Awards and Fellowships:

• Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding GSIs, University of Michigan, 2024
• Horace W. Stunkard Scholarship, Marine Biological Laboratory & University of Chicago, 2023
• Integrated Training in Microbial Systems (ITiMS) Fellowship, University of Michigan,awarded to graduate students integrating population, modeling, and laboratory approaches in their research, 2022 – 2023
• Rackham Graduate Research Grant, University of Michigan, 2023
• Rackham Conference Travel Grant, University of Michigan, 2022 – 2023, 2025
• Rackham Scholarship for Summer Session in Epidemiology, University of Michigan, 2022
• ASCE Hong Kong Best Final Year Project Award, American Society of Civil Engineers (Hong Kong), awarded to undergraduate students who have completed outstanding final year projects (top 1 in Hong Kong) that may help promote advancement in the civil engineering research, 2019
• Ms. Chu Yuk Baw Prize in Civil Engineering, University of Hong Kong, awarded to undergraduate students who have conducted outstanding research, 2018 – 2019
• 10^th International Universities Invitational Civil Engineering Competition Excellent Model Award, University of Macau, 2018
• C.V. Starr Scholarship, University of Hong Kong, 2017

Publications and Manuscripts in Preparation:

• Shrestha, S., Xue, S., Kitt, D., Song, H., Truyers, C., Muermans, M., Smets, I. and Raskin, L. (2022). Anaerobic Dynamic Membrane Bioreactor Development to Facilitate Organic Waste Conversion to Medium-Chain Carboxylic Acids and Their Downstream Recovery. ACS ES&T Engineering. 2, 169–180
• Rauch-Williams, T., Starostka, R., Fairley-Wax, T., Song, A., Steiniger, B. (2023). Towards a Uniform Basis for Substrate Characterization and Modeling of Anaerobic Co-Digestion and Anaerobic High-Strength Waste Treatment Workshop Summary (Issue WRF4915D). <https://www.waterrf.org/resource/towards-uniform-basis-substrate-characterization-and-modeling-anaerobic-co-digestion-and&gt;.
• Song, H., Dowdell, K., Delafont, V., Skerlos, S., Raskin, L. (2025). Reimagining Water Treatment: The Untapped Potential of Heterotrophic Protists. ACS Environmental Science and Technology. (Proposal accepted by editorial board, manuscript under review)
• Kitt, D., Song, H., Shrestha S., Raskin, L. (2025). Insights into Lactate-Based Chain Elongation Using Acid Whey and Fermented Food Waste Derived Electron Donors and Acceptors. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. (To be submitted)
• Dowdell, K., Potgieter, S., Lee, S., Song, H., Gabrielli, M., Olsen, K., Vedrin, M., Pinto, A., LiPuma, J., Delafont, V., Raskin, L. (2025). Occurrence of Free-Living Amoebae in a Full-Scale Chloraminated Drinking Water System. (To be submitted)

Conferences and Presentations:

