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2022

  • Manali defended her Ph.D. thesis

    • May 31, 2022. Manali Zantye has defended her Ph.D. thesis with flying colors! Manali's PhD dissertation is titled "Computational Frameworks for Integrated Design and Operation of Carbon Capture, Renewables and Energy Storage Systems". Congratulations Dr. Zantye!

  • Kazi joins the group as a Postdoc

    • April 14, 2022. Dr. Kazi Monzure Khoda joins the SOULS lab as a postdoctoral research associate at the Texas A&M Energy Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2013). He completed his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (2008).

  • Ahmed defended his Ph.D. thesis

    • March 10, 2022. Ahmed Harhara has defended his Ph.D. thesis with flying colors! Ahmed's PhD dissertation is titled "Incorporating Process Safety into Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis". Congratulations Dr. Harhara!

2021

  • Professor Hasan elected as Director of AIChE CAST Division for 2022-2024

    • October 14, 2021. Professor Hasan was recently elected as a director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Division for 2022-24. More can be found "here"

  • Spyros defended his Ph.D. thesis

    • June 17, 2021. Spyridon "Spyros" Tsolas has defended his Ph.D. thesis with flying colors! Spyros' PhD dissertation is titled "Design and Analysis of Water-Energy Nexus as Interconnected Networks for Sustainability, Survivability and Resilience". Congratulations Dr. Tsolas!

  • Professor Hasan wins CAST Outstanding Young Researcher Award

    • June 16, 2021. Professor Faruque Hasan is the recipient of the 2021 AIChE Computing & Systems Technology (CAST) Outstanding Young Researcher Award. This is a prestigious award from AIChE given to an individual under the age of 40 to recognize outstanding contributions to the chemical engineering computing and systems technology literature. Dr Hasan receives this award "for novel contributions in the areas of computer-aided process intensification and process synthesis with applications to energy and the environment".

  • Paper on carbon capture and renewables accepted in Energy & Environmental Science

    • April 21, 2021. Our recent paper titled "Renewable-Integrated Flexible Carbon Capture: A Synergistic Path Forward to Clean Energy Future" is accepted for publication in Energy & Environmental Science (Impact Factore of 30.2)! The paper is based on the work of Manali Zantye and Akhil Arora. The paper provides a framework to decarbonize existing coal power plants through integrated flexible carbon capture and renewables. CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) is one way to curb CO2, but it is costly and energy-intensive. Renewables, on other hand, can be intermittent. We counter both problems of CCS and solar/wind through their synergistic integration with fossil power plants. We ask: Is it economic to invest in an integrated Fossil-CCS-Renewable system? Can renewables reduce the cost of CCS, and can CCS effectively counter renewable intermittency? What are the design alternatives to handle spatiotemporal variability in electricity markets and renewables? How does integrated system cost compare with that of a new natural gas plant?

  • Akhilesh won 2nd place at TAMU Data Science Competition

    • April 16, 2021. Akhilesh, a 3rd year PhD student in the group, has won the second place at the Texas A&M Data Science competition 2021. Along with this, he also got two auxillary awards for best use of additional data and second place for project proposal. Congratulations Akhilesh!

  • Akhil defended his Ph.D. thesis

    • April 8, 2021. Akhil Arora has defended his Ph.D. thesis with flying colors! Akhil's PhD dissertation is titled "Process Design, Optimization and Material Screening Methods for Small-Scale Chemical Manufacturing with Application to Unconventional Natural Gas". Congratulations Dr. Arora!

2020

  • Keynote Lecture at ICChE2020 Conference

    • December 20, 2020. Professor Hasan was invited as a Keynote Speaker at the 6th International Conference on Chemical Engineering, ICChE2020, which was held virtually from December 20-22, 2020. He delevered a presentation titled "Synergistic Process Intensification: Frameworks and Applications".

  • The group conducts 1st Virtual Writing Retreat

    • December 7-12, 2020. The SOULS group has attended the first ever writing retreat (virtual). The group has worked on several manuscripts, discussed how to write more effectively, and collaborated as author-editor-reviewer triplets. The week-long retreat was a success!

