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October 2018

Feng He

Feng He is a senior chemical modeling engineer at Tesla. He is responsible for chemical system modeling and design at the Tesla Gigafactory, which is the biggest lithium-ion battery factory in the world and will be the biggest building by footprint on the planet when finished. From 2015 to 2017, Feng worked for Brewer Science as a process engineer, where he improved the purification process efficiency and automation of microelectronic material manufacturing lines.    Feng received B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Tianjin University in 2006, M.S. degree in chemical...Read more

2018 Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award

Researchers Make First Electrical Contact with Molecules; Robots Run on Popcorn Power; The Strongest Material Known to Man Is Now Printable; Weaponized Oxygen Can Destroy Drug-Resistant Pathogens; This Electric Car Could Operate for 100 Years; Silicone Material Is Inspired by Beetle Feet
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Jingsong Zhou

Jingsong Zhou received his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and technology from Wuhan University of Technology in China in 2013. Zhou is currently a Ph.D. candidate in chemical engineering at Clarkson University, upstate of New York, working with Prof. Ross Taylor. His doctoral thesis is concerned with various aspects of the modelling of dividing wall columns.Read more

2018 Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award

Sidharth Razdan

Sidharth Razdan is a Ph.D. candidate in the chemical engineering department at Missouri University of Science and Technology. He is working under the guidance of Dr. Sutapa Barua.  He also received his masters in chemical engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2016. Prior to that, he obtained his Bachelors in chemical engineering from India in 2014.  His current research focuses on the study of polymer particle-biomolecular interactions and composite membrane synthesis which find its application in bioseparation, for removal of different bacterial...Read more

2018 Separations Division Innovation Award

Rob McGinnis

Rob McGinnis, PhD is currently the Founder and CEO of Mattershift. Before founding Mattershift, Rob was Co-founder and CTO of venture-backed startup Oasys Water, where his forward osmosis desalination technology cut the energy and cost of removing salt from water by 50%. McGinnis has authored over 30 patents and peer-reviewed articles in the fields of membranes, energy, desalination, and nanotechnology. He has a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Yale University.Read more

2018 Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award

Zheyu Jiang

Zheyu Jiang recently graduated from the PhD program in chemical engineering at Purdue University in September 2018 and joined Corteva Agriscience, the Agriculture Division of DowDuPont, as a senior chemical engineer. During his graduate study at Purdue from 2014 to 2018, Zheyu was working with Prof. Rakesh Agrawal and Prof. Mohit Tawarmalani on the design and global optimization of novel, energy efficient, and cost-effective multicomponent distillation systems. In particular, he has developed a simple, easy-to-use shortcut based algorithmic method to determine the minimum reflux condition...Read more

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