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Global Partnership for Sustainability

Team

Our research team embraces an interdisciplinary approach that leverages the expertise of world class investigators to enable integrated research, development, and training programs to provide innovative solutions for complex challenges in waste management, bioenergy, and sustainable materials development.

Leaders

DR.PAL

Dr. Lokendra Pal, NCSU

Smart Testbeds Development, Industry 4.0/AI, Imaging, Data Analytics, Bioproducts.
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Dr. John Yarbrough, NREL

System Design, Machine Learning, Spectroscopy & Hyperspectral Imaging.
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Dr. Anand Singh, IBM

AI/Machine Learning, Internet of Things Cloud computing.

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Srijana Guilford, T. of Cary

Waste Strategy,  Waste and Recycling Programs Developments.
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Dr. Lucian Lucia, NCSU

Green Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Plastic Waste Decomposition

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Dr. Morton Barlaz, NCSU

Sustainable Solid Management, Life Cycle Assessment, Techno-Economic Analysis.

Dr. Hasan Jameel, NCSU

Solid Waste to Bioenergy/ Biofuels, Process Engineering.

Dr. Richard Venditti, NCSU

Recycling Technology, Process Control, Sensors, Environmental LCA.
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Dr. Ashutosh Mittal, NREL

Biomass Characterization, Pretreatments, & Fractionation, Solid Waste to Biofuels.

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Amy Lubas, NCSU

Strategic Partnership and Industry Outreach
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Heather Cashwell, NCSU

Waste Reduction and Recycling Programs.

Members

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Dr. Raman Rao

Organic Waste Valorization, Renewable Fuels, Resource Recovery.

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Mariangeles Salas

Data curation, Data repository, AI Models, Hyperspectral Imaging.
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Naimul Haque

MSW Collection, Handling, Sorting and Physical  Characterization, Metadata Strategy 

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Summia Rahman

MSW Chemical and Hazardous Contamination Characterization.
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Aditya Sarker

Characterization of MSW Plastic Fractions.

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Rakshit Kumar

Life Cycle Assessment for Waste-to-Energy
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Raghul Thiyagarajan

Techno-Economic and Life-Cycle Analysis (TEA/LCA)

Shruti Kohakade

Data Repository, Organization, Preprocessing, & Cloud Environment.
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Rahul Raj Purohit

WWW Access, System infrastructure, AI platform

Sujay Sreedhar

Web platform development, Security features.
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Kritika Javali

Web Scrapping, Data Management and Data analysis

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Aditi Salunkhe

Data Repository, Data Preprocessing
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Purv Patel

Machine Learning Models

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Shivangi Chopra

Edge Computing, Automation
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Aniruddha

REU – MSW Sorting, Metadata and Image Capturing

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TJ Ferry

REU – MSW Sorting, Metadata and Image Capturing
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Dr. Yixuan Wang

Life Cycle Analysis

Past Members

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Aunic Goodin

MSW Characterization

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Shudeepta Sarker

MSW Characterization
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Yashvi Desai

Web Development, Data Organization and Security features

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Nick Burrows

REU – MSW Sorting, Metadata and Image Capturing
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Eli Rodriges

REU – MSW Sorting, Metadata and Image Capturing

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Seth Laney

REU – MSW Sorting, Metadata and Image Capturing
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Jade Williamson

REU – MSW Sorting, Metadata and Image Capturing

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Jenna Haskel

REU – Data collection

With a shared vision for creating a sustainable future, our team brings together expertise with diverse experiences in multiscale features analysis through chemical, physical, biological, visual and spectroscopic analysis, recycling technology, sustainable solid waste management and resource recovery waste management, chemical conversion and processing of solid waste to bioenergy and biofuels, rapid/real-time measurements, automation/process controls, artificial intelligence and machine learning, system integrations, techno-economic and life cycle analysis, and business intelligence.

Join the Global Partnership for Sustainability (GP4Sustianability) for the Betterment of Tomorrow!