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Biography

Personal Gender Pronoun: She/Her/Hers

Website: https://yenkiekm.com

Education:
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Delaware
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
Ph.D., Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago
M.Tech., Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay, India
B.Tech., Chemical Engineering, LIT Nagpur, India

Impactful Research Areas:
Health
    Environment
    Computational Health
Sustainability
    Sustainable Materials & Processes
    Renewable Energy
Connectivity
    Digital Engineering
    Infrastructure & Transportation
Education
    Advancing Pedagogical Innovation

Research Expertise:
Process Systems Engineering, Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence

Her research and mentoring efforts are geared towards environmental sustainability by including practical examples and case studies from industry on water treatment, design and resilience of complex networks, solvent recycling, petroleum pipeline operations, impact of additives in plastics recycling, alternatives gases for electrical insulation purposes, and artificial intelligence for early-stage life cycle analysis (LCA). She has developed educational modules, and videos for STEM outreach on Sustainability with activities such as Popcorn making demonstrating LCA, Water flow in pipeline networks using pumps and valves, Oil spill cleanup, and Polymer coatings on metal keys demonstrating recyclability.

Research with Rowan

Honors and Awards:
AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) Sustainable Engineering Forum Education Award, 2025
CACHE (Computer Aided Chemical Engineering) Seed Grantee, 2025
NSF CAREER Award – 2024
HMRCoE Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentorship Award, 2024
AIChE Delaware Valley Section Outstanding Faculty Award, 2023
AIChE Environmental Division Early Career Award, 2022
Outstanding Young Chemical Engineering Educator by CACHE, 2019

Professional Memberships:
AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers)
AIChE’s Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Division
AIChE’s Environmental Division
AIChE’s Delaware Valley Section (DVS)
ACS (American Chemical Society)
ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education)
IIPG (International Institute for P-graph)

  

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