  • Akhil wins the Brunner Barnes Fellowship Award

    • November 8, 2020. Akhil Arora, a fifth year PhD student in the group, has been awarded the Brunner Barnes Fellowship from the Chemical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. This prestigious fellowship is given annually to a top graduate student of the department for his/her research excellence in any field of chemical engineering. Akhil is the second member of the group to be awarded this fellowship, after Jianping Li who was awarded last year. Congratulations Akhil!

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison CBE Departmental Seminar

    • October 27, 2020. Professor Hasan delivered an invited seminar at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Thanks CBE UWM for inviting and arranging the virtual "visit"!

  • Distinguished Alumni Lecture

    • October 10, 2020. Professor Hasan was invited by his alma mater (Department of Chemical Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, BUET) to give a Distinguished Alumni Lecture on October 10, 2020. The virtual lecture was attended by many faculty, students and alumni. Thanks ChE BUET for the kind invitation!

  • Promotion to tenured Associate Professor

    • September 01, 2020. Dr. Faruque Hasan is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure effective September 01, 2020.

  • Emre and Jianping defended their Ph.D. theses

    • May 29, 2020. Salih Emre Demirel and Jianping Li, the duo working on building block based process intensification in the group, have successfully defended their Ph.D. theses. Emre's PhD dissertation is titled "Methods for Systematic Process Intensification". Jianping's PhD dissertation is titled "Methods and Algorithms for Process Synthesis and Intensification using Building Blocks". Congratulations Dr. Demirel and Dr. Li!

  • Second place at the 2020 Texas A&M Data Science competition

    • April 22, 2020. A team led by four members of the systems optimization and multiscale analysis group (Akhil, Akhilesh, Jianping, and Manali) has won the second place in the graduate category of the 2020 Texas A&M Data Science Competition with a $1000 prize money. Congratulations to the team!

  • Jianping wins Best Oral Presentation Award at the ChEGSA Symposium

    • March 06, 2020. Jianping Li, a fifth year PhD student in the group, has won the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 7th ChEGSA Symposium organized by chemical engineering graduate students at Texas A&M University. Congratulations Jianping!

  • Professor Hasan receives NSF CAREER award

    • January 29, 2020. Professor Faruque Hasan recently received a CAREER award from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The CAREER award is the most prestigious recognition given by the NSF to teacher–scholars early in their academic careers. The awarded research project titled 'CAREER: Synergistic Design, Analysis and Learning of Intensified Process Systems,' aims to systematically detect and analyze the existence, emergence and role of hidden synergistic effects in complex systems, and apply this fundamental knowledge to better design and synthesize safer, greener, energy–efficient and cost–effective chemical processes. Here is a story from Texas A&M College of Engineering on this award: "Hasan receives NSF CAREER Award to detect and analyze synergies"

2019

  • Manali wins third place at the Society of Women Engineering (SWE) conference in California

    • November, 2019. Manali Zantye, a first year PhD student in the group, has been awarded the third place in a Graduate Research Competition at the Society of Women Engineering (SWE) conference in California. SWE is the world's largest conference for women. Congratulations Manali!

  • Jianping receives the Brunner Barnes Fellowship

    • October 31, 2019. Jianping Li, a fifth year PhD student in the group, has been awarded the Brunner Barnes Fellowship from the Chemical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. This prestigious fellowship is given annually to a top graduate student of the department for his/her research excellence in any field of chemical engineering. Congratulations Jianping!

  • Ahmed awarded the Lamiya Zahin Memorial Safety Scholarship

    • September 25, 2019. Ahmed Harhara, a fourth year PhD student in the group, has been selected for the 2019 Lamiya Zahin Memorial Safety Scholarship by the Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center. The award will be presented to him at the MKOPSC International Symposium in October. Congratulations Ahmed!

  • Professor Hasan is Principal Investigator of a new DOE/RAPID grant

    • August 23, 2019. The Department of Energy (DOE)-funded RAPID Institute has recently announced two new EWD Projects for funding. One of the selected projects is titled "COMPLETE – Computer-Aided, Model-Based Process Intensification Learning, Training, and Education". Professor Faruque Hasan is the principal investigator (PI) of COMPLETE that brings together a team of researchers from Texas A&M University with support from Chemstations, Inc. The team will develop a comprehensive EWD program, specifically focusing on computer-aided and process systems engineering-based strategies for modeling and simulation of process intensification systems.

