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Dean Ho

Prof. Dean Ho is Provost’s Chair Professor, Director of the N.1 Institute for Health (N.1), Director of the Institute for Digital Medicine (WisDM), and Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore. N.1 is a clinical-stage institute that is pioneering first-in-class interventional trial designs that harness AI to optimise and tailor oncology studies to each patient that is recruited. WisDM is a clinical-stage institute with active studies in digital therapeutics, infectious diseases, and drug development, among others. Both institutes operate at...Read more

Aydogan Ozcan

Dr. Aydogan Ozcan is the Chancellor’s Professor and the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation at UCLA and an HHMI Professor with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, leading the Bio- and Nano-Photonics Laboratory at UCLA School of Engineering and is also the Associate Director of the California NanoSystems Institute. Dr. Ozcan is elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and holds 41 issued patents and >20 pending patent applications and is also the author of one book and the co-author of >700 peer-reviewed publications in major scientific journals and conferences...Read more

Jeff Fitts

Jeff Fitts is the Executive Director of the Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center, a multidisciplinary research center focused on accelerating the adoption of batteries, fuel cells and electrolyzers. Previously he was a research scholar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton

University, and managed the research and industry partnership programs at Princeton’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.  Prior to that Jeff was a staff scientist at Brookhaven National Lab and the National Synchrotron Light Source.

Jeff’s laboratory...Read more

Hando Sutter

Hando Sutter has served as the Chairman of the Management Board of Eesti Energia since December 2014. Prior to this he was the regional manager of Nord Pool Spot power exchange in the Baltics and Russia. He has also previously worked in the management teams of regional companies such as ESS Group (renamed to G4S Estonia), Tolaram Investments and Olympic Entertainment Group.

Mr. Sutter served for four years as the Regional Market Manager of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia for Nord Pool Spot, the largest electricity exchange in the Nordic region. He has also served as a...Read more

Mika Järvinen

I did my Master’s degree in Lappeenranta University of Technology and graduated 1997 from the Department of Energy Technology. My first experience on working in the laboratory of Energy Engineering and Environmental Protection (ENY) as a summer research assistant was on 1996. During 1996-7 I worked in the Ahlstrom Machinery Corporation as a research engineer/Master’s thesis worker in Helsinki and Varkaus works in Finland. I came back to Aalto University 1998 to carry out my post-graduate studies. After my dissertation 2002, I have been a post-doctoral researcher in several research...Read more

Cheng Gu

Cheng Gu, Professor in School of the Environment, Nanjing University. Prof. Gu obtained his PhD in Environmental Chemistry from University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Then he worked as a postdoctor in Michigan State University, USA. He joined Nanjing University as a professor since 2011. He is currently the Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor and the recipient of National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars. He is also the Chief Scientist for National Key Research and Development Plans. Prof. Gu’s research focuses on the transformation of organic contaminants in natural...Read more

SJSU ChemE Social Event [POSTPONED]

UPDATE: This event is postponed - date TBD. Come share career advice and meet with soon-to-be chemical engineers at SJSU! Location: Room 285/287 at the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering, 1 Washington Square San Jose, CA 95192 Parking structure is right nearby, at the corner of East San...

Let's Talk Thermal Energy! Webinar

Join AIChE NorCal for our first virtual meeting with a presentation by David Coletta of Thermal Energy International! Sign up though our google form Here and we'll send you an email invite to join the Zoom webinar meeting. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us here . Schedule: Friday...

VCU CLSE Henry McGee lecture

Monday, April 6, 2020,
5:00pm to 7:00pm
EDT
2020 Henry A. McGee Lecture April 6, 20205:00 PM–6:00 PM Engineering West Hall, Ethyl Auditorium Please join us for the 2020 Henry A. McGee Lecture featuring speaker Monty Alger, Ph.D., professor in chemical engineering at Penn State. Topic: Moving from Linear to Exponential Innovation Monty Alger...Read more

Ong Hwai Chyuan

Ong Hwai Chyuan obtained his B.Eng. (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering from Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya with distinction. Then, he obtained Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the same university in December 2012. Upon the completion of his studies, he is appointed as Lecturer at Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Malaya. He is also a Chartered Engineer of Engineering Council (CEng) under Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), United Kingdom. His research interests are wide-ranging under the general umbrella of renewable energy system. However, his...Read more

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