Emerging Junior Investigator Open Innovation Forum (Invited Talks) - AIChE 2026
Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room M100F (Mezzanine Level, Minneapolis Convention Center)
Chair: Hyun Tae Hwang
Co-chairs: Tae-Sik Oh, Seung Hwan (Allen) Lee, Hoon Choi
12:30 PM - Grand Canonical Investigation of Proton Transfer and Pseudo-Initial States at Electrochemical Interfaces
Juye Kim, School of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI
12:55 PM - Molecularly Engineered Electrochemical Separations for Environmental Sustainability and Critical Materials Recovery
Nayeong Kim, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
1:20 PM - Toward the Rational Design of Polymers with Tailored Char Yield
Jaeyoung Cho, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
1:45 PM - Reimagining Industrial Clostridium for Next-Generation Biomanufacturing
Hyeongmin Seo, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2:10 PM - Chiral Light–Matter Interactions across Scales: From Light-Imprinted Asymmetry to Chiroptical Sensing
Ji Young Kim, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
2:40 PM - Concluding Remarks of Emerging Junior Investigator Open Innovation Forum
Tae-Sik Oh, Chemical Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL