NTU-CEE Distinguished Seminar Series: Asst Prof. Yalin Li

Organized By

CEE Seminar Committee

Host By

Associate Professor Cao Bin

Topic

Sustainable Design to Prioritize Technology Research, Development, and Deployment

About the Seminar

The pursuit of sustainability has catalyzed broad investment in the research, development, and deployment (RD&D) of innovative technologies, but navigating and securing funding for the expanding landscape of technology has become increasingly challenging for technology developers and decision-makers.

Recognized as one of the five “grand challenges” of Environmental Engineering in the 21st century, making informed decisions and actions to prioritize technology RD&D is critical in addressing the increasingly complex challenges faced by society.

This talk will illustrate how, through the integration of experimental research, sustainable design can be used to quantify the dynamic links between stakeholder decisions, technological innovations, deployment contexts, and system performance. Case studies focusing on resource recovery technologies and bioeconomy will be discussed to demonstrate the wide applicability of the approach in advancing sustainability.

About the Speaker

Dr. Yalin Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her research focuses on advancing the sustainability of water, energy, and civil infrastructure through integrated experimentation and sustainable design. Specifically, she applies thermochemical and catalytic technologies for resource recovery and develops open-source platforms for sustainable design and decision-making.

Prior to joining Rutgers, Yalin was a Research Scientist at the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where her work has centered around the field-tomarket bioeconomy value chain as well as sanitation and resource recovery facilities.

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