James C. Liao
Parsons Foundation Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
*On leave to serve as President of Academia Sinica
Education
B.S. National Taiwan University
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Awards and Recognition
National Talented Young Scientist, Taiwan, 1976
Research Initiation Award, NSF, 1990
Du Pont Faculty Development Award, 1992
National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, 1992
Texas Engineering Experiment Station Select Young Faculty Award, 1993
Halliburton Professorship, Texas A&M University, 1995
Texas Engineering Experiment Station Fellow, 1996
Dow Chemical Faculty Fellow, 1997
Professor of the Year, 1997, AIChE Student Chapter, UCLA, 1997
Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2002
Professor of the Year. AIChE student chapter at UCLA, 2005
Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Division Award, AIChE, 2006
W.N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2006
FPBE Division Award of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2006
Merck Award in Metabolic Engineering, 2006
Chancellor's Professorship, University of California, Los Angeles, 2008
Charles Thom Award, Society for Industrial Microbiology, 2008
Marvin J. Johnson Award, Biochemical Technology Division, American Chemical Society, 2009
Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2009
James E. Bailey Award, Society for Biological Engineering, 2009
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, Academic Category, 2010
Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Chair, UCLA, 2011
White House 'Champion of Change' for Innovations in Renewable Energy, 2012
Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2013
ENI Award, Renewable Energy Prize, 2013
Top 100 People in the Bioeconomy, 2013
National Academy of Sciences Award for the Industrial Application of Science, 2014
Academician, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2014
Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), 2014
Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2015
Distinguished Alumnus, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2015
Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2015