Fang Wen, Assistant Professor at the School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Ph.D. He has long been engaged in research on AI-based environmental risk control and synergistic waste management strategies for pollution and carbon reduction. He has led projects including the NSFC General Program and a sub-project of the Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Special Program for Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality, and has participated in the NSFC Key Program. He has published multiple papers in journals such as Nature Communications, Environment International, Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Science of the Total Environment, and Fundamental Research, including one paper in Nature Communications (2024). He holds 6 authorized invention patents (covering risk identification and traceability of illegal hazardous waste dumping, early warning for transportation risk control, and real-time risk warning for hazardous waste). As the leading recipient, he received a Gold Medal at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions (2022), and as a major contributor, he received a Gold Medal at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions (2021) and was recognized as one of the Top Ten Scientific and Technological Advances in the Environmental and Energy Sector of Jiangsu Province.
1) Xie, W.J.; Yu, Q.Y.; Fang, W.; Zhang, X.G.; Geng, J.H.; Tang, J.Y.; Jing, W.F.; Ma, Z.W.; Yang, J.X.; Liu, M.M.; Bi, J. Data-driven approaches linking wastewater and source estimation hazardous waste for environmental management. Nature Communications, 2024, 15: 5432.
2) Li, J.L.; Liu, M.M.; Shan, Y.L.; Yang, J.X.; Fang, W.; Ma, Z.W.; Bi, J. Mapping the Water-Economic Cascading Risks within a Multilayer Network of Supply Chains in China. Environmental Science & Technology, 2025, 59: 7960-7972.
3) Hu, L.T.; Deng, S.D.; Ma, J.X.; Liang, K.H.; Shao, Y.C.; Liu, M.M.; Yang, J.X.; Fang, W.; Bi, J.; Ma, Z.W. Informing Risk Hotspots and Critical Mitigations for Rainstorms Using Machine Learning: Evidence from 268 Chinese Cities. Environmental Science & Technology, 2025, 59: 1619-1630.
4) Yang, D.X.; Fang, W. Reduction of antimony bioavailability with the application of stable exogenous organic matter: a comparative study between rice straw and manure compost. Environmental Research, 2025, 277: 121578.
5) Zhang, Y.X.; Yao, S.K.; Zhao, Y.H.; Zhu, S.S.; Fang, W.; Yu, R.R.; Shi, N.W.; Zhang, R.X.; Zhang, Y.; Liang, J.W. STING Agonist-Modified Tumor Targeting Photosensitizer Remodels Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts to Potentiate Photoimmunotherapy in Pancreatic Cancer. Advanced Science, 2026, 13.
6) Geng, J.H.; Ding, Y.M.; Xie, W.J.; Fang, W.; Liu, M.M.; Ma, Z.W.; Yang, J.X.; Bi, J. An ensemble machine learning model to uncover potential sites of hazardous waste illegal dumping based on limited supervision experience. Fundamental Research, 2024, 4: 972-978.
7) Fang, W.; Huang, Y.J.; Ding, Y.M.; Qi, G.X.; Liu, Y.J.; Bi, J. Health risks of odorous compounds during the whole process of municipal solid waste collection and treatment in China. Environment International, 2022, 158: 106951.
8) Liang, K.H.; Hu, L.T.; Ma, Z.W.; Huang, S.Y.; Liu, M.M.; Fang, W.; Yang, J.X.; Bi, J. Non-linear relationships between air temperature and river water quality revealed by a panel dataset of 276 Chinese cities. Communications Earth & Environment, 2025, 6: 1024.
9) Fang, W.; Ding, Y.M.; Geng, J.H.; Liu, Z.; Huang, Y.J.; Yang, J.X.; Ma, Z.W.; Liu, J.G.; Bi, J.; Liu, M.M.; Qu, Z. High potential of coupling the source-separation and incineration promotion to reduce costs based on city-level cost-benefit analysis of municipal solid waste management strategies in China. Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 2023, 197: 107099.
10) Sun, L.; Yang, J.X.; Liu, M.M.; Fang, W.; Ma, Z.W.; Bi, J. Do attitudes toward air pollution influence climate change perception? Evidence from online customers in China. Environmental Research Letters, 2024, 19: 124017.
1. Dynamic Simulation and Governance of Environmental Risk Complex Systems Driven by Artificial Intelligence Technologies, NSFC Key Program (Participant) (2023–2027)
2. Refined Assessment of Environmental Risks from Illegal Dumping of Hazardous Waste Based on Data-Driven Approaches, NSFC General Program (2023–2026)
3. Command Center for "Healthy Yangtze River Taizhou Action", Government Procurement Project (2023)
4. Foundational Research on Multi-element Collaborative Governance of Carbon, Air, Solid Waste, and Ecology, Sub-project of Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Special Program for Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality (Sub-project Leader) (2022–2024)
5. Technical Collaboration Project for Ecological Benefit Assessment of the "Mountain-River-Forest-Field-Lake-Grassland" Ecological Protection and Restoration Project, Government Procurement Project of Jiangsu Provincial Geological Survey and Research Institute (2021–2023)
1. AI-Enabled Three-Dimensional Environmental Risk Diagnosis, Prevention and Control Technologies for Enterprises, Top Ten Scientific and Technological Advances in the Environmental and Energy Sector of Jiangsu Province (2023, ranked second)
2. Gold Medal at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions, for "An Intelligent Monitoring System for Hazardous Waste" (2022, ranked first)
3. Gold Medal at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions, for "Environmental Impairment Liability Insurance (EIL) System" (2021, ranked fifth)
Mailing Address: No. 163 Xianlin Avenue, Qixia District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
Postal Code: 210023
Affiliation: Nanjing University
Email: wenfang@nju.edu.cn
