General Chair
Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteB. Wayne Bequette
FOCAPO Co-Chairs
PraxairJose Pinto
Carnegie Mellon UniversityNick Sahinidis
CPC Co-Chairs
University of MinnesotaProdromos Daoutidis
ExxonMobilDon Bartusiak
PLAPIQUI, ArgentinaAlberto Bandoni
Instituto Superior Tecnico, PortugalAna Barbosa-Povoa
Dow Agro SciencesMatthew Bassett
Carnegie Mellon UniversityLorenz Biegler
Universidad Iberoamericana, MexicoAntonio Flores-Tlacuahuac
Princeton UniversityChris Floudas
ExxonMobilKevin Furman
PfizerSalvador Garcia-Munoz
Carnegie Mellon UniversityIgnacio Grossmann
ABB, GermanyIiro Harjunkoski
Rutgers UniversityMarianthi Ierapetritou
National University of SingaporeIftekhar Karimi
HoneywellJeff Kelly
IBMJon Lee
University of Wisconsin – MadisonChristos Maravelias
RWTH, GermanyWolfgang Marquardt
PraxairLarry Megan
U.S. Department of EnergyDavid Miller
Yonsei University, KoreaIl Moon
ETHZ, SwitzerlandManfred Morari
PETROBRASLincoln Moro
PSE & Imperial College LondonCostas Pantelides
Imperial College LondonStratos Pistikopoulos
Purdue UniversityGintaras Reklaitis
Purdue University & Carnegie Mellon UniversityJeffrey Siirola
MITGeorge Stephanopoulos
Koc University, TurkeyMetin Turkay
Aspen TechnologyDimitrios Varvarezos
Dow ChemicalJohn Wassick
Abo Akademi, FinlandTapio Westerlund
University of Stuttgart, GermanyFrank Allgower
ExxonMobilTom Badgwell
MITRichard Braatz
Illinois Institute of TechnologyAli Cinar
University of California – Los AngelesPanagiotis Christofides
DuPontJohn Congalidis
ShellBarry Cott
UCL – Louvain, BelgiumDenis Dochain
University of California – Santa BarbaraFrank Doyle
University of Texas – AustinTom Edgar
University of Dortmund, GermanySebastian Engell
University of Alberta, CanadaFraser Forbes
Tufts UniversityChristos Georgakis
University of Massachusetts – AmherstMike Henson
University of Patras, GreeceCostas Kravaris
Lehigh UniversityMayuresh Kothare
General ElectricAditya Kumar
KAIST, KoreaJay Lee
HoneywellWard MacArthur
ETHZ, SwitzerlandManfred Morari
University of DelawareTunde Ogunnaike
University of Southern CaliforniaS. Joe Qin
IntelNital Patel
University of Wisconsin – MadisonJim Rawlings
NTNU, NorwaySigurd Skogestad
Drexel UniversityMasoud Soroush
MITGeorge Stephanopoulos
Merck & Co.Gregory Troup
United TechnologiesSubbarao Varigonda
Emerson Process ManagementDoug White
Carnegie Mellon UniversityErik Ydstie