S.K. Chou is a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore. He chairs the Technical Committee of the NUS Cooling Energy Science and Technology Singapore (CoolestSG) Consortium. Between 1992 and 2007, he held positions as Director, Industry and Technology Relations Office, Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Vice-Dean of the NUS Faculty of Engineering. Professor Chou was the founding executive director of the NUS Energy Studies Institute, established in 2007. He is Emeritus President of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore, and a Fellow of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. He is also a Fellow of the Singapore Academy of Engineering, the ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology, the Energy Institute, UK, and the ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organisations. He is an editor of the Elsevier published Applied Energy and a member of the editorial board of Advances in Applied Energy.