Henrique C. Oyama is a PhD student in the Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Wayne State Univ., where he serves as a graduate teaching assistant in process dynamics and simulation, product and process design, and kinetics and reactor design. He received a travel award to participate in the Next-Gen Manufacturing Topical Conference at the 2019 AIChE Annual Meeting. His core research area is chemical process control and process systems engineering. He received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the Federal Univ. of Uberlandia, Brazil. As an undergraduate, Oyama received several awards and honors, including a grant proposal award in the process control field, a fellowship of the Young Talents Program for Science, and a fellowship of the Tutorial Education Program of Chemical Engineering for excellence in academics, teaching, research, and service activities.