directional plasma etching, dry wafer cleaning, kinetics, surface science, process modeling
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1980
B.S., Iowa State University, 1973
Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering, Iowa State, 1994
Thinker Award presented by Tegal Corporation for Innovative Characterization and Modeling of Plasma Etching Processes, 1987
crystallization from solution with an emphasis on nucleation, polymorphism, and industrial applications of crystallization
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1977
M.S., University of Virginia, 1975
B.S., Columbia University, 1973
AICHE Process Development Division Excellence in Process Development Research Award, 2015
Clarence G. Gerhold Award, AIChE Separations Division, 2015
American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Fellow Award, 2010
American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Separation Science and Technology, 2008
Virginia Engineering Foundation Engineering Achievement Award, 2000
fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer
Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1962
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1958
National Academy of Engineering, 1983
Professional Progress Award, AIChE, 1981
renewable energy, nanotechnology, energy transport in nanomaterials, nonlinear spectroscopy, spectroscopic imaging
Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010-2011
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2010
B.S., University of Delaware, 2005
Warren K. Lewis Professorship of Chemical Engineering, 2023
C. Michael Mohr Outstanding Faculty Award, MIT ChemE, 2023
Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2023
AIChE NSEF Young Investigator Award, 2017
Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 2017
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry, 2016
Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering, 2016
NSF CAREER Award, 2015
Everett Moore Baker Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2014
3M Nontenured Faculty Award, 2014
DOE Early Career Award, 2013
NSF IGERT Fellowship, Univ. of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Alexander J. Taylor Award, 2005
Tau Beta Pi Undergraduate Scholarship, 2004
nanoscale process systems engineering, multiresolution modeling and design of materials and processes, multiscale process operations and control
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1974
M.E., McMaster University, 1971
Dipl. ChE., National Technical University of Athens, 1970
Chemical and Biological Process Dynamics and Control, 2025
Demokritos Scientific Research and Innovation Award, Greece, 2016
CACHE Award for Excellence in Computing in Chemical Engineering Education, ASEE Chemical Engineering Division, 2015
The Ambani Life-Time Achievements Award, ICT-Ambani Corp., 2013
AIChE Founders Award, 2012
American Academy of Arts and Science Fellow, 2012
Fellow of AIChE, 2006
“BalwantS. Joshi Distinguished Visiting Professor in Chemical Engineering” UICT, Mumbai, 2005-06
“Gerster”Lecture, Universityof Delaware, 2004
William H. Walker Award, AIChE, 2003
AIChE Institute Lecture, 2003
Honorary Doctor of Science, McMaster University, 2002
“Roger Sargent”Lecture, ImperialCollege, 2000
National Academy of Engineering, 1999
The Kelly Lectures, Purdue University, 1999
Harry G. Fair Lecture, The University of Oklahoma, 1999
Best Paper Award: Designing and Systems, 14th European Mtg. on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna,1998
Centennial Lecturer, Technical University of Delft, Delft, 1995
Computing in Chemical Engineering Award, AIChE, 1993
Merck Distinguished Lecturer, Rutgers University, 1992
Best Paper Award, Computers and Chemical Engineering, 1992, 1987
Foreign Member of the Russian Acad of Tech. Sciences, 1991
The Stanley Katz Memorial Lecturer, CUNY, 1989
Curtis McGraw Award, ASEE, 1986
Allan P. Colburn Award, AIChE, 1982
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher and Scholar Award, 1977
electrochemical energy conversion and storage, microfluidics, interfacial phenomena, catalyst synthesis, and tomography
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010
M.S.E., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009
B.S.E., University of Pennsylvania, 2006
Appointed as the Chevron Chair of Chemical Engineering, 2024
AIChE’s Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications by a Young Member of the Institute, 2022
ECS’s Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award, 2022
NOBCChE – Lloyd N. Ferguson Young Scientist Award for Excellence in Research, 2020
Electrochemical Society – Energy Technology Division Supramaniam Srinivasan Young Investigator Award, 2019
Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair, MIT, 2018
I&ECR, Class of 2017 Influential Researcher, 2017
C&EN, Talented Twelve, 2017
Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, Argonne National Laboratory, 2010-2012
Harry G. Drickamer Research Fellowship, 2009-2010
GEM PhD Engineering Fellowship, 2006-2010
SURGE Fellowship, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006-2010
American Chemical Society Scholar, 2002-2006
metabolic and biochemical engineering, biotechnology, bioinformatics
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1978
M.S., University of Florida, 1975
B.S., National Technical University, Athens, 1973
AIChE Doing a World of Good Medal, 2024
Elected to Academia Europaea, 2024
Society for Biological Engineering: James E. Bailey Award, 2023
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 2023
ARPA-E Grant to decrease carbon emissions in biorefining processes, 2021
Honorary doctorate, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, 2020