  • Spyros wins Best Poster Award at FOCAPD Conference in Colorado

    • July 19, 2019. Spyridon "Spyros" Tsolas has won a Best Poster Award in the 9th International Conference on Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design (FOCAPD 2019) that was held in Copper Mountain, Colorado from July 14–18, 2019. FOCAPD is the premier conference on process and systems design, which is held once every five year. Spyros' poster, which was titled "Systematic Design, Analysis and Optimization of Water-Energy Nexus", was selected as one of the best from more than one hundred posters that were presented in the conference. The news was highlighted by the College of Engineering (see here). Congratulations Spyros!

  • Professor Hasan an invited Featured and Session Plenary Speaker in FOCAPD Conference

    • July 16, 2019. Professor Hasan was an invited Featured and Session Plenary Speaker in the 9th International Conference on Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design (FOCAPD 2019) that was held in Copper Mountain, Colorado from July 14–18, 2019. FOCAPD is the premier conference on process and systems design, which is held once every five year. The title of Professor Hasan's talk was "Systemic Process Intensification: Challenges, New Perspectives and Future Directions".

  • Professor Hasan co-PI in a DOE grant

    • June 20, 2019. Professor Hasan is a co-principal investigator (co-PI) in a collaborative project that is recently funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) under the University Turbine Systems Research (UTSR) program. Under this grant, the Systems Optimization and Multiscale Analysis group will develop advanced optimization models and computational tools to help downselect optimal energy storage technologies for large-scale power plants to mitigate the spatio-temporal variabilities and uncertainties in electricity demands.

  • Manali and Ore defended their M.S. theses

    • June 13, 2019. Manali and Ore successfully defended their M.S. theses in Chemical Engineering and Energy, respectively. Manali's thesis is titled "Operational Scheduling of Power Plants with Flexible Carbon Capture under Uncertain Electricity Prices". Ore's thesis is titled "Optimization and Scheduling of a Hybrid Energy Powered Carbon Capture Plant". Congratulations to Manali, who will be continuing her stay as a PhD student from the Fall'19 in the group, and Ore for their academic success!

  • TAMU Energy Institute highlights our process intensification work

    • May 17, 2019. Texas A&M Energy Institute recently highlighted our CEP article that summarizes our breakthrough in systematic process intensification using building blocks. Congrats to Emre and Jianping for their hard work! Chemical Engineering Progress (CEP), the flagship magazine of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), has published a special section on Process Intensification. Our article on "A Building Block Approach to Process Intensification" is included in this special section this year.

  • CEP Article on Building Blocks-based Process Intensification

    • March 05, 2019. Chemical Engineering Progress (CEP), the flagship magazine of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), has published a special section on Process Intensification. Our article on "A Building Block Approach to Process Intensification" is included in this special section this year.

  • Shachit defended his Ph.D. thesis

    • March 05, 2019. Shachit Iyer has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. His dissertation is titled "Multiscale Optimization Frameworks for Integrated Process and Material Design and Intensification". Congratulations Dr. Iyer, and best wishes for your new journey with Dow Chemical Company!

  • Ishan defended his Ph.D. thesis

    • February 22, 2019. Ishan Bajaj has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. His dissertation is titled "Optimization Methods and Algorithms for Classes of Black-Box and Grey-Box Problems". Congratulations Dr. Bajaj, and best wishes for your postdoctoral journey at Wisconsin-Madison!

2018

  • World Technology Network Finalist Award

    • December 2018. Professor Faruque Hasan has received the 2018 World Technology Network Finalist Award in the Environment category. He has also become a Fellow of the World Technology Network (WTN).

  • Journal of Global Optimization (JOGO) 2017 Best Paper Award

    • December 2018. Fani Boukouvala, M. M. Faruque Hasan and Christodoulos A. Floudas are co-awarded the 2017 Journal of Global Optimization (JOGO) Best Paper Award for their paper titled "Global optimization of general constrained grey-box models: new method and its application to constrained PDEs for pressure swing". Three papers were selected as the award co-winners. The award carries a cash prize of $1,000, which will be split equally between the three papers.

