Dr. Yue Kuo, Dow Professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been elected president of the Electrochemical Society (ECS). Kuo is the first Aggie president of the prestigious 116-year-old society.
Charter members of the ECS included such distinguished scientists and engineers as: E.G. Acheson, who first commercialized artificial graphite; H.H. Dow, founder of the largest U.S. chemical company - Dow Chemical Co.; C.M. Hall, inventor of the Hall process for the manufacture of aluminum; and Edward Weston, whose “Weston Cell” was the voltage standard throughout the world. Thomas A. Edison joined the society in 1903 and enjoyed membership for 28 years.
Further, ECS members and publication authors have included Nobel Laureates Isamu Akasaki, 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics; Rudolph A. Marcus, 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Hiroshi Amano, 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics; Shuji Nakamura, 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics; Richard Smalley, 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; and Jack Kilby, 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
The appointment is just the latest in a long line of achievements for Kuo. In 2017 he was awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, and appointed chair professor of the Department of Photonics at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. In 2016 Kuo was elected fellow of the American Vacuum Society. In February 2015 he was awarded the Gordon E. Moore Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Science and Technology by the Electrochemical Society. In addition to a large number of awards and honors from professional societies, industry and Texas A&M, many of his papers have been most downloaded, highlighted and selected to cover page articles, such as the top five most-cited solid state articles in the journal ECS Transactions. He has edited over 35 journals and proceedings volumes. He also is the founder of the world’s longest continuously held Thin Film Transistor symposium series for 26 years.