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INTELLIGENT AND SUSTAINABLE PROCESS SYSTEMS LAB (ISPSL)
Home to Pourkargar Research Group @ Kansas State University
Principal Investigator
Professor Davood B. Pourkargar
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Professional Experience:
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Assistant Professor, Tim Taylor Department of Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 2020-Present
Graduate Faculty, Food Science Institute, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 2023-Present
Faculty Researcher, Johnson Cancer Research Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 2023-Present
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Senior Engineer, Advanced Applications Department, Automation and Process Control Division, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, Houston, TX, 2019-2020
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Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2016-2019
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2015-2016
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Education:
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Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 2011-2015
M.S. in Process Simulation and Control, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2008-2010
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2004-2008
Graduate Researchers
Thiago Cabral
Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 2021-Present
M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2017-2019
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Federal University of Sao Joao del Rei, Brazil, 2011-2017
Research Area: Multiscale modeling of chemical and biological systems
Amirsalar Bagheri
Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 2022-Present
M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 2022-2024
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran, 2015-2020
Research Area: Machine learning-based optimization and control
Amirmohammad Ebrahimi
Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 2022-Present
M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 2022-2024
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2017-2022
Research Area: Distributed control of integrated process systems
Jonathon Kohl
M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 2021-Present
B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2017-2021
Research Area: Mikrokinetic modeling of complex reaction networks
Undergraduate Researchers
Connor Albright
Research Area: Applied AI for water systems
Alumni
Carlos Veloz Marmolejo (MS/Graduate Researcher) - Graduate Student at UCLA
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Oladotun Osisami (MS/Graduate Researcher) - Field Engineer at Baker Hughes
Blake Karawan (MS/Graduate Researcher) - Field Engineer at The Chemours Company
Gregory Gause (MS/Graduate Researcher) - Director at Renown Health
Connor Smith (MS/Graduate Researcher) - Senior Scientist at Orbital Therapeutics
Brayden Sundberg (BS/Undergraduate Researcher) - Graduate Student at the University of Michigan
McCade Smith (BS/Undergraduate Researcher) - Project Engineer at QSPEC Solutions, Inc.
Patrick Hinkel (BS/Undergraduate Researcher) - Environment Engineer at Argus Consulting, Inc.
Ashton Gohman (BS/Undergraduate Researcher) - Process Engineer at Chevron Philips Chemical Company
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