Research Interests
nano-based drugs, personalized medicine, cancer immunology
Education
Ph.D., University of California at Davis
B.A., University of California at Santa Cruz
Profile Placement: Faculty
Arup K. Chakraborty
Research Interests
immunology, regulation of transcription, statistical mechanics
Education
Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1988
B. of Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 1983
Publications
Honors and Awards
AIChE’s Alpha Chi Sigma Award, 2025
James Swan Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Chemical Engineering Department, MIT, 2023
Doctor of Science Honoris Causa, University of Chicago, 2023
APS Max Delbrück Prize in Biological Physics, 2023
Honorary Doctorate of Science, University of Delaware, 2022
John M. Deutch Institute Professor, MIT, 2021
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Chemical Engineering Department, MIT, 2021
John M. Prausnitz Institute Lecturer, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2021
Schiesser Distinguished Lecture, Lehigh University, 2020
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Chemical Engineering Department, MIT, 2020
Inaugural annual IMES Founder’s Lecture, 2019
Doctor of Engineering honoris causa, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (awarded 2019, conferred 2020)
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2018
Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech, 2018
Elected, Member of the National Academy of Medicine, 2017
Arthur D. Little Lectures, MIT, 2017
Elected, Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016
Richard S. Mah Lectures, Northwestern University, 2016
Berman Memorial Lectures in Medical Physics, George Washington University, 2014
Weaver Lectures in Biophysics, UC Davis, 2014
David Ollis Lectures in Chemical Engineering, NC State University, 2013
Britton Chance Lectures in Engineering & Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 2012
Outstanding Graduate Teaching award, Chemical Engineering department, MIT, 2012
Bayer Lectures, University of Pittsburgh, 2012
Lacey Lectures, Caltech, 2011
Katz Lectures, CCNY, 2010
Raman Memorial Lectures, India, 2009
Outstanding Graduate Teaching award, Chemical Engineering department, MIT, 2009
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2008
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, 2008
Elected, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007
E.O. Lawrence Award for Life Sciences, DOE, 2007
NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, 2006
Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achievement, University of Delaware, 2005
Wilber Lecture, Rice University, 2005
Doraiswamy Lecturer, Iowa State Univ. and National Chemical Laboratory, India, 2005
Dept. of Chem. Eng. Teaching Award, UC Berkeley, 2005
Engineering Foundation Endowed Lectureship, U.T. Austin, 2005
Elected, Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2004
Professional Progress Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2004
Merck Collaboratus Lectures, Rutgers University, 2004
Trotter Lecturer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2004
Chemcon Distinguished Lecturer Award, Bhubaneswar, India, 2003
Robert W. Vaughan Memorial Lecturer, Caltech, 2000
Research Professor, Miller Institute for Basic Science, Berkeley, 1999-2000
Featured Speaker, NAE Frontiers of Engineering Meeting, 1999
Allan P. Colburn Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1996
Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 1994
AIChE, Berkeley Student Chapter, Appreciation for Distinguished Teaching, 1996-97
National Young Investigator Award, 1992-1997
Allan P. Colburn Memorial Lecture, University of Delaware, 1993
Royal Academy of Engineering (U.K.), ICI Fellowship, 1993- 1998
Shell Young Faculty Fellow, 1989-1992
Best Review Paper, Intnl. Conference on Polymer/Solid Interfaces, Belgium, 1991
Robert E. Cohen
Research Interests
physics and chemistry of polymers, polymer surfaces/interfaces, structure-property relationships
Education
Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford University, 1972-1973
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1972
M.S., California Institute of Technology, 1970
B.S., Cornell University, 1968
Publications
Honors and Awards
Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2015
ACS’s Paul J. Flory Polymer Education Award, 2012
Fellow, Materials Research Society, 2010
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 2010
Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring & Advising, MIT School of Engineering, 2006
Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2005
Fellow, American Physical Society, 2004
Charles M. A. Stine Award, AIChE, 2000
GenCorp Signature University Award, 1999
Society of Plastics Eng. Best Paper Award, Montreal RETEC, 1997
Shell Distinguished Lecturer, Northwestern University, 1996
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher and Scholar Award, 1987
R. W. Vaughan Memorial Lecturer, Caltech, 1984
Harold and Esther E. Edgerton Assistant Professor, MIT, 1975, 1977
DuPont Young Faculty Award, ChemE Dept., MIT, 1974
Clark K. Colton
Research Interests
biomedical engineering, biochemical engineering, mass transfer
Education
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969
B.ChE., Cornell University, 1964
Publications
Honors and Awards
Gambro AB Award, International Society of Blood Purification, 1986
Curtis W. McGraw Research Award, American Society for Engineering Education, 1980
Allan P. Colburn Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1977
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award, 1972
Charles L. Cooney
Research Interests
biochemical engineering
Education
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967
B.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1966
Publications
Honors and Awards
Elected, Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2025
ICB Inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award, 2024
Honoris Causa by Ramon Llull University in Barcelona, 2012
Dieter & Inga Koehn Lecture, 2010
Fellow of the American Chemical Society, 2009
Founding Fellow, American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering, 1992
Institute of Biotechnological Studies, 1989 Gold Medal
James Van Lannen Award for Distinguished Service to the Division of Microbial & Biochemical Technology of the American Chemical Society, 1985
Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Division Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1983.
