Congratulations to Dr. Matt Bassett, the newly elected 2023 Chair. Matt has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University. Matt joined Corteva Agriscience after graduate school and has been with the company in various roles for 26 years. Matt currently leads the Global Crop Protection Supply Chain Analytics group. Throughout his career, Matt has developed and applied quantitative decision-making models within numerous functions throughout Corteva. Some areas of focus include mixed integer linear programming, discrete event and Monte Carlo simulation, options analysis, as well as data transformation and visualization.
Matt has been very involved in AIChE, CAST, CACHE and PSE related activities over the years. He has served as the web-page coordinator for many years and chaired or co-chaired many CAST-sponsored sessions in addition to serving as the Area 10C Programming Coordinator for the 2006 Annual Meeting. He served as a CAST Director from 2011-2013 and a CACHE Trustee from 2014-2016. He chaired FOCAPO 2008 with Marianthi Ierapetritou and Stratos Pistikopoulos as well as served on numerous programming, technical, and scientific organizing committees for additional international conferences.
Matt is currently the second vice-chair for CAST. Matt looks forward to continuing the work started by previous CAST Chairs to increase the engagement of new members in the hopes of having them become lifelong participants in CAST. One way to do this is to improve our presence on the web as well as other social media platforms. Matt looks forward to working with the Directors and other officers to identify other ways we can encourage participation by a wider audience.
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