Hear from leading voices on emerging opportunities for chemical engineers in solving societal and global problems to create and ensure a sustainable and equitable future.
Arijit Chakraborty is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Complex Resilient Intelligent Systems (CRIS) laboratory of Professor Venkat Venkatasubramanian, at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is interested in applying his knowledge and skills to real-world problems.
His active area of research lies at the intersection of applying artificial intelligence (AI) to a wide variety of chemical engineering problems, by leveraging the fundamental knowledge of physics, chemistry, and biology, that govern such physicochemical phenomena. He is interested in developing an...Read more
Daniel Anastasio is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2015. His research interests include effective use of game-based learning in undergraduate courses, design of chemical engineering teaching laboratory experiments, and novel pedagogies for teaching decision-making and ethical reasoning to engineering students. In 2020, Dr. Anastasio received the North American Membrane Society’s Educational Innovation Fellowship for a...Read more
John Bissell co-founded Origin Materials in November 2008 and has served as its Chief Executive Officer, now co-Chief Executive, and a member of its board of directors since inception. Mr. Bissell was trained as a chemical engineer at UC Davis, and has extensive experience in R&D, engineering, and business development in the chemical industry. He's been recognized by the US EPA, Forbes, and the University of California for his professional and technical contributions. Finally, he's raised over half a billion USD in capital, and took Origin Materials public in 2021.Read more
Eric Schneider is the President of the Houston Angel Network (HAN), one of the largest angel investment organizations in the US. Eric became interested in investing in his 20’s and began investing in public equities. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin. Following his undergraduate studies, he completed the US Navy Nuclear Training Program and served as an officer on a ballistic missile submarine. He has worked for banks such as Merrill Lynch and Wachovia and spent 8 years at Noble Energy, a publicly traded oil and gas...Read more
