Prodromos Daoutidis is a College of Science and Engineering Distinguished Professor and Distinguished University Teaching Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. He is also the Founding Director of the M.S. degree program in Data Science for Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and the Director of the “Data Driven Discovery and Engineering from Atoms to Processes” National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program. He received a Diploma degree in Chemical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, M.S.E. degrees in Chemical Engineering and Electrical Engineering: Systems from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He is the recipient of the IChemE Hutchison Medal, the AIChE Sustainable Engineering Forum Research Award, the AIChE Computing in Chemical Engineering Award, the C.A. Floudas Award in Mathematical Optimization, the PSE Model Based Innovation Prize, and Best Paper Awards from the Journal of Process Control and Computers and Chemical Engineering. He has served as CAST Programming Chair and CAST Chair and is currently the President of FIPSE. Daoutidis is the Associate Editor for Process Systems Engineering in the AIChE Journal and an Associate Editor in the Journal of Process Control. He has co-authored 6 books and over 360 refereed papers and has supervised to completion 44 Ph.D. students and post-docs, 15 of whom currently hold academic positions. His current research is on control and optimization of complex and networked systems, and the engineering and economics of green ammonia for sustainable energy and agriculture applications.