Albert F. Yee
Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Professor (Joint), Biomedical Engineering
Professor (Joint), Chemistry
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-2575
zotcode: 2575
Office: Engineering Tower 644
Phone: (949) 824-9887
Email: afyee(at)uci.edu
Biography
Albert Yee is a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and has joint appointments in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, all at the University of California, Irvine. From 1985 to 2003 he was a professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Macromolecular Science and Engineering, and Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan. While at Michigan he chaired the Materials Science and Engineering Dept., and subsequently took a leave of absence to serve as Executive Director of the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) in Singapore for three years beginning 2000. Albert obtained BS and PhD degrees in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1967 and 1971, respectively. After his PhD he focused his research on the physics and engineering of solid polymers at the Corporate R&D Center of the General Electric Company in Schenectady NY. Albert is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and also a Fellow of the Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering Division of the American Chemical Society. He is the recipient of the Japan-94 Prize of the International Adhesion Society, and is one of the most highly cited researchers (ISIHighlyCited.com) in the field of Materials Science.
Education
| B.S. Chem.: | University of California, Berkeley, 1967 |
| Ph.D Chem. | University of California, Berkeley, 1971 |
Positions Held
| 2008 – 2014 | Chair, Dept of Chemical Engineering and Material Science |
| 2004 – 2007 | Director, California Institute for Telecommunication and Information Technology, Irvine Division Calit2 Chair Professor, University of California Irvine |
| 2004 – >> | Prof, Dept of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Dept of Chemistry and Dept of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Irvine |
| 2004 – >> | Professor Emeritus, the University of Michigan |
| 2001 – >> | Honorary Professor, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| 2000 – 2003 | Director, Institute of Materials Research & Engineering, Singapore Prof, Dept of Materials Science, National University of Singapore |
| 1994 – 2000 | Chair, Dept of Materials Science and Engineering, the U. of Michigan |
| 1997 – 2000 | Founding Director, Center for Advanced Polymer Engineering Research (CAPER), the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 1994 – 2000 | Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, U. of Michigan |
| 1985 – 2003 | Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Macromolecular Science & Engineering, and (since 1999) Chemical Engineering, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 1981 – 1984 | Manager, Structural Design with Plastics Program, General Electric CRD |
| 1971 – 1985 | Staff, General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY |
Honors and Major Awards
- Symposium on Nanotechnology with Polymers – in honor of the 65th birthday of Professor Albert F. Yee, ACS Spring National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, 2011
- Symposium on Fracture and Relaxations in Polymer Solids – in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Professor Albert F. Yee., ACS Fall National Meeting, Washington D.C., 2005
- Listed in ISI HighlyCited.com in the field of Materials Science
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Fellow, Polymer Materials Science & Engineering Div., American Chemical Society
- Fellow, Polymer Chemistry Div., American Chemical Society
- International Adhesion Society (94 Japan) Award
- Research Excellence Award, College of Engineering, U. of Michigan, 2002
- Honorary Professor, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2001
- Karakash Lecturer, Lehigh University, Sept., 1991
- Invited Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne, 1992 – 1993
- Visiting Monbushu Professor, Research Inst. for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Japan, 1990-1991
Services to the Scientific Community
- Chair, Collaborative Research Programme, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, 2007 – 2013
- Co-Chair, Symposium on Nano-Scaled Phenomena in Polymeric Systems, National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Boston, Aug. 2010
- Chairman, Nanotechnology Advisory Council, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan, 2004 – 2005
- Member, Nanotechnology Review Committee, Innovation and Technology Commission, Hong Kong, 2002 – 2004
- Co-Chairman, Symposium on Toughening of Plastics, PMSE Division, National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Boston, 1998
- Chairman, Gordon Research Conference on Composites, Jan., 1993
- Member, International Scientific Committee, International Conference on Yield, Deformation and Fracture of Polymers, 1985 –
- Chairman, NASA panel on Damage Tolerance of Polymer Matrix Composites, 1984