2021 CAST Outstanding Young Researcher Award

Congratulations to Dr. Faruque Hasan, the 2021 CAST Outstanding Young Researcher Award winner! Dr. Faruque Hasan is currently an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Kim Tompkins McDivitt ’88 and Phillip McDivitt ’87 Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M University. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Texas A&M Energy Institute. He received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology in 2005, a Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore in 2010, and a postdoctoral training at Princeton University before joining Texas A&M University in 2014. Dr. Hasan leads a research group that is now being recognized for developing fundamental methods for the design, intensification and optimization of chemical processes with applications to carbon capture, natural gas utilization, energy, and sustainability. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award, the I&ECR 2019 Class of Influential Researchers Award, the World Technology Network Award in Environmental Category, ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award, Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Texas A&M Outstanding Achievement Award, and Best Paper Awards from Computers & Chemical Engineering (2015) and Journal of Global Optimization (2017). Dr. Hasan is a senior member of AIChE and has served as an Area Chair for the CAST Division.