Francesco Coletti

Dr. Francesco Coletti is the CEO of Hexxcell Ltd., a London based technology and consulting company providing predictive analytics and prescriptive maintenance solutions for industrial heat transfer systems to major international oil&gas and petrochemical companies. He is also a part-time Associate Professor at Brunel University London where he contributed to the launch of a new Chemical Engineering Department. Prior to Hexxcell, Francesco worked as a Development Specialist at the Praxair Technology Center (now Linde) in Buffalo, NY. Francesco has over a decade of experience in development (from conception to industrial deployment) of hybrid AI-deterministic models for predictive maintenance and optimization of operations. He is also the Executive Editor of Heat Exchanger Design Handbook, the Secretary of the UK National Heat Transfer Committee, an elected member of the Scientific Committee for the International Heat Transfer Conferences and a Director of the AIChE Fuels&Petrochemical Division. He holds a Laurea degree in Chemical Engineering from Padova University, Italy, an MSc in Process Systems Engineering and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London, UK.