Dr. Wen Cong (E.I.T.) has a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Zhejiang University, a M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with a focus on Water Quality Engineering. She has extensive research experience on drinking water disinfection, with a focus on viruses. She performed studies on Coxsackievirus, Human Adenovirus, and Bacteriophage PR772, about their inactivation kinetics…

Estefania Escobar has a B.S. and M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan. As part of her research work, she assisted in the construction and validation of a novel, low-cost IoT water quality sensor for household tap installation. During the large-scale deployment of these sensors in Ann Arbor, MI, she was responsible for monitoring and analyzing the drinking…

Jacob Newman has a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Davis and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Since joining Trussell Technologies in 2020, Mr. Newman has worked on projects related to drinking water treatment, potable and non-potable reuse, and desalination. His select project experience includes regulatory support for free…