“Solving big problems in energy area, participate in fat moving creative processes.”
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B. Erik Ydstie is CEO of Integrated Silicon Technologies LLC and Professor Emeritus of Chemical and Electrical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from NTNU in Trondheim, Norway and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College in London, UK. From 1982 till 1992 he was professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In 1999 and 2000 he was Director of R&D and CTO for Elkem ASA in Norway. His responsibilities included technical IT, corporate and business R&D portfolio development and day to day management of the research center. He initiated corporate research programs in the areas of carbothermic aluminum production and high purity silicon for solar cells. In 2005 he founded iLS Inc to commercialize nonlinear adaptive control and real time optimization systems. ILS is also been working on commercialization of a new process for making silicon wafer for solar cells. Prof. Ydstie has held consulting agreements with PPG, Elkem, Martin-Marietta, Kodak, SunEdsion and ALCOA. He has worked on modeling, control and optimization of chemical processes and aerospace applications. He served on the advisory boards of the American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund (2004-2010) and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2004-), he has held visiting positions at Imperial College, Ecole des Mines in Paris, Louvain-la Neuve in Belgium and UNSW in Australia. In 2005 he founded ILS Inc to commercialize adaptive and learning control technology. In 2010 he became research fellow at DOE-NETL. He has authored over 200 articles on process control, adaptive control, optimization and modeling of chemical processes. His current areas of research are process control, modeling, design and scale-up. He works on supply chain management, solar cell production processes, and oil and gas field control and optimization systems. He has won the Kun Li award for excellence in teaching at CMU (2007, 2010, 2014), the CAST division award of the AIChE (2007), the CIT Dowd Fellowship (2012). He was the Sargent Lecturer at Imperial College in 2006 and the Robinson Lecturer at U of Aleberta in 2016.
“Solving big problems in energy area, participate in fat moving creative processes.”
bio
B. Erik Ydstie is CEO of Integrated Silicon Technologies LLC and Professor Emeritus of Chemical and Electrical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from NTNU in Trondheim, Norway and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College in London, UK. From 1982 till 1992 he was professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In 1999 and 2000 he was Director of R&D and CTO for Elkem ASA in Norway. His responsibilities included technical IT, corporate and business R&D portfolio development and day to day management of the research center. He initiated corporate research programs in the areas of carbothermic aluminum production and high purity silicon for solar cells. In 2005 he founded iLS Inc to commercialize nonlinear adaptive control and real time optimization systems. ILS is also been working on commercialization of a new process for making silicon wafer for solar cells. Prof. Ydstie has held consulting agreements with PPG, Elkem, Martin-Marietta, Kodak, SunEdsion and ALCOA. He has worked on modeling, control and optimization of chemical processes and aerospace applications. He served on the advisory boards of the American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund (2004-2010) and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (2004-), he has held visiting positions at Imperial College, Ecole des Mines in Paris, Louvain-la Neuve in Belgium and UNSW in Australia. In 2005 he founded ILS Inc to commercialize adaptive and learning control technology. In 2010 he became research fellow at DOE-NETL. He has authored over 200 articles on process control, adaptive control, optimization and modeling of chemical processes. His current areas of research are process control, modeling, design and scale-up. He works on supply chain management, solar cell production processes, and oil and gas field control and optimization systems. He has won the Kun Li award for excellence in teaching at CMU (2007, 2010, 2014), the CAST division award of the AIChE (2007), the CIT Dowd Fellowship (2012). He was the Sargent Lecturer at Imperial College in 2006 and the Robinson Lecturer at U of Aleberta in 2016.
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