S.K. Chou is a Professor Adjunct at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore. He is presently Chairman of the Technical Committee of the Cooling Energy Science and Technology Singapore (CoolestSG) Consortium at NUS funded by the National Research Foundation. 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 Faculty of Engineering at NUS. Professor Chou was the founding executive director of the Energy Studies Institute, established in 2007 at NUS, where he held a joint appointment till June 2017. He is Honorary Fellow and Emeritus President of the Institution of Engineers (IES), 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 chairs the Technical Evaluation Panel on the Grant for Energy Efficiency Technology (GREET) of the National Environment Agency and the Economic Development Board, Singapore. He is the national focal point on the Board of Advisors, ASEAN Committee on Science, Technology, and Innovation (COSTI). He is presently an Editor of the Elsevier journal, Applied Energy.