Expertise

 Subject Area(s):

  • Bioprocess Engineering
    • Biological Waste Treatment & Valorization
    • Biofuels & Biochemicals Production
    • Metabolic Engineering & Synthetic Biology
    • Lifecycle Assessment & Process Engineering
    • Algal-bacteria Bioprocesses
    • Biological Waste-to-Value
    • Pathogen Detection & Control
    • Biological Materials Preprocessing & Standardization
    • Postharvest Technology
    • Food Processing
    • Biodegradable & Active Packaging Materials
    • Food Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Metabolic Engineering and Bioprocess Engineering for the Nexus of Energy
  • Environment and Health

Keywords/Tags: Bioprocess engineering Metabolic engineering Synthetic biology Applied and industrial microbiology Biofuels and biochemicals Bioremediation Waste management Wastewater treatment Environmental molecular biology Pathogen control

Research Areas:

  •  Value-added biochemical and bioenergy production: metabolic engineering/synthetic biology/biotechnology
  •  Pathogen control and treatment with metabolic engineering/synthetic biology strategies
  •  Environmental molecular biology: microbial genomics, genetics and transcriptomics
  •  Bioremediation: biodegradation and biotransformation of emerging environmental contaminants
  •  Waste management and water pollution control: wastewater treatment, reclamation and reuse using both biological and physicochemical approaches
  •  Environmental-friendly materials development for environment and bioenergy applications

Keywords: biofuel and biochemical; bioprocess engineering. metabolic engineering; synthetic biology; environmental microbiology

 

Communities
Agriculture
Degrees
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, 2012
MS, University of Science and Technology of China, Environmental Engineering, 2006
BS, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Environmental Engineering, 2003
Keywords
biological engineering environmental engineering biomedical materials metabolic engineering molecular microbiology environmental microbiology biofuel bioenergy synthetic biology biochemicals lignocellulosic biomass hydrogen production clostridium
Associations
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers