Exploiting New Data Formats and Sources in Process Control and Operations
Professor Victor Zavala
University of Wisconsin
Professor Michael Baldea
The University of Texas at Austin
Presentation Slides (draft) HERE
Overview of FIPSE-5
June 27-29, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Technical Program
Monday 27 June 2022
Intelligent Manufacturing
Chaired by Dr. Costas Pantelides
(Siemens Process Systems Engineering Ltd.)
Tuesday 28 June 2022
Machine Learning in PSE
Chaired by Professors Prodromos Daoutidis (University of Minnesota) and Jay Lee (KAIST)
Wednesday 29 June 2022
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Small Molecules
Chaired by Dr. Jason Mustakis (Pfizer Worldwide R&D)
Invited talks
Autonomy in Plant Operations
Dr. Apostolos Georgiou, Senior Engineering Advisor (ExxonMobil, Retired) and
Dr. Kiran R. Sheth, Distinguished Engineering Associate (ExxonMobil, Retired)
Presentation Slides HERE
Invited talks
Machine Learning Challenges and Opportunities for Catalysis and Materials Design
Professor Srinivas Rangarajan
Lehigh University
Industrial Perspective of Machine Learning and AI Challenges in PSE
Dr. Leo Chiang
Associate Technology Director (DOW Chemical)
Presentation Slides HERE
Invited talks
Challenges and Opportunities in the Development of Pharmaceutical Processes using New Manufacturing Technologies
Dr. Joel M. Hawkins
Sr. Research Fellow (Pfizer Worldwide R&D)
Digital Development of Drug Products – New Frontiers for Systems Engineering
Dr. Salvador García Muñoz
Senior Engineering Advisor (Lilly Research Laboratories)
Short Presentations
Private and Tamper-proof Processing and Storage of Data in Process Control Solutions
M. Kvasnica and M. Fikar
STU Bratislava, Slovakia
Open Challenges in the Optimization of Industrial Symbiotic Systems
Dinesh Krishnamoorthy
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Perspectives on Approximate Robust Model Predictive Control
Ali Mesbah
University of California – Berkeley, USA
Dynamic Modifier Adaptation
Cesar de Prada Moraga
University of Valladolid, Spain
Short Presentations
Big Data are Not Necessarily Good Data: What are Good Data Anyways?
Fabian Mohr*, Weike Sun*, Benben Jiang*, Lee Rippon, Ibrahim Yousef, Yiting Tsai, Richard D. Braatz*, R. Bhushan Gopaluni**
* Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and
**University of British Columbia, Canada
Presentation Slides HERE
Using ML and AI to Speed-Up Large-Scale Optimization Problems
Iiro Harjunkoski
ABB Power Grids Research, Germany and Aalto University, Finland
Presentation Slides HERE
What is the Future of Systems Modeling?
Mehmet Mercangöz
ABB Future Labs, Switzerland
presently @ Imperial College, London
Presentation Slides HERE
Short Presentations
Pharmaceutical Companies, Regulators and the PSE Community: Vicious or Virtuous Circle?
Fabrizio Bezzo and Massimiliano Barolo
University of Padova, Italy
Need for Efficient Computational Approaches to Design Space Characterization
Benoît Chachuat
Imperial College London, UK
Manufacture and Stabilization of Metastable Solid Form APIs
Michael F. Doherty
University of California – Santa Barbara, USA
Challenges in Symbolic Computation for Design Space Description
Zhao*, F. and I.E. Grossmann*, S. Stamatis** and S. García-Muñoz**
*Carnegie Mellon University, USA and
**Eli Lilly and Company, USA
Discussion of Open Problems
Each day of the conference is devoted to a single topic of Process Systems Engineering. The three topics and the corresponding leader are selected by the FIPSE trustees. These day leaders further define the topic and, with the help of the FIPSE trustees, select the invited speakers.
The invited two speakers for each day make a 45-minute morning presentation. These presentations focus 65% of their time defining a few important open research problems that should be addressed by the community in the next 5 to 10 years. In the second half of the morning session, 5-6 short talks are presented participants selected from proposals submitted ahead of the conference. These talks will be also listed in the conference program. The morning session concludes with some suggestions how to make the afternoon discussions most productive.
In the afternoon session, the participants break into groups of 6-8 members. They discuss further and define in greater detail the open problems of the day’s topic. Each of the groups report back to all participants, and another round of discussions follow where all participants are involved. The day organizer(s) and the two invited speakers, with some help from the graduate students present, keep a record of what was discussed.
Over the following six months, the day organizer(s) and the invited speakers produce a draft manuscript that describes what was discussed and concluded at the conference. This draft is circulated among all FIPSE participants for comments and suggestions for improvement, before submission to a leading journal. All who contribute substantial edits become co-authors. This publication aims to inform the general community and motivate researchers to help solve the defined challenges or to pursue alternative ones.
