Professor Ignacio E. Grossmann is the R. R. Dean University Professor of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He obtained his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City in 1974, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at Imperial College in 1975 and 1977. He was Department Head of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon from 1994 to 2002, and is currently director of the "Center for Advanced Process Decision-making." He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Major AIChE awards include Computing in Chemical Engineering Award, William H. Walker Award, Warren Lewis Award, and Research Excellence in Sustainable Engineering. More recently he received the Luis Federico Leloir Award for International Cooperation in Argentina, and the Prof. C.N.R. Rao Medal, IIChE in India. He has received honorary doctorates from Abo Akademi, University of Maribor and Technical University of Dortmund. He was named “One of the Hundred Chemical Engineers of the Modern Era” by AIChE. His research interests are in the areas of mixed-integer and logic-based optimization, stochastic programming, process synthesis, energy and water integration, oil and gas infrastructure development, enterprise-wide optimization, and planning and scheduling of batch and continuous processes. He is the author of over 400 publications.