Gregory J. McRae Biography

Gregory J. McRae, is the Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. His academic education includes a Ph.D. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Dr. McRae currently teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses in process modeling, control, optimization and computer aided design. Another research focus is product and process design to avoid environmental problems and understanding the scientific aspects of problems involving pollutant transport and transformations in multimedia environments. His other interests include: computational chemistry, process dynamics, turbulent fluid flow, computational fluid dynamics, reaction engineering, sensitivity/uncertainty analysis of complex systems, nonlinear parameter estimation, parallel computing, numerical analysis, and the design of cost effective environmental controls. Professor McRae is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes for his research in environmental and computational science including: the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the George Tallman Ladd Research Prize, the Forefronts of Computational Science Award, and a AAAS Environmental Science Fellowship. He is a member of Sigma Xi, the American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.