University: Boğazçi University
Industry : Tennessee Eastman, DuPont, Weyerhaeuser

CURRENT FIELDS OF INTEREST

Monitoring and Control of Industrial Processes
Modeling and Nonlinear Dynamics
Design and Optimization
Computer Aided Systems Engineering

INDIVIDUAL STUDENT GUIDANCE

PhD Students

Ahmet Palazoğlu
    Fall 1984
    Thesis: Studies on Design of Robust Chemical Plants
Vasilios Manousiouthakis
    Fall 1985
    Thesis: Design of Control Systems for Uncertain Chemical Plants
Bruce Hook
    Spring 1990
    Thesis: Experimental and Modeling Studies of a Non-Isothermal of Spouted Bed Reactor
Jean-Paul Calvet
    Fall 1989
    Thesis: A Differential Geometric Approach for the Nominal and Robust Control of Nonlinear Chemical Processes
Georgios Charos
    Fall 1990
    Thesis: Model Predictive Constrained Control: Development, Implementation, and Decentralization
Deborah E. Reeves
    Spring 1991
    A Comprehensive Approach to Control Configuration Design for Complex Systems
Min-Sen Chiu
    Winter 1991
    A Methodology for Robust Decentralized Controller Design
Evelio Hernandez
    August 1992
    Control of Nonlinear Systems Using Input-Output Information
Ravi Sriniwas
    August 1995
    Nonlinear Model Predictive Control: Enhancements and Case Studies
Atanu Banerjee
    August 1996
    Transition Control Based on Multiple Model Estimation and Control
Apostolos Rigopoulos
    December 1998
    Estimation and Control of Continuous Sheet Forming Processes
Yaohui Lu
    March 2001
    Scheduling Quasi-MinMax Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

M. S Students:

M. Ghaffari
    Fall 1980
    A Modular Synthesis Approach Towards On-Line Optimizing Control of Chemical Plants
K. J. Smith
    Fall 1980
    Dynamic Modeling and Control of a Non-Isothermal Spouted Bed Reactor
W. Etzkorn
    Summer 1981
    Computer Aided Operability Analysis via Interactive Graphics
G. Sawyer
    Fall 1981
    Control of a Spouted Bed Reactor
G. J. Godfrey
    Winter 1982
    Computer Control of a Heat Exchanger
S. Ramakrishnan
    Summer 1982
    Structural Sensitivity Analysis in Controller Synthesis
T. K. Ravindranath
    Summer 1983
    Design of Internal Model Controllers for Chemical Processes by Algebraic Theory
V. Guruswamy
    Winter 1983
    Use of Singular Values in Process Design and Control: New Computational Techniques and Applications In Chemical Engineering
J. Hollett
    Winter 1984
    Experimental Evaluation of Internal Model Computer Control
B. Savage
    Winter 1985
    Partitioning of Large Scale Systems and Synthesis of Process Control Structures Using Block Relative Gain Array
G. E. Louis
    Summer 1985
    Some Applications of Robustness Studies in Chemical Process Design and Control
S. J. Angelovic
    Winter 1986
    Development of a Data Acquisition and Digital Computer Control System for a Spouted Bed Reactor
C. Morgan
    Winter 1986
    Development of Computer Aids for Dynamic Operability Analysis
T. Peterson
    Fall 1989
    Model Predictive Control of a Semi-Batch Polymerization Reaction
D. Arnold
    March 1991
    Application of Kalman Filtering to a Polyolefin Polymerizer
Jerome Simminger
    September 1991
    A Constrained Nonlinear Model Predictive Controller
N. Lakshamanan
    December 1997
    Batch Control using Multiple Models
Jeremiah Tabb
    Spring 2000
    Using Wavelets and the Karhunen Loeve Transform to Model Data from Simulated
    Sheet Forming Processes
Barış Haznedar
    Spring 2000
    Reduced Order Infinite Horizon Model Predictive Control of Sheet Forming Processes

