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Ruifeng Qi

Ruifeng Qi is a PhD student with the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center in the Chemical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. He has been working on LNG spill consequence modeling and hazard control since January 2008, which involves LNG spill field tests at the Brayton Fire Training Field. The current focus of his research is on modeling LNG vapor dispersion with Computational Fluid Dynamics. ruifeng.qi@chemail.tamu.eduRead more

Dr. K Dane Wittrup

Professor K. Dane Wittrup is the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a position he has held since 1999. From 1989-1999 he was Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and then J. W. Westwater Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biophysics at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana. 


Prof. Wittrup received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering...Read more

Dr. Maria K. Burka

Dr. Maria K. Burka is the Program Director of the Process and Reaction Engineering (PRE) program in the Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) Division of the National Science Foundation. Her responsibilities include evaluation and management of research and educational grants to academic institutions in the areas of chemical and biochemical reaction engineering, process control and process design as well as reactive polymer processing. Past employment positions have included Senior Scientist with the US. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a member of the...Read more

Jim Davis

Jim has stepped down after 30 years in executive IT leadership to return to his faculty appointment at UCLA and his research roots in AI, ML, intelligent systems, and data science in manufacturing. He has accepted an appointment as Special Advisor on Smart Manufacturing and Data Science in the Office of Research and Creative Activities. As a co-founder of the U.S. Smart Manufacturing Initiative, Jim will expand activities that continue to define, build, and shape industry adoption for manufacturing and environmental sustainability, while also working with UCLA on its Data Science...Read more

Bill Bridges

Bill Bridges is President of Process Improvement Institute (PII). He is considered one of the leading authorities on process safety engineering and human error prevention. He has a BS/MS in Chemical Engineering and he 30+ years of chemical industry experience in process engineering, process development, management and safety evaluation, and operations. He holds 10 US patents. Mr. Bridges has a wealth of hands-on experience in operations and in implementing PSM. His last position in the industry was as a chemical plant manager. Bill has helped many companies in the petroleum,...Read more

Dr. Robert Deans

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Michael Wong

Michael Wong is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and the Department of Chemistry, at Rice University. He received his B.S. from Caltech (1994), and M.S. (1997) and Ph.D. (2000) from MIT, all in Chemical Engineering. He did his post-doc with G. D. Stucky in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UC Santa Barbara, before coming to Rice in 2001. His research program lies at the interface of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Materials Science, centered around the concept of engineered nanoparticles. His team of post-docs, graduate...Read more

Raymond Nims

Raymond Nims brings over 37 years of experience in the biomedical sciences. He currently provides consulting services as an employee of RMC Pharmaceutical Solutions. From 2006 to 2009, Ray served in Amgen’s corporate Quality Control group, providing subject matter expertise in viral and mycoplasma testing of raw materials and products, and serving as business process owner for Amgen’s global contract analytical testing lab outsourcing program. From 1994 to 2006, Ray directed laboratories at BioReliance performing viral safety, endotoxin, and...Read more

Eric Borgstedt

Eric Borgstedt is Director, Global Sales and Marketing, SEPCOR, Inc.

He has held positions at SYMYX Technologies, Inc., Sebtech & Marketing, The BOC Group, The Catalyst Group, The PQ Corporation and Katalistiks/UOP.

Borgstedt received his Ph.D., in Chemical Materials Engineering from the University of Connecticut. He also has both his M.S. & B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

He is a member of the Licensing Executive Society (LES), Commercial Development and Marketing Association (CDMA), American Chemical Society (ACS),...Read more

Angela Summers

Dr. Angela Summers is president of SIS-TECH, a specialty engineering and consulting company. Dr. Summers received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. She is a licensed professional engineer in Texas and is a member of AIChE, CCPS, ISA, and IEC. Dr. Summers has more than 20 years of experience in safety instrumented systems (SIS), process engineering, and environmental engineering. She is an active participant in standard’s committees, such as ISA and IEC, and has published over 50 papers on topics related to process safety and instrumented system design. She...Read more

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