William H. Green is a world leader in chemical kinetics and reaction engineering, and
in development of related software. He has led many combined
experimental/modeling research projects related to fuels, combustion, pyrolysis, and
oxidative stability, and he invented an instrument to directly measure rate coefficients
for multi-channel reactions. He developed computer methods to predict the behavior
of complicated reacting mixtures, many of which are included in the Reaction
Mechanism Generator software package. Recently his group has developed machine-
learning methods for accurately predicting the products of organic reactions and
many chemical properties, incorporated in the ASKCOS and Chemprop software
packages. He also invents and analyzes technologies to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions, particularly in the transportation/fuel sector. Two of his greenhouse-gas
reduction inventions are now being commercialized, one by Thiozen, a company he
co-founded. Prof. Green earned his B.A. from Swarthmore College, and his Ph.D.
from Univ of California Berkeley. After postdocs at Cambridge University and the
University of Pennsylvania, he worked for Exxon for 6 years before joining the
Chemical Engineering faculty at MIT in 1997. He has co-authored more than 340
journal articles, which have been cited more than 21,000 times. He is a Fellow of the
AAAS and of the Combustion Institute, and has received the ACS Glenn Award in
Fuel Chemistry and AIChE’s Wilhelm Award in Reaction Engineering. He
previously served as the Editor of the International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, as
the faculty chair of MIT’s Mobility of the Future project, and as the Executive Officer
of the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering.