August 2020

Doug White is a Principal Consultant for Emerson Automation Solutions and has more than 35 years of international experience designing, justifying, installing and commissioning advanced real time automation, optimization and digitalization applications in petrochemical and oil refining plants and assessing their safety, economic and environmental impact. He has published more than 50 papers on the application of these technologies in the process industries and their financial benefits and has also led more than 200 seminars and conference presentations on these subjects and their effect on plant performance, energy efficiency, safety and environmental stewardship. Previously he held senior management and technical positions with MDC Technology, Profitpoint Solutions, Aspen Technology, and Setpoint. He started his career with Caltex Petroleum with positions at their Australian refinery and central engineering group. He has a BChE from the University of Florida, an MS from California Institute of Technology, and an MA and PhD from Princeton University.Read more

Bradley L. Pentelute, Associate Professor of Chemistry. He is also an Associate Member, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, and Extramural Member of the MIT Koch Cancer Institute, and Member, Center for Environmental Health Sciences MIT. He received his undergraduate degree in Psychology and Chemistry from the University of Southern California, and his M.S and Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Chicago with Prof. Steve Kent. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. R. John Collier at Harvard Medical School, Microbiology.    ...Read more