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Principle Investigator

Dr. Yongsheng Chen is the Director and Principle Investigator at the N.E.W. Center.

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Post-Doc

Bopeng got his Ph.D. in 2018 at Georgia Tech and a M.S. in C.S.E with support from NSF and other agencies. He has been focused on membrane technology in sustainable energy generation and water treatment during his study here. He now switches gear to apply membrane technology to recover nutrients from wastewater. As a young research, Bopeng also wants to integrate conventional water treatment and agriculture studies with data science and technology to build models and novel system design.

 

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Lead Investigator

Dr. Yongsheng Chen is the Director and Principle Investigator at the N.E.W. Center.

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Postdoctoral Researchers

Yangying Zhao

Current Project: I am developing novel membrane materials and technologies for precise separation and resource recovery from water/wastewater streams.

 

Visiting Scholars

Graduate Researchers

Dylan Lambeth, PhD Student

Current Project: I’m currently working on two research projects: First, I’m using machine learning to predict bioaccumulation of PFAS compounds in hydroponic lettuce based on molecular descriptors. Second, I’m using machine learning to assist in the design of membranes to separate solutes in wastewater, with the goal of separating PFAS and other emerging contaminants from nutrients which can be reused in hydroponics.

 

 

 

Undergraduate Researchers

Camille Butkus

Project: During Fall 2020 – Spring 2021, I cultivated algae in outdoor photobioreactors to support DOE DAC project. During Spring 2020, I assisted with construction, set up, and continuous operation of hydroponics chambers; collected water and lettuce samples; researched the effects of nutrient concentration on uptake rates and the use of ion selective electrodes in hydroponics systems.