About

Education

• Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, 2017
• M.S., Chemical Engineering, 2014
• B.S., Chemical Engineering, 2011
• University of California, Los Angeles

Academic Employment

• Associate Professor, 8/23 - Present
• Assistant Professor, 8/17 - 8/23
• Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
• Wayne State University
• Secondary Associate Professor, 8/23 - Present
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, 12/17 - 8/23
• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Wayne State University

Industry Employment

• Engineer, 2011 - 2014
• Materials & Processes Engineering Department
• Aerojet Rocketdyne

Teaching

• CHE 4200, Product and Process Design, Wayne State University
• CHE 4600, Process Dynamics and Simulation, Wayne State University
• CHE 4800, Process Integration, Wayne State University
• CHE 7100, Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Wayne State University
• CHE 4260/CHE 4860/CHE 8997/MSE 8997, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Seminar Course, Wayne State University

Selected Awards and Distinctions:

• 2025 Programming Coordinator for AIChE CAST 10B
• Chair session "Model Predictive and Optimal Control Applications" and co-chair of session "Keynote 2" at ADCHEM 2024
• 2024-2026 CAST Director
• 2024 American Physical Society March Meeting virtual session chair (session "Nonequilibrium Dynamics")
• A recipient of a 2024 Wayne State President's Award for Excellence in Teaching
• A recipient of a 2024-2025 Wayne State Career Development Chair Award, Wayne State University Office of the Provost
• 2024 American Control Conference Associate Editor at Large
• Editorial Board, Computers & Chemical Engineering
• Member of the IFAC MMM (Mineral, Mining, and Metal Processing) workshop International Program Committee
• International Programming Committee (IPC) member for the 2024 IFAC Cyber-Physical Human Systems (CPHS) conference
• AIChE 35 Under 35 Award for Safety
• 2023 Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award in the Natural Sciences and Engineering, Wayne State Graduate School
• Chair of sessions "Cybersecurity and High-Performance Computing in Next-Gen Manufacturing" and "Predictive Control and Optimization" and co-chair of session "Advances in Computational Methods and Numerical Analysis II" for the AIChE Annual Meeting 2023
• Co-chair for session "Dynamics and Control for Sustainability" at FOCAPO/CPC 2023
• International Programming Committee member for FOCAPO/CPC 2023
• Chair of "Networked, Decentralized, and Distributed Control" and "Cybersecurity and High-Performance Computing in Next-Gen Manufacturing" for the AIChE Annual Meeting 2022
• A recipient of a Junior Faculty Award from the Wayne State University Academy of Scholars, 2022
• An Associate Editor for Computational Methods in Chemical Engineering, a section within Frontiers in Chemical Engineering
• Co-chair of session "Model Predictive Control I" for the 2022 DYCOPS-CAB Symposium
• Co-chair of session "Process Control" at the 2022 American Control Conference
• International Programme Committee member for the 13th Dynamics and Control of Process Systems, including Biosystems Symposium (DYCOPS-CAB) Symposium 2022
• International Program Committee member for the 2022 14th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering
• NSF CAREER Award, 2022
• Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research Class of 2021 Influential Researchers (for a publication in 2022)
• Chair of "Predictive Control and Optimization" session for the AIChE Annual Meeting 2021
• Recipient of an Excellence in Teaching award, Wayne State College of Engineering, 2021
• Next-Generation Manufacturing Programming Chair for the AIChE Annual Meeting 2021
• Editorial Board, Digital Chemical Engineering
• Associate Editor, Control Engineering Practice
• Topical Advisory Panel Member, Processes
• Next-Generation Manufacturing Sessions Area Chair for the AIChE Annual Meeting 2020
• Co-chair of "Predictive Control and Optimization" session for the AIChE Annual Meeting 2020
• An Associate Editor for the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024
• Review Editor for Adaptive, Robust and Fault Tolerant Control (specialty section of Frontiers in Control Engineering)
• Review Editor for Computational Methods in Chemical Engineering (specialty section of Frontiers in Chemical Engineering), September 2019 - August 2022
• An Associate Editor for the IFAC World Congress 2020 and 2023
• Program Committee member for the 2020 and 2024 American Control Conference
• Chair of "Cybersecurity," "Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computation," and "Advances in Process Control" sessions for the AIChE Annual Meeting 2019
• Participant in the Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering (CACHE) conference "The Future of Cyber-Assisted Chemical Engineering Education," 2019
• Associate Editor for the Journal of Process Control
• Recipient of a Faculty Research Excellence Award, Wayne State College of Engineering, 2019
• Associate Editor for the American Control Conference 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, 2018
• Chair of session "Cybersecurity" for the AIChE Annual Meeting 2018, 2018
• Co-chair of session "Estimation and Control of Uncertain Systems" for the AIChE Annual Meeting 2018, 2018
• Chair of session "Process Dynamics and Control 3" for PSE 2018, 2018
• Advisory Committee member for the 7th Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory, 2018
• University Research Grant, Wayne State University Office of the Provost, 2018-2019
• Guest co-editor for Special Issue "New Directions on Model Predictive Control," Mathematics, 2017 - 2018
• Edward K. Rice Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS), 2017
• Harry M. Showman Prize, UCLA HSSEAS, 2017
• Outstanding Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering Award, UCLA Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2017
• Engineering Achievement Award for Student Welfare, HSSEAS, UCLA, 2017
• UCLA Doctoral Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2016 - 2017
• Mohini and Balu Balakrishnan Fellowship, HSSEAS, UCLA, 2015 - 2016
• CAST Directors' Student Presentation Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Computing & Systems Technology (CAST) Division, 2015
• CAST AIChE Annual Meeting Travel Grant, November 2015
• Invited Participant, NextProf Fall Engineering Workshop, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2015
• Licensed as a Professional Engineer in Chemical Engineering in California, 2015
• Edward K. Rice Outstanding M.S. Student Award, HSSEAS, UCLA, 2014
• Outstanding M.S. in Chemical Engineering Award, UCLA Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2014
• Outstanding B.S. in Chemical Engineering Award, UCLA Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2011
• UCLA Engineering graduation student speaker, 2011
• Engineering Achievement Award for Student Welfare, UCLA HSSEAS, 2011