Welcome to the Daoutidis Group!

 

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Research in our group is in the broad area of systems and process control; it brings together modeling, mathematical analysis, control theory, optimization and computation, in order to understand the structure and improve the operation of chemical, biological and energy systems.

Group News

2025

Benjamin Riley defends his thesis. Congratulations!

2024

Victoria Jones defends her thesis. Congratulations!

Group alumni Ilias Mitrai joins University of Texas - Austin as an assistant professor.

Prodromos Daoutidis serves as Chair of CAST Division of AIChE. A special session in honor of Prof. Prodromos Daoutidis for his 60th birthday is held.

Amin Nassaji, Zichen Huang, John Hutchinson, and Zhe Li join the group. Welcome!

2023

Archita Mullick, Komal Kankani and Aratrika Ghose join the group. Welcome!

Hanchu Wang defends her thesis and joins Dow Chemical. Congratulations!

Ilias Mitrai defends his thesis and starts post-doc at Georgia Tech. Congratulations!

Baiwen Kong and Harman Dewantoro pass their preliminary exams. 

2022

Ritoban Ghosh joins the group. Welcome!

Former group member Wentao Tang joins North Carolina State University as an assistant professor!

Group paper on ammonia-based sustainable agriculture and energy cited in Forbes article:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensavage/2022/04/25/is-there-a-more-climate-friendly-way-to-fertilize-crops-the-answer-may-be-blowin-in-the-wind/

Prodromos is featured in Yale Environment 360 article on ammonia:

https://e360.yale.edu/features/from-fertilizer-to-fuel-can-green-ammonia-be-a-climate-fix

Former group member Ana Ines Torres joins Carnegie Mellon University as an Assistant Professor!

2021

The paper “Using Hydrogen and Ammonia for Renewable Energy Storage: A Geographically Comprehensive Techno-economic Study,” Comp. Chem. Engng., 136, 106785 (2020), co-authored by Prodromos Daoutidis and Matthew Palys was awarded the Computers and Chemical Engineering 2020 Best Paper Award.

Prodromos is elected as 2nd Vice Chair of CAST Division of AIChE.

Harman Dewantoro, Rajat Daga and Baiwen Kong join the group. Welcome!

Matt Palys defends his PhD thesis. He remains in the group as post-doc. Congratulations Matt!

Selected Publications

  1. Dewantoro, Harman, Alexander Smith, and Prodromos Daoutidis. "Causal Discovery for Topology Reconstruction in Industrial Chemical Processes." Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 63.26 (2024): 11530-11543.
  2. Kong, Baiwen, Qi Zhang, and Prodromos Daoutidis. "Nonlinear model predictive control of flexible ammonia production." Control Engineering Practice 148 (2024): 105946.
  3. Palys, Matthew J., and Prodromos Daoutidis. "Renewable ammonia for islanded energy storage." Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry (2024): 100946.
  4. Andrés-Martínez, Oswaldo, et al. "Optimal Design of an Absorbent-Enhanced Ammonia Synthesis Process for Solar Thermochemical Energy Storage." ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (2024).
  5. Smith, Alexander, Steven Schilling, and Prodromos Daoutidis. "Automated characterization and monitoring of material shape using Riemannian geometry." Computers & Chemical Engineering 181 (2024): 108525.
  6. Kong, Baiwen, Qi Zhang, and Prodromos Daoutidis. "Real-time operation of a stand-alone microgrid with green ammonia storage." IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (2024).
  7. Riley, Benjamin P., Prodromos Daoutidis, and Qi Zhang. "Multi-scenario design of ammonia-based energy storage systems for use as non-wires alternatives." Journal of Energy Storage 73 (2023): 108795.

  8. Daoutidis, P., Lee, J. H., Rangarajan, et al., "Machine learning in process systems engineering: Challenges and opportunities", Computers & Chemical Engineering, 108523 (2023).