Dr. Lignell is a professor of Chemical Engineering at Brigham Young University. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Utah. He worked for two years at Reaction Engineering International as a consulting engineer where he performed simulations and developed models and processes for a wide range of energy projects. He worked as a graduate student intern and then as a post-doctoral researcher at Sandia National Laboratories at the Combustion Research Facility where he worked on simulation of turbulent ethylene jet flames using direct numerical...Read more
Sungho Shin is a postdoctoral researcher at the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He will be joining the Chemical Engineering Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor in the summer of 2024. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, under the guidance of Victor M. Zavala. He holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering and Mathematics from Seoul National University. His research interests include large-scale nonlinear optimization, control theory, and their applications...Read more
Jose Pinto is Senior Director at Digital Americas within Linde plc., where he is responsible for the end-to-end development and implementation of digital technologies in the Americas. Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2022 sales of $33+ billion. Dr. Pinto manages a portfolio of digital solutions that rely on operations research and machine learning technologies in the areas of supply chain planning and scheduling, risk analysis, revenue management and business processes. Jose joined the company in 2007 and has held positions of increasing...Read more
