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2018 Sabic Young Professional Award

Yi Fan

Yi Fan is currently an Associate Research Scientist at the Solids Processing Group in the Corporate R&D of The Dow Chemical Company. Prior to this, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University from 2011 to 2013.  He received his Bachelor (2003) and Master (2006) degrees in Thermal and Power Engineering from Tsinghua University of China and received his PhD (2011) in Civil engineering from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.  His research interest focuses on understanding the fundamentals of particulate flows and...Read more

2018 Robert E. Wilson Award

David Riestenberg

Mr. David E. Riestenberg is a Project Manager with Advanced Resources International, Inc.  He has over 14 years of experience in the energy sector, with emphasis on the use of carbon dioxide for both enhanced hydrocarbon recovery and sequestration. He is the project manager and field work lead for several prominent CCUS projects, including the  DOE-supported CarbonSAFE program at the Kemper County Energy Facility, located in Mississippi, USA. Previously, Mr. Riestenberg served as the geologic operations lead for EQT Production Company, a large gas shale E&P operator where he...Read more

2018 Minority Affairs Committee's Eminent Chemical Engineers Award

Kafui Dzirasa

Kafui Dzirasa was born to Samuel and Abigail Dzirasa, who grew up as neighbors in an area outside of Accra, Ghana. His father came to the US in 1971 when he was accepted into the Civil Engineering Program at MIT, and his mother followed soon after completing a nursing degree in England. After graduation, his father went on to obtain an MBA from the Sloan School of Business. Kafui was born in Boston, MA in 1978, and grew up with his three brothers and a sister in Silver Spring. 
 
Kafui Dzirasa is the first African American to complete a PhD in Neurobiology...Read more

Wilfred Chen

Professor Wilfred Chen joined the University of Delaware in  2011 as the Gore Professor of Chemical Engineering. He obtained his B.S. degree from UCLA and his Ph.D. from Caltech, both in Chemical Engineering. After one-year postdoc in Switzerland, he joined UC Riverside in 1994. He was Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and the holder of Presidential Chair until he joined Delaware. His research interests are in Synthetic Biology and Protein Engineering. Prof. Chen has published more than 250 journal papers and delivered over 90 invited lectures. He serves on the...Read more

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Matthew Realff

Professor Realff completed his Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering at Imperial College London in 1986, and was a Kennedy scholar 1986-87 at MIT, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1992.  He has been a faculty member at The Georgia Institute of Technology since 1993, and is currently the David Wang Senior Faculty Fellow in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. From 2005-2007 he was a program officer at the National Science Foundation, where he helped develop programs in resilient and sustainable infrastructure and environmentally benign processing. He has led efforts to...Read more

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