Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University. He obtained his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, all in Chemical Engineering.Read more
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