KAIST professor wins international engineering award
Prof. Jay H. Lee
By Kwon Ji-youn
Jay H. Lee, 48, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), was selected as the winner of an international award in engineering, KAIST announced Tuesday.
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) will give the Computing in Chemical Engineering Award to Lee at the 2013 AIChE annual meeting scheduled from Nov. 3-8 in San Francisco, Calif.
“I have been a professor for 22 years,” Lee said. “I have been researching for a long time, and am pleased to have had that effort recognized. This will motivate me to work harder.”
The award recognizes those who have contributed to the application of computing and systems technology to chemical engineering.
Lee is acknowledged for pioneering “novel paradigms for much improved and robust model predictive control in industrial processes.”
Lee is a winner of the Young Investigator Award by the National Science Foundation to young researchers in science in 1994.
He also served as the director of the Brain Korea 21 Program, an initiative that advocates the expansion of research universities supporting masters and doctoral students.
Lee has also contributed to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the International Federation of Automatic Control as a fellow member. Members are composed of scholars who have achieved significant accomplishments in the field.
Lee will also deliver an after-dinner lecture associated with the award at the annual meeting.