- Contributed a Tools of the Trade article to Nature Reviews Clean Technology that discussed the many flavors of microbial electrochemistry and its environmental applications. Super excited to know its possible to put Chinese characters as author name in the online version! Read here.
- Our Environmental Science & Technology paper is online! The production of green H2 is a rather thirsty process-not just for electrolysis but for cooling as well, potentially competing with other needs in water-stressed region. TLDR: water is not a worry if you source it wisely.
- Our Water Research paper is online where we operated pilot microbial electrolysis cells (MEC) alongside a pilot hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) system (on a trailer!) for a demonstration on a closed-loop wet waste to jet fuel system🚀. This concludes a years-long project where we collaborated with UIUC and PNNL to look for a sustainable solution for resource rocovery and management of wet waste (food waste, algae etc.).
- I was humbled and honored to be recognized as a 2024 Maeder Graduate Fellowship receipients. Maeder graduate fellowship awards Princeton University students performing research related to energy and/or the environment as impacted by energy and is given to one or two grad students among candidates that are nominated from all disciplines each year.
- Our Green Chemistry paper exploring the use of NMR for probing anode metabolism in microbial electrochemical system was selected as front cover article and 2023 Green Chemistry Hot Articles
- Did a facelift to the website (●’◡’●)
- Had a fun time at AEESP2023 Boston! Presented our work on green H2 and water. Stay tuned for more updates on this project!
- Our analytical review on MEC scale-up accepted to Water Research. Read more.
- A fun collaboration with Junjie: “ChatGPT and Environmental Research” on ES&T. Read more. (Update in July 2023: If you haven’t heard already: there were huge changes in the past few months on the performance of ChatGPT. The same questions given in the examples of this paper might yield quite different responses now.)
- 🏆 Our poster won the “Best Student Poster Awards” at AEESP2022 St. Louis. Stay tuned for more updates on the project!🏆 (Update in 23 Aug. paper accepted for publish in Green Chemistry!)
- General exam – nailed it!🎉
- 🐯Started Ph.D. at Princeton!
- 2020: 🌳Graduated from Stanford.
- 2019: 🐅Graduated from Tsinghua.