• Song, H., Giammalvo, K., Fairley-Wax, T., Lakshminarasimman, N., Skerlos, S., Raskin, L. Niche Partitioning of Denitrifiers and Biomass-Associated Substrate Support Efficient Denitrification in a Dynamic Membrane Bioreactor. Poster Presentartion at IWA 11th Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering Conference. (2-5 June, 2025, Atlanta, GA. United States)
• Song, H., Dowdell, K., Delafont, V., Skerlos, S., Raskin, L. Importance and Potential Engineering Applications of Heterotrophic Protists in Water Treatment Systems. Poster Presentation at AEESP2025 Research and Education Conference. (20-22 May 2025, Durham, NC, United States)
• Song, H., Skerlos, S., Raskin, L. Nitrogen Removal in Municipal Wastewater Using Biomembrane Filtration System. Oral Presentation at Integrated Training in Microbial Systems Fall Retreat at University of Michigan. (30 September 2024, Ann Arbor, MI)
• Song, H., Skerlos, S., Raskin, L. The Ecological Importance and Potential Engineering Applications of Protozoa in Water Treatment Systems. Oral Presentation at Integrated Training in Microbial Systems Spring Retreat at University of Michigan. (30 April 2024, Ann Arbor MI)
• Song, H., Fairley-Wax, T., Schraa, O., Zamanzadeh, M., Skerlos, S., Raskin, L. Biomembrane Filtration System Combines MABR and Recirculating Dynamic Membrane Bioreactor for Process Intensification. Oral Presentation at WEF/IWA Innovations in Process Engineering Conference 2023. (6-9 June 2023, Portland, OR)
• Song, H., Starostka, R., Fairley-Wax, T., Raskin, L., Skerlos, S. “A Brief Review of Anaerobic Dynamic Membrane Bioreactors (AnDMBRs).” Oral presentation in Workshop “Can we use dynamic membrane bioreactors (DMBRs) to intensify and expand AD applications?” at 17th World Conference on Anaerobic Digestion. (17-22 June 2022, Ann Arbor, MI)
• Kitt, D., Song, H., Shrestha, S., Raskin, L. Advancing Anaerobic Biotechnologies for Platform Chemical Recovery from Acid Whey Dairy Waste. Poster Presentation at 2023 AEESP Research & Education Conference. (20-23 June 2023, Boston, MI)
• Dowdell, K., Potgieter, S., Lee, S., Song, A., Gabrielli, M., Olsen, K., Vedrin, M., LiPuma, J., Cambronne, E., Pinto, A., Delafont, V., Raskin, L., Kirisits, M. Free-Living Amoebae Diversity in Drinking Water and Investigating the Role of Preferential Grazing. Poster Presentation at 2023 AEESP Research & Education Conference. (20-23 June 2023, Boston, MI)
• Starostka, R., Song, H., Giammalvo, K., Fairley-Wax, T., Raskin, L., Skerlos, S. A Parallel In-situ Dynamic Membrane Analysis System (PIDMAS) for Analysis of how Backwashing Affects Extracellular Polymeric Substance (EPS) Production in Dynamic Membrane Bioreactors (DMBRs). Poster Presentation at 2023 Borchardt Conference 26th Triennial Symposium on Advancements in Water & Wastewater. (May 2023, Ann Arbor, MI)
• Giammalvo, K., Fairley-Wax, T., Song, H., Raskin, L., Skerlos, S. Designing a Recirculating Dynamic Membrane Bioreactor for Full-Scale Municipal Wastewater Treatment. Poster Presentation at 2023 Borchardt Conference 26th Triennial Symposium on Advancements in Water & Wastewater. (May 2023, Ann Arbor, MI)
• Kitt, D., Song, H., Shrestha, S., Raskin, L., Acid whey composition impacts the efficiency of lactate-based chain elongation, poster presentation, International Chain Elongation Conference. (Virtual, November 2-4, 2022)
• Kitt, D., Song, H., Shrestha, S., Raskin, L. Determining the Impact of Waste Stream Composition on Lactate-based Chain Elongation from Acid Whey and Food Waste. Oral presentation at 17th IWA World Conference on Anaerobic Digestion. (17-22 June 2022, Ann Arbor, MI)
• Kitt, D., Song, H., Raskin, L. Determining the impact of Acid Whey Composition on Lactic Acid-based Chain Elongation Efficiency and Performance. Oral presentation at 4th International Conference on Biogas Microbiology. (9-11 May 2022, Braga, Portugal)
• Shrestha, S., Kitt, D., Song, H., Raskin, L. Role of dynamic membrane biofilm development on chain elongation for medium chain carboxylic acids production. Oral presentation at IWA Biofilm 2020 Conference. (Virtual, Dec 7-10, 2020)
• Shrestha, S., Xue, S., Kitt, D., Song, H., Raskin, L. Role of dynamic development on chain elongation from medium chain carboxylic acids production. Oral presentation at International Chain Elongation Conference 2020. (Virtual, 26 – 28 October 2020).
• Shrestha, S., Xue, S., Kitt, D., Song, H., Fonoll, X., Raskin, L. Production of Medium Chain Carboxylic Acids from Organic Waste Streams by Engineering Anaerobic Microbiome. Oral Presentation at 2020 Borchardt Conference 25th Triennial Symposium on Advancements in Water and Wastewater. (Feb 2020, Ann Arbor, MI)