Mei Tessum

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• Tessum Research Lab

Education

• Ph.D., Environmental Health, University of Minnesota, 2015
• M.S., Environmental Health, University of Minnesota, 2010
• B.M., Medicine, Tongji Medical College, 2005

Academic Positions

• Research Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (2020-Present)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (2016-2019)
• Staff Epidemiologist, China National Institute of Environmental Health, China CDC (2005-2008)

Resident Instruction

• ABE 498 Applied Data Science for Agricultural and Biological Engineering (Fall 2022, 2023)

Research Interests

• Industrial Hygiene 
• Aerosol measurement and control technology
• Applications of deep learning in air pollution modeling 
• Air quality monitoring strategy 
• Air pollution exposure modeling — for both ambient and occupational exposure 

Selected Articles in Journals

• Mei W. Tessum*, Susan C. Anenberg, Zoe Chafe, Daven K. Henze, Gary Kleiman, Iyad Kheirbek, Julian D. Marshall, Christopher W. Tessum*. (2022) Sources of ambient PM2.5 exposure in 96 global cities. Atmospheric Environment. 286:119234. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2022.119234
• Mei W. Tessum*, Lianne Sheppard, Timothy V. Larson, Timothy R. Gould, Joel D. Kaufman, Sverre Vedal. (2021) Improving air pollution predictions of long-term exposure using short-term mobile and stationary monitoring in two US metropolitan regions. Environmental Science & Technology. dio:10.1021/acs.est.0c04328.
• Mei W. Tessum* and Peter C. Raynor. (2021) Measuring electrostatic charge on pneumatically generated spray drops. Journal of Aerosol Science 105691.
• Mei W. Tessum*, Timothy Larson, Timothy R. Gould, Christopher D. Simpson, Michael G. Yost, Sverre Vedal. (2018) Mobile and passive sampler measurements to identify spatial distributions of traffic related pollution sources in Los Angeles. Environmental Science & Technology 52 (5): 2844-2853.
• Mei W. Tessum* and Peter C. Raynor. Effects of Spray Surfactant and Particle Charge on Respirable Coal Dust Capture. (2017) Safety and Health at Work 8(3):296-305.
• Mei W. Tessum*, Peter C. Raynor, Lorraine Keating-Klika. (2014) Factors Influencing the Airborne Capture of Respirable Charged Particles by Surfactants in Water Sprays. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 11(9):571-82.

Recent Courses Taught

• ABE 498 AB - Applied Data Science in ABE