Prof. Shibo KuangAustralia
Monash University
| 2025 to present | | Associate professor |
| 2025 - | | Associate professor |
| 2025 - 2029 | | Deputy Director for ARC Research Hub for Smart Process Design and Control |
Low-carbon metallurgy, Smart process
A/Prof Kuang is the group leader of the Process Technology Laboratory (PTL) in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Monash University, Australia. His group focuses on advancing process technologies in chemical and metallurgical engineering and mineral processing by integrating physics-based (mechanistic) modeling approaches, data-driven (AI) modeling approaches, and measurement techniques. The current research priorities include low-carbon metallurgy and smart processes.
He has published over 200 papers, including 170+ journal papers collected in ISI Web of Science. He serves on the editorial boards of four metallurgical engineering journals and has delivered more than 50 invited talks, including 20 keynote and plenary lectures. As of February 2026, his publications have received 7000+ citations, with an H-index of 48 (Google Scholar), and he has been recognized among the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford/Elsevier) annually since 2021.
Modelling and analysis of new ironmaking technologies
TBA TBA
Low-Carbon Technology in Metallurgy/TBA
The blast furnace (BF) ironmaking process accounts for approximately 70% of the energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions in an integrated steelworks. To reduce the environmental footprint of the steel industry, a range of mitigation pathways is being actively developed and evaluated. This presentation provides an overview of our research in this field, with a focus on the development of enabling tools and their application to explore various CO₂ mitigation strategies, including blast furnace optimization, emerging BF technologies, and non-BF alternatives such as direct reduction in shaft furnaces, flash ironmaking, and fluidized bed processes, as well as the utilization of direct reduced iron through different technological routes.