I am originally from Taiwan. My background is in forest products science and bioenergy conversion. I obtained my Ph.D. at Iowa State University in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering. After my graduation, I joined Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproduct Innovations (CABBI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a postdoctoral research associate from 2017-2022, focusing on biorefinery design and biofuels and bio-based platform chemicals conversions from agricultural residues and energy crops. My research area and interests include bioprocessing innovations, biomass valorization, and sustainability analysis, including techno-economic analysis and life-cycle assessment. 

• Integrated Biorefinery system design
• Bioenergy and value-added bioproduct innovation
• Bioprocessing and green technologies
• Sustainability simulation
• Techno-economic analysis
• Environmental impact and life-cycle assessments

• Ming-Hsun Cheng, Shraddha Maitra, Aidan Clennon, Bruce Dien, Vijay Singh, 2022. The effect of sequential hydrothermal-mechanical refining pretreatment on biomass structure changes and cellulosic sugar recoveries. Biomass Convers. Biorefin. doi.org/10.1007/s13399-022-03359-3
• Ming-Hsun Cheng, Bruce S. Dien, Yong-Su Jin, Jonghyeok Shin, Patricia J. Slininger, Nasib Qureshi, Vijay Singh, 2021. Conversion of high-solids hydrothermally pretreated bioenergy sorghum to lipids and ethanol using yeast cultures. ACS Sustainable Chem.Eng. 9, 8515-8525.
• Ming-Hsun Cheng, Haider J. Kadhum, Ganti S. Murthy, Bruce S. Dien, Vijay Singh. 2020. High solids loading biorefinery for the production of cellulosic sugars from bioenergy sorghum. Bioresour. Technol. 318, 124051.
• Mothi B. Viswanathan, Ming-Hsun Cheng, Tom Clemente, Ismail Dweikat, Vijay Singh, 2021. Economics perspective on coproducing ethanol and biodiesel from industrial hemp. J. Cleaner Prod. 299, 126875.
• Ming-Hsun Cheng, Liang Sun, Yong-Su Jin, Bruce Dien, Vijay Singh. 2020. Production of xylose enriched hydrolysate from bioenergy sorghum and its conversion to β-carotene using an engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Bioresour. Technol. 308, 123275.
• Ming-Hsun Cheng, Zhaoqin Wang, Bruce S. Dien, Patricia J.W. Slininger, D.K. Lee, Vijay Singh. 2019. Economic analysis of cellulosic ethanol production from sugarcane bagasse using sequential deacetylation, hot water and disk refining pretreatment. Processes. 7, 642 
• Ming-Hsun Cheng, Bruce S. Dien, D.K. Lee, Vijay Singh. 2019. Sugar production from bioenergy sorghum by using pilot scale continuous hydrothermal pretreatment combined with disk refining. Bioresour. Technol. 289, 121663.
• Ming-Hsun Cheng, Kurt A. Rosentarter, Jasreen Sekhon, Tony Wang, Stephanie Jung, Lawrence A. Johnson. 2019. Economic feasibility of soybean oil production by enzyme-assisted aqueous extraction processing. Food Bioprocess Tech. 12, 539-550.
• Ming-Hsun Cheng, Jasreen K. Sekhon, Kurt A. Rosentrater, Tong Wang, Stephanie Jung, Lawrence A. Johnson. 2018. Environmental impact assessment of soybean oil production: Extruding-expelling process, hexane extraction and aqueous extraction. Food Bioprod. Proc. 108, 58-68.
• Yu Wang, Ming-Hsun Cheng. 2018. Greenhouse gas emissions embedded in US-China fuel ethanol trade: a comparative well-to-wheel estimate. J. Cleaner Prod. 183, 653-661.
• Yu Wang, Ming-Hsun Cheng, Mark Mba Wright. 2018. Lifecycle energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from corncob ethanol in China. Biofpr. 12, 1037-1046.