Residence United States Fields Biological engineering Role Engineer | Name Daniel Wang Institutions MIT | |
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Born March 12, 1936 (age 88) Nanking, China ( 1936-03-12 ) Education University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
ChemE's Wang Lecture - George Yancopoulos
Daniel I-Chyau Wang (born March 12, 1936) is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wang received the SB (1959) and SM (1961) from MIT, and the PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963. He joined the MIT faculty in 1965 and is a member both of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He has co-authored five books and more than 100 papers in professional journals. He founded the Biotechnology Process Engineering Center. His research on fermentation, monitoring and control of bioprocesses, renewable resource utilization, enzyme technology, product recovery and purification, protein aggregation and refolding, and mammalian cell cultures made him a pioneer in biochemical and biological engineering.