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John Lee

John Lee is the Deputy Director for Green Buildings and Energy Efficiency at the NYC Mayor’s Office of Sustainability. In this capacity, he is leading the city’s policy and legislative efforts driving the built environment to unprecedented energy efficiency standards. John’s previous public sector service was with the NYC Department of Buildings as Senior Architect in the codes development division, and with the Department of City Planning where he served as an Urban Designer. During his early career, John was a design architect in private sector architecture and engineering firms working...Read more

Babak D. Beheshti

Babak D. Beheshti is professor and dean of the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences at New York Institute of Technology (NYIT). The School has approximately 3000 students, including undergraduate and graduate programs in two New York campuses, as well as in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Babak has been a full-time faculty member at NYIT for more than 30 years.

Over the last 20+ years, Beheshti has worked in R&D with companies in the embedded systems and wireless technology industry. He has successfully managed joint R&D programs with Asian, European, and U.S. companies,...Read more

Become a Sponsor or Exhibitor

AIChE is offering targeted sponsorship opportunities to ensure you are recognized during the conference. While no overt commercialism is allowed within the meeting rooms, you will be able to provide attendees with valuable information during breaks in the technical sessions. The available...

First Friday Networking Lunch - December 2019

Friday, December 6, 2019,
11:30am to 1:00pm
CST
Speaker: Wesley Carter Wesley Carter has more than 12 years of experience in Process Safety and Risk Management in both the oil and gas and chemical industries. He received both his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering and the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Engineering Certificate...Read more

Michael Flaxman

Dr. Michael Flaxman's primary research interest is in participatory tools for spatial simulation modeling as applied to the planning and design of cities and regions. He has served on the faculties of MIT, Harvard and the University of Oregon. Dr. Flaxman has practiced GIS-based planning in 17 countries, including one year as a Fulbright fellow in Canada.

Dr. Flaxman previously served as industry manager for Architecture, Engineering and Construction at ESRI, the world’s largest developer of GIS technology. Dr. Flaxman received his doctorate in design from Harvard University in 2001...Read more

Bassel Daher

Bassel Daher is a Research Associate at the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department of Texas A&M University (since 2014) and a Fellow at the Institute for Science, Technology & Public Policy at The Bush School of Government and Public Service. He served as Project Coordinator at Texas A&M’s Water-Energy-Food Nexus Initiative (2015-2018).

Daher’s research focuses on developing tools to catalyze evidence-based multi-stakeholder dialogue around trade-offs associated with technological, policy, and social interventions to address interconnected water, energy, and...Read more

Ursula Eicker

Prof. Ursula Eicker is the new Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) for Next Generation Cities at Concordia University Montréal. A German physicist, Eicker has held leadership positions at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences and its Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies. She has been leading international research projects in the fields of energy efficiency in buildings and sustainable energy supply systems for more than two decades.At Concordia, she leads an ambitious research program to establish pathways toward new tools, technologies and strategies for zero-carbon...Read more

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