Ni-Bin Chang, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental & Construction Engineering
Director, Stormwater Management Academy
University of Central Florida

18 U.S. Patents

Ni-Bin Chang is Professor of Environmental System Engineering and Director of Stormwater Management Academy at University of Central Florida (UCF). He previously was a professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University System. As an international leader in water filtration technologies for contaminant removal from different water matrices, Chang’s contributions have spearheaded transformative advancements in the water industry nationally and charted new territories in innovation, sustainability, and mentorship. He combines theory and experimentation to resolve contemporary challenges of water, air and soil pollution control in terms of planning strategies, sustainable design, cost-effective treatment, intelligent monitoring, integrated modeling, and preventive practices with scales, involving buildings, communities, urban infrastructures, watersheds, coastal regions and beyond.

For example, to remove various traditional contaminants and contaminants of emerging concern in aquatic environments driven by rapid urban sprawl and economic development, Chang’s inventions of green sorption media (GSM) are cost-effective, scalable, adaptable, and sustainable for the removal of nutrients, heavy metals, E. coli, tannic acid, algal toxins, estrogens, and fluorinated surfactants simultaneously from stormwater runoff, agricultural discharge, groundwater flows, and wastewater effluent. Most of his patents in this area were commercialized, produced by Environmental Conservation Solutions, and distributed and sold through Ferguson Waterworks after 2016.

He has received over 50 honor/awards, including the ASCE Outstanding Achievement Award, the Bridging the Gaps Award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and the Distinguished Visiting Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering in the United Kingdom, and the Blaise Pascal Medal from the European Academy of Sciences. Chang is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE),  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), International Society of Optics and Photonics (SPIE), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in the United Kingdom, International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), and Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), as well as an inducted Foreign Member (Fellow) of the European Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Member of the Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL).

Chang has been invited for presentations worldwide, published over 300 peered review journal articles and eight books, and provided journal leaderships as editor-in-chief, associate editor, and board member for over 20 journals relevant to sustainable development. He earned his Master’s and doctoral degrees at Cornell University.