. ISO); wind turbines (IEC) and floating bridges (NPRA). He has served as the inaugural adjunct Keppel professor at the National University of Singapore and has honorary academic positions at several leading Chinese universities.

He has authored or co-authored about 800 journal and peer-reviewed conference papers. He has been main supervisor of about 440 MSc students and 90 PhD candidates, respectively.

Professor Moan has delivered about 50 keynote and award lectures at major conferences and received several international awards, e.g. including the (first) Bruce Wallace award at MIT; the James W. Rice award of ASME; the Offshore Energy Center Hall of Fame Award, Houston and several best paper awards He has been elected Fellow of five Academies, including the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and is dr. Honoris Causa of Aalto University and a fellow of several professional societies.

Prof. Yonghwan Kim

Prof. Yonghwan Kim got a BS and MS degrees at Seoul National University and a PhD degree at MIT, and he is currently a professor in Seoul National University. His major research field is marine hydrodynamics such as seakeeping and sloshing. He is the Fellow of RINA and SNAME, and full member of National Academy of Engineering of Korea. He was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering and University of Southampton, Specially-appointed Professor of Osaka University, and a visiting professor of MIT. He is a Weinblum Memorial Lecturer and David Kenneth Medalist. Currently he serves as the Director of Lloyd’s Register Foundation Research center in SNU, Vice Chair and South-East Asia represent of ITTC Executive Committee, Editor-in-Chief of JEME, and Executive Guest Editor of Ocean Engineering for ITTC Journal. He also serve for many international journals, committees, and conferences as executive board member.
Yonghwan Kim
Shixiao Fu

Prof. Shixiao Fu

Prof. Shixiao Fu is the Dean of the School of Ocean and Civil Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). He is an Academician of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, a leading talent of the National Ten-Thousand Talents Program for Science and Technology Innovation, a Fellow of SNAME (USA), and a Siyuan Scholar of SJTU. He has been funded by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and its continuation project, and was awarded the Xplorer Prize in 2022. Prof. Fu serves as the Associate Editor of Marine Structures and Journal OMAE. His primary research focuses on fluid-structure interactions in ocean engineering, with a particular emphasis on the vortex-induced vibration of marine risers, as well as the hydroelasticity of floating structures, floating bridges, and fish farming structures. His work has been recognized with awards including the First Prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award and the Special Prize of China Ocean Engineering Science and Technology Award.