Dear Colleagues and Alumni:

Following the successful launch of our first Newsletter last fall, the Department has many exciting news that I would like to share. Three faculty members (Dr. Eun Seon Cho, Dong Yeun Koh, and Hyun Uk Kim) recently joined our Department. Before their arrivals, Dr. Cho spent a few years in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a postdoctoral research fellow after her Ph.D. at MIT, Dr. Koh carried out his postdoctoral research at Georgia Tech, and Dr. Kim worked at the BioInformatics Research Center at KAIST as a Research Professor. The Department warmly welcomed the new faculty members!!

Prof. Sang Yup Lee was elected to the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI) last November (2017) in addition to his election to US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) last May and US National Academy of Engineering (2010). He is one of few eminent scholars in the world elected into all three Academies. Our undergraduate team participated in the Chem-E-Car competition held at the AIChE 2017 annual meeting and was selected as "the most consistent awardee". Thus, the KAIST chapter was the only team to receive awards in consecutive years, which included the first place winner in 2016. Our Department had a joint workshop with the Department of Chemical Engineering in Tsinghua University and it was a very useful exchange of research and education with the advancement of cooperation and friendship. The workshop will resume in the July, 2018, and this time, we will hold the meeting at KAIST. Finally, four of our faculty members' research outcomes were elected as 100 R&D's of Korean National Academy of Engineering for 2025.

There are many other exciting activities included in this Newsletter and I appreciate all of the efforts made by our faculty members in the fruitful year of 2017. News updates can be found on our Department website (cbe.kaist.ac.kr) and you can also check out various departmental activities posted in our Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CBE-KAIST-1983404068550045) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/KAIST_CBE) pages.

Sincerely,
Jae W. Lee