Principal Investigator
James C. Liao
Chancellor's
Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
Education
- B.S. National Taiwan University
- Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Awards and Recognition
- National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, 1992
- Texas Engineering Experiment Station Select Young Faculty Award, 1993
- Halliburton Professorship, 1995
- Texas Engineering Experiment Station Fellow, 1996
- Dow Chemical Faculty Fellow, 1997.
- Professor of the Year, 1997, 2005 AIChE Student Chapter, UCLA
- Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2002
- Honorary Epistar Chair Professorship, College of Engineering, National Tsinghua University, Hsin-chu, Taiwan. 2006
- W.N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2006
- Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Division Award of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2006
- Merck Award for Metabolic Engineering, 2006
- Troy C. Trotter Distinguished Lectureship, College of Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2007
- Chancellor's Professorsship, School of Engineering and Applied Science, UCLA.2008.
Lab Members (Present and Previous)
Visiting Professors
- Hsuen-Chen Huang [hchuang@mac.com], National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan (2007-2008)
- Hsueh-Fen Juan [yukijuan@ntu.edu.tw], National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2007-2008)
- Taizo Hanai, Kyushu University, Japan (2006-2008)
- Jinn-moon Yang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (2006)
- Shi-Shang Jang, National Tsing Hua University, Tawan (2005)
Postdoctoral Researchers (Current):
- Yajun Yang (PhD Chemical Engineering, State University of New York, Buffalo), 2008-present
- Kechun Zhang (PhD Chemistry, California Institute of Technology), 2007-present
- Wendy Higashide (PhD Microbiology, Purdue University), 2007-present
- Shota Atsumi (PhD Biochemistry, Kyoto University, Japan), 2006- present
Postdoctoral Researchers (former):
- Ganesh Sriram (PhD Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University), 2004-2007, Current: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
- Thomas Bulter (PhD Chemistry, University of Duesseldorf, Germany), 2003-2006,Current: Team Leader, Biocatalyst Development, Gevo Inc. Pasadena, CA
- Jason Suen (PhD Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2004-2006
- Young-Lyeol Yang (PhD Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea) 2002-2005, Current: CJ Coorporation, Korea
- Sungu Lee (PhD Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea), 2001-2003, Current: Associate Professor, Pusan National University, Korea
- Mark W. Vaughn (PhD Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University), 1997-2000, Current: Associate Professor, Texas Tech University.
Graduate Students (current):
- Matthew Silverman (BS, UCLA)
- Yikun Tan (BS, UC Berkeley)
- Claire R. Shen (BS, UCLA)
- Kevin Smith (BS, Iowa State)
- Matthew Rizk (BS, Cornell)
- Mike Connor (BS, UCLA)
- Anthony Cann (BS, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology)
- Jason Dean (BS, Georgia Tech)
- Mark Brynildsen (BS, Rutgers)
- Katherine Chou (BS, UCLA)
- Linh M. Tran (BS, UCLA)
- Simon Galbraith (BS, Univ. of Durham, UK)
Graduate Students (Former):
- Jeffrey Bernstein (BS, Univ. Wisconsin-Madison, PhD CLA 2007)
- Wilson W. Wong (BS, UC Berkeley, PhD, UCLA 2007)
- Eileen Fung (BS, UC San Diego, PhD, UCLA 2007)
- Laura Jarboe (BS, Univ. Kentucky, PhD, UCLA 2006)
- Daniel Hyduke (BS, Michigan State, PhD, UCLA 2006)
- Katy C. Kao (BS, UC Irvine, PhD, UCLA 2005)
- Lars Rohlin (BS, Tri-State University, PhD, UCLA 2004)
- Tae H. Han (BS, Univ. Washington, Seattle, PhD, UCLA 2003)
- Min-kyu Oh (BS, Seoul National University, Korea, PhD, UCLA 2002)
- Chia-Wei Wang (BS, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, PhD, UCLA 2001)
- Ray Farmer (BS, Texas A&M University, PhD, UCLA 2001)
- Kuang-Tse Huang (BS, National Taiwan University, PhD, Texas A&M, 1998)
- Shao-Yi Ho (BS, National Taiwan University, PhD, Texas A&M, 1998)
- Yun-Peng Chao (BS, Chung-Yuan University, Taiwan, PhD, Texas A&M, 1995)
- Ranjan Patnaik (BS, Indian Institute of Technology, PhD, Texas A&M, 1995)
- Su-chin Wu (BS, National Tsing-hua University, PhD, Texas A&M, 1994)
- Javier Delgado (BS, Catholic University of Chile, PhD, Texas A&M, 1994)
