From left to right: Professor Sergey Ushakov (PhD defence organiser, NTNU), Professor Martti Larmi (Opponent, Aalto University, Finland), Dr. Kevin Koosup Yum (currently at SINTEF), Associate Professor Eilif Pedersen (main supervisor, NTNU) and Professor Geir Hovland (Opponent, UiA and SFI Offshore Mechatronics).

Dr. Kevin Koosup Yum defended his PhD thesis titled “Transient Performance and Emmisions of a Turbocharged Diesel Engine for Marine Power Plants: Numerical Simulation and Experimental Investigation” at NTNU on August 24, 2017. The work was performed at the Department of Marine Technology and the Center for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems (SFF AMOS), NTNU, Trondheim, with Associate Professor Eilif Pedersen as the main supervisor and Professor Asgeir J. Sørensen and Professor Roger Skjetne as the co-supervisors.