Kaisen Lin, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Michigan State University
Email: kaisen@msu.edu
Office phone number: (517)-884-8460
Current Students
Zhouyuan Wang
Ph.D. student (Jan 2023 to present)
M.S. Delft University of Technology, Netherland (2022)
B.S. China Agricultural University, China (2019)
Following graduation from the Delft University of Technology with an M.S. in Environmental Engineering, I continued pursuing primary goal of creating solutions that will protect and improve public health and our living environment. The ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic motivated me to see improvements in pathogen control. My current research focuses on understanding the mechanism of airborne disease transmission and providing better airborne disease detection and surveillance via air conditioning (HVAC) system monitoring.
Haocheng Sun
Ph.D. student (Aug 2023 to present)
M.S. Johns Hopkins University (2023)
B.S. China University of Geosciences, China (2021)
My name is Lenny Sun and I was born and raised in Hefei, China. Before joining Lin Aerosol Lab, I earned my B.S. in Marine Science from China University of Geosciences, Beijing, and M.S. in Environmental Health Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, where I found my interests in impacts of bioaerosol emissions from aeration devices on public health. I am currently working on the survival of airborne pathogens and my research interests include the influence of chemical substances such as VOCs on the transmission of airborne pathogens as well as developing methods for bioaerosol sampling and analysis.
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Alyssa Murphy
Undergraduate research assistant, Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics
Mar 2023 to present
My name is Alyssa Murphy, and I am a fourth-year undergraduate student at Michigan State University. I am majoring in Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics with a double minor in Spanish and Bioethics. My research currently focuses on exploring how high velocity air jet hand dryers mobilize bacteria from washed hands to the air in a bathroom setting.
Zoe Linko
Undergraduate research assistant, Chemical Engineering
Sep 2023 to present
My name is Zoe Linko. I am a fourth-year undergraduate student at Michigan State University studying chemical engineering with an environmental concentration and an environmental economics minor. I am interested in applying my degree towards sustainable work on both air and water quality.
Janie Cooper
Undergraduate research assistant, Biosystems Engineering
Jan 2024 to present
My name is Janie Cooper. I am a third-year undergraduate student at Michigan State University. I study Biosystems Engineering. My primary interests are environmental sustainability and how the environment impacts human health.
Om Nair
Undergraduate research assistant, Applied Engineering Sciences
Nov 2024 to present
My name is Om Nair and I'm a 3rd-year undergraduate student at Michigan State University. I'm majoring in Applied Engineering Sciences and my primary research interest is in environmental engineering and sustainable systems. My work with the Lin Aerosol Lab is to create a detection model for airborne micro/nanoplastics through Raman spectroscopy. This study has real world applications in diagnosing ambient air quality and it's effects on human health.
Porter Rankin
Undergraduate research assistant, Environmental Engineering
Jan 2025 to present
My name is Porter Rankin, and I'm a 3rd-year undergraduate student attending Michigan State University. I'm majoring in Environmental Engineering, and my primary interest is advancing environmental regulations and sustainable practices, ultimately improving environmental regulations within the corporate sector. My work within Lin Aerosol Lab focuses on enhancing HVAC system monitoring and airborne detection capabilities by using ANSYS to model particle behavior.
Alumni
Therese Diakovasiliou
B.S. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jan 2023 to May 2024
Current placement: Tetra Tech Solid Waste
Holly Demers
M.S. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Aug 2022 to Dec 2022
Current placement: Municipal engineer at Spalding DeDecker
Joshua Gleason
B.S. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Nov 2022 to May 2023
Current placement: Water engineer at EGLE
Zhiying Ou
B.S. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Nov 2022 to May 2023
Current placement: MS student at UC Berkeley