Chemical and biomolecular engineering (ChBE) professor Ying Diao has received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE) 2024 Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications by a Young Member of the Institute. The award is presented to a member of AIChE for significant contributions to chemical engineering through publications.
Diao joined The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in 2015, where her research focuses on understanding the assembly of functional polymer and innovating printing approaches that enable structural control down to the molecular and nanoscale. Diao has received many awards for her work, including being named a Technology Review Innovators Under 35 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2016), the NSF CAREER Award (2018), the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry (2018), the NASA Early Career Faculty Award (2020), and AIChE Owens Corning Early Career Award (2024). She is also a recipient of a 2024 Campus Distinguished Promotion award, in recognition of her scholarship, teaching and service.
Diao will present her research at the AIChE Annual Meeting Honors Ceremony in October 2024.