2023 2nd Vice Chair - CAST 2022 Election Results

Congratulations to Dr. Selen Cremaschi, the newly elected 2023 2nd Vice Chair. Selen is B. Redd & Susan W. Redd Endowed Eminent Scholar Chair Professor, Graduate Program Chair, and leads the Cremaschi group in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Auburn University. Her research interests are risk management, optimization, process synthesis, and planning under uncertainty. Her research group works at the intersection of operations research and chemical engineering and develops systems analysis and decision support tools for complex systems, mainly focusing on the pharmaceutical, biomedical, and energy industries. Her research group’s work has resulted in 109 referred publications/book chapters, 34 invited seminars, and over 150 presentations at international and national conferences. Before joining Auburn University, she was a faculty member of the Russell School of Chemical Engineering at The University of Tulsa. She is a recipient of The University of Tulsa Tau Beta Pi Teaching Excellence Award (2010), the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2011), and The University of Tulsa College of Engineering and Natural Sciences Zelimir Schmidt Award for Outstanding Researcher (2013), the Outstanding Graduate Teacher in the Russell School of Chemical Engineering, the Society of Petroleum Engineering Technical Award in Projects, Facilities, and Construction, Eastern North America Region (2019), the Auburn Engineering Alumni Council Senior Research Award for Excellence (2021), among others. She is a member of the 2018 Class of Influential Researchers selected by the Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research journal. During her career as a faculty, she successfully acquired $13.50MM in external research funding, and industrial collaborations have consistently supported her research work in addition to federal agencies. She earned her Ph.D. degree from Purdue University and her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Bogazici University (Turkey), all in chemical engineering.

Dr. Cremaschi is an active member of the AIChE and Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Division and the process systems engineering (PSE) community. She was the Vice-Chair and Chair of the AIChE Education Division Young Faculty Forum Area in 2012 and 2013. She chaired/co-chaired numerous CAST sessions in Areas 10A (Systems and Process Design), 10C (Systems and Process Operations), and 10E (Information Management and Intelligent Systems) at AIChE meetings regularly since 2008. For the past four years, she also chaired/co-chaired Environmental Division sessions in Areas 9D (Process Development) and 9G (Sustainability). She served as the 2014 Programming Chair and will serve as the 2023 Programming Chair for AIChE CAST 10A. She has been the Programming Co-Chair of AIChE Environmental Division 9D since 2020. She served as Director of the CAST Division (2018-2020). She regularly serves on the scientific and advisory committees and chairs/co-chairs sessions of national and international conferences organized by the PSE community, including Foundations of Computer-Aided Design (2019, 2014), European Symposium on Computer-Aided Process Engineering (2018-2022), Foundations of Process Analytics and Machine Learning (2022, 2019), and Process Systems Engineering (2018, 2021+). In 2020, Dr. Cremaschi served as the Chair of the 2^nd Enterprise and Infrastructure Resilience Workshop, a new AIChE workshop. The recent events and disruptions in the process industry and supply chains due to COVID-19 made this workshop especially relevant for understanding the resilience of our current infrastructure and strengthening it in the face of future unexpected events. As a 2nd Vice-Chair of CAST, Dr. Cremaschi will work on increasing our divisions’ visibility and membership among our industrial constituents and research communities that do not traditionally have strong ties with the PSE community but are at the forefront of new and emerging fields. These emerging fields may play a key role in addressing grand challenges, such as supplying adequate energy and water, reducing our environmental impact, and providing healthcare to the rapidly growing world population. She believes the PSE community, and by extension, AIChE CAST Division is uniquely positioned to contribute to solving these grand challenges, powered by new and challenging problems posed by these emerging fields. These problems, in turn, will fuel the development of new tools and approaches for the PSE field.