Dr Dai Completed a Bachelor of Engineering degree at Wuhan University of Technology (China) in 2006 and a Master of engineering degree at University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (China) in 2009. He got his PhD from Monash University and his PhD research project focussed on co-gasification for the purpose of improving the efficient use of low-rank fuels. His postdoctoral research project examines fly ash vitrification. He starts his academic role at Monash University as a senior lecturer since 2020. His research interests include solid waste management, clean energy, biomass and sustainability, energy evaluation for process design. He has more than 100 publications in high quality journals in the solid fuel area.