Speakers

Dr. Dac Nguyen, research scientist at Illinois Fire Service Institute, earned his PhD from Clemson University, South Carolina in 2021 with research on quantification of embers/firebrands at the Wildland Urban Interface community from a wildfire. He also obtained a master's degree in building fire safety and risk engineering from Victoria University, Australia. Dr Dac Nguyen has a multidisciplinary background in fire dynamics, fluid mechanics, wind engineering and CFD (computational fluid mechanics) simulation. He has conducted several experiments in an atmospheric boundary layer wind tunnel to study ember accumulation. He also carried out a study of fire development in a deep enclosure with both laboratory experiments and Fire Dynamics Simulator.