Doctoral Students
Sept. 2015 – Jul. 2020
Thesis: Advancing Membrane Technologies for Sustainable Production of Energy and Water
Next position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University
Current position: Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong
Sept. 2016 – Feb. 2021
Thesis: Integrating Renewable Energy and Desalination: Modeling Intra-hourly, Variable Salinity, Reverse Osmosis Powered by Photovoltaics
Next position: Senior Engineer, KeyLogic Systems
Sept. 2017 – Jun. 2022
Thesis: Advancing Membrane Technologies for Recovery of Nitrogen and Phosphorous from Human Urine
Next position: Sustainability Engineer, Ingredion
Sept. 2017 – Jul. 2022
Thesis: Developing Ion-Selective Membrane Technologies for Challenges at the Water-Energy Nexus
Next position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Yale University
Sept. 2019 – Jun. 2024
Thesis: Advancing Switchable Solvents for the Sustainable Desalination of Hypersaline Brines
Next position: Principal Scientist, Hazen and Sawyer
Sept. 2019 – Jun. 2024
Thesis: Advancing Selectivities of Ion-Exchange Membranes for Water, Energy, and the Environment
Next position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Rice University
Sept. 2019 – Sept. 2024
Thesis: Structural and applications-based insights into temperature swing solvent extraction desalination
Next position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Yale University
Sept. 2020 – May 2025
Thesis: Switching up the Mineral Recovery Paradigm with Switchable Solvents
Postdoctoral Researchers
Jul. 2018 – Feb. 2020
Next position: Senior Research Scientist, Korea Institute of Science and Technology
M.S. Students
Jan. – May 2017
Sept. – Dec. 2017
Jan. – Dec. 2019
Thesis: Solvent-Induced Precipitation for Hardness Removal in Hypersaline Water
Sept. 2021 – May 2022
Thesis: Scaling Investigation of Reverse Osmosis Membranes Under Thermomorphic Hydrophilicity Base-Induced Precipitation-Treated Feeds
Sept. 2021 – May 2022
Thesis: Exploring a Governing Transport Mechanism for PA-TFC Membrane at Lower Permeabilities
Jan. – Dec. 2022
Thesis: Exploring a new transport mechanism of the TFC polyamide membranes
Sept. 2022 – Dec. 2023
Thesis: Sulfonic Polystyrene Membranes for Selective Lithium Recovery
Next position: Ph.D. student at Princeton University
Sept. 2023 – Dec. 2024
Thesis: Direct Lithium Extraction from Lithium/Magnesium Brines via Polymeric Switchable Solvent Selective Extraction (S3E)
Next position: Ph.D. student at University of Pennsylvania
Sept. 2022 – May 2025
Jan. 2023 – June 2025
Jan. - Dec. 2025
Undergraduate Students
Nov. 2015 – May 2018
Next position: Ph.D. student at Yale University
May 2016 – Aug. 2017
May 2016 – May 2019
Sept. 2016 – May 2019
Jan. 2017 – May 2020
Next position: Marshal Scholar at University of Edinburgh
May 2017 – May 2018
Next position: Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley
Nov. 2017 – May 2019
Jan. 2018 – Apr. 2021
Next position: Energy Analyst, Tesla
May 2019 – May 2022
Next position: M.S. student at Columbia University
Sept. 2019 – Apr. 2021
May 2020 – May 2022
Sept. 2020 – May 2022
May 2021 – May 2023
Next position: Churchill Scholar at Churchill College, Cambridge
Jun. 2022 – May 2025
Next position: Environmental engineer for the Bureau of Wastewater Treatment at the NYC Department of Environmental Protection
Dec. 2023 – May 2025
Next position: Ph.D. student in Chemistry at Boston College
Jan. 2024 – May 2025
Next position: Ph.D. student in Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University
Visiting Scholars
Sept. – Dec. 2023
Visiting Ph.D. student from University of Valladolid, Spain