The Gaden Award for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 2019
Novozymes Award for Excellence in Biochemical and Chemical Engineering, 2017
Honorary doctorate, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 2016
Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation, 2016
Elected 2015 President of the AIChE, 2014
Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature, 2014
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology, 2013
John Fritz Medal of the AAES, 2013
Siegfried Medal, 2012
AIChE Fellow, 2012
Inaugural Biotechnology Progress Award for Excellence in Biological Engineering Publication, 2011
Corresponding Foreign Member of the Academy of Athens, Greece, 2011
ENI Prize on Renewable and Non-Conventional Energy, 2011
BIO – George Washington Carver Award for Innovation in Industrial – Biotechnology, 2010
ACS E.V. Murphree Award, 2010
Amgen Biochemical Engineering Award, 2009
AIChE Founders Award, 2007
Charles Thorn Award from the SIM, 2007
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2005
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), 2003
Merck Award in Metabolic Engineering, 2002
AIChE Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering, 2001
Marvin Johnson Award, ACS, 2000
AIChE Food, Pharma & Bioengineering Division Award, 1997
Inaugural Bayer Lecture on Biochem Eng, UC Berkeley, 1996
Chairman, Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioeng Division, AIChE, 1992
Founding Fellow, AIMBE, 1992
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher and Scholar Award, 1982
Excellence in Teaching Award, CalTech, 1982
Presidential Young Investigator Award, NSF, 1984
Technical Achievement Award, Southern Cal. AIChE, 1984
catalysis, transition-metal chemistry, electronic structure methods, atomistic simulations, enzyme catalysis
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009
B.E., The Cooper Union, 2004
Presidential Early Career Award in Science & Engineering, 2025
The Lammot du Pont (1901) Memorial Professorship in Chemical Engineering, 2024
AIChE CoMSEF Impact Award, 2023
Hans-Fischer Senior Fellowship, 2023
MSDE Outstanding Early-Career Paper Award, 2021
Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry, 2021
DARPA Director’s Fellowship Award, 2020
Journal of Physical Chemistry and PHYS Division Lectureship Award, 2019
NSF CAREER Award, 2019
Marion Milligan Mason Award, 2019
DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2018
ONR Young Investigator Award, 2018
ACS OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 2018
I&ECR, Class of 2017 Influential Researcher, 2017
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface, 2012-2017
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellow, 2004-2008
William C. and Esther Hoffman Beller Prize for Excellence in Chemical Engineering, 2004
United States Presidential Scholar, 2000
transport in nanopores, thermopower waves for energy generation, exciton engineering for solar energy, nanosensors for reaction network analysis
Ph.D., University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2002
B.S., Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, 1997
AIChE’s Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering, 2019
Bose Research Grant Award, 2017
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 2017
World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds list, Thomson Reuters, 2016
Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher, 2015
Popular Science’s ‘Brilliant 10’, 2009
American Institute of Chemical Engineering, Colburn Award, 2008
Office of Naval Research, Young Investigator Award, 2008
Colburn Memorial Lectureship, University of Delaware, 2008
Outstanding Investigator Award, Materials Research Society, 2008
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, 2008
National Academy of Engineers, Frontiers of Engineering Invitee, 2007
American Chemical Society Unilever Award for Colloidal Science, 2007
Henry and Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 2007
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2006
Collaboration Success Award, Council of Chemical Research, 2006
Beckman Young Investor Award, 2006
3M Untenured Faculty Award, 2006
Coblentz Award for Molecular Spectroscopy, Coblentz Society, 2006
Young Investigator Award, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum, AIChE, 2006
Top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers, ESI/Web of Science, 2005
National Science Foundation Career Award, 2005
Top Young Innovator Award, MIT Technology Review, 2005
DuPont Young Investigator Award, 2004
Most significant advances of 2003
C&EN, 2004
neuroscience, medical imaging, brain mapping, high-throughput technologies, polymer science, tissue engineering, microfluidics
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009
B.S., Seoul National University, 2005
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2019
Association of Korean Neuroscientists (AKN) Junior Faculty Award, 2018
Associate Scientific Advisor, Science Translational Medicine, 2017
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards at the Scientific Interface, 2012-2017
NIH New Innovator Award, 2016
McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award, 2016
NARSAD Young Investigator Award, 2015
Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering, 2015
Yumin awards for creativity, 2014
40 under 40, Cell magazine, 2014
Searle Scholar, 2014
Ziegler Award for Best Research Paper, 2009
Anne Robinson Clough Conference Grant, 2009
James T. Porter Fellowship, 2006
Outstanding Performance on the Written Qualifying Exam, 2006
Merit Based Scholarship, Seoul National University, 1998 – 2001