Shan has more than 20 years of experience in business development, innovation, and technology/project management roles globally. She has worked with global water technology conglomerates like Veolia Water and Technologies North America, SembCorp Industries Singapore, SafBon Shanghai as well as local and international startups like Aquafortus, BioLargo, and zNano. She is also on the team at Diamond Gold Investors, a Nevada based family office. She spent a few years with a non-profit organization formerly known as Fraunhofer USA Center for Energy Innovation, now known as Connecticut Center for Applied Separations Technology. Dr. Yong earned her Ph.D., MS, and MA degrees in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from Yale University, a Master of Civil and Environmental Engineering from MIT, and a BA in Environmental Engineering from Univ of Illinois Urbana Champaign. She is an established author with around 1000 citations on her high impact research papers in the field of Forward Osmosis