Dr. Yuankai Huang is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil, Construction, & Environmental Engineering at the University of Memphis. His research explores the intersection of diverse disciplines to address critical challenges related to water, food, energy, sensors, and data. Specifically, He is passionate about pioneering real-time water/soil quality monitoring through the design of robust, reliable sensors, advancing decentralized water/agriculture systems that couple wastewater treatment with resource recovery and food production, and harnessing the power of novel computational and data-driven methods to revolutionize digital water-energy infrastructure and precision agriculture. Dr. Huang earned his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Connecticut (2022) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2024).

Education

Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, 2022

M. Sc. Environmental Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, 2015

B. Sc. Environmental Science, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, 2012

Research interest:

Reliable sensors development for real-time water/soil quality monitoring.

Energy-sustainable water treatment processes.

Digital Water-Energy-Agriculture-Food Nexus.