Becten-Dickenson Award lecturer, American Society for Microbiology, 1977
Listed in Who’s Who in Frontiers of Science & Technology
Listed in American Men of Science
Sigma Xi
William M. Deen
Research Interests
bioengineering, transport phenomena, membrane separations
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1973
M.S., Stanford University, 1971
B.S., Columbia University, 1969
Publications
Honors and Awards
Graduate Student Council Outstanding Faculty Award, 2012, 2013, 2016
Warren K. Lewis Award, AIChE, 2012
Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching, MIT, 2012
Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching, MIT, 2011
Dr. Balwant S. Joshi Distinguished Visiting Professor in Chemical Engineering, UICT, Mumbai, India, 2008
Founding Fellow, AIMBE, 1992
Western Electric Fund Award, ASEE, 1982
Patrick S. Doyle
Research Interests
microfluidics, complex fluids, polymer physics, rheology and transport phenomena
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1997
M.S., Stanford University, 1993
B.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1992
Publications
Honors and Awards
AIChE’s Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research, 2022
Singapore Research Professorship, 2021
J-WAFS Seed Grant, 2019
Singapore Research Professorship, 2016
Michael Mohr Outstanding Faculty Award, 2013 & 2014
Singapore Research Professorship, 2013
Soft Matter Lectureship Award, 2012
Joliot Chair, ESPCI, 2009
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2009
Rothschild-Yvette Mayent-Institute Curie Award, 2009
Van Ness Lectures at RPI, 2008
Lab on a Chip, Royal Society of Chemistry and Corning Inc., Pioneers of Miniaturization Prize, 2008
Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professorship, 2005-2007
University of Notre Dame Thiele Lectureship, 2006
U of DE Colburn Memorial Lecture, 2006,
NSF-CAREER Award, 2003
3-M Innovation Fund Award, 2003
Polypops Innovation Award, 2001
Fondation de la Recherche Medical Postdoctoral Grant, 1999-2000
Institut Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1998-1999
Chateaubriand Fellowship, 1997-1998
Stanford University’s Lieberman Fellowship, 1996-1997
Karen K. Gleason
Research Interests
chemical vapor deposition, membranes, organic surfaces, interfaces, and devices
Education
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1987
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982
Publications
Honors and Awards
AIChE’s Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement by a Woman Chemical Engineer, 2021
John M. Prausnitz AIChE Institute Lecturer Award, 2019
Charles M.A. Stine Award, 2015
Elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2015
Elected AIChE Fellow, 2013
AIChE Process Development Research Award, 2012
Printed Electronics Europe Best Materials Award, 2011
Keynote speaker, 23rd Int’l Conf. on Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Semiconductors, 2009
Chair, 5th Intl. Conf on Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition, August 2008
Donders Visiting Prof., Utrecht University, Netherlands, 2006
Excellence Award, SEMATECH, 2000
Tenth Annual Van Ness Award Lecturer, RPI, 2000
Chair, Gordon Conference of Diamond Synthesis, Oxford UK, 1998
Presidential Young Investigator, National Science Foundation, 1990
Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research, 1990
Amoco Foundation Fellow, 1982-85
NCAA Post-graduate Fellow, 1982
All-American NCAA Division III Swimming, 1978-82
William H. Green
Research Interests
chemical kinetics, molecular simulation, free radical reactions
Education
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1988
B.A., Swarthmore College, 1983
Publications
Honors and Awards
AIChE’s R. H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering, 2019
Inaugural Fellow of the Combustion Institute, 2018
Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2016
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, 2009 – 2013 Associate Editor, 2005-2008
C.M. Mohr Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, 2006
Executive Board, Eastern States Section, Combustion Institute, 2005 – 2009
ACS Div. of Environmental Chemistry Certificate of Merit, 2005
ACS Div. of Fuel Chemistry Richard A. Glenn Award, 2004, 2009, 2013
Bye-Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge University, 2004-2005
Thiele Lectureship Award (Univ. of Notre Dame), 2004
NSF CAREER award, 1999-2003
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, 1989-1990
The Charles & Katherine Darwin Research Fellow, Cambridge University, 1989-1990
NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, 1989
Amoco Foundation Graduate Fellow, 1987
NSF Graduate Fellow, 1983-1985
Paula T. Hammond
Research Interests
macromolecular design and synthesis, targeted drug delivery for cancer, nanoscale assembly of synthetic biomaterials, electrostatic and directed materials assembly
Education
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993
M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984
Publications
Honors and Awards
National Medal of Technology and Innovation, 2024
Othmer Gold Medal, 2024
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry, 2024
James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award, 2023-24
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), 2021
Inaugural Black in Cancer Distinguished Investigator Award, 2021
MIT Institute Professor, 2021
MRS Turnbull Lectureship Award from the Materials Research Society, 2019
AIChE’s Margaret H. Rousseau Pioneer Award, 2019
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 2019
ACS Nat’l Award in Applied Polymer Science, 2018
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 2017
Elected to the National Academy of Medicine, 2016
Elected AIChE Fellow, 2016
Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research, 2014
Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2013
Charles M.A. Stine Award, 2013
Ovarian Cancer Research Program Teal Innovator Award, 2013
Elected Fellow, ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry (POLY), 2012
Distinguished Scientist Award, the Harvard Foundation, 2010
Elected AIMBE Fellow, 2010
Bayer Distinguished Lecturer, 2004
Georgia Tech Outstanding Young Alumni Award, 2004
Radcliffe Institute Fellow, Harvard University, 2003
Henry Hill Lecturer Award, 2002
Junior Bose Faculty Award, 2000
GenCorp Signature University Award, 2000
Lloyd Ferguson Young Scientist Award, 2000
NSF Career Award, 1997
EPA Early Career Award, 1996
DuPont Young Faculty Award, 1996
3M Innovation Fund Award, 1995
NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemistry, Harvard University, 1994
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow, 1992
MIT Karl Taylor Compton Prize, 1992
Eastman Kodak Theophilus Sorrel Fellow, 1990