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Walter Hart

Dr. Walt Hart, Global Lead, IHS NGL Research & Consulting

Dr. Walt Hart is a Senior Director at IHS, where he is the Global Lead for the Natural Gas Liquids Research and Consulting Group. Based in the company’s downtown Houston office, Walt joined IHS when IHS acquired the international energy consulting firm Purvin & Gertz, Inc. in 2011.

Dr. Hart oversees the two IHS worldwide NGL multi-client subscription services: Natural Gas Liquids Markets and Waterborne LPG. He leads three annual international LPG Seminars in the US, Asia and Latin America...Read more

Michael Gromacki

Mr. Michael Gromacki serves as President of Dixie Chemical. He has over 25 years of experience in the chemical industry. He started his career in engineering consulting practice and joined TOTAL S.A. subsidiary Cook Composites & Polymers (CCP) in 1997 where he served for twelve years in a progression of roles leading to Vice President. He joined Dixie Chemical in March of 2009 as Vice President of Operations and added the role of Chief Technology Officer in 2010. He was promoted to Senior Vice President in July 2014 and in June 2015, he assumed the leadership of Dixie. He was appointed...Read more

Concepcion Jimenez-Gonzalez

Concepción 'Conchita' Jiménez-González is Director of External Product Development - Skin Health at Stiefel, a GlaxoSmithKline company. She is responsible for the outsourcing model to deliver quality skin health products, leading the development activities and collaboration with external partners for the skin health portfolio.  

Conchita currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute.  Dr. Jimenez-Gonzalez  and her team were awarded the AIChE Industrial Practice in Sustainable Engineering in...Read more

K Dane Wittrup

Professor K. Dane Wittrup has conducted pioneering research in protein engineering of biopharmaceuticals. He is the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a faculty member in the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. 

After the initial invention of yeast display technology, Wittrup has contributed to all facets of antibody discovery and engineering, culminating in the co-founding of Adimab in 2007. Wittrup has had a broad impact on quantitative PK/PD design principles for...Read more

John Love

J. Christopher Love is an associate professor in chemical engineering and member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT.  In addition, Chris is an associate member at the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute, and at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard.   Dr. Love received his Ph.D. in 2004 in physical chemistry at Harvard University.  He extended his research into immunology at Harvard Medical School from 2004-2005, and at the Immune Disease Institute from 2005-2007. His research centers on using simple microsystems to measure and correlate...Read more

Roberto Fernandez Blanco

Roberto Fernández Blanco es miembro del AIChE-CCPS y un entusiasta promotor de las técnicas del Process Safety.Tiene una larga experiencia profesional de más de 46 años en Sistemas de Regulación y de Seguridad en Procesos, principalmente en industrias de Gas y Petróleo, Estaciones de Almacenamiento, Carga y Bombeo de Inflamables, Refinerías, Petroquímicas, Calderas, Estaciones Generadoras de Energía y Pulpa y Papel.

Roberto Fernández Blanco es uno de los principales asociados en SISTEMAS DACS SA (Buenos Aires-Argentina), una empresa dedicada al suministro de Ingeniería, Servicios,...Read more

Meyya Meyyappan

Meyya Meyyappan is Chief Scientist for Exploration Technology at the Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA.  Until June 2006, he served as the Director of the Center for Nanotechnology as well as Senior Scientist.   He is a founding member of the Interagency Working Group on Nanotechnology(IWGN) established by the Office of Science and Technology Policy(OSTP).  The IWGN is responsible for putting together the National Nanotechnology Initiative.

Dr. Meyyappan has authored or co-authored over 190 articles in peer reviewed...Read more

B Wayne Bequette



B. Wayne Bequette is a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Technology Manager for the Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where his research efforts are focused on the modeling and control of biomedical, biopharmaceutical, and chemical process systems. He serves as Board Secretary for the American Automatic Control Council and is a Trustee for the Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering Corporation. Dr. Bequette is a founding member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology and serves on the...Read more

Ken Anderson

Kenny Anderson is a nuclear engineer currently working at the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station near Vicksburg, Mississippi.  As a member of the Extended Power Uprate team he is focused primarily on reviewing and performing safety analysis calculations.  Kenny is interested in all aspects of numerical modeling, particularly including coupled multi-physics, uncertainty quantification, benchmarking, and optimization.

Prior to Grand Gulf, Kenny worked for General Electric Hitachi in several safety analysis, methodology development, and computer programming roles.  In 2008 he...Read more

Thomas Edgar

Thomas F. Edgar is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and holds the George T. and Gladys Abell Chair in Engineering.

Dr. Edgar received his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Kansas and a Ph.D. from Princeton University.  For the past 37 years, he has concentrated his academic work in process modeling, control, and optimization, with over 200 articles and book chapters.  Edgar has co-authored leading textbooks:  Optimization of Chemical Processes (McGraw-Hill, 2001) and Process Dynamics and Control (Wiley, 2010)....Read more

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