Ching-Hua Huang, Ph.D., is the Turnipseed Family Chair and Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Huang received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University. Huang’s expertise includes environmental chemistry, advanced water/wastewater treatment technology, contaminants of emerging concern, sustainable water reuse, waste remediation and resource recovery. Huang has supervised many research projects sponsored by various agencies, and has published more than 170 peer-reviewed journal papers, book chapters and conference proceeding papers. She is the Associate Editor of the American Chemical Society's Environmental Science & Technology Water and the Editorial Advisory Board member of Environmental Science & Technology. 

Thomas DiChristina, Ph.D., received a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester (NY) in 1982, a MS in Chemistry from the University of Bordeaux (France) in 1984, a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Science from the California Institute of Technology (CA) in 1989, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MA) in 1993. DiChristina has been at Professor of Microbiology in the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech for 29 years.