Professor Kyu Yong Choi
Professor Kyu Yong Choi joined as a faculty member of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland in 1984. He leads the Polymer Reaction Engineering Laboratory, which focuses on polymerization kinetics, polymerization reactor/process modeling, control, and optimization.
He got his Ph.D. degree from Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison in 1984 and MS/BS degree from Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University in 1978 and 1976 respectively.
He has won numerous awards, including the DuPont Young Faculty Award and the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award at the start of his career, and the SigmaXi Contribution to Science Award more recently.
He is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea and the Korean National Academy of Science and Technology. His work in industry includes collaborations with major corporations such as Exxon Chemical, DuPont, Dow, Eastman Chemical, Solvay, Honeywell, and Shell Chemical; as well as major chemical companies in Europe, Asia, and South America.
References:
1. http://www.ench.umd.edu/faculty/choi
Last modification: April 11, 2016