Dr. Sunny Jiang is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Irvine, where she also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and serves as a graduate faculty in the Environmental Health Science program in the School of Public Health. Her research focuses on microbiological water quality, engineered and natural water treatment technologies. Dr. Jiang authored over 140 research papers in these areas, served on U.S. National Academies’ Water Reuse committee and WHO committee for Desalination. Dr. Jiang is the principal investigator of several on-going research projects funded by U.S. EPA, NSF and USDA. Dr. Jiang received her Ph.D. from University of South Florida in 1996 and her postdoctoral training from University of Maryland with Dr. Rita Colwell in 1997.