[Mar 2024] Ali presented his work on a machine-learning model for predicting the biocrude yield from hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) at the 2024 Rutgers Conference for Rising Stars in Graduate Research!
[Jan 2024] We are hiring! One funded graduate student position for Fall 2024. Check out the Join page for details! (APPLICATION CLOSED)
[Jan 2024] Happy new year! The paper Characterizing the Opportunity Space for Sustainable Hydrothermal Valorization of Wet Organic Wastes has been accepted by Environmental Science & Technology. Read the Paper.
[Fall 2023] Ali joined the group as a Ph.D. student. He will lead our USDA project that examines the sustainability of a hydrothermal system that converts swine manure and other organic feedstocks into biobinders for asphalt that increase the quality of recycled asphalt pavements.
[May 2023] The paper Catalytic Hydrothermal Deoxygenation of Stearic Acid with Ru/C: Effects of Alcohol- and Carboxylic Acid-Based Hydrogen Donors has been accepted by ACS Omega. Read the Paper.
[May 2023] We are hiring! There are multiple fully funded graduate student positions in Spring or Fall 2024. Check out the Join page for details!
[May 2023] The paper Advancing the Economic and Environmental Sustainability of the NEWgenerator Nonsewered Sanitation System has been accepted by ACS Environmental Au. Read the Paper.
[Apr 2023] I served on the Reviewer Panel for the Data, Modeling, and Analysis Program for the 2023 Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office Project Review. Learn More.
[Mar 2023] The paper DMsan: A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Framework and Package to Characterize Contextualized Sustainability of Sanitation and Resource Recovery Technologies has been accepted by ACS Environmental Au. Read the Paper.
[Feb 2023] I accepted the offer Rutgers and will be joining Rutgers this Fall!
[Feb 2023] The paper Design of a High-Rate Wastewater Treatment Process for Energy and Water Recovery at Biorefineries has been accepted by ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. Read the Paper and the News Release.
[Feb 2023] The paper Implications of Biorefinery Policy Incentives and Location-Specific Economic Parameters for the Financial Viability of Biofuels has been accepted by Environmental Science & Technology. Read the Paper.
[Jan 2023] The paper Rewiring yeast metabolism for producing 2,3-butanediol and two downstream applications: Techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment of methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) and agricultural biostimulant production has been accepted by Chemical Engineering Journal. Read the Paper.
[Jan 2023] I am part of the team that receive a $2.5 million grant from Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s (NIFA) Bioproduct Pilot Program, on the conversion of biowaste into pavement materials. Read the News Release.