Joseph D. Smith works at Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology (MST; previously Missouri Rolla) and leads Elevated Analytics Consulting as Chief Technology Officer. He has served AIChE as a Director (2014–2016), Institute Treasurer (2017), and Secretary (2019–2021), and is a Fellow of the Institute. He has served on AIChE’s Local Sections and Student Chapters committees for over twenty years. His previous career includes the Dow Chemical Co., Cabot Corp., Koch Industries, and Idaho National Laboratory. He formed Elevated Analytics Consulting in 2006 and led a joint venture with CD-adapco (purchased by Siemens).
Since 2011, he has held the Wayne and Gayle Laufer Endowed Energy Chair at MST. There, his research focuses on bioenergy and resilient energy systems. He has published more than 70 papers, holds 13 patents, contributed chapters to the John Zink Combustion Handbook, The Industrial Burner Handbook, Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook, and recently published a book, Computational Fluid Dynamics for the Chemical and Petrochemical Process Industry.