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Dr. Kirti Yenkie’s research focuses on leveraging Process Systems Engineering principles in the
areas of Environmental Sustainability and Healthcare. She teaches Process Control,
Thermodynamics, and Process Optimization courses at Rowan University and leads the
Sustainable Design and Systems Medicine lab. She advises graduate students towards their
doctoral and masters thesis research as well as undergraduate students in clinic projects. Her
students have won 11 Best Poster awards and 3 Best presentation awards at the AIChE
National and Regional Meetings.

She was awarded the 2022 AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) Environmental
Division Early Career Award for her research on challenging environmental problems such as
solvent recovery from pharmaceutical and chemical waste streams, optimization of petroleum
lube-oil operations, and wastewater treatment network design and asset management, as well
as collaborating with industry-academia-federal agencies and involving graduate and
undergraduate students actively in these research efforts.

Her teaching methodology to incorporate computational tools for explaining theoretical concepts
led to her selection as one of the 20 Outstanding Young Chemical Engineering Educators by the
CACHE (Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering) Committee in 2019. Recently, the Delaware
Valley Section of AIChE also awarded her the 2023 Outstanding Faculty Award.

She holds a Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois (Chicago, IL), M. Tech
(Chem. Engg.) from IIT Bombay and B. Tech (Chem. Engg.) from Laxminarayan Institute of
Technology, Nagpur. She has postdoctoral research experiences from University of Wisconsin-
Madison and University of Delaware.

Her PhD work on IVF (in-vitro fertilization) modeling and hormonal dosing policy prediction
was awarded the Best Research on Women and Gender studies at UIC.

Her ongoing research projects are funded by the USEPA, ExxonMobil, AstraZeneca, NJ-DEP,
American Water and Atlantic County Utilities Authority. She is an active member of the AIChE
and currently serves on the Executive Committees of the AIChE-Environmental Division,
Sustainable Engineering Forum, and the Academic Subcommittee of the AIChE-Delaware
Valley Section.