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Yoram Cohen is a Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, holding the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair and serving as a UCLA Luskin Scholar. He earned a B.A.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1975, an M.A.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the same institution in 1977, and a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 1981. Cohen joined the UCLA faculty in 1981 and has pioneered advancements in water treatment and desalination technologies, membrane separations, environmental impact assessment, toxicity modeling, machine learning applications, and nanoinformatics. His research encompasses surface nano-structuring with polymers, graft polymerization, desalination membranes, ultrafiltration, pervaporation, surface crystallization, neural networks for property estimation, and multimedia contaminant transport modeling.
As founder and director of the UCLA Water Technology Research (WaTeR) Center since 2005, Cohen has driven innovations in flexible, self-adaptive, energy-optimal desalination systems, fouling-resistant membranes, and real-time monitoring of membrane scaling and integrity. He previously directed the Center for Environmental Risk Reduction from 1995 to 2008 and co-founded and directed the UCLA/EPA National Center for Intermedia Transport Research from 1987 to 1992. Cohen chaired the AIChE Environmental Division in 2002, served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Water Process Engineering, and held visiting professorships at Technion (1987-1988), Universitat Rovira i Virgili (1994), Victoria University (2006), and is an Adjunct Professor at Ben-Gurion University. His scholarly impact includes over 17,000 citations. Key publications feature 'Reverse Osmosis Desalination with High Permeability Membranes and Low Energy Consumption' (2010), 'Flexible Reverse Osmosis (FLERO) Desalination' (2019), and 'Energy-Optimal Control of RO Desalination' (2014). Major awards include the Lawrence K. Cecil Award in Environmental Chemical Engineering (AIChE, 2003), AIChE Fellow (2009), Ann C. Rosenfield Community Partnership Prize (2008), Del Amo Research Fellowship (1994), and Lady Davis Fellowships (1987, 1994).
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