Personal Information and Interests
Education:
B.S., Chemical Engineering
MIT, 1959
M.S., Biochemical Engineering
MIT, 1961
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania, 1963
Professional Experience:
| 1963 - 1965 | Process Development Engineering, United States Army |
| 1965 - 1970 | Assistant Professor of Biochemical Engineering, M.I.T. |
| 1970 - 1974 | Associate Professor of Biochemical Engineering, M.I.T. |
| 1974-present | Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, M.I.T. |
| July 1971 | Visiting Professor, National Politechnical Institute & University of Mexico, Mexico City |
| March 1972 | Visiting Lecturer, Group Training Course in Fermentation Technology,Osaka University, Osaka, Japan |
| January 1975 | Visiting Lecturer in Biochemical Engineering, ICAIT, Guatemala City, Guatemala |
| December 1978 | isiting Lecturer in Biochemical Engineering, Centro de Investigation de Estudio Avanzado, Mexico City, Mexico |
| September 1989 | Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland |
| February 1990 | Visiting Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California |
| October 2000 | Temasek Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore (3-year appointment) |
| December 2002 | Visiting Lecturer, Catholic University, Valparaiso, Chile |
| October 2003 | Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore |
Honors and Awards:
- U.S. Army Commendation Medal (1965)
- Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of Nutrition and Food Science M.I.T. (1972, 1976), Department of Chemical Engineering (1989)
- Science Appreciation Award, National Science Council, Republic of China (1977)
- Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (1981)
- Founding Director, Biotechnology Process Engineering Center, NSF ERC, MIT (1985-1998)
- M.J. Johnson Award, American Chemical Society (1985)
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985)
- Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering (1985)
- Institute Lecturer, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (1986)
- National Academy of Engineering (1986)
- L.T. Pirkey Centennial Lecturer, University of Texas, Austin (1987
- D.L. Katz Lecturer, University of Michigan (1987)
- Braverman Memorial Lecturer, Technion Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel (1987)
- Distinguished Engineering Award, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD (1989)
- Eminent Scholar, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD (1989)
- Sherman Fairchild Scholar, Department of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (1990)
- David Perlman Memorial Lecture Award, American Chemical Society (1991)
- Founding Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (1992)
- Academia Sinica, Republic of China (1992)
- International Institute of Biotechnology (1993)
- William H. Walker Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (1994)
- Asia-Pacific Distinguished Biochemical Engineering Award (1994
- Institute Professor, MIT (1995)
- Amgen Award of Biochemical Engineering (1995)
- Honorary Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (1996)
- Frontiers of Biotechnology Lecturer, MIT, Cambridge, MA (1999)
- Ashton Hall Cary Lecturer, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (2000)
- Honorary Doctorate of Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong (2000)
- Temasek Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore (2000-2006)
- Taiwan Semi Conductor Corporation Professor, Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan (2002)
- Honorary Doctorate of Biochemical Engineering, Catholic University, Valparaiso, Chile(2002)
Plenary and Keynote Lectures:
- Plenary Lecturer, International Conference of Separations for Biotechnology, Reading, England (1987)
- Plenary Lecturer, Biotech '88, Hanover, West Germany
- Distinguished Lecturer in Biotechnology, National Science Council, Taiwan, Republic of China (1989)
- Plenary Lecturer, Society of Biosciences, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry, Japan, Fukuoka, Japan (1990)
- Plenary Lecturer, 2nd Asia-Pacific Biochemical Engineering Conference, Kjungju, Korea (1990)
- Plenary Lecturer, Korean Institute of Chemical Engineering, Seoul, Korea (1990)
- Plenary Lecturer, Biotech '90, Hanover, West Germany (1990)
- Plenary Lecturer, 2nd International Biochemical Engineering Conference, Stuttgart, Germany (1990)
- Plenary Lecturer, International Agro-Biotech Conference, Ferrara, Italy (1991)
- Inaugural Address, Rice University, Houston, TX (1991)
- Plenary Lecture, 3rd Asia-Pacific Biochemical Engineering Conference, Yokohama, Japan (1992)
- Nelson Distinguished Lecturer, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT (1992)
- Plenary Lecturer, New Zealand Biotechnology Association Conference, Palmerston North, New Zealand (1993)
- Plenary Lecturer, Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Conference, Torino, Italy (1993)
- Distinguished Centennial Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (1993)
- Plenary Lecturer, 3rd Asia-Pacific Biochemical Engineering Conference, Singapore (1994) Plenary Lecturer, Fourth JICST/NTIS Conference, Boston, MA (1994)
- Plenary Lecturer, 4th Pacific Rim Biotechnology Conference, Melbourne, Australia (1995)
- Distinguished Lindsay Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (1995)
- Distinguished Merck Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ (1995)
- Keynote Lecturer, International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, HI (1995)
- Keynote Lecturer, Cell Culture Engineering V, San Diego CA (1996)
- Keynote Lecturer, Recovery of Biological Products VIII, Tucson, AZ (1996)
- Keynote Lecturer, Chinese American Chemical Society, Chicago, IL (1996)
- Plenary Lecturer, 4th Asia-Pacific Biochemical Engineering Conference, Beijing China (1997) Opening Lecturer, Biochemical Engineering Conference X, Canada (1997)
- Keynote Lecturer, Cell Culture Engineering VI, San Diego, CA (1997)
- Keynote Lecturer, Biochemical Engineering X, Kananaski, Canada (1997) Keynote Lecturer, 2nd International Symposium on Bioprocess Engineering, Mazatlan, Mexico (1997)
- Keynote Lecturer, Biotechnology Innovation Center, Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan (1997)
- Keynote Lecturer, Cell Culture Engineering VII, San Diego, CA (1998)
- Keynote Lecturer, Strategic Review Board, Ministry of State, Taipei, Taiwan (1998)
- Plenary Lecturer, 2nd U.S. Biotech Symposium, Washington, DC (1999)
- Keynote Lecturer, Biochemical Engineering XII, Engineering Foundation Conferences, Sonoma, CA (2001) Keynote Lecturer, Society of Industry Microbiology and American Chemical Society, Long Beach, CA (2001)
- Taiwan Semi Conductor Corporation Professor Lecture, Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan (2002)
- Keynote Lecturer, 7th Biochemical Engineering Conference, Taipei, Taiwan (2002)
- Keynote Lecturer, Trend in Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria (2002)
- Keynote Lecturer, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New Orleans, LA (2003) Keynote Lecturer, International Symposium on Biological and Biochemical Engineering, Beijing, China (2003)
- Keynote Lecturer, Singapore Biological Manufacturing Conference, Singapore (2004)
- Keynote Lecturer, International Society for Biological and Bioprocess Engineering Conference, Shanghai, China (2004)
Past and Present Editorial Boards:
- Editorial Board, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 1990-present
- Editor-In-Chief, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 1983-1990.
- Editorial Board, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 1971-1983
- Editorial Board, Comprehensive Biotechnology, 1980-present
- Editorial Board, Advances in Biotechnology, 1980-present
- Advisory Board, Applied Biochemistry and Bioengineering, 1982-present
- Advisory Board, World Scientific Publishing in Life Sci., 1986-present
- Advisory Board, Newton Science Magazine, 1986-present
- Advisory Board, Genetic Engineering News, 1988-present
- Editorial Board, Journal of Solid-Phase Biochemistry, 1974-1980
- Editorial Board, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 1971-1981
- Editorial Board, Journal of Food Science, 1977-1979
- Editorial Board, Biotechnology Science, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1988-present
- Editorial Board, Biotechnology and Bioprocess J., 1994-1996
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