Welcome to the Daoutidis Group!

 

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Research in our group is in the broad area of systems and process control; it brings together modeling, mathematical analysis, control theory, optimization and computation, in order to understand the structure and improve the operation of chemical, biological and energy systems.

Group News

2023

Archita Mullick, Komal Kankani and Aratrika Ghose join the group. Welcome!

Hanchu Wang defends her thesis and joins Dow Chemical. Congratulations!

Ilias Mitrai defends his thesis and starts post-doc at Georgia Tech. Congratulations!

Baiwen Kong and Harman Dewantoro pass their preliminary exams. 

2022

Ritoban Ghosh joins the group. Welcome!

Former group member Wentao Tang joins North Carolina State University as an assistant professor!

Group paper on ammonia-based sustainable agriculture and energy cited in Forbes article:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensavage/2022/04/25/is-there-a-more-climate-friendly-way-to-fertilize-crops-the-answer-may-be-blowin-in-the-wind/

Prodromos is featured in Yale Environment 360 article on ammonia:

https://e360.yale.edu/features/from-fertilizer-to-fuel-can-green-ammonia-be-a-climate-fix

Former group member Ana Ines Torres joins Carnegie Mellon University as an Assistant Professor!

2021

The paper “Using Hydrogen and Ammonia for Renewable Energy Storage: A Geographically Comprehensive Techno-economic Study,” Comp. Chem. Engng., 136, 106785 (2020), co-authored by Prodromos Daoutidis and Matthew Palys was awarded the Computers and Chemical Engineering 2020 Best Paper Award.

Prodromos is elected as 2nd Vice Chair of CAST Division of AIChE.

Harman Dewantoro, Rajat Daga and Baiwen Kong join the group. Welcome!

Matt Palys defends his PhD thesis. He remains in the group as post-doc. Congratulations Matt!

2020

Benjamin Riley joins the group.

Former group member Seongmin Heo join Dankook University as an Assistant Professor!

Former group member Andrew Allman joins University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor!

Former group member Davood Pourkargar joins Kansas State University as an Assistant Professor!

Wentao Tang defends his PhD thesis and joins Shell. Congratulations Wentao!

Conor O’Brien defends his PhD thesis and joins Juno Therapeurics. Congratulations Conor!

Shaaz Khatib defends his PhD thesis and joins Medley Pharmaceuticals. Congratulations Shaaz!

2019

Victoria Jones joins the group.

The paper “Efficient Water Pollution Abatement,” I &EC Res., 58, 22483 (2019), co-authored by Allman, A., P. Daoutidis, W. A. Arnold, and E. Cussler was chosen as ACS Editors’ Choice article.

Manjiri Moharir defends her PhD thesis and joins Exxon-Mobil. Congratulations Manjiri!

Pedro Constantino defends his PhD thesis. Congratulations Pedro!

2018

Ilias Mitrai and Hanchu Wang join the group.

Udit Gupta, Nitish Mittal, Michail Vlysidis, and Andrew Allman defend their PhD thesis. Congratulations!

 

 

Selected Publications

  1. S., Alexander, S. Schilling, and P. Daoutidis, "Automated characterization and monitoring of material shape using Riemannian geometry", Computers & Chemical Engineering, 181 (2024): 108525.
  2. B. Kong, Q. Zhang and P. Daoutidis, "Real-Time Operation of a Stand-Alone Microgrid With Green Ammonia Storage", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, (2024).
  3. Riley, B. P., P. Daoutidis, and Q. Zhang, "Multi-scenario design of ammonia-based energy storage systems for use as non-wires alternatives", Journal of Energy Storage, 73 (2023): 108795.
  4. Daoutidis, P., Lee, J. H., Rangarajan, et al., "Machine learning in process systems engineering: Challenges and opportunities", Computers & Chemical Engineering, 108523 (2023).
  5. Mitrai, I., Jones, V. O., Dewantoro, H., Stamoulis, C., Daoutidis, P., "Internal control of brain networks via sparse feedback", AIChE Journal, 69(4), e18061 (2023).
  6. Andrés-Martínez, O., Q. Zhang, and P. Daoutidis, "Optimal Operation of a Reaction-Absorption Process for Ammonia Production at Low Pressure", Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 62.36 (2023): 14456-14466.
  7. Wang, H., P. Daoutidis, and Q. Zhang, "Ammonia-based green corridors for sustainable maritime transportation", Digital Chemical Engineering, 6 (2023): 100082.
  8. Mitrai, I., and P. Daoutidis, "A multicut generalized benders decomposition approach for the integration of process operations and dynamic optimization for continuous systems", Computers & Chemical Engineering, 164 (2022): 107859.