2020 Annual Meeting
research presentation schedule
The research presentations, bios, abstracts, and videos can be accessed only with a password that will be provided to the attendees of the annual meeting.
The schedule for the research presentations, with the room designations, are as follows:
Room 1: Electricity production, transmission, and storage #1
- Aaron Wu
Undergraduate
Linearly recurrent autoencoder with control for plasma profile prediction - Diane Yang
Undergraduate
Modeling the optical properties of top-emitting perovskite LEDs - Masi Nagdee
Undergraduate
Optimising temporal configuration for Indian electricity modelling - Rory Conlin
Ph.D. candidate
Fusion energy: new methods for stellarator optimization - Yenan Chen
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Two-stage 48V-1V hybrid switched-capacitor point-of-load converter with 24V intermediate bus
Room 2: Electricity production, transmission, and storage #2
- Aneesha Manocha
Undergraduate
Exploring solar PV in Rajasthan for India’s energy future - Taj-Jahnae Brailsford
Undergraduate
Geothermal heat exchangers for the campus of the future (energy systems) - Wilson Ricks
Ph.D. candidate
Enhanced geothermal systems for grid-scale energy storage - Luis Ceferino
Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow
Disaster resilience of distributed energy resources
Room 3: Environmental sensing and remediation
- Galen Mandes
Master’s student
Moisture absorbent temperature controlled hydrogels for atmospheric water extraction - Sunxiang Zheng
Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow
Enhanced transpiration from wood-based artificial tree for desalination powered by solar and ambient energy - Christopher Browne
Ph.D. candidate
Visualizing flow fluctuations in 3-D porous media - Joanna Schneider
Ph.D. candidate
Using colloidal deposition to mobilize immiscible contaminants from porous groundwater aquifers - Navid Bizmark
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dynamics of microplastic particle deposition in porous media
Room 4: Fuels and chemicals & Environmental sensing and remediation
- Shannon Hoffman
Ph.D. candidate
Advanced cellulosic biofuel production using cellulosic emulsions - Xi Chen
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Spontaneous H2 evolution enabled by electrical decoupling of microbial electrochemical reactions - Christopher Gonzalez
Ph.D. candidate
Post-translational control of yeast central carbon metabolism for improved chemical production - Joshua Jack
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Reinventing the carbon economy: High rate CO2 valorization to organics via CO mediated silica nanoparticle enhanced fermentation - Tapomoy Bhattacharjee
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Bacterial motility in disordered media
Room 5: Fuels and chemicals
- Michael R. Smith
Ph.D. candidate
Fuel synthesis from CO2 electroreduction on metal-organic framework-derived (MOF-d) catalysts - Rachel Yang
Ph.D. candidate
Spectroscopic and kinetic investigation of isostructural metal-organic frameworks for green styrene oxidation - Hayat Adawi
Ph.D. candidate
Selective stabilization of transition states with hierarchical zeolites for transitional, sustainable fuels - Hannah Sayre
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Limiting charge recombination by PCET-based ligand coordination to an Ir(III) photoredox catalyst
Room 6: Built environment, transportation, and infrastructure; Environmental and climate science
- Christine Pu
Ph.D candidate
Use of cation additives in metakaolin-based alkali-activated materials to achieve superior sulfuric acid resistance - Nancy Lu
Ph.D. candidate
Forced imbibition in stratified porous media - Danielle Chase
Ph.D. candidate
Relaxation of a fluid-filled blister on a porous substrate - Bastien Wild
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dissolving silicates to secure our energy transition
Room 7: Decision and behavioral science, policy, and economics #1
- Emily A. Cruz
Undergraduate
Understanding corporate response to climate change, analyzing COVID-19 data, and understanding responses to extreme events – a multi faceted research effort - Julia Harisay
Undergraduate
Remote energy efficiency assessments: current state of the art and how behavioral science can be applied - Pooja Ramamurthi
Ph.D. candidate
The power of coal: stakeholder beliefs and norm perceptions in India - Greg Sparkman
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Public opinion and perceptions of social norms about offshore wind in New Jersey
Room 8: Decision and behavioral science, policy, and economics #2
- Jordana Composto* and Sara Constantino
*Ph.D. candidate and Postdoctoral Research Associate
Rousing the financial giants: bank responses to increasing social pressure for climate action - Gökçe Dayanıklı
Ph.D. candidate
Mean field game and control models in carbon emission and taxing - Junjie Zhu
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Text mining reveals energy research in a flagship environmental journal ES&T - Sara Constantino* and Vitor V. Vasconcelos
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Social accelerants and bottlenecks of an unavoidable transition