Ah-Hyung “Alissa” Park is the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean of the Samueli School of Engineering and a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Univ. of California, Los Angeles. Before joining UCLA in 2023, she was the Lenfest Earth Institute Professor of Climate Change at Columbia Univ., where she also served as Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy. Park’s honors include the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry’s Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Award, the Engineers’ Council’s Distinguished Engineering Educator Award, the AIChE Particle Technology Forum’s (PTF) Shell Thomas Baron Award, and an NSF CAREER Award. She served in AIChE’s Chemical Engineering Technology and Societal Impact operating councils, and was a longtime executive committee member of the PTF, serving in roles including the Group 3B Chair. Park is a Fellow of AIChE, the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She earned her BS and MS from the Univ. of British Columbia (1998, 2000), and her PhD from The Ohio State Univ. (2005), all in chemical engineering.