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Joseph Scott

Joseph Scott is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. (2006) in Chemical Engineering from Wayne State University, and his M.S. (2008) and Ph.D. (2012) in Chemical Engineering from MIT. His honors include the 2012 Best Paper Award from the Journal of Global Optimization, the 2016 W. David Smith, Jr. Award from the Computing and Systems Technology Division of the AIChE, the 2014-2016 Automatica Paper Prize from the International Federation of Automatic Control, and the 2016 Air Force...Read more

Ashlee N. Ford Versypt

Dr. Ford Versypt earned a B.S. from the University of Oklahoma and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, all in Chemical Engineering. She did her postdoc at MIT. She started her academic career at Oklahoma State University before joining the University at Buffalo Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering as a tenured associate professor in January 2021. Dr. Ford Versypt leads the Systems Biomedicine and Pharmaceutics Laboratory. She has received a number of awards for her research, teaching, and service including the NSF CAREER Award, ASEE Chemical Engineering...Read more

Urmila Diwekar

Dr. Urmila Diwekar is the President of Stochastic Research Technologies LLC and also the president of the Vishwamitra Research, a non-profit research institute that she founded to pursue multidisciplinary research and development in the areas of Optimization under Uncertainty and Computer-aided Design applied to Energy, Environment, and Sustainability.  From 2002-2004, she was a Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  From 1991-2002 she was on the faculty of the Carnegie Mellon University, with early promotions to both the Associate and the Full Professor level. She...Read more

S. Joe Qin

Dr. S. Joe Qin is currently Chair Professor, Dean of the School of Data Science, and Director of Hong Kong Institute for Data Science at City University of Hong Kong. In his prior career he was the Fluor Professor at the Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California, Endowed Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and Principal Engineer at Emerson Process Management. 

Dr. Qin is a Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors, the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), AIChE, and IEEE. He is a recipient of the U.S. National...Read more

Harold T. Conner, Jr.

Harold Conner has been active in AIChE since he graduated from the Univ. of Tennessee in 1968. He has been actively engaged in the local sections of the Central Savannah River Area and Knoxville-Oak Ridge since the early 1970s. He has served AIChE for 26 years, most recently as Chair of the Management Div. in 2024 and Past Chair in 2025. Conner became a Fellow of AIChE in 2018 and received the AIChE Management Div. Award in 2022. 

    

In 1964, he became the first Black cooperative engineering student in the Univ. of Tennessee System, and in 1968...Read more

Murat Sen

Murat Sen, PhD, is a senior engineer in the Energy Research & Innovation Division at Phillips 66 Co. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering from Bogazici Univ., Turkey, and his PhD in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison. His PhD research focused on process synthesis, optimization, and technoeconomic analysis of catalytic conversion of biomass to fuels. He has seven years of industrial experience in modeling, optimization, and technoeconomic assessment of chemical processes.Read more

Karthikeyan Marimuthu

Karthikeyan Marimuthu, PhD, is a chief engineer in the Energy Research & Innovation Division at Phillips 66 Co. He has more than ten years of industrial experience in process development and scale-up, process engineering, process modeling, simulation and optimization, conceptual engineering, and technoeconomic modeling. He has a PhD in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon Univ., a master’s degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from A. C. Tech, Anna Univ., India. During the course of his...Read more

Moh EL Naamani

Moh EL Naamani leads business and product development for the Digital Enterprise Lab (DE-L) at Siemens. His team works with product owners, software architects, test and operations teams, and data analysts to bring fascinating new internet of things (IoT) products into the market using modern technologies such as data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. His department is part of an innovative, global team focusing on the development of software-based cloud applications using a “Customer First & Co-Creational” approach to deliver customer centric solutions. Naamani...Read more

Mario Sagastume

Mario Sagastume is Vice President of Software and Customer Success for Labelmaster, the leading provider of products, services, and technology for the safe and compliant transport of dangerous goods (DG) and hazardous materials (hazmat). He oversees the company’s ongoing interactions with its customers, including customer service, customer-driven projects, and customer engagement platforms. Prior to joining Labelmaster, Sagastume held key management, strategic, and customer-engaging positions with W.W. Grainger, General Electric, Lanyon, Citicorp, and Dun & Bradstreet, leading business...Read more

James R. Thompson, CPSA

JAMES R. THOMPSON, CPSA, is an independent contractor for ABSG Consulting Inc. with over 45 years of experience. He was the PSM manager in ABSG Consulting’s Houston, TX, office prior to his retirement. Thompson has over 30 years of industrial experience in operations and PSM with DuPont and INVISTA. He was the lead author for Guidelines for Implementing Process Safety Management, 2nd Ed. (CCPS) and has over 30 publications and conference presentations. He has a BS in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Texas at Austin and is an AIChE Fellow.Read more

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