About Grace

I was a postdoctoral associate in the School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, working under the supervision of Professor Linda Wang. My postdoctoral research focused on upcycling of plastic waste. I also spent my free time coordinating and developing Literature Reading Club and Purdue Future Faculty Preparation Club.

I graduated from Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with my M.S. and Ph.D degree, working under the guidance of Professor Yuanhui Zhang. I received my B.Sc in Chemical Engineering from the National Taiwan University. My graduate research work has been in the context of developing a synergistically integrated waste-to-energy system, Environment-Enhancing Energy (E2-Energy), that simultaneously produces biofuel, treats wet biowaste and captures carbon dioxide via algae growing and hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL). In addition, upgrading of the HTL biocrude oil converted from biowaste into transportation fuels by distillation, esterification, and catalytic hydroprocessing was another focus of my graduate research program.