Dr. Syed Kaschif Ahmed has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering specializing in Advanced Process Control (APC) from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Kaschif has academic experience in modeling, optimizing, and controlling different systems such as fuel cell cars, coal gasifier, and hybrid electric cars. As a postdoctoral fellow for the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, he prepared a techno-economic tool for City of Surrey and Simon Fraser University to evaluate alternative fueled vehicles. He gained industrial experience at Corning-NY where he designed Advanced Process Control solutions for new production lines in North America, Europe and Asia, while optimizing and improving existing lines. Kaschif is currently an APC engineer in the Advanced Data Analytics group in Biogen developing hybrid models and advanced controls for biologics’ upstream and downstream drug substance processes.