Yip presented research from his group titled "Disrupting Desalination: Novel Energy-Efficient Technologies for Hypersaline Brines" at separate invited talks in the Department of Chemical Engineering at McMaster University (Nov. 27, hosted by Professor Charles de Lannoy), the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology (Dec. 4, hosted by Professor Valentina Prigiobbe), and Earth and Environmental Studies at Montclair State University (Dec. 11, hosted by Professor Yang Deng).