Nesli Akdeniz (nesli@wisc.edu) is an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in Biological Systems Engineering at UW-Madison. She also holds an adjunct faculty appointment in Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her areas of interest include air quality, GHG & VOC emissions, aerial mapping, energy efficient ventilation design for dairy buildings and greenhouses, CFD simulations, AMS buildings, manure management & diseased animal tissue containment strategies.
Doee Yang (dyang287@wisc.edu) is currently pursuing her PhD in Biological Systems Engineering at the University-Madison. Her research is focused on the innovative use of aerial mapping to assess and analyze greenhouse gas and particulate matter emissions from livestock facilities, with a specific emphasis on air emissions from rotationally grazed dairy pastures. Doee utilizes Kriging interpolation to create 3D maps of air emissions using ArcGIS Pro.
Yoonhong Yi (yi44@wisc.edu), pursuing his PhD in Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, uses Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for simulating air movement within greenhouses. His research is primarily aimed at exploring alternative supplemental cooling strategies for aquaponic greenhouses, with the goal of enhancing the thermal comfort of workers in these environments.
Ellie Froelich (ebfroelich@wisc.edu), a Master’s student in Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, focuses on quantifying methane and hydrogen sulfide generation inside dairy manure digesters. She utilizes Gas Chromatography (GC) equipped with Flame Ionization Detector (FID) and Electron Capture Detector (ECD) for her analyses.
Li Jiang (lijiang3@illinois.edu) is a PhD student in Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work focuses on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. His work focuses on modeling temperature distribution in cross and tunnel ventilated dairy buildings, as well as in buildings equipped with automated milking systems (AMS).
Yuchuan Wang (wang2561@umn.edu) is a former member of the lab. He earned his PhD in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2022). He is currently a postdoctoral research associate in Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering (BBE) at the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities.