Ong Hwai Chyuan obtained his B.Eng. (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering from Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya with distinction. Then, he obtained Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the same university in December 2012. Upon the completion of his studies, he is appointed as Lecturer at Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Malaya. He is also a Chartered Engineer of Engineering Council (CEng) under Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), United Kingdom. His research interests are wide-ranging under the general umbrella of renewable energy system. However, his main interests are biofuel & bioenergy, energy efficiency and policy, solar thermal system and green technology & environmental issue.
He has published more than 120 high impact SCI journal papers with H-index more than 30 (WOS). He is listed as Highly Cited Researchers 2019 (Engineering) by Clarivate Analytics. In 2018 & 2017, he received the Malaysia's Research Star Award (frontier researcher) and in 2016, he received the Malaysia's Rising Star Award (young researcher) by Ministry of Higher Education and Clarivate Analytics. Currently, he serves as Associate Editor of Alexandria Engineering Journal, Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, guest editor in Energies, and editorial board member for few other journals. Ong is also Core Group Member of APRU Sustainable Waste Management (SWM) program