Dr. Elçin Içten-Gençer is a Senior Engineer in Drug Substance Technologies (DST) within Process Development at Amgen. Her main areas of expertise are pharmaceutical process development, process modelling, process control, and continuous manufacturing.
Elçin is currently working in Bioprocess Science and Technology group and is responsible for commercial process development of biologics. Prior to her role in Bioprocess Sciences, she was a part of Synthetic Technologies and Engineering within Pivotal DST where she has supported development of batch and continuous processes for...Read more
Continuing this year at the AIChE Annual Meeting are the “Rapid Fire” oral presentations where presenters get 5 minutes to present 3 slides summarizing the research that they are working on. Attendees interested in subjects presented during the rapid-fire oral session can visit the...
Subarna Kole received her Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Raipur (India) in 2014 and currently pursuing her Masters in Chemical Engineering from Oklahoma State University. She is working on her thesis project entitled ‘Application of Microfluidics for Emulsion Characterization’ under the guidance of Dr. Prem Bikkina.
She is a recipient of the Graduate College top-tier fellowship for the academic year 2014-2015. Also, she moderated the Master’s Division of 2015 SPE Mid-Continent North American Regional Student...Read more
Praveen Gonuguntla is a senior CFD engineer at Tridiagonal Solutions Inc., San Antonio. He completed his Masters in Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India. He has 7+ years of experience in Computational and Experimental Fluid dynamics. During this period he has dealt with a wide range of oil and gas related applications ( both upstream and downstream). His interests include erosion in tools/pipe fittings for single and multiphase flows, multiphase separators & combustion analysis in process fired heaters.Read more
Dr. Aichele was born and raised in Stillwater, OK. In 2004, he received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from OSU, and he directly entered the Ph.D. program in Chemical Engineering at Rice University. Dr. Aichele received his Ph.D. from Rice University in 2009, and accepted a position as a research engineer at ConocoPhillips in Bartlesville, OK. Dr. Aichele is currently an assistant professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at OSU. He is married to Melanie Aichele, a graduate of the School of Chemical Engineering at OSU in 2004. Clint and Melanie have four sons, Sawyer, Beau, Paul,...Read more
Ray French has been a research scientist at Shell for over 34 years, in the area of physical properties and phase equilibria. Over the years, he has supported a variety of Shell businesses, and currently, he is focusing on Deepwater applications. He has a BS in chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Miami....Read more
I am a Process Safety Consultant working for Lloyd’s Register Energy Americas. Moreover, am a licensed Professional Engineer from the Texas board. It’s been a decade, I came from India to pursue my masters degree in Chemical Engineering at IIT (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago). I moved to Houston in 2007 and the city was warm enough to accomodate me with overwhelming opportunities in Oil & gas sector and which, I now call my home town i.e H’town. Over the years, I worked for various oil & gas , chemical clients performing process engineering and process...Read more
Emily is a process engineer with INVISTA in the Houston Engineering office. She has 3 years of experience working with relief devices and 2 years of project work experience. She received a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2009 and received a Master of Engineering from McNeese State University in 2011....Read more
Donald DuPont is Director of Process Safety for IHI E&C. His primary responsibilities include the overall management and performance of process risk management and fire protection design services. He has more than 16 years technical experience in loss prevention and process safety in the heavy industrial, oil & gas, petrochemical and specialty chemical industries; with more than 10 years in senior management roles in operations and business development. He is currently serving as Project Director for HSE in Design for the Dominion Cove Point LNG Export Project located on the...Read more
