Professor Dr. Yongsheng Chen

Biography

Yongsheng Chen is the Bonnie W. Charles W. Moorman IV Professor and the Director of the Nutrients–Energy–Water (N.E.W.) Center at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned his B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering in 1986 and M.S. in Environmental Science Engineering in 1992 from Nankai University, followed by a Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry in June 1995. Before joining Georgia Tech in 2009, he served as an Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor at Nankai University and worked as a Senior Research Engineer at Michigan Technological University. His research focuses on developing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)-assisted tools for integrating decentralized urban resource recovery and precision agriculture, including the design and discovery of novel materials and membranes for resource recovery applications. Chen actively involves students in hands-on, inquiry-driven projects aimed at fostering interdisciplinary learning with real-world impact. His contributions have garnered numerous awards, including the 2024 ACS Environmental Science Technology Journal Paper Award and the 2023 CAPEES-UCEEF Frontier Research Award.

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