About Jinkai
Jinkai Xue , Ph.D., P.Eng.(APEGS, APEGA)
Associate Professor
Cold-Region Water Resource Recovery Laboratory (CRWRRL)
Environmental Systems Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Regina
CEO / Founder
EcoLoop Sustainable Technologies Limited
Regina, SK
Member, NSERC Committee on Research Partnerships, 2023 - present.
Vice-Chair, Environmental Divison, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), 2023 - present.
Secretary, Cold Regions Division, CSCE, 2023 - present.
Chair, Scholarship and Awards Committee, Central Canada Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Region 3, 2024 - present.
Member, Nominating Committee, Association of Professional Engineers & Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS).
Early Career Board Member of Journal of Environmental Engineering
Young Editorial Board Member of Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering (FESE)
Education Building, ED 481
3737 Wascana Pkwy
Regina, SK S4S 0A2
Canada
Email: jinkai.xue@uregina.ca
Education
2012-2016, Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada.
2010, Visiting Student, Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
2009-2011, M.Sc., Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.
2005-2009, B.Eng., Civil Engineering, Tongji University, China.
Employment
07/2023 to present, Associate Professor, Environmental Systems Engineering, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
01/2023-06/2023, Acting Program Chair, Environmental Systems Engineering, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
08/2019-06/2023, Tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
01/2019-08/2019, Associate Professor, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangdong, China.
06/2017-12/2018, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
11/2016-05/2017, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA.
Selected Awards and Scholarships
2023, RCE-SK Education for Sustainable Development Recognition Award
2023, Outstanding Member of Youth Editorial Board of 2022, Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering
2022, CAPEES Distinguished Service Award
2022, RCE-SK Education for Sustainable Development Recognition Award
2022, Results in Engineering Young Investigator Award 2022, Results in Engineering (an Elsevier journal);
2017, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (NSERC);
2016, Award of Excellence (China Scholarship Council);
2016, Award of Distinction (Government of Xinjiang, China);
2015, Dr. Donald R. Stanley Graduate Scholarship (University of Alberta);
2015, Alberta Innovates-Technology Futures Graduate Student Scholarship (Alberta Innovates);
2009, KAUST Full Fellowship (KAUST);
2008, Discovery Scholarship (KAUST);
2008, China State Encouragement Award (Ministry of Education, China).