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William H. Green is a Professor and the Director of the MIT Energy Initiative, specializing in chemical kinetics and reaction engineering. He is recognized as a world leader in predicting chemical reactions and properties related to fuel development and combustion. Green has led innovative research projects that combine experimental and modeling approaches to investigate the behavior of complex reacting mixtures and to develop advanced software tools for this purpose, including the open-source Reaction Mechanism Generator software. His research group has also created machine-learning methods, such as Chemprop, to accurately predict the properties of organic reactions, which are widely utilized in the pharmaceutical industry. Green's work focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, especially within the transportation fuel sector, and he co-founded the commercial entity Thiozen to optimize these technologies. He completed his BA at Swarthmore College and obtained a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. After postdoctoral research at Cambridge University and the University of Pennsylvania, he joined MIT's Chemical Engineering faculty in 1997. Green has published over 350 journal articles and serves as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Combustion Institute. He has received several prestigious awards for his contributions to the field, including the Glenn Award from the American Chemical Society. In Spring 2024, he was appointed Director of the MIT Energy Initiative.