Dr. Seongkyu Yoon is a Professor in the Francis College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts (UMass), Lowell which he joined in 2010 after 15 years in industry. Currently, Dr. Yoon is co-director of Massachusetts Biomanufacturing Center, the UMass site director of the NSF/IUCRC/AMBIC (Advanced Mammalian Biomanufacturing Innovation Center), and the co-PI of NSF/AccelNet/IBioNe (International Biomanufacturing Network), Dr. Yoon founded the Massachusetts-based Biomanufacturing Innovation Institute. Yoon is leading a research group of systems and synthetic biology while conducting research in platform process development for protein, gene and vaccine therapeutics. He completed his PhD at McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada), and MBA from Babson College (Wellesley, MA).