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University of Texas at Austin, USA
Plenary Speaker
Navid Saleh is an Associate Professor of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (UT). Prior to joining UT, Dr. Saleh was an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of South Carolina. He has undergone a post-doctoral training form Chemical Engineering Department of Yale University, New Haven, CT after he received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, in May 2007. His research interests include (1) applications and implications of nanomaterials, (2) evaluating nano-bio interactions for environmental and biological systems, (3) nanomaterials for advanced infrastructure, and (4) community-engaged research for evaluation of water quality in low-income communities in the U.S. and beyond. Dr. Saleh’s lab has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and National Institute of Health (NIH), and Texas Department of Transportation. Saleh Group has published 75 peer-reviewed journal articles with more than 6800 citations. Dr. Saleh is serving as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Hazardous Materials (impact factor of 7.65) and is a member of the Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization board. He received the Emerging Investigator Award in 2015, awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry and Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization.
Case Western Reserve University, USA
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Huichun (Judy) Zhang is the Frank H. Neff professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. She earned her Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology and her B.S. and M.S. from Nanjing University. Her research focuses on the fate and transformation of environmental contaminants in natural and engineered aquatic environments and the removal of organic contaminants from contaminated water. Her recent research areas also include predictive modeling for contaminant reactivity and sorption using machine learning tools. Dr. Zhang has published in numerous journals, such as Chemical Reviews, Environmental Science and Technology, and Water Research. She has received seven competitive research grants from the NSF as the PI, and directed research projects for many other agencies and industry. She is an Associate Editor for ACS ES&T Water and the Secretary of AEESP Board of Directors. She is a past recipient of Nanova/CAPEES Frontier Research Award, CAPEES Award for Environmental Application of AI/ML, and ES&T Best Paper Award, among others.