Senior Lingnan Scholar

Professor Jay H. LEE

Professor Jay H. Lee received his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from Caltech in 1991. After having been a faculty member of various universities, including Auburn, Purdue, Georgia Tech, and KAIST, he is currently a Choong Hoon Cho Chair and Professor of Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at University of Southern California (USC). From 2013-2023, he served as the founding director of Aramco-KAIST CO2 Management Center. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IFAC and AIChE. He is a recipient of many awards including NSF Young Investigator Award, AIChE’s Computing in Chemical Engineering Award, and Roger Sargent’s Lectureship. He published ~300 manuscripts in SCI journals with more than 22,000 citations. His research interests are in the areas of model-based control and machine learning with applications to energy transition and sustainability.