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Candidates for AIChE Fellow are nominated by their peers and must have significant chemical engineering experience (generally 25 years). In addition, they must have demonstrated significant service to the profession as well as have been a member of AIChE for at least 10 years.
Please see below to learn more about some of AIChE’s recently elected Fellows. More Fellows will be introduced in future issues of CEP.
Rahul Bindlish
Rahul Bindlish is the Advanced Control and Optimization (AC&O) Technology Leader and Manager at Dow, where he has designed and implemented AC&O technology applications, including models and tools for day-ahead power scheduling, site optimization, nonlinear model predictive control, dynamic real-time optimization, and olefins feedstock selection modeling. His service to the process systems engineering community includes chairing AIChE’s 2023 Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Operations and Chemical Process Control Conference and recent leadership roles in the Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Div. and the RAPID Manufacturing Institute.
Richard M. Lueptow
Richard M. Lueptow is Senior Associate Dean at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering (by courtesy) at Northwestern Univ. His research focuses on the dynamics of granular segregation and molecular dynamics simulations of reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes, with his expertise ranging from granular flow to water purification to pattern formation. At Northwestern, he is also cofounder of the Master of Product Design and Development program. He has published more than 185 journal papers and also has five years of product development experience working in the biomedical industry.
Carson Meredith
Carson Meredith is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Georgia Tech, where he is Executive Director of the Renewable Bioproducts Institute. In this role, he leads an interdisciplinary innovation community engaged in translational research in pulp, paper, and packaging; circular materials from biomass; and bio-industrial manufacturing and biorefining. Within AIChE, he has chaired many meeting sessions and has also been active in the Materials Engineering and Sciences Div. (MESD) and the Forest and Plant Bioproducts Div. He earned his PhD in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Texas at Austin and was a postdoc at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Lirio Quintero
Lirio Quintero is a Senior Technical Advisor in oil-field and industrial chemicals at Baker Hughes, where she has developed fluid technologies for oil industry applications. Examples include microemulsions for efficient wellbore displacement, drilling and completion fluids, oil well clean-up fluids, and emulsion fuel used in electrical power plants. She represents AIChE on the Board of Directors of the Offshore Technology Conference. She has authored more than 50 U.S. patents, three book chapters, and more than 100 technical publications. A chemical engineering alumnus of the Univ. of the Andes (Venezuela), she earned a doctorate in petroleum science from Pierre and Marie Curie Univ. (France).
Jeffrey Seay
Jeffrey Seay is Professor of Chemical Engineering and the PJC Board of Trustees Engineering Professor at the Univ. of Kentucky’s Paducah Campus. His AIChE leadership includes roles in the Sustainable Engineering Forum, the International Committee, and as programming chair of the Environmental Div. He currently chairs AIChE’s topical conference on waste plastics and is a member of the Managing Board of AIChE’s Institute for Sustainability and the Climate Solutions Community. In 2020, he established a nonprofit venture called Engineers for Sustainable Energy Solutions. He is also Senior Fellow with the Global Council on Science and the Environment.
Bin Yang
Bin Yang is a professor in the Dept. of Biological Systems Engineering and the Bioproduct Sciences and Engineering Lab at Washington State Univ. His research interests are focused on understanding fundamental mechanisms and advancing biomass processing technologies for biofuels and bioproducts. He has recently pioneered new biomass pretreatment technologies and manufacturing technologies to process biomass into lignin-based jet fuel, bioplastics, and other bioproducts. He holds six patents, has authored more than 130 peer-reviewed papers, and serves on editorial boards for several biorefinery journals. He has also volunteered extensively with AIChE and has initiated and organized sessions at AIChE conferences.