PROFESSIONAL SKETCH OF KENNETH R. DILLER
Kenneth R. Diller is a Professor of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering and the
Robert M. and Prudie Leibrock Professor in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
He was the founding Chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UT Austin, UT
MD Anderson Cancer Center, and UT HSC Houston, and is also a former Chairman of the
Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has studied the application of the principles of heat
and mass transfer and thermodynamics to the solution of many different types of biomedical
problems. His research has covered a diversity of topics such as the frozen banking of human
tissues for transplantation, how burns occur and can be treated, development of new devices and
methods for therapeutic hypothermia, control of gene expression during hyperthermic cancer
therapy, design of the next generation space suit, and application of the scientific principles of
how people learn to the creation of engineering curricula. He has published more than 270
refereed articles and book chapters and written or edited seventeen books on these topics. Over
the past two years his research has led to seven patents and the formation of two new biotech
companies, CoolCore Biomedical Technologies, LLC (2010) and Bioheat Transfer, LLC (2011).
Professor Diller is a graduate of Ohio State University (BME, 1966; MSc, 1967) and MIT (ScD,
1972).