  • Shachit's paper on combined natural gas separation and storage published in I&ECR

    • December 2018. Shachit (5th year PhD), in collaboration with Emre (4th year PhD), publishes his work on combined separation and storage (CSS) technology that is able to simultaneously separate and store methane from contaminated natural gas. This work, published in I&EC Research, applies a multi-scale framework for screening the top zeolites as well as the best process design and operating conditions that are suitable for CSS. Congratulations Shachit!

  • Ishan wins the Outstanding Graduate Research Award

    • December 2018. We are proud to announce that Ishan Bajaj, a 5th year PhD student at the SOULS lab, is awarded the 2018 Outstanding Graduate Research Award from the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. Congratulations Ishan!

  • Manali participated at the C3E Women in Energy Symposium at Stanford

    • December 2018. Manali S. Zantye, a 2nd year MSC student at the SOULS lab, attended the C3E Women in Energy 2018 Symposium held at Stanford University as one of the only six invited participants from Texas A&M University and the Texas A&M Energy Institute. Manali presented a poster based on her work titled "Optimal Power Plant Scheduling with Flexible Carbon Capture under Uncertain Electricity Prices".

  • Professor Hasan delivered a Keynote at the ICFMCE 2018, Abu Dhabi

    • November 2018. Professor Hasan was invited as a Keynote Speaker at the 2nd International Conference on Functional Materials and Chemical Engineering (ICFMCE 2018), which was held at Abu Dhabi, UAE from November 20-22, 2018. He delevered a presentation titled Design Frameworks for Small-scale, Distributed and Unconventional Feedstocks.

  • Professor Hasan appointed as an endowed Faculty Fellow

    • October 2018. The College of Engineering at Texas A&M University recently appointed Professor Faruque Hasan as the first Kim Tompkins McDivitt ’88 and Phil McDivitt ’87 Endowed Faculty Fellow. The Faculty Fellowship is funded through an endowment from Kim Tompkins McDivitt ’88 and Phil McDivitt ’87 to recognize excellence and future potential.

  • Five new graduate students join Hasan group

    • October 2018. The SOULS lab welcomes five new graduate student members (3 PhD and 2 MS students) starting Fall'2018! Sadaf Monjur (BUET class of 2011), Akhilesh Gandhi (IIT Bombay class of 2017) and Ahmed Harhara (WSU class of 2015) join the group as PhD students, while Ashwini Ravindran (NIT Calicut class of 2017) and Nikhita Vankadari (VNIT Nagpur class of 2016) start working on their MS theses under Dr. Hasan's supervision. Welcome aboard!

  • Akhil's work on methanol process intensification accepted in I&ECR

    • October 2018. Akhil first-authors another paper in I&ECR on dynamic process intensification of periodic sorption-enhanced reaction processes for the production of methanol from synthesis gas. Congratulations Akhil!

  • Review paper on process intensification published

    • August 2018. In collaboration with Prof. Pistikopoulos' group, we have recently drafted an extensive review on the current status and future trends of process intensification research. A particular focus has been given on various process systems engineering (PSE) techniques that can be applied for systematic process intensification of chemical process industries. The review includes both academic and industrial developments with more than 800 citations. The review paper has been accepted for publication as an invited contribution in the flagship journal Chemical Engineering & Processing: Process Intensification. Congratulations to Emre for this extensive work!

  • Professor Hasan invited for the inaugural "Futures" series of the AIChE Journal

    • July 2018. The editorial team of the AIChE Journal - the flagship journal of chemical engineering - recently invited Prof. Hasan to contribute in the inaugural “Futures” series that contains contribution from a select group of the discipline’s early career researchers and future leaders. The Futures series complements the Founders Tribute series which annually honors a stalwart in the chemical engineering profession through a collection of invited contributions. The journal editor writes in the special issue Editorial, "While the “Founders” issue celebrates the scholarly legacies of the greats from our profession, the “Futures” issue recognizes the scholarly potential of new researchers from our profession. Indeed, I am hopeful and expect that a future Amundson, Bird, Prausnitz, Sargent, or Jackson is among the contributors to this inaugural “Futures” issue!" Congratulations to also Jianping and Emre to be part of this issue through publishing the process synthesis paper!

