Professor

Jay H. Lee 

Choong Hoon Cho Chair
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science  (Main)
Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (Joint)

Contact information
Office: HED 316, 925 Bloom Walk, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Tell) +1 (310) 911-1337
E-mail) jlee4140@usc.edu

Education

1991, Doctoral Degree, Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
1986, Bachelor’s Degree, Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle.

Biography

Jay H. Lee is the Choon Hoon Cho Chair and Professor at USC. Prior to joining USC, he was a faculty member of several global universities including Auburn, Purdue, Georgia Tech, and KAIST. At KAIST, he had various administrative roles including department chair, associate vice president for international office, and director of Saudi Aramco-KAIST CO2 Management Center. His work is intended to bring modeling, optimization, and machine learning tools to help solve challenging design, operation, and logistics problems in the areas of energy transition and sustainability.

Awards

  • 2022 KIChE’s “Seokmyung” Outstanding Chemical Engineer Award
  • 2020 IFAC World Congress Plenary Speaker, Berlin, Germany. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbYa8dWy8zQ&t=339s
  • 2020 IEEE Service Award as Program Co-Chair in 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (IEEE CDC), 2020
  • 2019 KIChE’s SW Park Academic Achievement Award (for contribution to the Korean chemical engineering industry development)
  • 2017 KIChE’s Korean J. of Chem. Eng (Springer-Verlag) Best Paper Award (for authoring the most cited paper during the past five years)
  • 2016 The 23rd Roger Sargent Lecture, Imperial College, UK
  • 2015 National Academy of Engineering Korea (NAEK), Elected Foreign Member
  • 2014 PSE Model Based Innovation Award
  • 2013 AIChE CAST Division “Computing in Chemical Engineering” Award
  • 2013 AIChE Fellow
  • 2012 FEBS journal’s most cited article during the past 2 years
  • 2011 International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Fellow
  • 2011 IEEE Fellow
  • 2011 Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), Elected Senior Member
  • 1993 NSF National Young Investigator Award