1:30pm- 2:30pm
● Opening remarks (BCIC, Shanghai Zhangjiang Boston Enterprise Park, Massachusetts government representatives) ● MIT Sloan School Dean Yasheng Huang remarks ● Addressing global energy and freshwater scarcity – Professor Yi Zheng of NEU ● Diamond in the rough – finding investment-worthy biotech on Nasdaq, Hong Yu, President of Biostage
Bio
Professor Zheng is a tenured professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at Northeastern University. He is the Founder and President of a Boston-based cleantech startup company Planck Energies. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. from Columbia University and his B.S. from the Tsinghua University, all in Mechanical Engineering. Professor Zheng was selected as the NASA Glenn Faculty Fellow. He has secured external funding from diverse sources totaling over $2.8M including multiple federal agencies NSF, NIH, NASA, DoD DARPA, ONR, US Air Force, as well as industrial funding from 3M, MassVentures, and Soleeva Energy.
Proferssor Zheng’s research interests fall in the areas of cleantech, sustainability and carbon neutral technologies and he aims to address the growing global challenges in energy and water scarcity. His achievements are reflected in the prestigious honors and awards that he has received for his research, including the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE) Early Career Researcher Award, NSF CAREER Award, NIH RI-INBRE Early Career Development Award, 3M NTFA Award, and Soleeva Energy Innovation Award. His innovative cleantech research about green cooling and solar-driven water desalination technologies have received tremendous global attention (e.g., US, UK, China, India, New Zealand and South Africa) and have been covered by more than 100 news outlets, including BBC, Science, India Times, Global Leaders Today, The Vanguard (GE News), WaterToday, ASEE Prism Magazine, New York Rural Water Association, the live radio interview “Top of Mind with Julie Rose” and The Hill’s “Changing America.”
Professor Zheng has published 70+ papers in high-quality journals such as Nano Energy, Advanced Functional Materials, Nanoscale (featured on front cover), Materials Today Physics, Applied Physics Letters, and ACS series journals. He holds 4 PCT/US patents and 3 US patents pending. He has given 50+ invited talks at universities including MIT, Brown University, Imperial College of London, Tsinghua University, University of Hong Kong, and University of Tokyo.
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