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Scientific Program

Overall Structure of the Daily Session.

Each day, the program has two invited keynotes and four additional short presentations which will define challenging open research problems in the technical area under consideration.   The tentative program for each day looks as follows:

  • 08:45 – 09:00    Welcome and mission of the day
  • 09:00 – 09:45    First Keynote
  • 09:45 – 10:00    Discussion
  • 10:00 – 10:45    Second Keynote
  • 10:45 – 11:00    Discussion
  • 11:00 – 11:30    Coffee break
  • 11:30 – 12:30    Short presentations 15 min each
    • ONLY 10 min for each presentation
    • ONLY 8-9 slides
    • Plus 5 min discussion
  • 12:30 – 13:00    Further Discussion
  • 13:00 – 14:15    Lunch
  • 14:30 – 16:00    Discussion of Open problems in Smaller Groups
  • 16:00 – 16:30    Smaller Groups report to all
  • 16:30                  END of the Day

Speakers are strictly required to limit their presentation to the allotted time. Plenary speakers should spend more than 70% of their time discussing and defining challenging OPEN challenges. Short presentations have just enough time to succinctly define a single open problem.

 

 

Purpose

of the Meeting

The main purpose

of the FIPSE meeting is to

define the most important

open problems

of the topics discussed.

This is achieved through

discussions,

discussions,

and more discussions.

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

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

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.