Jinyue (Jerry) JIANG

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Education

Research Areas

Water-Energy-Digital Nexus, Artificial Intelligence and Geospatial Modeling in Environmental Application, Sustainable AI, Resource Recovery, Water Treatment and Decarbonization, Microbial Electrochemistry

Publications

22 publications, published or accepted · 1018 citations (Google Scholar, Nov 2026). ^*Corresponding author.

1. Jiang, J.^*, Tian, Y., Tong, T., & Westerhoff, P. (2026). Patterns and Mitigation of Large Language Models’ Hallucinations on Environmental Regulatory Facts. Environmental Science & Technology. doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6c06286
2. Jiang, J., Zhu, J. J.^*, & Ren, Z. J. (2026). Putting Large Language Models into Environmental Context. Environmental Science & Technology, 60(42), 29791–29801. doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6c06045
3. Jiang, J., Nguyen, T., Acero, J., Islam, M., & Westerhoff, P.^* (2026). Nationwide assessment of de facto wastewater reuse reveals vulnerable drinking water systems and infrastructure gaps. Environmental Science & Technology, 60(44), 32179–32191. doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6c09442 (Cover Article)
4. Si, B., Wang, Z., Watson, J., Summers, S., Li, Y., Yu, S., Yang, H., Yang, Z., Heyne, J. S., Jiang, J., Ren, Z. J., Ma, H., Wang, C., Wang, P., & Zhang, Y.^* (2026). A circular hydrothermal refinery for sustainable aviation fuel from food waste. Nature Sustainability, 9(8), 1232–1242. doi.org/10.1038/s41893-026-01848-1
5. Khan, N. N., Jiang, J., Islam, M., Quon, H., Muenich, R. L., Rudko, N., Kamanmalek, S., Rice-Boayue, J., Garner, E., Westerhoff, P., Pruden, A., & Hamilton, K. A.^* (2026). Mapping biological and chemical dimensions of antimicrobial resistance pollution and exposures due to treated wastewater discharges into US surface waters at the national scale. Environmental Pollution, 405, Article 128588. doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2026.128588
6. Jiang, J., Du, L., Li, X., Chen, C., & Ren, Z. J.^* (2026). Spatially resolved national assessment of renewable natural gas potential from water resource recovery facilities through biomethanation. Applied Energy, 417, Article 128025. doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2026.128025
7. Jiang, J., Du, L., Si, B., Kawale, H. D., Wang, Z., Summers, S., Lopez-Ruiz, J. A., Li, S., Zhang, Y., & Ren, Z. J.^* (2025). Pilot microbial electrolysis cell closes the hydrogen loop for hydrothermal wet waste conversion to jet fuel. Water Research, 268(Pt A), Article 122644. doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2024.122644
8. Du, L., Jiang, J., Zhou, G., Yan, Y., Kingsbury, R. S., Ku, A. Y., & Ren, Z. J.^* (2025). Electrolytic hydrogen production from acidified wastewater effluent. Water Research, 288(Pt B), Article 124672. doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2025.124672
9. Begildayeva, T., Jiang, J., Ren, Z. J., & Lopez-Ruiz, J. A.^* (2025). Progress, gaps, and opportunities in electrocatalytic oxidation of wastewater: A review. Water Research, 292, Article 125164. doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2025.125164
10. Jiang, J.^* (2025). Microbial electrochemical technologies for wastewater treatment and resource recovery. Nature Reviews Clean Technology, 1(3), 182. doi.org/10.1038/s44359-025-00035-3
11. Granacher, J.^*, Franzoi, R. E., Jiang, J., Summers, S., Li, S., Lopez-Ruiz, J. A., Zhang, Y., Ren, Z. J., & Maravelias, C. T. (2025). Drop-in fuel production from food waste: system level optimization and analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production, 520, Article 145994. doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.145994
12. Jiang, J., Du, L., Zhu, J. J., Ku, A. Y., & Ren, Z. J.^* (2024). Water resource recovery facilities empower the electrolytic hydrogen economy. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(50), 22124–22134. doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c08054
13. Wang, Y., Jiang, L., Ali, M. M., Jiang, J., Xu, Y.^*, & Liu, Z.^* (2024). Aquatic life criteria of hydrothermal liquefaction wastewater via ecotoxicity test and modeling. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 471, Article 134289. doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.134289
14. Leininger, A., Lu, S., Jiang, J., Bian, Y., May, H. D., & Ren, Z. J.^* (2024). The convergence of lactic acid microbiomes and metabolites in long-term electrofermentation. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, 22, Article 100459. doi.org/10.1016/j.ese.2024.100459
15. Yan, Y., Zhu, J. J., May, H. D., Song, C., Jiang, J., Du, L., & Ren, Z. J.^* (2024). Methanogenic potential of sewer microbiomes and its implications for methane emission. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(45), 19990–19998. doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c04005 (Front Cover Article)
16. Zhu, J. J., Yang, M., Jiang, J., Bai, Y., Chen, D., & Ren, Z. J.^* (2024). Enabling GPTs for expert-level environmental engineering question answering. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 11(12), 1327–1333. doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00665
17. Zhu, J. J., Jiang, J., Yang, M., & Ren, Z. J.^* (2023). ChatGPT and environmental research. Environmental Science & Technology, 57(46), 17667–17670. doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c01818
18. Jiang, J., Lopez-Ruiz, J. A., Leininger, A., Du, L., Yan, Y., May, H. D., & Ren, Z. J.^* (2023). Molecular transformation and metabolic insights of microbial electrolysis treatment and valorization of post-hydrothermal liquefaction wastewater. Green Chemistry, 25(22), 9115–9125. doi.org/10.1039/d3gc02252h (Front Cover Article & Hot Article Collection; first successful implementation of solution-state ¹⁵N NMR in wastewater)
19. Jiang, J., Lopez-Ruiz, J. A., Bian, Y., Sun, D., Yan, Y., Chen, X., Zhu, J., May, H. D., & Ren, Z. J.^* (2023). Scale-up and techno-economic analysis of microbial electrolysis cells for hydrogen production from wastewater. Water Research, 241, Article 120139. doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2023.120139
20. Jiang, J., Chen, X., Chen, X., & Ren, Z. J.^* (2022). Energy-efficient microbial electrochemical lignin and alkaline hydroxide recovery from DMR black liquor. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 186, Article 106529. doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106529
21. Chen, X., He, S., Falinski, M. M., Wang, Y., Li, T., Zheng, S., Sun, D., Dai, J., Bian, Y., Zhu, X., Jiang, J., Hu, L.^*, & Ren, Z. J.^* (2021). Sustainable off-grid desalination of hypersaline waters using Janus wood evaporators. Energy & Environmental Science, 14(10), 5347–5357. doi.org/10.1039/d1ee01505b (Front Cover Article)
22. Chen, W., Jiang, J., Zhang, W., Wang, T., Zhou, J., Huang, C. H., & Xie, X.^* (2019). Silver nanowire-modified filter with controllable silver ion release for point-of-use disinfection. Environmental Science & Technology, 53(13), 7504–7512. doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b01678

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