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Congratulations to Prof. Styliani Avraamidou on receiving the 2026 Young Investigator Award from the Environmental Division of AIChE!

We are delighted to welcome two new members to the group: Danbee Park, a visiting researcher from Korea University, and Jiayang Ren, who joins us as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome to Madison!

Prof. Styliani Avraamidou and Meng-Lin Tsai attended the 2026 VIFF Community Convening in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 23–24, 2026.

Prof. Styliani Avraamidou gave a presentation at the workshop Future Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Supply Chains: Building Resource Efficiency, Resilience and Circularity, held September 17–18, 2026 in Washington, DC. The workshop brought together…

Our group is excited to participate in the TWCCC Fall 2026 Meeting, held in person on September 14 and 15, 2026 here in Madison, Wisconsin! Selected Talks Posters

Ashley McCullough interned at the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), and Paola Munoz Briones interned at Dow.

Prof. Styliani Avraamidou attended FIPSE-7, the 7th conference on Future Innovation in Process Systems Engineering, held July 6–8, 2026 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Parth Brahmbhatt interned at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) from July 2026 to October 2026.

Prof. Styliani Avraamidou presented our data center research at the SuSChemE–SUSTENS2 conference (Sustainable Chemical Engineering Systems), held June 28–30, 2026 in Athens, Greece.

Javiera Vergara Zambrano, Parth Brahmbhatt, and Prof. Styliani Avraamidou presented their work at ESCAPE 36, the 36th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, held June 21–24, 2026 at the University of…

Congratulations to Prof. Styliani Avraamidou on receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award! She will apply process systems engineering to develop tools that help farmers, food processors, and distributors work around…

Parth Brahmbhatt attended the 2026 American Control Conference (ACC 2026), held May 26–29, 2026 at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Topic: “Systems Engineering Approaches for the Electrification of the Chemical Industry” Time: May 1, 2026, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Topic: “Systems Engineering Approaches for the Electrification of the Chemical Industry” Time: Apr 16, 2026   2:00 pm Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, UIUC

AIChE Webinar, March 30th, Online Session: “Systems engineering approaches for the electrification of the chemical industry” This webinar highlights how systems engineering tools offer a structured framework to guide the electrification of…

CBE Seminar March 26th, Carey Auditorium 107 Hesburgh Library: “Process Systems Engineering for Circular Food Supply Chains” This seminar introduces the foundations of a Circular Economy Systems Engineering framework for analyzing and…

Prof. Avraamidou will be giving a seminar on March 3rd at 1 p.m. at the Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Kansas. Her talk is titled “Process Systems Engineering…

Prof. Styliani Avraamidou is attending the INFORMS Optimization Society Conference (March 20–22, 2026) in Atlanta, GA, to present our latest research on bilevel programming. Presentation Highlights Title: Hybrid Metaheuristic-Multiparametric Optimization Strategy for…

Our group is excited to participate in the TWCCC Spring 2026 Meeting on February 23 and 24 at UT Austin! Selected Talks Styliani Avraamidou – Power grid-informed experiments for battery systems: Integrating…

Prof. Huber, Leoncio, Prof. Avraamidou, and Meng-lin gave a seminar at Thammasat University on “Biomass carbon sources as future feedstocks for biomanufacturing.” They explored Thailand’s incredible biomass resources—touring universities, sugarcane mills, and…