Poster #9 - Ngai Yin Yip

Columbia University, United States

Biography

Dr. Ngai Yin Yip received his PhD, MSc, and MPh in hcemical and environmental engineering from Yale University, and BEng in civil and environmental engineering (minor in business administration) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He joined Columbia University in 2015 as an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Yip’s research interest is in advancing technologies and innovations to address challenges at the nexus of water, energy, and the environment. Currently, his research group is focused on desalination of hypersaline brines, including (i) novel membrane-based technologies to achieve higher recovery rates in seawater desalination, (ii) developing membrane-less and non-evaporative techniques to treat technically-challenging produced water from oil and gas operations, and (iii) thermodynamic and energy analysis of desalination processes. Other ongoing research areas include (iv) advancing novel materials for saltrejecting membranes and (v) sustainable harvesting of nutrients form anthropogenic wastestreams. His dissertation work on novel membrane technologies for the sustainable production of energy and water earned the CH2M Hill/AEESP Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award and the Henry Prentiss Becton Graduate Prize in 2015. Dr. Yip authored numerous peerreviewed publications on desalination and water purification, and has won the Environmental Science & Technology Best Papers (second runner-up in 2013).