Javit Drake

Associate Professor of the Practice

Chemical engineering offers an exciting combination of chemistry, physics, and applied mathematics to solve real world problems. I continue to be drawn to the intellectual stimulation of fundamental concepts and the experience of making systems that benefit and even transform society

Research Interests

electrochemical energy, continuum modeling-based product design, transport phenomena and mechanics

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2000

S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994

Honors and Awards

C. Michael Mohr Outstanding Faculty Award, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering, 2025

Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Scholar, MIT, 2022–2023