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Principal Investigators

Richard D. Braatz
Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Urbana, IL 61801-3602
braatz@uiuc.edu
Crystallization, suspension polymerization, multiscale modeling and control

Francis J. Doyle III
Professor and Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Chair in Process Control
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
frank.doyle@icb.ucsb.edu
Emulsion polymerization, granulation, particulate systems modeling and control

Michael A. Henson
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
henson@ecs.umass.edu
Yeast fermentation, metal catalyzed polymerization, nonlinear systems dynamics and control

Collaborators

Surita Bhatia
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Polymer and colloidal materials

Bryan Coughlin
Assistant Professor
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Metallocene catalysis, polymer reaction engineering

David H. Gay
Adjunct Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Polymerization process control, decentralized and large-scale control systems

Dale E. Seborg
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Microbial fermentation, process monitoring and control

Charles F. Zukoski
William H. and Janet G. Lycan Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Colloidal processes, protein crystallization, particulate processes

Postdoctoral Fellows

Zhongzhou Chen
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Systems Engineering of Cryogenic Air Separation Plants
Advisor: Michael Henson

Mitsuko Fujiwara
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Experimental Investigations in Pharmaceutical Crystallization
Advisor: Richard D. Braatz

Myung-June Park
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Systems Engineering of Emulsion Polymerization
Advisor: Frank Doyle

J. Carl Pirkle Jr.
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Modeling and Simulation of Polymer Processes
Advisor: Richard D. Braatz

Graduate Students

Shoujun Bian
PhD Student
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Systems Engineering of Cryogenic Air Separation Plants
Advisor: Michael Henson

Mustafa Dokucu
PhD Student
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Systems Engineering of Chain Length and Particle Size in Emulsion Polymerization
Advisor: Frank Doyle

Martin Wijaya Hermanto
PhD Student
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Optimal Control of Solvent-Mediated Polymorphic Transformations
Advisor: Richard Braatz

Jared Hjersted
PhD Student
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Systems Engineering of Fed-Batch Yeast Fermenters
Advisor: Michael Henson

Joshua Isom
PhD Student
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Economic Design of Control Charts for Deteriorating Systems
Advisor: Richard Braatz

Mehmet Mercangoz
PhD Student
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Distributed and Decentralized Implementation of MPC with Application to a Pulp Mill
Advisor: Frank Doyle

Bernabe Quevedo
MS Student
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Kinetic Modeling of Metallocene Catalyzed Propylene Polymerization
Advisors: Michael Henson and Bryan Coughlin

Neha Raikar
PhD Student
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Design and Operation Strategies for Manufacturing Drug Delivery Emulsions
Advisors: Michael Henson, Surita Bhatia, and Michael Malone

Effendi Rusli
PhD Student
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Multiscale Systems Theory with Application to Electrodeposition and Crystallization Processes
Advisor: Richard Braatz

Kee Chung (Nicholas) Shen
PhD Student
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Monitoring and Modeling of Polymorphic Transformations
Advisor: Richard Braatz

Xing Yi Woo
PhD Student
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Simulation of Mixing Effects in Antisolvent Crystallization using Population Balance Equations Coupled with Computational Fluid Dynamics
Advisor: Richard Braatz

Undergraduate Students

Thomas Wubben
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Control of Antisolvent Crystallization
Advisor: Richard Braatz