  • Akhil develops GRAMS - a general process simulation and optimization framework for periodic adsorption and reaction systems

    • July 2018. Akhil's paper describing the GRAMS framework for generalized adsorption-reaction systems is accepted for publication in Chemical Engineeing Science. Congratulations Akhil!

  • Ishan awarded a PSE 2018 Young Researcher Award

    • May 2018. We are proud to announce that Ishan is selected for a PSE 2018 Young Researcher Award. Congratulations Ishan!

  • Professor Hasan joins the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Energy Research

    • May 2018. Professor Hasan joins the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Energy Research.

  • Ishan a finalist of the AIChE CAST Directors’ Student Presentation Award 2018

    • May 2018. We are proud to announce that Ishan has been selected as one of the Finalists for the AIChE CAST Directors’ Student Presentation Award 2018. He will be presenting his work on UNIPOPT as part of the award presentation in the upcoming AIChE Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh this year. Congratulations Ishan!

  • Five members of the group winners of the Utilities Challenge

    • May 2018. A team led by five members of the systems optimization and multiscale analysis group (Ishan, Spyros, Akhil, Emre and Shachit) wins the Utilities Challenge – a campus-wide competition for improving the energy sustainability at Texas A&M University using data science. Texas A&M College of Engineering and the Texas A&M Energy Institute published a cover story. Congratulations to the winning team!

  • Spyros proposes Nexus Diagram

    • April 2018. Water and energy are interdependant in many ways and Spyros’ recent work elucidates this dependency through a novel water-energy nexus (WEN) diagram. This work is accepted for publication in Applied Energy. Congratulations Spyros!

  • Akhil enables SERP process synthesis!

    • April 2018. Optimal synthesis of sorption-enhanced reaction processes (SERP) is one of the most difficult process synthesis problems due to the presence of complex and periodically changing process dynamics and multiple competing phenomena. Akhil’s work on the synthesis of periodic SERP accomplishes this complex task for hydrogen production. The paper has been accepted for publication in Computers & Chemical Engineering. Congratulations Akhil!

  • New underestimator developed for global optimization

    • March 2018. We propose a novel edge-concave underestimator for the deterministic global optimization of general nonconvex problems with multiple optima. The work is accepted for publication in Journal of Global Optimization. We dedicate this paper to the loving memory of Professor Christodoulos A. Floudas – a pioneer in the field.

  • Jianping publishes two papers on process integration

    • February 2018. Jianping first-authors on two papers accepted for publication back-to-back! The first paper, published in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, reports a new method based on building blocks for general process integration problems. The second paper extends the method for fuel gas network synthesis, and is published in Processes. Emre is also a co-author in both papers. Congratulations Jianping and Emre!

  • Professor Hasan delivers departmental seminar at BUET

    • January 2018. Professor Hasan delivered a departmental seminar in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Thanks for the warm welcome and invitation. It was a wonderful moment visiting the alma mater after so many years!

