2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: 10: CAST Director's Student Presentation Award Finalists (Invited Talks)

CAST Director's Student Presentation Award Finalists: The presentations for this session are selected as part of the CAST Director's Student Presentation Award. This session is not for general submission.

Chair

Fernando Lima, West Virginia University

Co-Chair

Victor Zavala, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Presentations

03:30 PM

(10a) Digital Twin for Continuous Lyophilization of Biotherapeutics
Prakitr Srisuma, Gang Chen, Richard D. Braatz

03:48 PM

(10b) Computer-Aided Molecular and Process Design for Ionic Liquid-Based Separation of Mixed-Refrigerants
Ashfaq Iftakher, M. M. Faruque Hasan

04:06 PM

(10c) From Approximation to Reliability: Integrating Statistically Valid Model Uncertainty in Machine Learning Surrogates for Optimization
Daniel Ovalle, Victor Alves, Ignacio Grossmann, Carl Laird

04:24 PM

(10d) Deep Learning Models with Hard Linear Inequality Constraints
Gonzalo Constante-Flores, Hao Chen, Can Li

04:42 PM

(10e) Snoglode: A Flexible Solver for Parallel Decomposition and Global Optimization of Large-Scale Block Angular Decomposable Optimization Problems
Georgia Stinchfield, Yankai Cao, Carl Laird

05:00 PM

(10f) MPCritic: A Unified Framework for MPC and Reinforcement Learning
Thomas Banker, Nathan P. Lawrence, Ali Mesbah

05:18 PM

(10g) Decoding Control: Scalable and Interpretable Approximation of Control Laws with Oblique Decision Trees
Jiayang Ren, Yankai Cao

05:36 PM

(10h) Advancing Real-Time Control of Complex Processes Via Two-Timescale-Based Hybrid Modeling: Application to Crystallization
Parth Shah, J Jay Liu, Joseph Kwon