April 2025

Charley Robinson

Charley Robinson is the former Director of Standards at ISA. He represented ISA on the U.S. National Committee to the IEC as well as on IEC Technical Committee (TC) 65: “Industrial-Process Measurement, Control and Automation.” He holds a BS in industrial engineering from North Carolina State Univ.Read more

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Chris Monchinski

Chris Monchinski is the Chief Technology Officer at InflexionPoint LLC, responsible for supporting strategy, partnerships, client engagement, and the development of certain integrated platform products. He is the chair of the ISA95 committee and convenor of JWG5, the international committee for the IEC 62264 standard series. He is the current chair of the Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA) Knowledge Management Committee and is a past vice president of the ISA Standards and Practices Board. He is a frequent speaker at industry events, having presented at conferences...Read more

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Kevin Klein, P.E.

Kevin Klein, P.E., is an Instrumented Protective System (IPS) subject matter expert (SME) at Chevron, a member of the ISA84 and IEC61511 committees, chair of the ISA84 workgroup “Functional Safety: Low Integrity Safety Layers,” and an ISA Fellow. He focuses on IPS design and technology development. He holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from Valparaiso Univ. and has 44 years of experience in the chemical and oil and gas industries.Read more

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David Board

David Board is the Principal Technology Strategist at Yokogawa. His areas of expertise include visualization, batch processing, interoperability, the Internet of Things (IoT), digital twin technologies, edge technologies, and edge analytics. He is chair-elect of the ISA Standards and Practices Board, the ISA88 chair, and chair or convenor of several IEC and other automation committees. He has a U.K. Higher National Diploma (HND) in electronics.Read more

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MANISH AGGARWAL

MANISH AGGARWAL is a senior engineer at Aspen Technology in Bedford, MA (Email: manish.aggarwal@aspentech.com, manishag@alumni.cmu.edu). He holds a master’s in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon Univ. and a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from the National Institute of Technology. His expertise spans process modeling, economic evaluation, and chemical process optimization. At AspenTech, he focuses on front-end engineering design (FEED) and the development of tools for process modeling...Read more

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MARDHIKA SANTOSA

MARDHIKA SANTOSA completed his bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering at Cornell Univ. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department at Johns Hopkins Univ., under the supervision of Prof. Honggang Cui. His research project involves developing self-assembling hydrogelators for local cancer chemotherapy and immunotherapy. (Email: msanto31@jh.edu)Read more

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35 Under 35 Award Endowment

April 28, 2025

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Since its launch in 2017, the AIChE 35 Under 35 Award has celebrated 35 exceptional early-career AIChE members every three years—rising stars under the age of 35 who are shaping the future of chemical engineering and the AIChE community. Honorees are recognized across seven categories:...