Appointments
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1994-1999.
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1999-2002.
Humboldt Research Fellow, Institute of Biochemical Engineering and Institute for Systems Theory in Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 2001-2002.
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 2002-2004.
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 2004-present.
Director, Center for Process Design and Control, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 2004-2015.
Co-Director, Institute for Massachusetts Biofuels Research (TIMBR), 2007-present.
Visiting Professor, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 2009.
Past Editorial Activities
Associate Editor, IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board, 1994-1996.
Associate Editor, Automatica, 2005-2011
Associate Editor, Journal of Process Control, 2000-2013.
Professional Organizations
Director, Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Division of AIChE, 2001-2003.
Member, Technical Committee on Industrial Process Control, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2002-present
Programming Chair, CAST Area 10b, Systems and Process Control, 2003.
Member, Technical Committee on Chemical Process Control, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 2003-present.
Board of Directors, American Automatic Control Council, 2004-2005.
Conference Organization
Co-Chairman, Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering, Santa Barbara, CA, July 2005.
Chairman, Chemical Process Control 7, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, January 2006.
Chairman, Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering, Denver, CO, August 2009.
Co-Chairman, Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering, Tsuruoka, Japan, October 2012.
International Program Chair, Dynamics and Control of Process Systems, Mumbai, India, December, 2013.
Co-Chairman, Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering, Cambridge, MA, August 2015.
Consulting
Alstom Power, Windsor, CT; Aramco Services Company, Houston, TX; Dow Chemical Company, Plaquemine, LA; ExxonMobil Chemical Company, Baton Rouge, LA; Chevron Chemical Company, St. James, LA; Gas Technology Institute, Des Plaines, IL; Logos Technologies, Arlington, VA; SunEthanol/Qteros, Amherst, MA.
Files and Links
CV
Group Webpage
Institute for Applied Life Science
Microbes for Human Health and Disease
The Institute for Massachusetts Biofuels Research (TIMBR)
UMass Biotechnology Training Program
GB3-Net