2017

  • December 2017: Professor Hasan attended the Fifth International Conference on Chemical Engineering: ICChE 2017 organized by the Department of Chemical Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).
  • December 2017: Ishan’s paper on data-driven constrained black-box and grey-box optimization has been accepted in Computers & Chemical Engineering. Congratulations Ishan!
  • December 2017: Professor Hasan is awarded the 2017 Outstanding Achievement Award from the Chemical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University.
  • November 2017: Professor Hasan wins the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF) Doctoral New Investigator Award. A story on this award and funded project is shared in the homepages of the TAMU College of Engineering and the Texas A&M Energy Institute.
  • November 2017: Professor Hasan is a co-Principal Investigator of SYNOPSIS (Synthesis of Operable Process Intensification Systems) - a $6.3M and 4-year project funded by the RAPID Institute of DOE.
  • October 2017: Seven members of the SOULS group attended the AIChE Annual Meeting this year in Minneapolis and gave thirteen presentations! Professor Hasan gave an invited talk in the CAST division plenary session. Jianping was a finalist in the CAST Directors’ Student Presentation Award.
  • October 2017: Professor Hasan gave an invited talk in the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Houston, TX. Ishan presented two contributed papers.
  • October 2017: Manali Zantye joins the SOULS group as an MS student. Welcome Manali!
  • October 2017: Professor Hasan attended 27th European Symposium on Computer-Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE-27) in Barcelona, Spain. Thanks NSF for providing a travel grant!
  • October 2017: Priya’s paper on Simulation and Optimization of Reforming Reactors for Carbon Dioxide Utilization has been accepted in Journal of CO2 Utilization. Congratulations Priya!
  • July 2017: Shachit’s paper on integrated carbon capture and conversion has been accepted in Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. Congratulations Shachit!
  • May 2017: Jianping has been selected as a finalist for the CAST Directors’ Student Presentation Award to present his work “SPICE: A Computer-Aided Framework for Systematic Process Intensification of Chemical Enterprises” at the 2017 AIChE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis. Congrats Jianping!
  • May 2017: Priyadarshini Balasubramanian has successfully defended her MS thesis and becomes the first student to graduate from the group. Congrats Priya and all the best in your new job!
  • May 2017: Professor Hasan attended the Floudas Memorial Symposium held in Princeton University, NJ in memory of late Professor Christodoulos A. Floudas.
  • April 2017: Professor Hasan gave an invited talk and attended the workshop on Data-Driven Model Reduction, Scientific Frontiers, and Applications at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, April 27, 2017. Special thanks to Professors Joseph Kwon, Yalchin Efendiev, and Eduardo Gildin for inviting and organizing the excellent workshop!
  • March 2017: Professor Hasan gave a talk and chaired a session at the Global Optimization Conference (GOC) 2017. The conference was dedicated to Professor Christodoulos A. Floudas – a pioneer in the field of deterministic global optimization. Congrats to Professors Sergiy Butenko and Stratos Pistikopoulos for organizing the conference!
  • March 2017: Professor Hasan gave two talks at the AIChE Spring Meeting in San Antonio. The first talk was an update on the systematic process intensification work, and the second talk was on data-driven optimization.
  • March 2017: Texas A&M Energy Research Society interviewed Professor Faruque Hasan for their Spotlight Series! Click here to listen to the interview.
  • February 2017: Priya’s work has been selected as the Best Presentation of the Session at AIChE Annual Meeting. Congrats Priya!
  • January 2017: Emre’s paper on systematic process intensification has been accepted in Computers & Chemical Engineering. Congratulations to Emre and Jianping!

2016

  • November 2016: Graduate student Salih Emre Demirel is selected as a Graduate Teaching Fellow for spring 2017. The competition was college wide. Congrats Emre!
  • November 2016: SOULS Lab presented 6 oral presentations at the 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
  • November 2016: Professor Hasan is elected to be a Program Coordinator for the Computing & Systems Technology (CAST) Division of AIChE. The program coordinators are selected by a division-wide open voting process. Professor Hasan will coordinate the sessions and program of Area 10A: Systems and Process Design of the CAST Division in 2019. This area includes a number of conventional sessions on process and product design, as well as emerging topics such as process intensification, energy systems design and design for sustainability.
  • Graduate student Ishan Bajaj wins the FOCAPO/CPC 2017 Travel Award to attend the Foundations of Computer Aided Process Operations / Chemical Process Control (FOCAPO/CPC) conference in Arizona. Congrats Ishan!
  • October 2016: SOULS Lab is growing even bigger! Three new graduate students join the group. Akhil Arora joins as a new PhD student in the group. As a topper of his class, Akhil graduated from BITS Pilani, India in 2016. Huaigu Xie joins as a new MS student in the group. Huaigu comes from University of Missouri. Spyridon Tsolas joins as a new PhD student in the group and will be jointly advised by Professor Hasan and Professor Karim. Spyridon graduated from University of Patras, Greece.
  • September, 2016: Professor Hasan wins the 2015 Best Paper Award from Computers & Chemical Engineering journal for the paper titled “A Multi-scale Framework for CO2 Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration: CCUS and CCU” out of more than 200 papers published that year. Professor Hasan leads the authorship of this paper. Computers & Chemical Engineering is the top process systems engineering journal, e.g., as shown in the SJR Ranking.
  • August 2016: Shachit wins the Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Award to attend the AIChE Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
  • June 2016: Professor Hasan has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The project is titled: "Systematic Process Intensification of Gas Separation, Conversion, and Storage". This study will develop a general methodology for combining process design with intensification within a single optimization-based framework. We are thankful to the NSF for this support.
  • May 2016: Professor Hasan has been invited to participate in the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE) 2016 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (EU-USFOE), which will be held in October at Aalto University, Finland.
  • April 12, 2016: Professor Hasan presented two papers focusing on (i) optimization-based systematic process intensification, and (ii) intensification of natural gas separation and storage at the AIChE Spring Meeting in Houston.
  • April 4, 2016: Professor Hasan was an invited speaker at the Texas Optimization Day:2016.
  • Mar. 11, 2016: Graduate students Jianping Li and Salih Emre Demirel received “Best Poster Presentation” awards at the recent Texas A&M Chemical Engineering Research Symposium for their poster titled “A Unified Process Intensification and Synthesis Method for Gas Separation, Conversion, and Storage”. Congrats Jianping and Emre!

