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 unexpected disruptions in the perishable supply chain. Using the Wisconsin dairy industry as the primary case study, and collaborating with the University of …

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 chemical manufacturing, reframing the industry as an active flexibility provider that supports a sustainable energy future. To read more: https://lnkd.in/eVD5gXhw

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 optimizing trade-offs in interconnected resource networks and their transition towards a CE. To read more: https://cbe.nd.edu/events/

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 for Circular Food Supply Chains”.

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 Bilevel Programming [Link] Topic: Improving global optimization by combining metaheuristic solvers with multi-parametric programming to solve complex, medium-to-large scale hierarchical problems. Presenting Work …

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 electricity markets, scheduling models, and degradation data Meng-Lin Tsai – Exploiting parametric structure in mixed-integer bilevel optimization

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 companies working to transform agricultural residues into fuels and chemicals.