1. Studies on Design and Control of Multi-regime Chemical Plants
National Science Foundation, $69,053 (11/15/80-4/30/83)

2. Robustness Studies in Design and Control of Chemical Plants
National Science Foundation, $49,512 (4/15/84-9/30/85)

3. Development of an Experimental Research Facility to Study Spouted Bed Systems
National Science Foundation, $20,284 (6/1/84-10/30/85)

4. Computer Equipment to Support Research in Real-time Process Control
Texas Instruments, $35,000 (9/84)

5. Modeling and Control of Spouted Bed Reactors: Theoretical and Experimental Studies
Petroleum Research Fund, $52,500 (6/1/84-9/31/87)

6. Robustness Studies in Design and Control of Chemical Plants
National Science Foundation, $51,975 (10/1/85-3/31/87)

7. Robustness Studies in the Synthesis of Nonlinear Process Control Systems.
Supplemental Funding for Support of Minority Engineering Assistants
National Science Foundation, $5,000 (10/1/86-3/31/87)

8. Real-time Expert Systems
Digital Equipment Corporation, $154,000

9. Modeling and Predictive Control of Nonlinear Processes Using Input-Output Data
International Paper Company, $20,000 ( 8/1/1989-8/1/1990)

10. Industry-University Cooperative Research Program on a Comprehensive Approach to Control Structure Synthesis for Decentralized Control
National Science Foundation, $80,000 (8/1/89-1/31/92)

11. Modeling and Control of A Linear Low Density Polyethylene Polymerizer
Exxon Chemical Company, $164,904 (1/15/90-1/14/92)

12. Modeling and Predictive Control of Nonlinear Processes Using Input-Output Data
International Paper Company, $20,000 ( 8/1/1990-8/1/1992)

13. Chemical Process Control IV. Research Conference Proposal
National Science Foundation, $15,000, Aug. 1990

14. Transition Control Using Multiple-Model Based Estimation and Nonlinear Predictive Control
DuPont Polymers, $140,000 (11/1/1992-11/1/1996)

15. Nonlinear Process Control
Phillips Petroleum, $9,000 (10/1/1993-9/31/1994)

16. Two Dimensional Estimation and Control of Paper Machines
Weyerhaeuser Co., $25,000/year (1994-1999)

17. Transition Control
National Science Foundation, $ 162,156 (1996-1999)

18. Paper Machine Control using PCA based MPC
International Paper, $35,000 (1997-1998)

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEES
 

Chairman of National Organizing Committee for the IFAC Workshop on Model Based Process Control, Atlanta, Georgia,
June 1988.

Vice-Chairman for CPC (Chemical Process Control) IV Conference, South Padre Island, Texas , Feb., 1991.

Member of the Organizing Committee for the SIAM Control Theory Conference, Minnesota, 1992.

Member of the International Program Committee for IFAC/ IChemE Workshop on Interactions between Process
Design and Control ,UK, 1992.

National Organizing Committee Member for the IFAC Workshop on Integration of Process Design and Control,
Baltimore, MD, June 1994.

Chairman, IFAC ADCHEM'97, International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes,
Banff, Canada, June 9-11, 1997.

Co-Organizer, NATO ASI on Nonlinear Model Based Control, Antalya, Turkey, August 1997.

Member of the International Program Committee for ADCHEM 2000, International Symposium on
Advanced Control of Chemical Processes, Pisa, Italy, June 2000.

Local Coordinator for the Systems Group of Second Chemical Engineering Conference for Collaborative
Research in Eastern Meditterranean, Middle East Technical University, May 20-24,2001

Programming Committee Member for TOK, Otomatik Kontrol Ulusal Toplantısı. METÜ, Ankara, 2002.

Member of the International Program Committee for ADCHEM 2003, International Symposium on
Advanced Control of Chemical Processes, Hong Kong, June 2003.