Field Visit to Gwinnett County Wastewater Facility

Apr 19, 2026·
Yao Ji
Yao Ji
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Visited the Gwinnett County wastewater facility with collaborators to learn how wastewater is treated through biological processes and membrane systems.

This visit marks the start of a new project with Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech, where we aim to explore the use of reinforcement learning for improving decision-making in complex environmental systems.

Learned a lot from the field trip and excited about the potential of RL in wastewater treatment!

Gwinnett County wastewater facility

Yao Ji
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H. Milton Stewart Postdoctoral Fellow

I am an H. Milton Stewart Postdoctoral Fellow in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Institute of Technology. My postdoctoral mentor is Prof. Guanghui (George) Lan.

I earned my Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at Purdue University (2024). Prior to that, I received my B.S. (2016) and M.S. (2019) degrees in the School of Mathematical Sciences from Beijing Normal University.