Future Faculty Fellows 2012

Yaolin Liu

PhD Candidate Advisor – Dr. Mi Track: Environmental

I am a third-year Ph. D student, major in environmental engineering. I am supervised by Professor Mi and my research interest is developing novel forward osmosis membranes with enhanced antifouling properties and implementing advanced membrane processes for water and energy production. I really appreciate the opportunity to be selected into the future faculty program. I feel honored to be considered and I know I am going to benefit a lot from the Future Faculty Program.

Myungseob (Edward) Kim

PhD Candidate Advisor – Schonfeld Track: Transportation Myungseob (Edward) Kim is a PhD Candidate in the Transportation Engineering Program. He is working with Dr. Schonfeld on a project entitled “Flexibility and Responsiveness in Public Transportation Systems”. Before joining UMD, Mr. Kim received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Incheon in Korea, and worked as a researcher at The Korea Transport Institute (KOTI). To date he has four peer reviewed journal papers and five papers in conference proceedings. In his dissertation he will probably analyze public transportation systems .

Mona Asudegi

PhD Candidate Advisor – Haghani Track: Project Management All of my life I have imagined myself as a person contributing to science and society. Besides the joy of developing new ideas and solutions in my research, dealing with students in the class helped me find out how much I enjoy helping others with their problems and questions. I believe I can appreciate what I have gained in my life only if I serve my community and society in the best way I can. Learning how to develop new and critical research questions and also how to communicate with and teach others my experience and knowledge are the key points toward achieving this goal.