El Jirie Baticados, a Biological and Agricultural Engineering PhD candidate from Texas A&M University. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of the Philippines. He is actively involved in agricultural air quality research with a focus on the primary and secondary formation of particulate matter, thermochemical conversion of solid materials into energy and high-valued products, and carbon footprint research at TAMU. He was recently awarded the Norman Borlaugh Endowment – Dr. Brock Faulkner Scholarship on Air Quality.