Grad Students
B. Wayne Bequette
Graduate Students
- Matthew Kuure-Kinsey
- High Temperature Fuel Cells; Continuous Glucose Monitoring
- Dale Weber (co-advised with Joel Plawsky and Henry Bungay)
- Rotating Disk Bioreactor
- Thomas Horgan
- Fuel Cell Diagnostics and Control through Stack Pattern Recognition
- Judy O'Rourke (co-advised with Murat Arcak)
- Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Diagnostics in PEM Fuel Cells
- Priyadarshi Mahapatra
- Model Predictive Control of IGCC Power Plants
- Jing Sun
- Circadian Regulation of Biological Systems
Postdoctoral Research Associates and Visiting Research Scholars
- Hyunjin Lee (Ph.D., ASU, 2006)
- Closed-loop Regulation of Blood Glucose in Subjects with Type 1 Diabetes
- Sandip Pasricha (MS EE, Montana State University)
- Modeling and Control of Integrated Fuel Cell Systems
Undergraduate Research Assistants
- Ryan Andress
- Simulation of sulfur recovery units in an IGCC power plant
- Forrest Churchill
- Modeling of a coal gasification reactor
- Hollie Liester
- Modeling and control of turbine-compressors
- Joe Perchiacca
- Nonlinear PID control of blood glucose for diabetes
- Andrew Reyna
- Modeling and control of blowers in a fuel cell system
- Emily Wheeler
- Control of blood glucose in an intensive care unit (ICU)
- Zak Norman
- Electro-actuators based on microbial cellulose
Previous Graduate Students
- Phani B. Sistu (Ph.D., 1994) TATA R&D, Pune, India
- Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
- Ravi S. Gopinath (Ph.D., 1994) TATA Consultancy Services, Mumbai, India
- Model Predictive Control of Multirate Sampled-data Processes
- Louis P. Russo (Ph.D., 1996) Exxon, Baytown, Texas
- Bifurcation Behavior of CSTR's
- Venkatesh Natarajan (Ph.D., 1999)
- Optimization of Protein Separations
- Ramesh R.
Rao (Ph.D., 2000) Aspen Technology
- Control of Drug Infusion Systems; Gain Scheduling
- Vinay Prasad (Ph.D., 2001) Professor, IIT-Bombay
- Multirate Estimation and Model Predictive Control
- Brian Aufderheide (Ph.D., 2002) Professor, Keck Graduate Institute
- Drug Infusion Control; Multiple Model-based Model Predictive Control
- Deepak Nagrath (Ph.D., 2003) Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Run-to-Run Control of Bioseparations Processes; Model Predictive Cascade Control
- Cesar C. Palerm (Ph.D., 2003) Postdoctoral Research Associate, UC Santa Barbara
- Drug Infusion Control; Model Reference Adaptive Control
- Yoga Ramamurthi (M.S., 1990)
- Data Reconciliation and Estimation Using Nonlinear Programming
- Yelena O'Brien (MS, 1999)
- An IMC Approach for Understanding LQG
- Vikas Saraf (MS, 2000)
- Auto-tuning Cascade Control of Open-loop Unstable Reactors
- Sandra Lynch (M.S., 2002) Graduate Student
- Control of Insulin Infusion Systems
- Matthias Schley (Diploma Thesis, Aachen, 1998)
- Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
- Francisco Puerta (Project)
- LabVIEW-based Control Module Development
- Manoel de Carvalho
- Nonlinear Control of Parallel Actuators
- Kevin Schott (ABD, 1998) Independent Consultant
- Multiple Model Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Processes
Previous Postdoctoral Research Associates
- Futao Zhao (2005)
- Modeling and Control of Fuel Cell Systems
- Cesar C. Palerm (2003-4) Postdoctoral Research Associate, UC Santa Barbara
- Continuous Glucose Monitoring for Diabetes
Recent Undergraduate Research Assistants
- Lynn Bresnahan
- Rotating Disk Bioreactor Control; Biodiesel Process Development
- David Camerota
- Biodiesel (converting waste cooking oil to diesel fuel)
- Karel Schnebele
- Modeling and control of a fuel cell reformer
- Leo Panaev
- Control of blood glucose in an intensive care unit (ICU)
- Ryan Andress
- Simulation of IGCC power plants using ASPEN
- Drew Keefe
- Microbial cellulose
Selected Group Photos