Congratulations to Podium and Poster Presenters!

MS Poster Presentation Winners:

1^st Haotian Yang | 2^nd Anson Regi | 3^rd Nehal Jain

PhD Poster Presentation Winners

1^st Jialin Liu | 2^nd Laura Gray | 3^rd Yiwen Zhang

Podium Presentation Winners

1^st Yoonjoo Seo | 2^nd Jianan Feng | 3^rd Lavanya Kudli

2025 Speakers

For this year’s Symposium, we are delighted to host keynote speakers: Professor Yang Liu, Gangarosa Distinguished Professor and Chair, Chair, Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University and Saskia Versteeg, Director, Project Development & Supply Chain, Graphyte.

**Saskia Versteeg**
Graphyte
SAF Community Forester

Yang Liu, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Chair and Gangarosa Distinguished Professor in the Gangarosa Department of Environment Health at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University

Organizers

The Symposium is traditionally organized and hosted by our graduate students as part of professional development. This is an excellent opportunity to meet and interact with other students, faculty, and alumni in the environmental engineering community. Students present their research or special projects through oral or poster presentations.

2025 Organizing Committees

Executive Committee Members

Nhung Do
Joaquin Yus Dominguez, PhD

Hospitality and Publicity Committee Members

Tessa Clarizio
Erin Emme
Yurui Li
Qianlu Zheng

Program Committee Members

Yun-Rou Lin
Aaron Marszewski
Anson Regi
Haotian Yang
Xiangyi Yang
Manho Park
Rishabh Puri
Xinyuan Wang
Vignesh Vinayagam Kala

Poster Committee Members

Joyce Yang
Gus Greenwood
P S Ganesh Subramanian
Lavanya Prashantkumar Kudli
Bessie Fu

Advising Faculty : Sotiria Koloutsou-Vakakis

Past EES Symposia

Previous Keynote Speakers

Dr. Damon S. Williams, PE, BCEE, F.ASCE, Managing Member, DSW Water Strategies, LLC (2024).
Prof. Elizabeth A. Edwards, Ph.D., P.Eng., 2023-2024 AEESP Distinguished Lecturer (2024).
Prof. Randall Martin, Raymond R. Tucker Distinguished Professor, Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis & Dr. Brian Shoener, Ph.D., P.E.*, Certified Data Analyst, AI/ML & Digital Water Applications Development Leader, Operations | Engineering & Development Services, *Licensed in Illinois, Black & Veatch (2023).
Prof. Bruce Fouke, Professor in Geology, Microbiology, and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign & Dr. Jess Brown, Senior Vice President, R&D Practice Director at Carollo Engineers (2022).
Prof. Pratim Biswas, Dean of Engineering at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida & Dawn Taffler, One Water Practice Leader and Vice President at Kennedy Jenks Consultants (2021).
Prof. Lutgarde Raskin, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan & Dr. Issam Najm, Founder and President of WQTS (2019).
Prof. Charles N. Haas, LD Betz Professor of Environmental Engineering. Head – Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering, Drexel University (2018).
Prof. Menachem Elimelech, Roberto Goizueta Professor of Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Yale University (2017).
Dr. Carlos Campos-Callao, Senior VP Research and Development of Suez Environment (2016).
Dr. Ali H. Omar, Physical Scientist at NASA Langley Research Center (2015).
Prof. Kimberly Jones, Howard University (2014).
Damon S. Williams (2013), PE, BCEE, F.ASCE
Dr. Jess Brown, Ph.D., PE (2012).
Dr. Kathryn Mallon, PE (2011).

ABOUT EES AT UIUC

The Environmental Engineering and Science (EES) group within CEE at Illinois prepares students for the increasingly critical role of addressing the world’s challenges of air, land, and water pollution. Sustainable engineering practices for both developed and developing societies are the primary focus of the EES program.

Learn more about EES at UIUC here.