George Washington University engineering doctoral candidate Zhaoyang Wang grew up surrounded by seemingly larger-than-life machinery as his family worked at a cement manufacturing factory, where towering equipment transformed raw materials into useful products.
Watching that process sparked a lifelong interest in how industrial systems can use complex science to affect real-world solutions. That curiosity eventually led him to pursue a Ph.D. in environmental engineering at GW, where he would meet fellow environmental engineering doctoral candidate Samarpan Deb Majumder in a research group...