Bor-Yann Chen is Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering (C&ME) Department, NIU. His Ph.D. degree was completed in Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of California, Irvine in 1995. Prior to NIU recruitment in 1999, he worked as National Research Council-awarded Research Associate in National Risk Management Research Laboratory, US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio. His research is specialized in Biomass-based Energy, Bioremediation Engineering, Bioreactor Engineering, Environmental Toxicology. Due to research achievements, he received Professor Yen-Ping Shih Best Paper Award in 2007, 2011 and 2013 from Taiwan IChE and awarded as Distinguished Professor since 2011. He was invited to have Plenary, keynote speeches in many International Conferences and has published >130 peer-reviewed SCI journal articles (see https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bor-Yann_Chen or http://www.sciencedirect.com/, then use author “Bor-Yann Chen” for partial publications in Elsevier) and numerous peer-reviewed conference articles.