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Ankur Pariyani

Ankur Pariyani, PhD is Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Near-Miss Management LLC (www.nearmissmgmt.com), where he focuses on product development and innovation (Phone: 267-603-2378; Email: pariyani@nearmissmgmt.com). He has authored several papers in leading journals in the area of risk analysis. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology in Guwahati, both in chemical engineering.

He has a passion to innovate novel yet...Read more

Georges A. Melhem, Ph.D., FAIChE

Georges A. Melhem, Ph.D., FAIChE is President and Chief Executive Officer of ioMosaic, and is an internationally known expert in the areas of pressure relief and flare systems design, chemical reaction systems, process safety, and risk analysis. As the founder of ioMosaic Corporation, he has over 30 years of engineering and process safety experience, and has participated in numerous risk management, consequence analysis, and quantitative risk assessment studies for commercial and government clients.

Dr. Melhem has provided litigation support and expert witness testimony to...Read more

Mariano Martín

Dr. Martin earned his PhD in the University of Salamanca in 2008. Right after that, he joined the Modelling and Simulation gruop of P&G in Newcastle (UK) for a posdoctoral position and a year later he was granted a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon university where he spent almost two years before we obtained an assistant professorship position at the University of Salamanca in 2011.Read more

Scott M. Husson

Dr. Scott Husson is Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Clemson University. He received his BS in chemical engineering from Penn State University in 1993 and his PhD in chemical engineering from UC Berkeley in 1998. His research group develops surface engineering methods to create advanced functional membranes for protein chromatography, CO2 capture, water purification, as well as responsive membranes with switchable surface properties and controllable barrier properties. Dr. Husson has published over 50 journal articles and book chapters and has received 3 patents....Read more

Hui Jin

Dr. Lundteigen has worked in the area of safety instrumented systems for more than 15 years. Her main industry experience is related to safety instrumented systems and their use at the onshore and offshore facilities, but she has also worked with railway signaling systems and automation systems in general. She has a MSc. in engineering cybernetics and a PhD in RAMS (reliability, availability, maintenance, and safety) for safety instrumented systems. Currently, she holds a full time professorship at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and a part-time position as a Sr....Read more

Wei Liu

Dr. Liu received his BS degree in Chemical Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, MS degree in Chemical Engineering from Chinese Academy of Sciences, MS degree in Analytical Chemistry from Tufts University, and ScD in Chemical Engineering from MIT. He is currently working at Pacific Northwest National Lab as a chief engineer and has been leading several research fronts of novel separation and reaction technologies for energy and environmental applications. Prior to PNNL, he worked for Corning Incorporated as a research project manager, Amoco Oil Company (now BP) as...Read more

Kuyen Li

Dr. Li is a professor in the Dan F. Smith Department of Chemical Engineering at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, where he has been since 1978. He had four years industrial working experiences before joining Lamar. His research activities include applications of dynamic simulation in chemical process industry, pollution control by photo-catalytic oxidation, and development of low cost silicon production process. His consultant work includes several leading chemical and electronic material companies. He also performed environmental consultancy to the United Nations Development Programs (...Read more

Keerthi Srinivas

Dr. Keerthi Srinivas got his PhD at the Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering in University of Arkansas, Fayetteville under the guidance of Dr. Jerry W. King in 2010. The focus of his doctoral research was on the measurement and prediction of thermodynamic and mass transfer properties of flavonoids in high temperature water. He continued his work under Dr. Jerry W. King as a post-doctoral research fellow on research involving measurement of solution thermodynamic properties and adsorption properties of various biopolymers and the hydrolysis of biomass substrates. He has also...Read more

Jesse E. Hensley

Dr. Jesse Hensley joined NREL in 2009 as a chemical engineer in the Thermochemical Process R&D division of the National Bioenergy Center. Jesse currently serves as the principal investigator for two core DOE projects with a research budget in excess of $1 million per year. Since joining NREL, he has designed and built three state-of-the-art reactor systems for characterization of heterogeneous gas-to-liquids catalysts, and he collaborates with several industrial partners to advance the state of the art in mixed alcohol catalysis. He also has designed and managed the construction of a...Read more

Julio M. Ottino

Dr. Julio M. Ottino is the dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Northwestern University where he holds the titles of Distinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Ottino’s current research is focused on complex systems and has been featured in articles and on the covers of Nature, Science, Scientific American, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. Ottino is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and...Read more

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