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 Young Investigator Research Program Award. His research interests include dynamical systems, optimization theory, simulation and optimization of chemical processes, advanced process control, and fault diagnosis.