2015

  • October 2015: Graduate student Shachit Iyer gave a talk at the Composites and Advanced Materials Expo (CAMX) in Dallas.
  • October 2015: SOULS Lab is growing! Salih Emre Demirel joins as a new PhD student in the group. Emre graduated from Bogazici University, Turkey. Jianping Li joins as a new PhD student in the group. Jianping graduated from Dalian University of Technology, China. Priyadarshini Balasubramanian joins as a new MS student in the group. Priyadarshini graduated from Anna University, India. Kyungjae Tak joins the SOULS Lab as a visiting student. Tak comes from Yonsei University, Korea, where he is a PhD candidate. Robert Blando, a TAMU undergraduate student, joins the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Emre, Jianping, Priyadarshini, Tak, and Robert.
  • September 2015: Our proposed methane separation and storage technology has been featured in the Texas A&M Energy Institute’s inaugural issue of Energy Matters!
  • August 2015: Professor Hasan is spotlighted for co-authoring a research article which is selected for the cross-journal ACS virtual issue on Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Technology. The ACS issue is a collection of papers selected by the Editors of 5 prominent ACS journals (JACS, I&ECR, JPC, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., and Chem. Eng. Data).
  • August 2015: Professor Hasan was an invited speaker at the UKC15 conference in Atlanta GA. He was invited to present in the CO2 Capture Symposium at UKC 2015.
  • June 2015: Colton Cunningham, a 3rd year undergraduate student at TAMU, joins the group. Colton will be working on chemical process intensification. Welcome Colton!
  • June 2015: The Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University highlights the news of Professor Faruque Hasan receiving the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. It was also featured in the June 11’2015 issue of the Texas A&M Engineering Weekly Newsletter.
  • June 2015: Ricardo Araujo, a 4th year undergraduate from Federal University of Grande Dourado, joins the group. Ricardo will spend summer 2015 working on CO2 capture systems. Welcome Ricardo!
  • May 2015: Professor Faruque Hasan receives a research grant from Texas A&M Energy Institute to lead a multidisciplinary research on methane separation and storage.
  • May 2015: Professor Faruque Hasan receives the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), to support research on the accurate and efficient characterization of gas adsorption inside microporous materials (zeolites and metal-organic frameworks). The 2015 recipients of these awards from ORAU were competitively selected from among 134 faculty applications from ORAU’s 115 sponsoring institutions across the nation.
  • May 12, 2015: The SOULS Lab moves to the Giesecke Engineering Research Building (GERB). The lab is now located on the 3rd floor of GERB which houses the Texas A&M Energy Institute.
  • March 9, 2015: Haoyang (Justin) Li, a final-year undergraduate intern from Tianjin University, joins the group. Welcome Justin!
  • March 4, 2015: The Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University publishes an article highlighting Professor Hasan’s research on carbon capture, utilization and sequestration. This is also highlighted in the Texas A&M Energy Institute’s homepage.

2014

  • October 2014: Shachit Iyer joins as one of the first PhD students of the group! Shachit completed his dual degree at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2014. Welcome Shachit!
  • October 2014: Ishan Bajaj joins as one of the first PhD students of the group! Ishan completed his undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai in 2013. Welcome Ishan!
  • August 2014: Professor Hasan joins the Chemical Engineering Department at Texas A&M University as a tenure-track assistant professor. The Systems Optimization and Multiscale Analysis Lab is officially open!