Yousheng Zeng
Dr. Zeng is the Air Quality Services Director for Providence Engineering and Environmental Group LLC. His areas of expertise include method development and implementation of air pollution monitoring (ambient and source, criteria pollutants and air toxics), air quality modeling (both dispersion modeling and receptor modeling), air quality laws and regulations, and air pollution control technologies. Dr. Zeng received his B.S. degree in Analytical Chemistry from Sichuan University (China) in 1982, M.S. degree in Environmental Chemistry from Nankai University (China) in 1985, Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990, and MBA degree from the University of Texas at Dallas in 1998. He is a Professional Engineer (PE) registered in five states. Dr. Zeng has been a member of several workgroups organized by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ), specifically the Highly Reactive Volatile Organic Compounds (HRVOC) Workgroup, the Title V Workgroup, and the AERMOD Modeling Guideline Workgroup. He served as an organizer and the facilitator of a forum for the LDEQ, industries, metropolitan planning organization, mayors of affected cities, and other elected officials to discuss Baton Rouge area ozone non-attainment “bump-up”, its consequences, and possible solutions. As an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas for six academic years, Dr. Zeng taught two graduate level courses, “Air Pollution Management, Regulations, and Public Policy” and “Air Quality Modeling”. More recently he developed and conducted four workshops on air quality related topics, in which over 250 professionals have participated. He co-chaired the trial burn session for the 1999 national conference in Dallas on hazardous waste combustors sponsored by AWMA and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Dr. Zeng served as an external peer reviewer for EPA Region 6 Regional Air Impact Modeling Initiative (RAIMI) Pilot Study. He has co-authored 19 peer-reviewed research papers published in national and international journals, chapters in five books, and 37 papers presented to technical conferences. These publications were in the areas of air pollution source-receptor relations, air pollutants characterizations, air monitoring, and methods or models development.