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PhD Candidate
Lamar University
Mr. Honglin Qu currently is a Ph.D. candidate in the Dan F. Smith Department of Chemical Engineering at Lamar University and he is advised by Professor Qiang Xu. Prior to joining Lamar University, Honglin received his bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, in 2012. His main research focuses on process development and optimization, and supply chain optimization. Honglin has done great works and published several papers, including Qu et al., Computer and Chemical Engineering, 90 (2016) 171-187, and Qu et al., Chemical Engineering Science, 167 (2017) 251-264.