Kane Research Group

Ravi Kane

neg 016Ravi Kane is the Garry Betty/ V Foundation Chair and GRA Eminent Scholar in Cancer Nanotechnology. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University in 1993. Also, he received an M.S. in Chemical Engineering Practice and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT, working with Bob Cohen and Bob Silbey. After postdoctoral research with George Whitesides in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, he joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) as an assistant professor in 2001. He was promoted to associate professor in 2006, to full professor in 2007, and to the P.K. Lashmet Professor in 2008. He served as the head of RPI’s Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering before moving to Georgia Tech in 2015. Prof. Kane has graduated 27 Ph.D students and contributed to over 130 scientific publications.

 

Honors and Awards

  • Biotechnology Progress Award for Excellence in Biological Engineering Publication, 2014.
  • Elected to AIMBE College of Fellows, 2013.
  • Invited Participant, China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Beijing, 2013.
  • RPI Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Teaching Award, 2013.
  • Trustees’ Outstanding Teacher Award, RPI, 2011.
  • School of Engineering Research Excellence Award, Senior Faculty Member, RPI, 2011.
  • School of Engineering Education Excellence Award, Classroom Excellence, RPI, 2010.
  • Society of Biological Engineering Advisory Board, 2010.
  • American Chemical Society Biochemical Technology Division Young Investigator Award,
  • Invitation to Participate in National Academy of Engineering “Frontiers of Engineering” Symposium, 2009.
  • Global Indus Technovator Award, 2008.
  • AIChE Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Young Investigator Award, 2008.
  • NYSTAR Faculty Development Award, 2008.
  • Dr. G. P. Kane Visiting Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University Institute of Chemical Technology, Bombay, India, 2008.
  • RPI Early Career Award, 2006.
  • Named to the TR 100, a list of the world’s top 100 young innovators, by  MIT’s Technology Review, 2004.
  • School of Engineering Excellence in Research Award, RPI, 2004.
  • Selected as one of the Tech Valley Hot Ten, 2004.
  • Included in Strathmore’s Who’s Who, 2003.
  • NSF-NSEC Research Seed Award, 2003.
  • ACS-PRF New Faculty Grant, 2002.
  • Outstanding Seminar Award, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering, Spring 1997.
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, 1993-1996.
  • Elected to the Sigma Xi Honor Society, MIT, 1994.
  • Winner of the AIChE Western Regional Student Paper Contest, 1993.
  • Terman Award for outstanding achievement in engineering, Stanford, 1993.
  • American Institute of Chemists Outstanding Senior Award, Stanford, 1993.
  • Elected to the Tau Beta Pi and the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Societies, Stanford, 1993