This series introduces the recipients of AIChE’s 2024 Institute and Board of Directors’ Awards, AIChE’s highest honors. Recipients are nominated by the chemical engineering community and voted upon by the members of AIChE’s volunteer-led Awards Committee. The Board of Directors’ Award honorees are nominated by the community and selected by AIChE’s Executive Committee.
Gintaras Reklaitis of Purdue Named AIChE’s 2024 Founders Award Recipient
Dr. Gintaras “Rex” Reklaitis has amassed an expansive legacy through his research, writing, professional affiliations, and as a teacher and mentor.
Ying Diao, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Named AIChE’s Allan P. Colburn Award Recipient
Diao is being recognized for work that fuses molecular assembly with surface science, as well as for innovations in scalable printing methods for nanomaterials.
Ali Khademhosseini Is AIChE’s 2024 Acrivos Professional Progress Award Recipient
Ali is being recognized for his work with micro- and nano-engineered biomaterials in regenerative medicine, medical devices, and organs-on-a-chip systems.
Venkat Venkatasubramanian of Columbia Will Receive AIChE’s Walker Award for Chemical Engineering Literature
Venkat is being honored for pioneering contributions in AI for process fault diagnosis, supervisory control, process safety, and the inverse design of materials.
Princeton’s Panagiotopoulos Is AIChE’s 2024 Alpha Chi Sigma Award Recipient
The award recognizes his novel approaches and transformative insights into the thermodynamics, structure, and dynamics in complex mixtures, especially electrolyte solutions, colloidal crystals, and intrinsically disordered proteins.