Yu-Ling Cheng is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto. Her educational background is in chemical engineering (S.B. and S.M. from MIT, and PhD from Stanford).

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She has applied her strong training in chemical engineering to research in drug delivery systems and pharmacokinetics – which has resulted in numerous publications as well as 13 U.S. patents. She is a highly regarded educator, with many departmental, university, and provincial level teaching awards. Over the past decade, she has shifted her research and educational focus towards “global engineering”, directing her efforts towards challenges faced by the world’s most vulnerable populations. She has developed new courses focusing on enhancing the impact of technology, and worked on research projects related to micronutrient fortification, medical oxygen supply decision tools, and most notably a major project on “re-inventing the toilet” with the goal of developing an off-grid sanitation solution for the 2.5 billion people in the world without access to basic sanitation.

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She has served in several leadership roles within the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto, including as the founding Director of the Centre for Global Engineering (CGEN). She is a member of the University’s Teaching Academy as a winner of the President’s Teaching Award and has been named Distinguished Professor of Global Engineering. She is also a member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.

Principal Technical Consultant at Corteva Agriscience in the field of Environmental Remediation. Corteva Agriscience is a trademark of Corteva, DuPont, Dow AgroSciences, and Pioneer. Erin got her PhD at the University of California in 1998, and since then have been working as a researcher in the field of regulation (USEPA) and bioremediation (Dupont senior consultant).

Andrew Seto was a director of Energi Simulation in 2012-2014. He has over 30 years of experience in the applied research, reservoir characterization, modeling, evaluation, planning and management of oil resources, in Canada, U.S.A., New Zealand, China, India, Albania and the Middle East.

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Andrew has worked for major oil and gas companies in various specialist and management capacities, including senior manager of reservoir engineering and simulation at Penn West Exploration, manager of reservoir studies at Pengrowth Corporation, senior reservoir engineer at Imperial Oil.

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Andrew graduated from the University of Alberta with a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in civil engineering, specializing in geomechanics.