Faruque Hasan

Dr. Faruque Hasan is currently an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Kim Tompkins McDivitt ’88 and Phillip McDivitt ’87 Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M University. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Texas A&M Energy Institute. He received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology in 2005 and a Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore in 2010. He worked as a postdoctoral associate at Princeton University for three years before joining Texas A&M University in 2014. Dr. Hasan leads a research group that is now being recognized for developing fundamental process systems engineering and optimization methods for the design, intensification and analysis of chemical processes with applications to carbon capture and storage, sustainable hydrogen economy, energy storage design, technoeconomic and life cycle analysis, and circular economy. Dr. Hasan is a senior member of AIChE and served as the Area Chair for the Computing & Systems Technology Division. He is the recipient of the 2021 AIChE CAST Division Outstanding Young Researcher Award, NSF CAREER award, the I&ECR 2019 Class of Influential Researchers Award, the World Technology Network Award in Environmental Category, Texas A&M Outstanding Achievement Award, ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award, Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, and two Best Paper Awards from Computers & Chemical Engineering (2015) and Journal of Global Optimization (2017). His research has been externally funded by the NSF, DOE, American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, and Oak Ridge Associated Universities.