The Project Team
UCLA Salinas Valley Distributed Smart Distributed Water Treatment (DSWT) Project:
Yoram Cohen [Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)] – Project lead and principal investigator.
Madelyn Glickfeld – [Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA] – Coordination and oversight of various aspects of the project permitting, regulatory compliance, and arrangements among stakeholders (2015 – 2021).
Maria E. Kennedy [Kennedy Communications] – Community Liaison.
Bilal M. Khan [Assistant Professor, Computer Science Dept, CSU-SB] – Project advisor with respect to data analytics and process model development (2019-present).
Andrew Kennett [Water technology Specialist, Kennett Technologies] – Water treatment assembly, maintenance and operation (2021 – present).
Post-Graduate and Graduate Researchers
Current team members:
Yakubu Jarma, Ph.D. [Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, UCLA] – Water systems operation, process analysis and optimization.
Nora Marki [Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, UCLA] – Data analytics and treatment process modeling.
Yang Zhou, Ph.D. [Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, UCLA] – Data analytics and machine-learning modeling of water use patterns and treatment system modes of operation.
Maria Soto [Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, UCLA] – Water systems monitoring and operational assessment, technoeconomic analysis of the three FLERO systems in Salinas Valley, website development.
Christian Aguilar [Computer Science Department, UCLA] – Development and maintenance of the cloud-based (AWS) system monitoring dashboard and database management.
Former team members:
Yian Chen, Ph.D. [Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, UCLA] – Development of nitrate monitoring strategy and site water quality .
monitoring (2017-2022).
Jin Ying Choi, Ph.D. [Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, UCLA] – Coordination of site infrastructure upgrade, installation, commissioning and maintenance of water treatment systems (2018 – 2021)
Yeunha Kim [Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, UCLA] – Water systems control and remote monitoring (2019 – 2020).
Anditya Rahardianto Ph.D. [Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, UCLA] – process system design, system control, coordination of site infrastructure upgrade, installation, commissioning and maintenance of water treatment systems (2015 – 2019).
Tae Lee, Ph.D. [Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, UCLA] – Water treatment system development, pilot testing and commissioning of water treatment systems (2017 – 2020).
Abdullah B M A M Aleidan [Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, UCLA] – water treatment process design (2017-2019).
Bilal M. Khan, Ph.D. [Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA] – Development of cloud-based remote monitoring (AWS) and data analytics (2017-2019)
Undergraduate Researchers
Current team members:
Baeu Akhavain [Mechanical Engineering] – FLERO concentrator research and optimization.
Phoebe Strauss [Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering] – FLERO concentrator pre-treatment design and experimentation.
Former team members:
Lenny Wu [Computer Science, UCLA] – Initial public project website development.
Mitchell Rogers [Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UCLA] – Technoeconomic analysis of small community water treatment systems.
Ruben Rodriguez [Computer Science, UCLA] – Website development.
Kenny Yip [Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UCLA] – Remote monitoring of water treatment systems, operational data analysis, water quality assurance, procurement of consumables for water treatment systems, MBAS database, technoeconomic energy consumption.