
Kai Lan
Assistant Professor, NC State University
About this Presenter
Dr. Kai Lan is an Assistant Professor of Sustainability Science and Engineering at the Department of Forest Biomaterials at North Carolina State University. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (2010-2014), M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan (2014-2016), and Ph.D. in Forest Biomaterials from North Carolina State University (2017-2020). Prior to joining NCSU, he was a postdoctoral associate at Yale University (2021-2023). His research interests are developing innovative modeling and assessment tools to assess and advance our industrial systems and the built environment related to sustainable bioenergy and biomaterials.