Grad Students

B. Wayne Bequette

Graduate Students

• Jing Sun
  Habituating Control of Blood Glucose in the ICU

  Jeff Marquis (co-advised with Marc-Olivier Coppens)

  Nature-Inspired Design of PEM Fuel Cell Systems

  Matt Titus

  Modeling and Control of SOFC Systems

  Anna Lis Laursen

  Modeling Droplet Flows in an Annular Pipe

Postdoctoral Research Associates and Visiting Research Scholars

• Fraser Cameron (Ph.D. Stanford, 2010)
  Closed-loop Regulation of Blood Glucose in Subjects with Type 1 Diabetes

  ZhiXin (Lily) Wang

  Modeling and Control fo Carbon Dioxide Separations Processes

Undergraduate Research Assistants

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, University of Alberta

  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) Professor, Rice University

  Run-to-Run Control of Bioseparations Processes; Model Predictive Cascade Control

  Cesar C. Palerm (Ph.D., 2003) Medtronic

  Matthew Kuure-Kinsey (Ph.D., 2008) Minneapolis, MN

  High Temperature Fuel Cells

  Judy O'Rourke (Ph.D., 2008 co-advised with Murat Arcak)

  Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Diagnostics in PEM Fuel Cells

  Priyadarshi Mahapatra (Ph.D., 2010) NETL, Morgantown, West Virgina

  Model Predictive Control of IGCC Power Plants

  Dale Weber(MS 2010, co-advised with Joel Plawsky and Henry Bungay)

  Rotating Disk Bioreactor

  Thomas Horgan

  Fuel Cell Diagnostics and Control through Stack Pattern Recognition

  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 and Visiting Scholars

• Ruben Rojas Fulbright Fellow (2009-2010)
  Insulin Infusion Set Fault Detection

  Hyunjin Lee (2006-2010)

  Closed-loop Regulation of Blood Glucose in Subjects with Type 1 Diabetes

  Futao Zhao (2005)

  Modeling and Control of Fuel Cell Systems

  Cesar C. Palerm (2003-4) Medtronic Diabetes

  Continuous Glucose Monitoring for Diabetes

  Sandip Pasricha (MS EE, Montana State University)

  Modeling and Control of Integrated Fuel Cell Systems

Recent Undergraduate Research Assistants

• Laura Newsom
  SCADA Process Applications

  Michael Franke

  Modeling for Type 2 Diabetes

  Leonid Pavlovsky

  Study of Circadian Rhythms

  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

  Stephanie Tanous

  Control of blood glucose in an intensive care unit (ICU)

  Emily Wheeler

  Control of blood glucose in an intensive care unit (ICU)

  Zak Norman

  Electro-actuators based on microbial cellulose

  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