Katya Bilyk, PE
Associate Vice President
Katya is a nationally recognized leader in wastewater process modeling, nutrient removal, advanced control strategies, and machine learning. She has developed, calibrated, and utilized BioWin models for numerous wastewater facilities to optimize their performance and assess their ability to meet current/proposed nutrient limits. Katya is currently developing real-time process control capabilities for treatment operators.
- Areas of Expertise
- Wastewater process modeling
- Wastewater treatment plant design
- Biological nutrient removal (BNR)
- Pilot testing development, protocol, and analysis
- Machine learning, Python, artificial intelligence
- Wastewater treatment plant control programs
- Professional Activities
- Water Environment Federation (WEF)
- Education
- MS, Environmental Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- BS, Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech
- Certification/License
- Professional Engineer (PE)
- Experience
