October 2018

Cuixia Xu is is a Ph.D. candidate in the Dan F. Smith Department of Chemical Engineering at Lamar University and she is advised by Professor Qiang Xu. She is expected to complete her Ph.D. degree in December 2018. Cuixia received her M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Guangxi University in 2013, and B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Guangzhou University in 2010. Cuixia’s main research interests are process modeling, simulation and optimization for chemical and biochemical industry sustainability.Read more

Zhen-Gang Wang received his B.Sc. from Beijing (Peking) University (1982), and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1987), both in chemistry.  After postdoctoral research first at Exxon Research and Engineering Company and then at University of California, Los Angeles, he joined the chemical engineering faculty at the California Institute of Technology, where he is currently the Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor and Executive Officer of Chemical Engineering. 

Zhen-Gang Wang’s research is the theoretical and computational study of structure, phase behavior,...Read more