Publications

Wasswa, J.; Ramsundar, B. Beyond Plastic Labels: Polymer-Aware Substrate Encoding Improves Plastizymes Prediction and Reliability Models. ACS ES&T Engineering 2026, 5, 7383–7396. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.6c00559

Wasswa, J.; Kajjumba, G. W.; Ramsundar, B. Unimodal vs Multimodal Learning: A Systematic Evaluation of Fusion Strategies and Model Design for Molecular Property Prediction and Uncertainty Quantification. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2026,  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.6c01878

Wasswa, J.; Barsainyan, A. A. PHYSPROPNET: A Benchmarking Study of Machine Learning Models for Physicochemical Property Prediction in Data-Limited Environmental Research. ACS ES&T Water 2025, 5, 7383–7396. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.5c00850.

Wasswa, J.; Perkins, M.; Matthews, D. A.; Zeng, T. (2024) Characterizing the Impact of Cyanobacterial Blooms on the Photoreactivity of Surface Waters from New York Lakes: A Combined Statewide Survey and Laboratory Investigation. Environmental Science & Technology, 58 (18), 8020–8031. 

Wang, S*., Wasswa, J*., Feldman, A. C. #, Kabenge, I., Kiggundu, N., & Zeng, T. (2022). Suspect Screening to Support Source Identification and Risk Assessment of Organic Micropollutants in the Aquatic Environment of a Sub-Saharan African Urban Center. Water Research, 220(March), 118706. (*Equal contribution)

Wasswa, J., Driscoll, C. T., & Zeng, T. (2022). Contrasting Impacts of Photochemical and Microbial Processing on the Photoreactivity of Dissolved Organic Matter in an Adirondack Lake Watershed. Environmental Science and Technology, 56(3), 

Wasswa, J., Driscoll, C. T. and Zeng, T. (2020) ‘Photochemical Characterization of Surface Waters from Lakes in the Adirondack Region of New York’, Environmental Science & Technology, 54(17), 10654–10667. 

Alexandra Sanchez, A#., Mladenov, N. and Wasswa, J. (2020) ‘Fluorescent compounds retained by ultrafiltration membranes for water reuse’, Journal of Membrane Science. 600, (# undergraduate mentee)

Kajjumba, GW, Eren. Y.S. Aydın, S. Emik, T. Ağun, F. Osra, and J. Wasswa. (2019) A facile

polymerization of magnetic coal to enhanced phosphate removal from solution. Journal of Environmental Management, 247, 356-362. 

Wasswa, J., Pearce, W., and Mladenov, N. (2019) Assessing the potential of fluorescence spectroscopy to monitor contaminants in water systems, Environmental Science: Water research and Technology, 5, 370-382. 

Wasswa, J. and Mladenov, N. (2018) Improved Temperature Compensation for In Situ Humic-Like and Tryptophan-Like Fluorescence Acquisition in Diverse Water Types, 2018, Environmental Engineering Science, 35(9).

Xie, M., Mladenov, N., Williams, M.W., Neff, J.C., Wasswa, J., and Hannigan, M.P. (2016). Water soluble organic aerosols in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA: Composition, sources, and optical properties. Scientific Reports 6 (September):